The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-05-19
+ tinuing this omparison, statistics

SHOW:
Iowa has three and one-half hogs
to each inhabitant, South Carolina
has one hog to each inhabitant.
Iowa has one COW to every six and
ohe-half acres, South Carolina one
COW to every fifty-four and one half
| acres.
Iowa foaled 191 ,237 horses and
mules i'll 1900, South Carolina foalcd
1888 horses and mules in 1900.
Iowa value of farm products per
agricultural worker, 1885, South Car
ollna value of farm products per agri-
cultural worker, $l74.
Iowa, horses and mules to every
to arricultural workers., seven,
south Carolina horses and mules to
every two agricultural workers, two.
Iowa value of dairy products, per
each agricultural worker. $74; South
Carolina value Of dairy products. per
each agricultural worker, $3.
Even The hens lay ten times as
many eggs in Iowa as they do in
South Carolina, Notwithstanding the
rllmate in South Carolina far sur
passes that Of Iowa for cog produc-
Ing.
Now why did Say we must have
dairy cattle in South Carolina? Be-
cause the quickest road to Il dollar
is through the dairy COW. She pavs
her expense account every twenty
four hours and give, YOU a profit Of
ten per cent on ncr cost for three
hundred and SiXiy-ive days in the
year, and besides she furnishes Won
The most wholesome rood obtainablc
For your table. She docs not run ON
credit basis. 1t is all cash with her
and II" Futures in it. South Carolina
buys annually $2,000.00O in dairy
products and there is no State in the
union than can prraucp these pro-
duets cheaper than we can here in
South Carolina.
Now let us see where our money
Is going every year. We send from
home $l}, 100000 annually for bacon.
Any goods farmer in our State can
raise bacon for three cents per
pound.
We send out Of thc state for horses
and mules annually 81 .:}30.OO0. and
there IS no country where YOU can
raise horse or mute any cheaper
than You can in South Carolina. T
| can raise 4 better one here for $500
than our farmers are paying $3.50
for out Of the State : can raise all
Of the feed on one acre that a colt
will require until he is three years
old and al fac end of that time will
have $50 in cash to the credit of the
land. Apply the manure the colt has
made III three years to the same acre
and you will increase the production
OF that acre twenty per cent. Now
why should we impovcrish our country
by sending west for horses and mules
and bacon.
South Carolina spends annually
$50 100000 for flom and $4,000. 900
for corn. How are we to reclaim our
worn out lands. The answer is oliver
Sliicatlon Of crops and livestock rails
lng. have seen from thc car window.
since L left my home. coming two
hundred miles, enough waste land, if
1t was used for sheep raising. 10 grow
more mutton than is now consumed
in South Carolina. As this land stands
today, the taxes arc Il burden TO the
owner, but if properly husbandcd
with sheep raising. il would in ten
years be the most fertile land ON the
farm. I can see some cause for Il
machine or man 10 wear out. but
more men rust ont than wear on. .
lnarc Is no excuse for an acre or
land to wear out; it should be twenty
times more productive after being in
cultivation one hundred years, than
ii was the first two years. How is
this TO be done? Raise more live stok
and better live stock
IT requires intelligent effort 10
breed and handle livestock. Now it
is not that we lack the brains. and
1t is also a slander TO say that we
have not the energy and application
necessary. We can grow cotton and
do the other things .-ou want to do,
and right successfully too-but YOU
have never wanted to grow live stock.
What has been the result Of efforts
to grow live stock in this and other
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