The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-02-13

W. NC PhSSeh1 dI IHlS meeting and
contribute my mite directed mainly
towards two things: 1st. GLOW the
County Live Stock Association NAV
be benefit to the State Live Stock
Association and the General Upbuild-
ing of the Live Stock Industry in the
State" End. He further said: "Reas-
oning from the work you have been
doing in your county, Mr.. Mason and
l have selected you as the one to lead
this discussion. We want Just a
straight talk as to how you manage
your County Association"
We must cultivate an acquaintance
by reading, studying, and learn of
those people and places whose sue
cess has been far above the average.
A few men in each County could and
would in few years show our people
and the world at large we are not al
together cotton or rice growing
State, but would challenge compare
son with almost any other in the live
stock industry.
Standing, as we do in South Caro-
lima, far from the lead in the live
stock industry of the United States.
with the boil weevil's steady march
towards our very threshold, does IL
not behoove us to put on our whole
armour and enter each county and
organize associations in every branch
OF live stock Is this not the time
and the place for better resolutions.
for better planning of county organ
'lztions and greater individual prog
ress Is this, gentlemen, not the oc-
casion to point out the fact that the
Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, the
former IL miles long and six or sew
en- wide, the latter 8 miles long and
3 or a wide-both put together are
not as large as one county in South
Carolina-export every year 5000
(three thousand) head of cattle, at
prices which astonish the whole civil
lized world?
1t has been wisely said that our in
fuence lives after we have passed
away, and it is almost beyond belief,
the influence for good that even one
man in county leaves behind hin. ,,
How many members of this asso-
citation appreciate the fact that the
first Jockey Club that was ever in
augurated was gotten up by South
Carolinian-to come closer home, by
man from Richland county? How
many of us realize what the Jockey
Club has done for the American race
and trotting horse? 1t has not only
interested men in America in raising
the standard of these horses, but Eu-
ropean countries have followed in the
footsteps of this South Carolinian in
breeding. A step further, the Jockey
Clubs have not only increased the
speed of the running horse, but they
have developed distinct type, name
ly, the trotting horse, which was Pc
culiar to the United States and was
almost equal in speed to the running
horse, and unknown to the world
prior to tie formation of this Jockey
Club.
How strange to some of us, at least
to learn, this same man Wade Hamp-
ton, Sr., 131 years ago was one of the
very first importers in the United
States of thoroughbred bulls and
cows of the Durham type.
Who amongst us can predict what
the live stock and this association
would have been today had each and
every county possessed only a dozen
just such men with this mans love
for the magnificent pure thorough
bred horses and beautiful pure-bred
cattle?
Within the last few years the dairy
center of America has been shifted
from the North to the Northwest,
mainly through the efforts of one
State, and that Wisconsin, which has
built within her borders AZ, s21 silos;
whilst we, with the worlds record of
being the leading State in producing
more corn to the acre. for years than
any in the known world, have less
than two hundred (20O) silos.
With the best government on earth,
one of the best agricultural colleges
of the world, coming to us daily, be-
seeching us individually and collect
lively, and imploring us to accept
their nuggets of gold and gifts of
wisdom and experience, in the form
of bulletins on every known topic ap-
pertaining to the farm, with seeds of
every description, seed inoculations,
experimental farms, and the best ex-
pert teachers each in his special line,
all of these free of all cost, urging
us to better our individual conditions