The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-05-02
South Carolina
Smallest Of the Southern Sates Yet One of the Richest in Every
Natural Resource-Growth in Recent Years

latter along the coast being eS
ceptionally large and profitable
One grower made 137 bushels O
rice to the acre IN Anderson
County. The State produce
about 80, ,00O,0 pounds Of clear
ed rice annually.
Tobacco is cultivated in many
parts of the State, especially ir
the central portion, where there
is found an excellent com bina
ton Of soils and climate. South
Carolina tobacco is the first or
the market and usually com
u high price. Good far
make from LOCO to l,5O(
pounds of tobacco to the acre.
Truck Growing
The trucking industry has
been expanding at a rapid rate
all over the State, until it has
reached gigantic proportions.
The Charleston truck district
is known all ever the country
to commission iuen. Growers
Of vegetables take off three, and
sometimes four crops a year
from the same field, and South
Carolina truck gets in the
Northern markets just after the
Florida stuff. One grower plant
ed Iri h and sweet potatoes, cab
bage, melons, beans and canca,
loupes on 100 acres. and his
books at the end of the year
showed a total return Of over
$4,000 Around Charleston are
great fields Of early cabbage
every year much of it frost-proof
plants for Northern growers.
From five acres in cabbage in
1910 over 1900 crates were
made. bringing a net profit of
81 ,o35 to the grower. Another
trucker reported a yield of s3,-
300 from twenty-five acres in
potatoes, while his neighbor
made over $50 to the acre in
before planting sweet
corn for the summer. Sweet
potatoes in the section average
in profit $50 to the acre in
many cases, while strawberries
are grown for the high priced
Northern markets with wonder
full success. One grower made
81, ,459 from a three acre field in
berries. The Southern Railway
affords quick through refrigera-
tor service to the Charleston
growers and there are many
:anHeries in the neighborhood
which take Up the waste and
.he culEs.
Fruits.
Peaches are grown in nearly
everE county along the South
ern Railway in South Carolina.
The owner of a peach orchard
n Aiken County took five crops
IF peaches from q siXty-acre
in six years, making
from $4,000 to $4,000 on e'ch
;rep. The Elberta, that high
class fruit. so well known and
called for in the North, thrives
well in the South Carolina clim-
ate and soils. There are manN
apple orchards in the State, al
though this industry has not
reached a high state Of de elop-
ment owing to the larger profits
which can be made with other
fruits. Summer varieties are
grown in some parts, and come
to maturity at IS very. early
period. Pears, plums, grapes,
ounces and the usual variety Of
small fruits do as we'll in South
Carolina as in other Southern
and many instances
might be sighted where growers
have made the largest profits.
I he pecan finds ideal conditions
almost all over the State and
there are steadily growing num-
hers of this most valuable tree.
Profits Of $500 per acre are made
bv pecan growers and several
groves have recently been sold
near Charleston at prices over
81. 600 per acre. There is
great opportunity In this direc-
ton in the State.
lives ok.
In the north western section.
where the lard is elevated and
produces excellent pasturage,
stock raising is q profitable in
lustry. Cattle may live out of
doors the entire year and find
good forage and water. There
i; a large variety of feeds in the
State suitable for cattle. Cow,
peas, velvet beans, alfalfa, rye
vetch, oats and cheap cotton
seed meal are some Of the
things which the South Caro-
lima stoekraiser has a hand fol
profitable production Of beef
pork and mutton. Dairying
however, offe:s superb openings
for the Northerner and West
eTner who will come to the
State and fill the home demand
Dairy cattle find good condi
tons in every part of the State
and the cities are annually