The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-12-04
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hard tlmes," but l do not believe
that the war is directly the cause of
so much of the hard times-but lot
OF doggish greed here in our own land.
To be plain, believe some monied be-
ings who can hoard whole lot-mon-
led speculation for selfish gain are
doing most of it. Talk of plenty ana
OF great prosperity of this country
and all of this tightness, hard times
coming on and before the war was
week old! Where is the plenty?
Where is the prosperity? When SO
many people are being thrown out of
employment, losing jobs and positions.
Even farmers are being staggered as
to knowing how to arrange for bust
ness; hands do not know what they
will have to depend upon for another
year. Plenty and prosperity! Oh!
Now all of this talk and writing
about grain sowing may be all right,
and guess it is, unless we farmers
take the advice of everybody, those
who understand farming and those
who do not understand it (only are
they experts in telling the farmers
how to manage) go to the other ex-
treme and glut the market with grain.
The fact is, if / am to take mems
word for it, that there are MANY peo
pie who are not able to buy sufficient
seed, wheat or oats to sow much land.
They say that it will take every cent
they can get to pay off running ex-
penses, fertilizers, mules, land inter-
est, taxes and then cannot even up,
and consequently the grain sowing
business is obliged to be curtailed.
put as for corn, you can seed the land
cheaper than with small grain and a
man can work quantity of it too,
and 1T Is not necessary to buy your
yield with commercial fertilizers
either. l did not get to hear the
"grain experts" at Union but | read
the report of the meeting and got
some good from it anyway. hone
the people will not charge me with
being egotistical when l say that /
several years ago mapped out my
course and did not need absolutely to
have Mr.. Watson or Stratton or Smith
to tell me this. / have been studying
soil building and improving and had
planned for all grain for home use
and some to spare to the local mar
ket; few cattle, sheep, goats, all the
cotton that | could raise on a few
acres, say not less than one bale per
acre, up to not over ten acres, per
haps less, to the plow, and then "go
yonder" on hogs. Now | have told
my secret Say, excuse slang-but
did you ever try to climb a tall slick
tree, go up several feet, slip back and
then fall to the ground, pant a while,
then try it over, then with all of the
clamping of the trunk with your
knees, and it seemed would never get
to the first limb but sometime would.
Hard, amt it? Many thought they
were on the first limb last wear but it
broke and they fell nearly to the
ground again, are just on little knot
almost too weak to hold on much long
er, and may have to drop loose vet.
We had once hoped that all of this
talk OF pooling so much money of the
millions that would be arranged would
be good man with shoulder under
the JfrAow on the knot to help him up
tos oA first limb again, but alas. as
ler 1T is too late for many. 1t MT
be a set of climbing spaces for those
already up among the branches 20
pass over some spaces where the
limbs are scarcer. Now while I am
on this medley let me say that that
was sure enough Indictment that the
New Hope correspondent made
against somebody, to wit: The man
who said z cents was fair price for
cotton, or being able to say what cot
ton should bring. But l would not
try to dispute it for anything. Could
not If | would, | guess, for | am not
trying to KNOCK" neither am trying
to snout hot air on dry grin boost.
Miss Lizzie Jeter, a G. F. C. girl
spent Thanksgiving with her parents,
DR.. and Mrs. ]. T. Jeter. v
Mr.. ID. j. FAINT of Atlanta, South
ern railroad engineer, spent the week
end with his brother, Mr.. j. Mel.
FAINT and made pop call visit to his
aunt, Mrs. H. C. Jeter.
Mr.. R. G. A. Jeter, who has been
holding a job with the Bonsel Con-
struction company, spent two weeks
here lately, but is now back on his
Fob, building another bridge over
Cooper river in Charleston county.
Some of the cotton mills have cut
off their buyers at this place, it is re-
ported. They monopolize the buying
at first, then drop out, and farmers
at times cannot sell and the stuff may
go down on them, while they stand
helpless in a way.
Sunday and Monday were very
rainy days and last night. The pre-
clpltation from Sunday morning to
tuesday morning is 3.49 inches. The
ground is certainly wet and stop is
put to grain sowing for a while t
least
saw a gentleman who was in Co
lumbia the Sunday the blue laws
went into effect and he said that
many people openly violated them,
but he said that he noticed that tie
foreigners observed it almost entire
| ly, especially the Greeks. That our
own people are worse to violate laws
is true. | myself notice that general
lly the white people violate the game
laws here more than the negroes ever..
| | feel that the editor has taknn