Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-27

lUESDA Y, APRl
Is gotten into shape. It Is the purpose
of Mr.. Hitchcock, always bearing IN
mind the profit earning feature. IL
have a lot Of hogs. cattle for market
sheep, goats and poultry on the farm.
The Dairy Feature.
A feature in the experimental wor
will be the dairy. The government
has already had its experts on the
ground, and they have planned a con-
siderable dairy building and farm. This
winter Mr.. Williams expects to have
at least fifty Jerseys and Jersey grades
on the dairy farm. There are now a
humber of steers on the place that are
being fattened for market, and 1t Is
Mr.. Hitchcock's idea that great
hmount Of this work can be done on
this as we'll as other similarly located
farms. Mr.. Hitchcock, who is great
admirer and lover Of horses and fine
cattle, does not believe in anything that
Is not first class, and his orders are
TO get nothing but the very best cattle
Tor the dairy. 1t Is also Mr.. Hitch
cocks idea to conduct experiments and
carry on work in connection with stock
There are now about seventeen or
twenty muies on the place. Mr. Hitch
cock has had great deal Of expert
ence in the raising Of race horses, and
he is convinced that the south needs
horses for farm work rather than
mules, End the chief reason for this
position is that the mule does not re-
produce ITSELF This idea, he says, was
Impressed upon him by watching farm
Operations in Europe. He thinks that
the southern farm ought to be able to
Eget g substantial horse for farming
purposes and he expects to devote some
Study to this feature of his expert
mental work.
H cannery to be Established.
Prof. Williams has already distribut-
ed in the neighborhood and on the
farm a number of vegetable seed, and
1t is his purpose to establish a cannery
30 as to insure market for the vege-
tables that might be grown. The idea
Is to devote considerable attention to
poultry, and with this in view Mr.
Hitchcock has distributed number OF
incubators to the tenants on his place
and provided them with eggs. There
Is a great deal Of interest already In
this phase Of the work, and Mr.. Hitch
cock, as well as the government ex-
perts, will see to it that whatever vege-
tables, chickens or eggs that come from
the plantation are properly marketed
and by getting quantities and mark
citing them with discretion those who
raise them will get the maximum
prices.
Commissioner Watson now has in
terested the Federal government In an
experimental station in Aiken county
another in Columbia, on the Gonzales
farm, and the third in Chesterfield
county.
Experiments Throughout State.
This Is only what is being done In
the sand ridge. There are many 9TH
er such experiments throughout the
state that are being fostered through
Mr.. Watson's department, and 1t may
be said that this work has ingratiated
the department Of agriculture very
thoroughly with the farming classes
and 1t is a great pity that more Of this
work is not done directly by Clemson
college. II Clemson college undertook
this work Of its own accord, In the va
rious counties, even upon small scale
It would do very much to make Itself
absolutely solid with the farmers.
Mr.. Hitchcock, as we'll as his good
wife, who was Miss Eustis, are both
very much interested in the expert
ment that is going on and are intent
upon doing everything they possibly
can to insure its success.
It is intended next fall to establish
a model school on the farm, and the
purpose of this model school will be
to impress upon those who attend It.
first how to cook, and then how to
farm and make money.
It should be borne in mind that the
Hitchcock experiment is not intended
to carry out any fad or to be simply
show place. If the experiment fails
from a money making standpoint the
government authorities will say so, and
IL 1t makes money, in any Of Its de-
partments or all, the government off,
cials will also say so. An absolutely
accurate account is being kept of every
element that enters into the cost OF
production and of the returns.
Mr.. H. B. Williams, who Is prac-
tical Georgia farmer, Is in personal
charge of the farm, and is the imme-
diate representative Of Mr.. Hitchcock
in the enterprise.
This experiment means great deaI
to the state of South Carolina, and
will be watched with the greatest pos
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