The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-01-17
CHICAGO COMMITTEE
MAKES LIBERAL
OFFER.
Will Furnish $1,000 to COun-
ty Provided the People of
County Will Furnish a
Like sunni. S. Govern
ment Will also Give $1,000

Here is an unprecedented offer for
the people of Union county to help
themselves and receive in addition
very material assistance from out
siders in the development of the
agricultural resources of the county.
What would you think if some one
would offer to give you $500 for
your own benefit, provided you would
give $1.00 yourself? That is the
proposition before the people of I'm
ion county today, and we must act
quickly to get in on the ground floor.
The Crop Improvement Committee
of Chicago offers to pay for the aid
of agricultural development in any
county in the United States the sum
of $1,000, provided the people of that
county will furnish a like sum. In
addition to this, the U. S. Govern
ment will give $1,000. This will ag-
gregate $4,000 and the money is to
be expended over a period of two
years, allowing $1,000 each year for
this work. This should work wonder
full results in Union county. The
great thing we need in this part of
the country is intelligent farming
making two blades of grass grow
where one grew beforehand making
the best crops on the land at the
least cost to the owner and at the
least cost to the land.
The following are the objects of
this work and the duties of the agent:
"He shall make as many personal
calls as his time will permit and an
swer all inquiries on agricultural sub
jects by telephone or in writing.
His Duties shall consist IN gem
eral as adviser to any farmer in the
county requiring his services; organ
izing farmers clubs; conducting corn
clubs and other agricultural contests;
to arrange for exhibition of agri-
cultural products; to give practical
demonstrations and instructions in
crop rotation, soil building, farm
management, live stock, dairying,
horticultural work, etc, in various
parts of the county under ordinary
conditions; to cooperate with the su-
perintendents of county and city
schools in teaching the rudiments of
agriculture.
"He shall lay out practical sched-
ule of farm practice on the county
poor farm upon the request of the
county officers in charge thereof with
view of putting the farm on a self
sustaining basis.
at shall also be his duty to es-
tablish seed plots both on the county
farm and on various private farms to
breed up to the highest efficiency the
variety of seed wheat, oats, corn, bar
ley, rye, or other products which may
be best adapted to the soil and eli
mate of the county so that eventual
ly a uniform variety of each product
may be established and marketed,
free from the mixture of other grains
and weed seed.
"He shall be ready at all times to
cooperate with the existing agencies
such as the breeders association,
farmers Institutes, county fair asso-
citation, country life associations and
any other associations having for
their object the best agricultural,
commercial, social and material inter-
est of the country"
The Chamber of Commerce, realiz-
imp that the interest Of the city and
county depend largely on the devel-
opment of the agricultural resources
of the county at large, has taken up
this matter with the intention of Sc
curing his aid for Union county. At
a meeting of the board of directors
of this organization few nights ago
the subscription to raise this fund of
$1,000 in Union county was begun,
and the sum of $3.50 was raised
among the members of the Chamber
of Commerce as starter, the fol-
lowing being the members contribut-
ing the sum of $1.O0 each:
Emslie Nicholson, Southern Cotton
Oil Company, B. F. Alston, Jr., L. j.
Hames, w. S. Mcclure, j. Cohen, r.
P. Harry, S. M. Rice, j. Roy FAINT,
Allan Nicholson, J. E. Minter, Bank
of Jonesville, Thos. McNally.
This is an offer that we shall not
have again, and it is the duty that
we owe ourselves and the county to
take advantage of it.
Every business man in Union and
r.