Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-08-12
INTERESTING REPORT
Demonstration Agent Gives
Interesting and Inspiring
Report of the Farmers
Institute Held.

1t was gratifying to find the
farmers of Edgefeld County ready,
anxious and hungry for informa:
tion concerning the betterment of
their condition. lat McKendrie we
found about three hundred waiting
our coming. This splendid ,assem.
blage was principally great grand
children of the pioneer Dutch SET
tiers of this section. QUITS, Dorns,
Timmermans, Skaters, Turner's,
Stevens, Paynes and others, and all
these people are stamped sterling"
and their superiors in hospitality,
morality and spirituality would be
hard to find.
From McKendrie we came across
country to Cleora passing through
the church yard of historic old
Gilgal one of the Oldest Baptist
churches in the south. About
night we came to our destination
stopping at the store of MIR. VIII
liam T. Reele. We found waiting
for our arrival Capt. Luther Il.
Brunson, Messrs. William I. Reele,
G. NJ. Williams, Thos. A. Will
liams and others. They gave us a
hearty welcome and made US all
feel comfortable after long drive
and hard days work. Our host
took charge and conducted us to
their homes. Miss Caroline Bostlc,
on, mascot and the most attractive
parsonage of our party was doml-
ciled in the home of Capt. Brnnson'
Professors O. M. Clark and R. L.
Shields at Mr.. w. 7. Reels, Pro-
fessor w. H. Barton and the writer
at the home of Mr.. c. NJ. Williams
One of the most pleasant features
of a sojournor's lie is to be enter
tained in a christian home where
brotherly love and christian fellow
ship reigns. Mr.. Chris Williams
is highly esteemed by every one who
knows him and his family, consist
inc of Mesdames w. P. Brunson,
w. Hampton Morgan, P. 3. West
and J. Osman Herbert and Misses
Eliza, Alma and Grace, are loved
for their many noble qualities.
Cleora, as we'll as Mckendree, is
one of the finest agricultural and
stock sections of the state. The
soil has high content of lime
which is the life of all legumes,
soil building plants, a large number
of which grow wild. If these citi-
zens knew what they have and
would learn how to utilize this gift
of nature there is no section in the
south that could cope with them.
If the thousands of acres of pine
thickets, sedge fields, briar patches
and all sorts of waste lands were
sodded in burmuda and burr clover
for pasturage and SOW hairy vetch
and grain for forage they could put
thousands of good fat beeves on the
market every spring and autumn
that would bring them five hundred
rer cent more clear money than
cotton. We found around Cleora
more live farmers than any Insti-
tate we have ever held. Progress
sive men and women, the Brunsons,
Williams, Reels, Holmes, Hills,
Corleys, Vests, and others. Mr..
C. M. Williams has pure bred
duroc hogs, beauties they are. He
informed us that he could sell a
great many more than he had.
We also found thoroughbred guern-
sey cattle, owned by Capt. Luther
R. Brunson. We have our eye on
Cleora and McKendee and are ex-
pecting happenings that will aston.
ish some hide learned natives.
Our meeting at Edgefeld was a
sue less. W lille the audience was not
large it was composed of progress
sive farmers who realize there is
much to learn ard are anxious to
better their condition.
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