The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-03-01
SIX AND TWENTY.
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heard IL said that the abbrevatiOn
for February Fcb--stood for freeze
everybody and il has certainly done
all II could I'm that way this time. for
the nonth RCw drawing to closc
has been TIC roughest of the winter
and seems now to be going to hold
faithful 10 the end.
Mr.. !. q. Mtrtin, while as yet Is not
Il mC,nucr 0f the Anderson County
Lie Steel: Association is firm be-
licycr IN trying to get his friends
and rc!Hh lors Interested in raising
D:ore farm animals. Mir. Martin owns
one of TIC fircst stations in the coun-
t. ana own :. fine jack that has TAX
on nearly all the first premiums that
:laVc ic1n offered al the fairs that
could hc Visited by him in the last
two yeGTa.
We "crc1t:y noticed that many pa
Fcrs' were publishing articles
| fa"or.Hg Il bill that has been intro
duced = congress- for an appropria-
ton &C FROM Slj TO $50 per mile for
! tic working OF public roads. We do
not rcr such bill for the reason
that Il "oa)d open up and pave the
way for more graft and the wasting of
MILLIONS OF dollars, and the govern
nent ;'ase more grafters to contend
with than they can get to.
As we understand 1t the money Is
TO be placed In the hands of road
supervisors, and heretofore, the ma
jority Of supervisors have spent aii
the money that they could get hold
OF and our roads cotinue IN bad shape
we think the roads should be purely
local matter and should be looked
after by thr different states, and
counties. II tho national government
wi9lles to help let it furnish expert
edricc and supervision. 1t will be
cheaper and more satisfactory in the
long run.
DO farmers OF the present day ever
think OF tho difference in the present
day methods of farming and those
twenty years ago? At that time every
fnImc. believed that the continual
|pianting OF field of cotton would
make 1T more fertile. Every one
would bur oil stalks, grass, weeds.
etc., in order to have the land cleared
for the plow. We have heard old
PEOPLE. say that they had seen tire
tine when cotton seed were consider
ed worthless, and after saving suf-
Hclent quantity for planting purposes
the REMAINDER of Z lhei.. sae<a 8 fsssf=S5,
allowed to run off into the streams,
anJ wash away. (Gins were all run
by water power 40 or so years ago.
terraces were unknown and rows
were all run the longest way of the
Fed. many times they would run
straight up and down the hills. They
Claimed that each row would carry it's
.Gn water.
Torn was cultivated altogether with
uil-tongpe plow aid everytime, III
van plowed the aliddles would be
Elawed ont and ta:ee plowirgs had to
make the crop.
!, rweity five ar thirty gears ago
tAere was very little farm machinery
Owned and what was onwned was
ID. the wealthy. The writer can re-
tafmDer when cotton was planted by
hand, and the ,firs; planter we ever
RaN was one sabhl like q barrett
with holes bored In rse center for tho
seed TO drop through. Farmers then
made their crops VITA a bull-tonRne
arm twtster plow wi.i au occasional
hp2;:ard' wing, and I big roe that waa
cI lle, q Brades hoe. Ne all know
hat our farmers have 10 use in their
prius now consequnntl we need not
coph,tnt on That.
Ar, and Mrg. A. VI. Martin visited
at Mr.. Dock Mufphay's last Sunday.
Msssrs. Claude and Ed Wilson ofI
tiopeweli attended Sunday school here
las Sunday |
We very often hear sonethihr said
about county fair for Anderson
county to be held this fall. We
scarcely know what 70 say, hut we
VIII say that q fair would be one of |
tue greatest enterprises ever gotten |
w. w., 'or the country; We need fair
ana we need it bad. II some of otsfI
lt3atng men would wake np to the
volnt Where they would take an aotiyel
lnterest in fair 1t would mean |
nsean great results for. the county thisi
year The spirit must he county wide;
before any success can be attaine5
md ille only way to get the sbirif Isl /
% go TO work now. Every county
should have Is county fair, not lust
nnee or twice, but as regularly MS the Il
IRpil: Htgon comes round. Al properlyl
coiluuet ted county fair IS probabIyI /
Tie most adhcational OF all fairs. audi
when The citizens OF q county SCI f6 /,
Iyork 10 have q good fair they can |
in II ana make &c nay lis WAY. &.
Z TbrodgA' e nllsundef tiiSir wa I
snid In our last letter tliht there
would be singing at FIiendshtD oI,l
he first sunday In March, when II I
have been on the first Sunday
h April. X, y ssSl Is
An cid saying is thar.
= February gives much snow.
4 fine summer II doth fofeshnw.
In uacle Dawes last letter we mo-
siat he comments on youn.
,e4 comp planning on their ifnfaEzii
llste--e sclrcunastafices He could have I
sess 9 lutheran said that people arc
100 oftan Ingenious In making them
selves xiliseFable by asgravatlne 20 4
their own fseaiey, beyond all IioundS !.
The evils which they endure. They
compare themselves 10 none bat those