The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-10-30
RAISE STOCK, URGES LEVER.
Timely Advice to Farmers of South
Carolina.

Lexington, Oct. 27.-Congressman
Lever, after a remarkable automobile
trip from Washington to Georgetown
by way of Luray Caves and the Ma
tural Bridge, in company with Con-
gresham Byrnes, as the guest of
Congressman Ragsdale, and a trip
upon the Government torpedo boats
from Georgetown to Conway, where
he spoke on Thursday, and on to
Union, where he spoke on Friday,
has reached home in fine physical
condition. Mr.. Lever is in receipt of
numerous invitations to speak in va
rious parts of the State, but as yet
has not accepted any of them, al
though he has previously engaged
himself to deliver an address in Au-
gusta on the 9Th of November at the
Good Roads Congress, and at Rock
Hill on November l at meeting of
the Alfalfa Club of that community.
Il am particularly interested in
this latter engagement" said Mr..
Lever, for l see in the alfalfa and
grass work begun in this State the
genesis of a movement which ulti-
mately must result in making this
State prominent among the South
ern States in live stock growing.
With the decreasing supply of meat
in this country and with the increas-
ing price for the same, it becomes
extremely important that the farm
ers of South Carolina-big and little
should be induced to enter the
field of live stock growing as profit
able industry, both within itself and
as soil builder. There is no reason
in the world why beef, pork and
poultry cannot be successfully rails
ed in South Carolina. We need only
to have proper pasturage for the first
two and the elimination of the cattle
tick and hog cholera, and for the
latter only intelligent handling.
I'VE must teach our people how to
grow forage and to build permanent
pastures to make cattle growing en-
tirely successful, and it must not be
forgotten that the success of hog
raising depends upon the success of
cattle raising-the two go together.
Our farmers must not lose sight
of the fact that the boil weevil is
coming as certain as the night fol-
lows the day, and we must not find
ourselves when the time comes un-
prepared for him, and there can be
no state of unpreparedness worse
than that of finding ourselves depen-
dent absolutely upon cotton alone.
To my mind the live stock proposition
as supplement to our cotton is the
livest and most important PROPOSE
tion we have in the next few years
when the boil weevil striks us.
Il am especially pleased with the
high prices of cotton, because l no
ticed last fall among the people in
the State a sentiment of doubt as to
what effect change in parties might
have upon our prosperity. Democrats
themselves were just little dubious,
and it is exceedingly gratifying to
those of us who made the fight and
won it to have our predictions, that
prosperity would follow Democratic
Administration, come true. The Ad-
ministration is making good with
four feet up. The passage of the ta-
riff bill is the most important eco
nomic advance in the policies of our
Government since the war, and when
this is followed by the early enact
ment of currency reform, to be fol-
lowed later by a Tightening up in our
antitrust laws, the people for the
first time in years will have come in
to their own
Representative Lever will, of
course, attend the State Fair and is
due to attend a Congress called for
the purpose of inducing the Legisla-
ture of the State to appropriate s40,-
600 to help eradicate the cattle tick.
I'VE can hardly estimate the enor-
mous 1oce m thic State on account of
the cattle tick" says Mr.. Lever, "and
it is the duty, the highest duty, of
wise craftsmanship to lend itself to
an effort to eradicate it. I feel con-
tident that I can induce the Federal
Government to match dollars with
the appropriation provided for by the