The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-25


successfully. grown it would not be
necessary to inoculate. He said the
people here ought to get one to three
tons to the acre-and at thirty dol
lars a ton, it could readily be seen
how good a proposition it was. tie
gave the methods of fertilizing and
preparing the land.
State Commissioner E. J. Watson.
State Commissioner OF Agriculture
E. J. Watson said he believed the cam
paign now on, in company of Mr..
Knapp, would be of vast benefit to the
State in that, in addition to the direct
immediate benefit to the farmers, Mr.
Knapp would get at first hand bet
ter knowledge Of conditions here
which would enable him to direct his
work from Washingtsh so as to be OF
more benefit to the State in the future.
He referred to a meeting held by MS
party at Irmo on Wednesday morning,
saving it was the most significant ag-
ricultural meeting he had attended
this year. A hand primary was taken,
he said, and it was learned that there
was not a single man present buying
pound of Western meat, or bale OF
Western hay, or using meal other than
from corn grown on their own lands
and ground in their own communities,
or a sack of the horribly adulterated
bleached -four on the market-but
they were all raising their own wheat
and grinding it at their own commun-
ity mills. Last year, he said, the cot
ton crop of the State amounted to $685.
OO0,O00-the greatest in money value
in the history of the State, and yet
there were brought into the State
mules and horses and -four and meal
poisoned meal-and milk products,
so-called, and butter and cheese, and
God only knew what all, and even
canned .blackberries with Baltimore
label on them, taken from this coun-
ty and this State and brought back
canned, the people paying for the tin
and the canning and the wholesalers
and retailers commission and profits
this stuff which ought to have been
raised at home and enough of it put
I'D at home for home supplies-tak-
ing every dollar of the money re-
ceived for the cotton crop, with the ex-
ception of about sS,000,000, to be di-
vided among million and a quarter
of agricultural population, without
taking into account the business in
te1 ests. All these things which were
brought from the North and East ard
West, he said, could be raised here
cheaper. A few years ago, he saio.
this State had realized conditions, aid
had determined to go ahead and apply
scubd business principles and doc
trines to a scheme for the rehab!llta-
ton Of agriculture. The late lamented
DR.. Knapp had just started his gov
ernment movement in Texas, and
when DR.. Knapp was in this State,
Mr.. Watson said he had begged this
distinguished benefactor to put his
farm demonstration work in South
Carolina, it having never been tried at
that time on the South Atlantic coast
He had lived to hear DR.. Knapp say
before his death that he hoped to live
a few years longer, long enough to
make South Carolina an object lesson
The work had first taken up corn as
the point of least resistance, and the
yield of corn had been increased from
seventeen and one-half million dollars
to nearly fifty million dollars, and that
was to large extent, where the pros
rarity of the State was coming from.
The whole value of the agricultural
products of the State ten years ago
was s51,O0O,OOO, and had since then
been insreased to over S140,000,000 and
since 1906 over $e6,OOO,ooO of that
had been added, and last year the
maximum progress was shown when
South Carolina increased the value of
her agricultural products by s31,OO0,-
900, or over % per cent, and sent
herself climbing up the ladder from
twenty-frst position to thirteenth po-
sition in one years time. He urged
the live stock industry and the raising
at home of the things we eat at home.
Instead of buying s21,OO0,OOO worth of
forti1izorS q voar and 1pSSpnin1 the