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

campaign, and said when the car re-
turned to this county for visits to the
individual farms it would We accom-
panied by Local Agent Duncan and
would stay here as long as Mr.. Dun
can thought there was any problem TO
be solved for any farmer. It would
visit only farms from five to twenty
five miles from a railway, to reach the
vast majority of the farmers who had
not been reached by the various agri-
cultural trains and other methods
which had been in vogue, and to carry
the work to the homes and to the par
ticular soil of the individual farmers.
Mr.. Bradford Knapp.
Mr.. Bradford Knapp expressed him
self as greatly pleased with his visit
to South Carolina, and congratulated
the State upon what he said he be-
lieved was splendid agricultural fu-
ture. He referred to the Irmo meet
ing and to the interest which had been
taken by the people at all the stops
made by the party, as most healthy
indication. Farming; he said, was as
much business proposition as bank
ing, the mercantile business, or man
ufacturing. In South Carolina, as well
as in many other Southern States, it
had long been appreciated that the
average farmer did not find at the
end of the year that he had balance.
The trouble that had led to the de-
crease, or tie small increase of rural
population, in comparison with the in
crease.of city population, consisted in
three things; first, there hasn't been
earning capacity enough On the part
Of the man on the farm; second, what
earning capacity he did have was at
too great and too arduous labor; third
he didn't have the social, religious and
educational advantages of the man in
town. In regard to the first PROPOSE
tion the census of ten years ago show
ed the average earning of man on
the farm was only S127 per annum,
and that man could hardly be blamed
if he wouldn't dig down and pay tax
es to build better roads, or schools or
churches. He gave history of the
movement in his department for bet
ter return for labor, more easily ac-
compllshed, and he described in an
interesting way the methods which
had been pursued. He gave the es-
sential matters in which his depart
ment was trying to improve conditions
and he put ahead of all of them the
business proposition of growing at
home the things necessary for the
family and for the feed of the live
stock. Diversified and intensified
farming, the raising of home supplies
and the building up of the fertility of
the soil were the three great things
necessary in this section, he said. He
referred to the TACT that the average
production of corn per acre was in
creasing more rapidly in the South
than in any other section today, and
he expressed himself as greatly pleas
ed at the prospects of the South along
all agricultural lines. He regretted
that he could not stay in South Caro-
lima as long as ne liked, but he said
he had 600 demonstration agents in
the South, only thirty of whom were
in this State-Which showed how much
Of his time would be taken up in other
States. He said he expected the num-
Der of demonstrators in the South
soon to be increased as a result OF
additional appropriations for the
western Southern States.
The party on its return to Columbia
on Wednesday afternoon held a meet
ing in Prosperity, along the same lines
as the Newberry meeting.