The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-31
LIVING MORE AT HOME.
Watson Pleased at Fruitful Results
Of Campaign.

Of Campaign.
Columbia, Aug. 20. - Special:
commissioner E. ]. Watson has is
sued this interesting statement:
1t begins to look very much as
If our people are at last going to
realize the vital necessity of rails
ing something to eat at home.
have presented the facts in cold
figures as to the waste annually in
dulged in for things to eat bought
beyond the borders of the State at
every meeting l have attended in
South Carolina for the past four
years. We have been rocking along
for instance, sending outside the
State every year for flour at the
appalling sum Of $20,OOO,OOO. and
most of it / am satisfied is about
the same class of product as we
have found corn meal to be. In
1908, under the supervision of this
department, movement was
launched for the increase of the
wheat acreage of the State, and
several meetings were held that
fall for the specific purpose of get
ting our people to undertake the
raising of wheat with a view to
nome consumption. In one section
alone that year 5000 acres, which
ha never been planted in wheat be-
hSiS, "SIS put lnlO CulJlNaIlOn. NO
result in agricultural advance has
been so gratifying as that follow
Ing this campaign, and l am hap
py to say that this result has al
ready contributed to our 1911 crop
record, an increase over 1910 or
nearly three-quarters of million
dollars.
The total wheat crop in 1880
in this State was 926,35S bushels ;
in 1900, on an acreage of 174,245,
1t was only 1,017,319 bushels,
worth $95S,15S and the average
yield per acre was only bushels.
On yield per acre of sos bush
els in 1907 the yield was 2,66Y,-
600 bushels, worth S3,2O3,1OO; in
1908 the averake per acre again
went to bushels and the yield
was 1885, 900 bushels, worth So
6S6,000. At this time the campaign
Tor more wheat to eat was launch
ed and in the season of 1909 the
production was increased to g.
$4,000 bushels, worth $5,563.OOO
and the average yield per acre was
driven up to 10 bushels. Last year
the acreage was 452,942 and the
production was 4,9S3,0OO bushels
upon an average per acre of 10
bushels, and the crop went on the
market at $6,279,OOO, very nearly
a million greater than the crop the
preceding year and twice as much
as the crop of 1908. This year the
yield per acre has been driven up
Ito 11.4 bushels. The yield has
been 5,632,00O bushels and at the
same average price that prevailed
last year the crop will bring to
the farmers $6,9S3,6SO more than
the 1910 crop. The increase in
= A
The crop was raised on 494, ,030
acres, against 452,942 acres plant
ed last year. In other words. the
yield of wheat in South Carolina
Carolina has been exactly doubled
since 1908 and the value is almost
doubled in dollars. The wheat
crop this year is naerly seven
times in money value as much as
the crop of 1900, with a yield very
nearly six times as much as that
of 1900.
so much for wheat, but that Is
net all. We have to-day received
of 1911. Focty-one thousand bush
els were harvested, against 34,-
l2S last year. These figures, OF
course, do not take into consider
Ition the rapid extension of rye
for turning under and not for har-
vest.
Another significant piece of in
formation received also bearing di-
rectly on the feed and food stu
alton, is that a larger percentage
of the oat crop of 1911 than usual
is still on the farm at this time,
$4,000 bushels, against 111,OOO
last year, and against a ten-year
average of 10000. The amount
still on the farm and in the poss-
eSsion of the farmer is 33 of the
entire oat crop. 1t is noteworthy
that South Carolina leads all the
Southern states in this regard, the
others ranging along about per
cent"