Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-11-16
ocoNEE GROWS SOME CROPS.
A. Bearlen Gives an Outline of His
Corn and Cotton Crops.

iVH5 tiHle UeeH recognized as one or
Oconee's best farmers, was in Wal
halla last Wednesday and inciden-
tally mentioned the fact that he has
been doing some pretty heavy farm
ing during this year. He always does
that, but this year he tried small
amount Of ground under the direction
Of the farm demnn strators and is
quite pleased with the result.
He had four acres in corn, and
this was worked according to in
struction from the demonstration de-
partment. From the four acres he
has gathered sos bushels of splendid
corn. One hundred and sixty BUSH
&BS was made on two acres, and the
!SS&hole crop was produced at a cost of
about rs cents per bushel. He says
that his yield was considerably di-
minished by the unreasonable wet
spell that cost the farmers of this
section so much IN the way Of injured
and retarded crops.
But Mr.. Bearden's greatest success
was not In his corn field this year
He has always been known as a cot
ton producer, and in fact, so far as
we recall, he Is the first man we re-
member in 0conee to have made the
statement that he could make on av-
erage land bale Of cotton to the
acre at any time with reasonably ia
vorable seasons. This year-and it
Is generally recognized that this has
not been particularly good year for
cotton In OcOnee-he planted eight
acres of cotton, and so far he has
gathered from those eight acres eight
50O-Dound bales OF high grade cotton,
and will add to that at least one more
5OO-pound bale of tingcd staple.
He has always found that farming
In Oconee pays, and he is always con-
tented and prosperous. Aside from
bis field crops he makes an annual
harvest Of many bushels OF apples,
peaches anG pears from an excellent
orchard, and last Wednesday, brought
to The Courier Office a nice treat in
the way OF some Of the finest Keifer
Apcars we have seen
Mr.. Bearden lives in the "Nubbin
Ridge or Oakway section OF Oconee.
The story is handed down to us that
not so many years ago a farm in this
section OF the county, containing
about 800 acres, was traded even
Tor an old-time cap and ball rifle.
Land in that section readily sells for
from $40 to 500 per acre.
George &. Deals Corn.
Yesterday George G. Deal. who
has been farming i'm the Rocky Knoll
section, brought to The Courier Of
flee four sample ears Of his corn croD.
and they are beyond question ahead
OF any we have seen so far. The
ears brought to us, which Mr.. Deal
says are fair samples Of the average
or his crop, measure 9R inches in
length. s Y inches in circumference at
the butt and 6 h inches at the small
end. he secured his seed from Ten
ncssce and his crop has proven very
satisfactory to him. With no special
preparation and no attempt to make
an unusual yield he has gathered
from twelve acres a little more than
400 bushels Of this corn, or an aver
age yield Of about thirty-live bushels
to the acre. One hundred average
ears taken from the pile weighed 90
pounds. The corn has very large,
dcep grain. Mr.. Deal is moving to
the Holden place, near Picket Post,
this week. lie expects to make more
and better corn next year
''Somc Potato"
We are indebted to our friend, J.
w. Rankin. who lives on the Ellison
place, near West Union. for large
sweet potato. 1t had been out OF the
ground two weeks when brought to
us, yet 1t tipped the beam at even
five pounds. Mr.. Rankin is another
good farmer and knows how to
tickle the printers palate. Our
friend informed us that he had made
enough this year to keep the wolf
from his door.
Some Vine Town Apples.
EX-Supcrvis0r H. II. V. Hobson,
OF Westminster, always calls on us
when he comes to Walhalla, and his
d isits arc always anticipated with
pleasure. lie always brings us
something nice This time he left
with us liberal sample OF his crop
OF fall apples, raised on his home
lot in the town Of Westminster. Mr..
tobson has a large orchard, which
Is we'll kept, and it attracts attention
from far and near. During the pa It
summer representative Of north
ern agricultural paper visited his
"home and orchard and took several
Photographic views Of the bearing
trees. These will be used i'm nurscry
catalogues and in the publication OF
on Horticulture. The ap-
a'aSe%es left at this CIicc were OF very
nne flavor ana were superior 70 those
grown BY Northern Orrhardists