The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-04-09
MONEY, CORN, HAY AND HOGS.
Note of Prosperity Sounded by Marl-
boro County Farmer.

of the Brownville section of Marl-
boro county, in letter to the Pee
Dee Daily, of Bennettsville, gives an
| insight into just how prosperous the
modern agriculturist in South Caro-
lima is to-day. Mr.. Hodges is a very
successful farmer and here is what
he tells his fellow farmers:
Il have had a fine trade this week
and | am feeling bully over it, and
must tell my fellow farmers about it.
Tell all the good things you know and
keep the mean things you know to
yourself and you will feel better. Try
it. | have sold one man 400 bush
els of corn, and another one carload
of hay and stover, and another five
tons stover, and another five tons
hay, and another S31 worth of pork,
and | have not started to sell yet.
Now, boys, you had better get ready
for the boil weevil, and if it never
comes the South, as we all admit,
has gone crazy on the subject of cot
ton and most of us are now produc-
| ing it without legitimate profit,
and everything that man and beast
eats is high and going higher, with
| the promise of a magnificent profit in
| in it and nice job. I am preparing
to plant 500 acres in corn this year
and am going to make a dive for
10000 bushels. l have 250 acres
planted in oats. 1 am working for
10000 bushels, and / am working
for 800 tons of hay and 800 tons of
stover.
"You Marlboro farmers get hold
of one corner of this proposition
and let us pull the old ship back in
the channel. We can do it and we
must do it, and now is the time to
begin. Boys, have felt the pulse
of this corn, hay and hog money be-
fore, and l tell you it beats fine. Try
it and it will electrify you. Don't
forget that every dollars worth of
such truck sold at home means that
much money kept at home and helps
to make good business, prosperous
times and good feelings"
The "hog and hominy" program of
Mr.. Hodges will be of much interest
to the farmers at this season of the
year just on the eve of planting time.
Mr.. Hodges believes in raising his
own bread and meat and having the
cotton for a surplus crop. This pro-
paganda needs spreading through
| out South Carolina.
Authority on Clover.
Turning from the rich Pee-Dee
county of Marlboro to the pros
porous Piedmont county of York,
| the following advice on clover is TAX
en- from a letter to the Yorkville En-
quirer, written by Mr.. j. Frank Ashe,
whom the Enquirer says is an au-
thority:
while reading your article on
| Crimson clover in last issue of En-
quirer, thought that word of ad-
vice just now might be of some help
to beginners. 1 have had some exper-
ience with all the clover and hav got
ten all the information l could from
people who have had success in rails
ing clover, and they tell me that if
the stand is not good it is best to
nurse what you have in order to get
innoculation in the land which will
insure success next year. Quite lot
of clover was sown too late last
fall and has been thinned out by the
| freezes; but now as the weather gets
warmer, it will show up better than
you think possible from the present
outlook.
Il would like for more farmers
| W Will Dull SioFOi. IL
only has to be seeded once and then
it is there forever; but you can only
have it where you expect to plant
corn, planting the corn after the
clover is ripe Then when the corn
is laid by the clover comes up and
covers the land, making cover crop
for fall and winter. 1t attains a
| vigorous growth in early spring and
| ripens about the middle of May. The
only trouble about making crop of
| corn is to get a furrow open through
the rank growth of clover in order
to get stand Then by the time the
| corn needs to be cultivated the clov-
er is so decayed as not to be in the
way at all.
Il was talking to Mr.. ]. w. Bled-
soc, of Saluda county, last fall, and
he told me that his first experience
with burr clover was patch he SOW
ed in his peach orchard. He planted
the orchard in corn after the clover