The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-12-22
MORE HOGS NEEDED.
County Demonstration j. Frank Will
liams Makes Important and Timely
Suggestions.

This is one year that every farmer
should XIII enough meat to supply
his own farm and to make arrange
inents to increase the number that he
viii raise another year. Prices on the
farm Of everything that farmer pro-
duces look good, but sugar looks bet
ter to some farmers at present than
.wcnty- nine cents for cotton, and
there are number of products that
.re likely to be unobtainable for
money another year.
l think that it would be wise for
every farmer to increase the number
of hogs on his own farm necessary to
not only supply the needs of his own
family but those of his laborers and
small surplus beside to help out
our friends in town who are feeling
the scarcity and high prices of pro-
visions very keenly. In the past the
producer has been at the mercy of
,he middle man and financier but at
present the tables are turned and It
Is Up to the producer to show his
magnanimity in this crisis
Our city friends are charging the
farmers with being unmerciful in this
fuel crisis. If the farmers could have
foreseen this shortage Of coal they
would have prepared for it and have
| c't wood last summer. when the
days were long and when the weather
vas favorable for work out of doors.
The demand for wood has arisen since
this bitter cold weather and sleet has
been on the ground and it is only the
most needy laborers who will cut
wood at any price. Labor is very
scarce and getting very high. 1t is
going to be difficult proposition for
Sumter county to produce a maximum
crop this next year and q still more
difficult proposition to produce maxi
mum crops. as labor is drawn upon
by draft for the army and by induce
rnent of higher wages to go into mu-
milton plants and other manufacturing
enterprises. year after next if the war
Is still in progress.
White ihen and women and boys
and girls are going to have to per-
iorpl labor on the farms and do Il
ereat many things that they have not
been accustomed to doing if we are
to make Sumter county self support
ing and do our bit to furnish our part
OF the supplies for our army. Next
year every boy and girl on the farm
should have some special things to do
on his or her own initiative. 1t would
&c good thing for every boy and
girl to have a pig and see what they
could make out OF it.
Whether or not farmers will in
crease the number Of hogs they will
keep another year depends in a large
measure upon what they receive for
those they have for sale at present
Farmers have been feeding two dol
lar and two dollar and a-half corn to
noBS and they are entitled to double
or more than they have been securing
for them or else they have lost by
keeping the hogs and not selling their
corn. Cooperative marketing is al
ways best and if all who have as
| n.any as four or five head of hogs
FOR sale will communicate with me /
will see If l cannot arrange day for
collecting them at one point and have
buyers TO come and purchase them
rs they were purchased at Darlington
and Florence last year. Please state
Njze Of hogs in writing me.
| j. Frank Williams,
| County Agent, r. 3, Sumter, S. G.
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