Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-17

four years ago; but all Of them are out
except Mr.. F. c. Whitner and Mr.. Cher
ry. The others quit on account of the
advanced price of feed and the trouble
involved: but these two are holding on
Notwithstanding. They do not calcu-
late on making any profit nn the diff
ference in the selling price of the cat
tie. As Il matter of fact, Il profit Of II
cents a pound is hardly enough to pay
the expense Of feeding. They are look
ing 10 the profit in the manure, and
take it on faith. 1t has never been
definitely established what the actual
value Of cattle manure is; but these
gentlemen reason that it would be next
to impossible to get so much in any
other way at any price. They use the
manure on their farm lands near by,
and some of these lands have already
| been built up to a point where they
| produce two bales of cotton to the acre.
Just how much land Mr.. Cherry owns
| in body, the representative Of The
Enquirer did not learn definitely; but
understood from what Mr.. Poag said
that Mr.. Cherry owns to the river.
nearly four miles. However, this may
be, there is no doubt of the fact that
Mr. Cherry is spending a lot of money
| in improvements Of various kinds. He
has set out thousands of fruit trees,
| cleared hundreds Of acres and pulled
up the stumps, and has spent hundreds
| Of dollars grading the roads. Cherry
| is not afraid to spend money" said Mr..
Poag. He bought most Of this land at
| fifty dollars an acre and less and now
he can sell it for a hundred dollars or
more But he won't sell. He is looking
| to the future, and he has a big thing
| of it."
From Mr.. Cherry's place, Mr.. Poag
drove over to the Oakland Dairy, where
Mr.. John G. Anderson is interesting
| himself with the care Of fine cows, pro-
ducing butter, cream and ice cream.
The dairy plant is equipped with ice
making apparatus a steam boiler for
steriliZing purposes, an electric mo-
| tor for general power purposes and nu-
merouS other appliances and cOnVen-
fences. Everything about the place is
as bright. clean and fresh as a new
| pin. Some thirty fine, sleek. we'll fed,
blooded cows were to be seen brOws-
| ing in the nearby pasture or lying
about chewing their cuds. and the gen.
| eral appearance of the whole surround
| ingS was that the owner had things
| Just as he wanted them. The Oakland
Dairy sells milk and cream: but de-
votes itself principally to ice cream
making and shipping. Butter is sold at
| 80 cents a pound: but the dairy people
do not seem especially anxious to de-
velop the business even at that price
They prefer to cater to the ice cream
trade. The ice cream business which
has been rather dull during the win
ter has begun to pick up some, and
from now on the plant will get buster
and buster until it is worked up to its
capacity. The dairy farm is in charge
of Mr.. w. f. Miller
From the dairy Mr.. Poag drove back
to Rock Hill, taking care to wind up
around among the streets that showed
building operations in progress. Quite
a number of buildings are going up In
different parts of the town. and al
| though as Mr.. Poag had said, there Is
nothing sensational about the situation
there is every evidence Of the best OF
good health.
During his stay in the town our rep
resentative was struck with the fact
that there was quite number OF peo-
pie who seemed to be interested in the
county political situation. Several peo-
pie who have the general reputation OF
being more or less Indifferent to such
matters, were inclined to discuss the
prospects as to who would probably be
candidates for the house and senate
There was talk of Stewart and Brice
and Saye and Beamguard and Mellow
and w. B. Wilson, Jr., as probable can
didateS for the senate: but as no effort
was made to probe the situation deeply
enough to warrant a review, OF what
seems to be the existing sentiment, nc
effort will be made at this time to give
an outline Of it. AS a matter Of fact
people seemed more interested in try
| ing to find out what would likely hap
pen than in telling what they would
like to happen, and our representative
was able to give but little information
| lnlnnr tho lines of the greatest interest