The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-16
SUMTER s. G" WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1914 Vo
LONG ON MARKETING.
UNITED STATES AGENT REAL.
IZES ITS IMPORTANCE.
To Let Producers Know All About
Marketing Conditions Is His Present
Aim.

Aim.
Columbia, Dec. 1.-THE question Of
which has arisen with
special force since the start of the
grain campaign, has been carefully
studied by w. w. Long. State farm
demonstration agent. who says that it
must be reduced to an actual demon
stration in order to reach the South
Carolina farmer. In discussing this
matter yesterday he pointed out that
the two lines Of work, cream routes
and the raising Of beef cattle, to which
the farm agents are devoting much at
tention, demand immediate action on
the question of marketing.
II was in a good many small towns
today" Mr.. Long said, land I was
approached by number Of citizens
who expressed an interest in our new
line Of work on the question of mar
keting. 1t is our determination and
has been since 1 came to South Car
olina to add division Of marketing to
the extension work Of Clemson COL
lege. We are embarrassed at this
time for the want Of funds, but be-
lieve that we can secure these funds
or make an arrangement by which CO.
operative work along this line can be
undertaken with the department of
agriculture at Washington. 1 believe
that the question Of marketing in orr
der to reach the South Carolina
farmer must be reduced to an actual
demonstration. . y
There are two lines Of work that
we have been devoting a great deal OF
attention to since the beginning Of
the European war that makes 1t very
necessary for us to take up at one
the question Of marketing" continu46
Mr.. Long. I'VE are establishing ~
number Of cream routes in the cou
ties that are so situated that they en-
ship their cream to Clemson, and 9
are paying them IS cents a pound s
their butter fat. which equals 80 c1 q
l<tpa6S - ,buttas a I 80 ~ 995s
bought 1900 pounds Of butter fat
from these shippers Of cream. and we
paid out $3.50. The indications are
that this month we will pay out con-
siderably over $500. From this
Of butter fat we made 1900
pounds Of butter.
''By next May or June, when the
majority of the cows freshen in South
Carolina. we will be making possibly
5000 pounds of butter month and
be returning to the farmers over ST.
900 month. In order for this work
TO prosper and continue we have got
to place this butter.
I'VE have selected six counties in
the State and we have had the dem
onstration agent to locate SO of the
best beef type animals South Carolina
grown, not less than two on a farm
and not more than five. These ami
mails will be inspected by our live
stock experts and those that he thinks
can ont be handled with profit will be
rejected. We hope to secure as many
as 30 in each Of the counties. They
will be fed under our direction for
100 or 120 days and then we are to
market them in carload lots. We be-
licve that we can use the roughage
on the average farm along with hulls
and cottonseed meal; that we can take
some Of these animals, which the
farmers have been thinking for the
last GO days would be a loss inasmuch
as they had to fed them through the
winter, and by proper feeding and
turn them into ready cash.
This will demonstrate four things:
First, how to utilize the waste prod
ucts on the farm; second. how to feed
live stock intelligently; third, how to
market in cooperative way, and
fourth, how to preserve and take care
OF animal manure. This last is the
one that farmers of South Carolina
have constantly neglected.
"These two lines of work will keep
our market man steadily employed
and will be of great service to the
State" concluded Mr.. Long.
FIRE IN BIRMINGHAM,