The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
A Mighty Good Woman Making an In
yeStment.

Mrs, w, +. Greene, not 30 long ago, adVer-
tised tn the Medium that she was willing TO
take charge Of a young calf or two. She has
had, perhaps, scores OF orphan calves offered
10 her for her calf asylum which asylum Is
located in Fort Plckens, where burr clover IN
winter and burmuda grass In summer are
presumed to make glad the eye OF infant
bovines.
Mrs, Greene is young in the cattle raising
industry, and if she had conferred With this
editor, and II she had profted by bis expert
ence, the probability Is that her asylum for
orphan cattle would never have been opened.
She can make more money and realize
more pleasure, at less trouble, by investing
her money in an Easter hat and other things
suitable for the celebration OF hat Important
festival In the Christian calendar.
When this editor was a little younger than
he is now he conceived the idea that there
was great profit In cattle raising. Fol tnls
reason be started out to make q small Tor
time In the cattle business on Norris Creek.
With this end in view he bought In one Fail
possibly 12O head of cattle of all sorts and OF
all strains of blood. He had the best cane
brak he In the peighborhood, he had, too. the
finest grass and the lea1est bushes In all the
world. Miles OF barbed wire fencing made IL
,afe that the cattle could be kept at home,
The cattle which he bought and put In bis
enclosure knew what canebrakes, green grass
and leafy bushes were good for, and they
being a little hungry and having nothing
else 10 do, in q little while 30 changed
the face of that pasture with It's waving grass
and swaying cane, that 1t was hardly recog-
nizsble as the hitherto inviting pasture. Inc
hills looked as If they had been lathered and
shaved. the bottoms were as clean as the big
road. the bushes had disappeared, and the
canebrake was stripped and q sight to behold.
The cattle at first stripped the leaves from
the canes as high as they could reach. AS
the Winter progressed they learned either to
climb or to pull down the canes until there
was not a leaf left in the Understand best
canebrake that ever greeted the eye. That
YEARS experience with the cattle left not q
single cane. They we're all killed by the con.
slant picking Of the cattle. Every bush was
bare OF leaves long before the Winter weather
set in,
Next spring, with the cane and the bushes
all killed, and grass nowhere to be found. we
became q little discouraged. One fifth OF the
CalIl6 QaQ olSos W. oRo VIZ w
going to the oil mill tot settle the bill
for bulls and meal, we felt as though we
would gladly have given every hoofon the
place to settle that account. We had lost
about all that we had paid for the cattle, We
expected to realize at least one thousand dol
lars of clear profit. and had set aside q good
trade In which to invest the money. Ten
dollars a head profit was not an unreasona-
BILE expectation. We would now stand a law
suit rather thar 60 into the cattle business
again. H. therefore, any reader OF the Press
and Banner knows OF this editor re.entering
The business OF keeping an orphan asylum
for innocent little calves or opening q hos
pital for one.eyed, one.horned, or taillese
cattle let him please telegraph US at our ex.
pense.
We simply lost all that we put into our first
venture. And we shall hereafter buy all the
cattle that we may need for immediate use,
but no more cattle asylums for as.