Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-09-24
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1913.
OCONEE HAS GOOD CROPS.

farms below West Union, and it has
some fine crops, this time nearer
AomC.
The editor Of The Courier has the
good fortune to live within "a stones
throw' Of one OF the best farmers in
Oconee, and one who has made a
modest fortune tillin& the soil Of
what, a few years back, was fire.
quently referred to as poor black
Brandt, the gentleman to whose crop
Ne refer, was cautioned by his
friends and neighbors that che would
starVe to death trying to make a liv-
ing on that particular spot.
But II. Louis Brandt had no intep-
zion Of starving himself and his good
wife to death-nor did he. Instead
they have raised a large family of
strong, healthy children, and each
one has, at his or her appointed time,
gone out from this home to found
another, and success has followed in
each case. Mr.. and Mrs. Brandt are
once more almost alone, only one of
Eheir children remaining with them
but for how long we are not au-
shorized to say. The Brandt home
has long been recognized as a place
that furnished good wives. and so
long as there is one girl left at home.
and there are still sensible men left
TO look for good wives, the question
of the Flying of the last bird from
the nest" depends much upon mai
dens whims.
But 1T was Of crops that we had
started to speak, and Mr.. Brandt has
good crops, from the nearest point TO
his house to the very edge OF the land
no cultiYates. We have looked
through his cotton and through his
corn, and ii is our guess that he will
average bale to the acre on his cot
ION land and 60 bushels of corn to
the acre. And then he has peas ga-
lore, and he makes hay-crab grass.
peaVine, clover and alfalfa hay
though the latter product is still in
The nature Of an experiment and is
practically all cut for green feed. He
gets from four to five cuttings from
his alfalfa, and has but a small sec
1i0n of it. He raises everything for
hlmSelf and family, for his horses
and COWS and hogs-and something
for other people. too, for he always
has something to sell.
But what we most like about Mr.
Brandt's farm is that it shows that
ne depends largely upon home ferti-
iizcrS, drawing his main supply from
his ample stables. lie enriches his
lands with stable manure and feeds
his crops with commercial fertilizers.
That is a sort Of hobby with us,
and naturally we take kindly to the
tarmer who farms as we think we
would farm if we were farming. We
have no fight to make on the COM
mercial fertilizer, but we think the
tarmar who neglcCts to make from
hiHH stables every pound OF fertilizer
chat he can is losing much. This sort
OF fertilizer builds land and strength
ems crops, but best of all it stays
with the land for years and makes
soil. Commercial fertilizers feed the
crops, make them grow, put fruit and
grain on the stalks, but they add
NJ N 70
Brandt has demonstrated the wisdom
# this plan Of building soil with sta
ole manure and feeding crops with
commercial fertilizers.
Ir. Brandt is not "brag patch"
farIlcr. We have seen a few acres
here and there that beat his crops.
And yet, taken as whole, his entire
farm is "brag patch" for it is far
and away above the average. 1t Is
one Of those farms that has written
indellihly over every acre "Home'-
and those four letters spell more than
any four letters in the alphabet.
HOME spells happiness, content
ment, good fellowship, prosperity,
success; it spells the love Of God to
sian, the love OF man to God, and the
love Of man to man. We always find
pleasure in dropping in" at Farmer
Brandts home and walking over his
acres Of "home." The very atmos-
Dhere seems charged with those four
letters. and they float In the breeze,
never letting one forget that here is
an ideal home. We find profit in
looking over his crops, considering
his methoLs and listening to him
talk. He has had enough experience
10 teach him how to farm, and his