The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-10-28
MAKE WASTE INTO GARDEN.
Splendid Development Work Now Be-
ing Done Around Ritter.


Ritter, Oct. 13.-The recent visit
of DR.. w. w. Long and District Agent
w. R. Elliott served to emphasize
what DR.. Boyd, expert in charge of
tick eradication, had previously said
of the potential resources of the
coastal region in cattle production
particularly, and of live stock pro-
duction in general.
In a letter to Mr.. James Henry
Rice, Jr., Major Harry Hammond. of
Beech Island, S. c., recites the fact
that botanist had found by actual
count in ten square miles on this
coast more species of plants than
were catalogued for the entire State
of New York!
Aside from heavy mast crops, such
as acorns, pine mast, beechnuts, miles
of chinquapins and no end of berries
and roots, hogs had fattening food
in the wampee root, equal to the
sweet potato, if not superior. The
woods hog here is not a razor-back,
for he is never without a plentiful
supply of nourishing food, The ra-
zor-back is a product of starvation
and racial degeneracy. The wampee
most in evidence here is the alligator
wampee, and no amount of roofing
has ever diminished the supply.
Hog and Cattle Raising.
There is certainly no part of Amer
lea better adapted to hog raising.
Equal advantages are offered to the
cattle industry, for cattle keep fat
on the ranges all winter. 1t was on
" necessary to fence them in and
to provide dipping watts in order to
free the ranges of ticks.
Sanders & Lemacks have built two
dipping vats, one at Bonnie Doone
plantation and the other right here
at the station.
This firm some time ago decided
on policy of consistent develop
ment and is carrying it out thorough
". All the surface water, except a
few remaining ponds in the woods,
has been drained off. The result has
vastly improved the health OF the
community, and still further I'M
nrovement will follow when the rest
of the work has been done.
To disabuse peoples minds OF an
erroneous notion, it is well to re-
member that Ritter, although lying
within the food plain of Ashepoo
River. is exactly eighty-six (s6) ieet
above sea level. The enc1rcllng
heights are one hundred feet on an
average; some ARE higher. This is
according to United States survey
made within thirty days.
These bills are some forty feet
higher than Summerville, although
the distance from salt water is about
the same. Bearing this In mind, one
can understand why there is such a
fine fall for drainage, even the low
est places being capable of perfect
drainage.
The annual rainfall is ffty-hve
(55) inches, or ten inches more than
Beaufort, Barnwell or Hampton
counties, and the very heaviest IN
the State except a small area IN
oconee and Pickens counties. This
area of heavy rainfall extends a little
beyond Charleston.
Thing Rice Fields.
e The Ashepoo Plant company, close
" allied to the Colleton Mercantile
and Manufacturing company, carries
on it's operations in two old rice
Acids. The president, Mr.. Paul San
ders. has tile-drained one Of these
fields and is now tiling the other.
1t looks almost like a miracle to see
how dry these wet fields have become
by means of tiling. The heavy, stift
clay breaks up, becomes easily tritur-
ated when mari or lime is put on
and forms an ideal soil.
Mr.. Paul Sanders has also built a
modern lot, thoroughly under-drain-
ing it with tile, so that stock and
men have no slush and mud to wade
through, as has been the custom for
some centuries past in this region.
This year the corn has been cut,
shocked and shredded with modern
shredder.
Mr. Sanders's idea has been to de-
velop a great property as occasion
required, and to settle it judiciousiy
with desirable settlers. He has steer
ed clear of the usual way of exploit.
ing land by so-called whirlwind
methods and of unloading it on
somebody.
The tiling of the land has demon
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