Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-29


Never In the history Of The Enquirer
have so many names been returned up
to this date. Fully 70 per cent Of the
entire subscription list Of last year has
already been returned, but still there
Is lots Of work for the clubmakers to
do, and 1t gives us much pleasure to
testify that they are doing this work
in manner that is entirely satisfac-
tory.
Mr. j. B. Neil is still hard at work
on his cotton picker. and although
he has been delayed by various diff
culties, he is making steady progress,
and Is more optimistic than ever as
TO final success. Theodore Price has
a machine that will do the work; but
II costs $4,000 and Is out OF reach Of
the small farmer. Mr.. Neil hopes to
be able to offer his machine when
completed for considerably less than
$1,000. and people who have seen both
machines say that they believe the
Neil machine will. do all that Prices
machine will do.
Mr.. Ira 3. Dunlap, cashier Of the
National Union bank of Rock Hill, has
made suggestion that strikes close
to the heart of local possibilities for
economic development. That sugges-
ton Is nothing more nor less than that
there should be a regularly established
market for corn the same as for cot
ton. The time was, and that not so
many years back when the people Of
this section, practically all Of them, ex-
cept a few Of the brainiest and most
far-seeing. were buyers Of corn.
Within the past dozen years corn pro-
duction in this county has advanced
beyond consumption, and there Is a
surplus for sale, but there is no sat-
isfactory market for that surplus. Peo-
pie who have more corn than they
need have to look around to find fell
lows who have less than they need or
else there Is no sale. This Is not as
In every town in this section there
should be a local market in which
shelled corn can be sold on a basis of
grade, at fixed market price, and he
Is eminently correct. The establish
ment of corn markets on a business
basis would help the situation won
derfully.
A pleasant incident of the holidays
was a letter from Mr.. A. McNeel Of
Solsville, n. Y. renewing his subscrip-
ton for a year. Mr.. McNeel will be
remembered as the eX-soldier who
came down to Yorkville last summer
to again go over the scenes Of his SOL
dier days in the early '70s and look up
the neople he used to know. He met
only a few of his former acquaintances
but the publication of information
about his visit brought out scores Of
people who remembered the old SOL
dier most pleasantly. AS stated at the
time Of the visit, Mr.. McNeel Is in
the business of buying and selling
milk. He told how, through this bus
iness. he had won at least comfort
able means Of living and he gave some
interesting facts about alfalfa. AS a
matter of interest to the creamery
farmers down this way he sends a
statement of the prices received for
whole milk by the hundred pounds in
New York during the year, as follows:
January, s1.9O; February, s1.S5; March,
sl.65; April, $1.35; May, $1.15; June,
s1.00; July, s1.20; August, s1.35; Sep
tember. $3.50; October, $1.75; Novem-
ber, $1.S5; December, $1.90. In his
letter Mr.. McNeel also enclosed some
information about alfalfa, and use will
probably be made of it later on.