The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

10 discuss ways and means to promote
better farming in the State. Learned
the lesson from the half dozen banks
whose presidents came from between
the plow handles and have been meet
ing the farmers on the common
ground OF community of interest
ANA Mr.. TAFT is SO struck by the
showing made by European credit
systems that he is calling the Gov
ernors to come to the annual confer
ence in Washington prepared TO be-
gin such a system here. He saws if
II We're not that he is SO busy cam
Paigning he would call the conference
month earlier. Watch the associated
press now, and see if Mr.. Taft lis not
back number in this rural credit re-
FORM. One B. Nj. thought 1t all out
while shooting big game in the
jungles.
Due Soiile ol my friends Will be
more interested in an account Of nv
trip to the Pee Dee last week.
found at Darlington that extra staple
cotton is all the talk, and it brings
the price too, II cents being the pre-
vailing price for a good article Of
l 3-16. Same at Florence. At Cow
ards the County Union held a live
meeting. AS a tribute to good seeds
sown in fertile soil in July and Au-
gust at two county meetings, new To-
cal unions are being organized, and
one local has taken in "a members.
Hay, hay, hay. AS fine as 1 ever
saw is safe now. Cotton short but
good crop of corn At Mullins we
had with us Bro. S. II. Hobbs Of
Clinton, Sampson County, North
Carlina whose talk on farming as a
business was among the real good
talks that we sometimes hear. Saw
some improved road building out
east from Mullins and across Little
Pee Dee. Lands are very much like
Shiloh. Mostly in small farms. Three
farms Of 10, IA and IA acres each
have such a record for supporting
four families, and lending out money
to bigger farmers that the story will
have to be deferred to a more leisure
time, If it ever comes.
AT Darlington Mr.. McIver William
son captured me, and we "fit and bled
and died" to the wee small hour of
A. M. over the live problems of the
10th century farmer, and then after a
light lunch / was permitted TO oc-
cupy the bed and room that had once
given rest to Wade Hampton. Four
hours later ] was called out to catch
my train. Two thousand pounds of
seed cotton per acre behind corn,
against 500 behind cotton is one OF
proofs that Mr.. Williamson gives
for the good Of his method.
was surprised to find at Darling
ton and Florence that so many Of the
most successful tobacco farmers had
given it up. Still it was a powerful
factor in the finances Of the coun-
ties of Darlington, Florence. Marion
la Oh
Florence trucking followed by peavine
hay Is big industry.
Claiborne, North Carolina and
Conway, South Carolina, with the
strawberry story will have to lie over.
l am asked back to Conway for a
fish fry on Little Pee Dee and thence
by boat to Georgetown down the
Waccamaw Banks over in the in
dependent republic Of Horny do not
recognize the farmers was told,
but we will change all that when they
find that they are falling behind the
procession.
AT Florence the intense interest
In murder trial kept me from hav-
ing large crowd to talk to, but what
II lacked in numbers it made up in
quality. Bro. Aver. Of The Times, is
doing good work, and their board
Of trade. demonstration agent and
school commissioner are working up
live fair for November Sth and
9Th. | had the pleasure of receiving
four prominent farmers into the
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