The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-09-04
SOUTH CAROLINA CORN.
Reasons Why it Should Not be Neg.
lcctCd, Even If Cotton is HIGH.

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are prone to forget the value of corn
Just plain. everyday corn. But corn
is not to be sneered at; especially
South Carolina corn. There is q worry
great difference between the corn of
the great west and the corn raised in
our own State, and the difference. ex.
cept in the quantity, is all in favor of
our own. Bread made from our own
corn is far superior to that made from
western corn
South Carolina produces twenty
| hliillon bushels Of corn year. Our
, lands are not best adapted to corn;
we cannot raise immense crops like the
| lest can: but since better methods of
cultivation have been adopted-espe-
cially since the Williamson plan"-
the corn yield is being largely in
| creased. and it need not be MANY
years until South Carolina farmers
| can quit keeping their corn cribs in
| the west" 1t is an interesting fact
| acre. ever made anywhere was made
by Mr.. j. a. Drake, Of Marlboro coun-
ty, ;. C.. in 1SS9-255 bushels and
three pecks. This yield was made
| IN a national contest a prize of $500
| having bean offered by the American
Agriculturist The next three high
est yields were Alfred Rose. of Penn
Yam. \. Y, PIP bushels; a Nebraska
Farmer, 10 bushels; Mr.. Smelling. of
Barnwell county, S. c., 1870 bushels.
The greatest corn-producing State
is Illinois, its yield being over 3S3,-
100000 bushels, closely followed by
Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska with an
| average of 25O,OOO,OOO each; Mis-
| souri,. Indiana and Ohio coming next.
with 203.O00,0O0 and 1870 600 and
| 112.000,00O respectively. These seven
States raise over 1,646.O 900. 900 bush
els of cOrn-considerably more than
| all. the rest Of the United States be-
| sides. Frank G. Carpenter has shown
| that If all the corn raised I'm these
| seven States were loaded. shelled, on
two horse wagons. the horses heads
to one wagon touching the hind gate of
| the wagon in front, the procession
would belt the world six times; in
| other words. they would make pro-
! cession 10000 miles long. The value
Of the corn crop Of the United States
is T.166,O 900. .0OO-just about equal
to the combined value Of the wheat
oats. rye, barley and Irish potato
| crops, and more than double the
value of the cotton crop.
South Carolina farmers as a rule.
DO not pay enough attention to corn.
This is not corn country. tits true:
our land is better adapted to cotton,
and cotton is more Of money crop
| than corn. But we ought to raise
more corn; we ought to do it by
better cultivation and more care;
and that will be done from this time
forward, no doubt, for the farmers
have found the way. There is no
farm product so useful about a farm.
1t is the best food for horses and
mules and most other farm animals
When raised at home and we'll cared
for 1t Is pure and sound and whole
some, while on the other hand much
Of the corn that comes from the west
Is inferior; none Of it is as good a.
the South Carolina raised.
We do not appreciate fully the val
ue OF corn as a food for man. 1t Is
more wholesome than wheat. Homi-
ny Is a staple food for breakfast, and
no man should go to his work with
out 1t. In fact a breakfast Of homiry
and butter. with milk or coffee, makes
wholesome and sufficient meal: to
which egg bread or batter-bread may
be added. Hominy or egg bread is a
far better food than nine-tenths Of
the so-called "breakfast foods" with
which the country Is flooded. There
are numerous ways Of preparing ap-
petizing dishes from corn, and If we
would eat more OF such preparations
and less OF heavy biscuit and rancid
meats we would have less dyspepsia
and live longer.
South Carolinians are learning how
to raise corn. Lst them learn now
how to make good use Of 1t.
More corn and less corn liquor is
the order Of the day.-Newberry OBJ
server.