The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-25
DEMONSTRATION WORK
FOR NEWBERRY FARMERS
WEDNESDAYS VISIT FOLLOWED
By COUNTY TOUR LATER
State Commissioner Watson Accom-
panied by Hon. Bradford Knapp
And Other Government Experts.

And Other Government Experts.
The bringing of the farmers OF
South Carolina into personal contact
On their own farms, with those VINO
have been detailed by the United Stat
es government to bring to them scien-
tifc methods Of farm Improvement,
with a view to increasing the average
weld of corn in South Carolina from
18 bushels to 100 bushels per acre, and
the avegage yield OF cotton from two
ffths of a bale to three bales per
acre: with the view Of promoting the
live stock industry and as direct re-
suit increasing the fertility and the
Droductiveness of the soil; with a
view of teaching the great results to
be achieved from intensified and diver
sifed farming, and the raising at home
of the necessities of life, all resulting
I in making rural life more comforta0l
land more attractive and building up
he rural communities, which are the
backbone of the country-this IS the
aim of the automobile tours OF the
State which have been. arranged by
hmissioner of Agriculture E. }.
bison, as announced by him and the
sher speakers at the meeting held IN
Newiberry on Wednesday afternoon.
The meeting for Newberry had been
scheduled for 1890 o'clock, but the
party was delayed by heavy rains be-
tween Newberry and Columbia, and
sdid not reach Newberry until later
5iuring the afternoon. The meeting
WAS held in the court house beginning
kt about $50 o'clock, and while it was
aot largely attended, as it probably
would have been had it not been for
he rains and the delay, it was OF in
! crest and value to the county, and
khen the car returns to Newberry for
S trips to the individual farms it will
eceive an eager welcome.
Personnel of the Party.
In the party in Newberry on Wed
esday, in the ''Oakland 40" touring
ar recently purchased by the depart
tent, was Commissioner 3. J. Wat
bn; Bradford Knapp. special agent in
barge Of the government demonstra-
ON work in the United States; A. G.
mith, special agent Office of farm
Management of the United States bu-
eau of plant industry; Ira W. Will
ans, State agent farm demonstration
kork, and accompanying the party on
he Newberry trip was ]. E. Shealy,
&f upper Lexington county, county
gent of the farm demonstration work
Mr.. A. G.. Smiths Talk.
The address of Mr.. A. G. Smith was
devoted to winter cover crops and live
Etock. He said Mr.. Welch Wilbur, OF
Newherry county, knew more about
tetch than any other man in South
Earolina. It will be recalled that Mr..
Wilbur hi 5 had an ideal field of vetch
his year. He said the hay and corn
eroCs were of, over the country, and
< here was no chance for the price to
! 30 down, and the people VINO were de-
bending solely on cotton were going
o be in bad shape. He urged the
i've stock industry in this section. He
=. believed the best proposition this
=. section had now was the live stock in
but it could not be the success
ght to be until more crops were
IN at home. He took up legumi-
winter cover crops-burr clover.
1son clover, red clover and vetch,
ID9t saying be believed the best results
lin this county, as a rule, could be ach-
ieved with vetch, although there could
4 be some success with crimson clover
On specially adapted land. He said
he believed Mr.. Johnstone had the best
burr clover in the Sta,o, anc he didn't
know he had ever seen but one other
as good, and that was in Darlington,
Ala. He urged the use here of hairy
vetch instead of Oregon vetch, though
the seed of the latter was considerably
cheaper September was as good
month as could be chosen for sowing
hairy yetch, and he said vetch ought
not to be sown here without inocula-
ton of the soil-taking the soil from
some field where vetch had been grown