Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-11-09

| o. nearly three and half million
dollars. We can produce corn as
cleap or cheaper per bushel than
th!s same corn cost to produce; so
We not only paid out this profit, but
lost the additional profit from the
growing. Then, too, had this corn
been grown here all OF that six mil
lion dollars would have remained
mere as a permanent asset
'rhat these facts are being realized
by the farmers Of the South is evi-
denced by the steady increased acre
age planted to corn and the increas-
ed yield per acre. We are learning
that 1t not only pays to plant more
corn, bat also to give that crop bet
ter cultivation and attention than we
have heretofore done. We are also
| beginning to realize that while culti-
vation and fertilization are import
ant factors in determining our yield,
yet the factors OF blood and inherit
ance also play no small part With
this knowledge has come a closer at
| tentfon to the detail of corn raising
ard breeding. But while in the South
number Of men have been giving
these points thought and work, yet
| to a large extent each has worked
along independent lines. Each man
has tried to hew an independent road
to success for himself forgetting
that much more rapid progress could
be made If he Joined with his neigh
| boz and all pulled together. The
worst fault that the average farmer
has Is this very thing of going It
alone. He breaks his land with
single horse, does all of his cultiva-
! tion with the single horse and one
furrow and pulls his crop to market
| with his one horse. He has become
| so accustomed to the one horse idea
that he himself has never learned
to work in double harness AS it
will pay him in breaking his land to
! combine with his neighbor and plow
! double, so it will pay to combine with
some neighbor in this effort to in
crease his corn production. It was
with the idea OF affording an oppor-
| tunity OF this doubling-up process
that the South Atlantic Corn Exposi-
ton, to be held in Columbia Decem-
| ber to Q inclusive, has been plan
! ned. Steps were taken to this end
| last spring at the time Of the meet
! ton, when the State Legislature was
asked to assist such an enterprise
and responded literally by an appro-
priation Of one thousand dollars.
In making this appropriation there
was but one string tied to it, and
| that was that four thousand more
should be raised by other means.
This same act placed this fund under
the control Of boa" |, consisting of
the State Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture, the president of the Corn Breed
! ers' Association, the director Of the
Agricultural Department and the
superintendent of the Extension Di-
vision Of Clemson College. This
! board organized by electing A. D.
! Hudson, president Of the Corn
Breeders Association, as president.
Public spirited men both at home
and abroad were appealed to for
! help, and nobly they have responded.
/ The one thousand dollars with which
/ the exposition was started has grown
until now there IS the magnificent
sum of ten thousand dollars offered
in prizes. Not content with helping
! South Carolina alone, the exposition
has been expanded until 1t now in
| cludes the two neighboring States of
Georgia and North Carolina. Libe-
raj premiums are offered for the best
corn OF different varieties, both in
, display, in lots Of ten ears and indi-
V1dual ears, first for each county,
| then each district in each State, and
finally these are brought into compe-
| tition woth the other States. The
| best ten ears Of corn on exhibit from
| these three States-those that win
the grand champion sweep stakes
will take off about four hundred dol
| lars. This certainly ought to bring
out ten good ears. The ot,.or pre-
miums are proportionately lit, al.
The commission asks every farmer in
! the three States to help make this
first attempt at corn exposition the
| success 1t so richly deserves. There
| l.. hol IL,
greater effect or give the corn in