The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-12
Big Farmers Rally Was
Of Much Practical Value
HELD ON FINE FARM
OF MR.. A. D. HUDSON
COMMISSIONERNATSON AND GOV
ERNMENT EXPERTS SPOKE.
Meeting in Line With Federal Demon
stration Work in Connection With
State Department.

The picnic and meeting Of the far
mers at Mr.. A. d. Hudson's farm on
Wednesday was very largely attended.
This meeting is one of a series which
are being held in this State under the
direction of the Farmers Demonstra-
Sion work, which is being conducted
by the Federal government in connec-
tion with the department OF ag.1cul-
ture of South Carolina About l,O00
people were in attendance. The crowd
was a representative one, there being
planters present from nearly every
section of the county.
Mr.. Hudson's farm is being operat-
ed under the direction of Mr.. A. G..
Smith, of the Federal government,
and special agent Of the bureau OF
plant industry. The place for holding
this meeting, however, was selected
on. account of the beautiful grove at
this farm AMI the conveniences for
holding such meeting, rather than
TO examine the farm, as this is the
first year the farm has been under the
direction of the Federal government.
Still, a great deal Of work has been
done. md tie farm itself :; Al Object
lesson to other farmers. The corn
and cotton are as fine as can be seen
anywhere and it would be worth the
while Of any farmer to take look
at this farm and see what is being
done and what can be done by modern
and up-to-date methods.
In addition to the farm proper, Mr..
Hudson has a hog farm which is a
model in itself, and while it may not
be the finest in the State, he has a
fine lot Of Berkshire hogs and boar,
which Mr.. Smith selected for him,
which is said to be really the finest
hog in the State and brother to the
finest in the country. Mr.. Hudson has
ready sale for all his pigs at a good
price, and this part OF the farm is also
under the control Of the Federal gov
>ernment, and it could easily be seen
how to manage that part of the farm.
The hogs are divided into lots and
crops are planted in these lots slita
bic for the raising of hogs and they
can easily be transferred from one
lot to another.
It is not proposed to make Of the
farm a cotton farm, but to grow cot
ton and at the same time everything
else that is needed on the farm.
Mr.. Hudson, Sr., is giving particu-
lar attention to the garden, and he
has very fine garden.
The purpose of this farm is to il
lustrate the advantages of rotating
crops, and thus building up the land,
and at the same time growing on the
&farm everything that is necessary to
Rsustain the farm.
Hon. E. J. vatson, commissioner of
agriculture for South Carolina, Was
rsresent and delivered a very pract1-
cal talk. and demonstrated by the use
of figures that the South, or rather
South Carolina, was purchasing from
abroad things that could be grown in
this State amounting to about seven
t.. million dollars, and counting thE
expenditure for fertilizer which
amounts to about s17,OOO,O0o, the
total amounts practically to the
value of the entire cotton crop Of the
State. If the farmers would produce
their corn and bacon and produce
and raise their own horses and mules,
as they should do, this money Whlcn
is sent, out Of the State could be kept
here and We would soon become one
of the richest States in the union. 1t
is a fact that while South Carolina
has the record of producing the great
est number of bushels Of corn to the
acre on a single acre, she, at the same
time. has the. record of producing the
smallest number of bushels per acre
faine the whole State into considera-
ton.
The following figures are given by
MIR. Watson, which in themselves
should arouse the farmers of this
Stale no5 only to thinking or these