The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-10-28
BOYS CORN CLUB.
Exhibition to be Held Today in Old
Court HOuse-PriZes to be
Awarded.

Notice has already been printed of
the corn exhibition to be held at
Newberry on Satudary of this week
and the list of prizes to be given to
the boys corn club has also been
printed. At this corn exhibition the
contestants in the prizes offered by
tn Farmers union and others
through the demonstration for this
county will also be awarded.
Mr. S. M. Duncan, special agent for
Newberry, desires that every one that
can be present at the exhibition on
Saturday and that each one bring ten
ears of his best corn. Mr. Duncan
stated that Mr.. Ira W. Williams, Mr..
A. G. Smith and Dr. C. NJ. Morgan will
be here and will make short address
es on agriculture and stock raising.
This should be an exhibition of very
great interest not only to the farmers
of this county but to every one else
who desires to see the agricultural
and farming element prospect. All
that is needed in this county is to get
the farmres interested in growing
more corn and other food products
upon the farm and in this way taking
more interest in the making and the
building up of the farmlands through
out the county.
1t has not teen so long ago that the
farmers of Newherry who could grow
fifteen to twenty bushels of corn to
the acre except on exceptionally fine
river or creek bottoms, were consider
ed very good farmers. Even on these
choice river and creek bottoms, crop
of fifty bushels to the acre was con-
sidered an excellent crop. Now, We
frequently hear Of the growing OF
from IS to 100 bushels to the acre on
upland, land which the farmer of
twenty-five or thirty years ago would
never have considered for one mo-
ment as being suitable to corn grow
ing. The fact is that the growing OF
rs or 100 bushels of corn to the acre
is about as profitable as the growing
of cotton even at present prices, II
the difference in the cost of labor is
taken into the calculation.
In connection with the ex-
hibition to be held at the court house
on Saturday Special Agent Duncan
states that he will be at the court
house on Friday and any one wishing
to arrange his exhibition can do so on
that day.
In this connection, also Mr.. Duncan
requests the publication of the follow
ing which has been sent to all agents
and which should be of interest of all
farmers:
Columbia, S. c., Oct ID, 1910.
TO All Agents: In order that we
may get pure bred stock into every
county in the State I wish, besides
tie individuals who wish to purchase
stock, that we could get the superin-
tendent Of every county poor farm to
purchase mares, pure bred hogs, cat
tie of some of the larger breeds and
where poss'LIr a pure bred, or grade
stallion f = large type. We rcaliic
that everv :,unty appreciates wh:t
the demonstration work IS 4 ,ln.:.
know of no liter method hY which
the farms could help themselves ard
their counties than by adding good
breeding stock for their own use and
for public service. We are very de-
sirous Of getting stock into the coun-
ties this fall, as it is the best season
to transfer stock. When We stop to
think of the many millions of dollars
that 20 out of the State annually for.
mules, meats, dairy products and fer
| tiIizers, when We can raise this stu1t
at home, and at the same time build
up our farms, help solve the labor
question and be prepared for the boil
weavil, is not it a time when we can
make a start?
The South has many advantages, as
the grazing season is longer, more
cover crops can be grown, warmer
costly barns are not needed as in the
North. The dairy and live stock pos
sibilities in the South are so great
that I could not enumerate them all
in a circular.
Yours respectfully,
G.. NJ Morgan,
General Agent.