The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-06-08

"i'uSetHer case IL ulu not nave
time Some of my readers may
remember that l wrote in March
that the director of the Clemson
farm said they had been SO busy
they did not have time to SOW vetch
on the bermuda sod.
Since then l find that the slpshod,
harum scarum, happy go-Mcky. hit
or-miss farmer is not the only man
that sometimes does not have time
to do what be knows ought To be
done. And when / hear that express
sion did not have time" l wonder
If after all there is much difference in
human nature. We all have such a
tendency to undertake more than
We can do properly.
Here was dairy built of reinforce
ed concrete with an abundant water
supply. screens. iron stanchions, ETC.,
and the worst swarm of flies | ever
saw in my life, all because the man
agement did not have time 10 re-
move the decayed ensilage that smell
ed to high heaven at one end. and
the decaying pile of manure. some 80
yards away at the other end.
Milk put up in sealed bottles, but
before ii could get into the bottles ax-
posed to such a combination of odors
ard millions OF flies, that a board of
health on to It's job would close the
place up until there had been a reno
vation from roof To basement
This is not case of poverty or of
ignorance, for there is abundant
money behind IL, whether il Is making
any or not and a professor of ami
NAL husbandry in charge who has
been an institute worker and college
professor. All for lack Of system, or by
reason Of trying To do too much with
too little force.
The alfalfa fields were JOY to look
at and the oat crop very fine and the
thousand or more chickens with the
system OF guaranteed day old eggs
something To admire. The breeding
patches and fertilizer plots very in
teresting but all these meritorous
departments were overshadowed by
an Egyptian plague Of flies that once
seen will never be forgotten.
That afternoon al another dairy
farm with no screens, but also no
decaying ensilage or stale manure,
there were not one -thouSandth
the flies. But even here they We
worse than l thought. $4,000 bulls
and cows would be allowed To be an
noyed with, and the board of health
coming" was formula to conjure
with.
Any Of our people who want to
learn anything about the stock bust
ness can not do better than spend a
day or two at the Taylor dairy farm.
MIR. Shanklin, the manager, Is an en-.
thusiast, and l took half that he said
with a grain of salt, but he certainly
knows how to show COWS and bulls
points. He would win prizes for his
stock 10y sheer force Of his enthu-
Siasm ii the Judges did not paddock
his mouth.
Mr.. G.. Il. Hghtower, president
eject of the \. and NJ. College of
Mississippi WAS II visitor in Columbia
this week. Ills remarks about the
work heing done by his college and
IT. manner of support were very in
structivc, Through his efforts Missis-
sippi viii have the first chair of
Farm Finance ana Markets." and
hc predicts that every agricultural
college ia the county will have such
"a chair inside Of 3 Years.
Thc result of his visit viii be- seen
III "thcr ways before the colleges
open next fan Tennessee. Norlh
Carolina and South Carolina may sec
some of their best men taken from
them.
Ecith"r politics hay. entirely sub
sid"d "r my association has been
with men too busy 10 raIk politics.
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