The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-04-12

Barton said that since this chart had
been prepared, swine raising had in
creased a great deal, on account Of
better marketing conditions, and the
prospects of ready sales to the two
South Carolina packing houses soon
to be ready for business.
Another chart, which told in mute
words exactly what cotton raising
had done for the State, and how We
were neglecting other things, con-
tanned the statistics on the number
Of horses, mules, cattle, dairy COWS,
hogs and sheep that had been raised
annually since 1850. The chart
showed the figures for each tenth
year, and disclosed the startling fact
that. with the exception of mules,
there had been each year a gradual
reduction in the number Of each of
the above named. Fewer horses, cat
tie, dairy COWS, hogs and sheep were
raised in 1910, the last year given,
than in 1850. An increase was
shown in the number of mules raised.
The use of various materials for.
bedding for stables was discussed,
and the relative value as fertilizer of
such materials was given. He wish
ed to remind the farmers, however,
that the use of stable manure, while
of great value to the land, could not
be termed a land builder, since it
was robbing one portion of the place
to enrich another. The use of ma
nure is for the purpose of land con-
servatior holding on to what you
already have. The secret of land
building lay in planting leguminous
crops.
Mr.. Barton favors the teaching of
agriculture in the public schools.
His department finds that it is i'm
possible to reach, under existing con-
ditions, more than ten per cent. of
the farmers by means of county
demonstrators, and he thinks the sal
vation of the farming industry could
be effected by teaching the children
agriculture. The buying of nitrogen,
said the speaker, is foolish, when it
can be had so easily and cheaply by
planting the proper crops.
South Carolina, said the speaker,
can raise just as fine mules as can
Kentucky or anywhere else. He re-
lated how one South Carolina farm
er had raised a fine three-year-
old mule, weighing twelve hun
dred pounds, and when asked
hw much it hoad taken to raise
this mule replied that the animal had
eaten fifteen pounds of peavine hay,
ten ears of corn and quart OF cot
tonseed meal a day, and that was all.
Getting down to the crux of the
boil weevil situation, Mr.. Barton
urged his hearers not to continue to
plant cotton on the theory that they
would make killing" In the boil
weevil infested country, thousands of
farmers had tried this with the re-
suit that they did make a killing
but it was of the suicide variety.
Farmers can, however, take chance
on planting six acres of cotton to one
plow. Velvet beans he considers the
greatest crop of the South. Abruzzi
rye is another fine crop for this State.
The planting of velvet beans was
stressed by the speaker as a means
of combating the weevil. These
beans, he said, will produce almost
as much as the corn in which they
are planted. The beans can be gath
cred any time to suit the convenience
of the farmers, as they do not easily
decay. They may be harvested as
late as February without being in
any way damaged.
The proper rotation of one-horse
farm was given by Mr.. Barton as fol-
lows:
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