Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-09-22
WIDE-AWAK.E FARMERS.
County Demonstration Agent
Visits Progressive Farmers
and Writes of What He
Has Seen.
Editor Advertiser:

EQlCOT AuVeIllSel.
Some time ago I wrote of the
progress of the country. The in
creased yields of grain and interest
in live stock.
Not long since it was my pleasure
to visit Mr.. w. E. Glover, in Merl,
wether townships, and while l bad
known Mr.. Glover for quite a long
time, il was my first opportunity OF
knowing his family. Mr.. Glover is
one of those progressive country
gentlemen that is worth more to the
uplift of a community than millions
of money. He is a livestock enthu.
siast, and his herd of cattle, headed
by a thoroughbred Red Poll, looks
good to me.
We would not neglect to mention
other wide awake farmers and live
stock raisers, Julian r. Strother,
Chris. M. Williams and Capt. l.. Il.
BrunSOn OK CleOrd.
On a recent trip in the Ridge Sec
ton we met one of the most con.
genial gentlemen in the State, Mr..
Henry Daniel Jordan. Mr.. Jordan
has a beautiful home surrounded by
a large tract of fertile land that, un-
der his intellectual management,
produces large crops of all sorts.
He is legume and live stock crank.
The summer and winter legumea
play large part iu his success. Of
course we would not discount his
live stock interest, chief of which is
his herd Holstein, Freizier's regis
tered stock, headed by the most per-
feet beast we have ever seen. He
is four years old, and weighs 1900
pounds, and when full grown and in
perfect flesh will weigh at least
5000 pounds. We are now per-
suaded that the Holstein is the COM
ing COW for the South for dual p1r'
poses, giving great quantities of
rich milk, and when sold for beef
bring as much as the standard breed
of 6eef cattle. Mr.. Jordan has a
granddaughter of cow that pro-
duced forty-one pounds of butter in
seven days, as much as some of our
common stock, with good attention,
would make in two months; besides
if any of these COWS should ever be-
come off for milk would sell for
$500 at present prices for beef.
We are bringing this to the atten-
ton of the public in order that
other farmers may follow the exam
pie of the above named gentlemen,
and prepare to welcome the boil
weevel two years from now, pro-
vided its makes the same headway
that it has made in the past two
years.
Let US sow all the clover, vetch, +,
wheat, oats and rye that we can
buy, beg or borrow, Don't waste
your energies and Wear yourselves
out working poor land when nature
has put soil-building plants in the
reach Of every farmer in the county.
If you believe what l say get busy
and do it. If you don't, contradict
it through the columns of The Ad-
vertiser.
The great rush of cotton and cot,
ton seed on the market is something
I cannot understand. There Is no
pressing debts just now. There is
only one explanation, these scary
farmers have no confidence in sup,
ply and demand. Don't we know
that if we gIut the market the price
will go down. The world must
have cotton and cotton seed, and
will pay good price for these sta.
pie products if we will let them
keep your stuff OFT the market, and
get 10! cents for your cotton and SO
cents for your seed. The demand
is greater than ever, and there is
less than one million more cotton
than last year at this time, and the
present crop four million short OF
last year, which makes shortage
OF three million bales. and therefore
means higher prices if it can be
kept off the market. The same
principle applies to the seed.
P. N. Lott.
Johnston, S. G.