Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-26
THE farm At SEWER
Soldiers Made Coed At Producing
FOOdStuffS.
over $1,000 WORTH OF VEGETABLES
Had Il Not Been for the Most Fortu-
nate End Of the War, Il Is Probable
That the Farm Next Year Would
Have Been an Important Factor In
FEEDING the Soldiers.


Have Been an Important Factor In
Feeding the Soldiers.
[ The following article was written
about the time of the signing Of the
armisticc: but publication has been
deferred until now for lack Of space. J
Camp Sewer. November l2.-Pro-
duce grown on the Reclamation farm.
conducted by the Salvage division OF
the Quartermaster Corps. Camp Sewer,
this year Is worth more than $4,000.
That isn't n bad showing at all when
the fact that not a furrow was turned
until the middle Of June. Is taken into
consideration. That showing Of $4,000
in produce has convinced the officials
in charge that given an ordinary show
ing II would be an easy matter to pro-
duce edible products worth $4,000 an
other year. And food products worth
that much will be produced another
year, unless 1t be that the soldier-farm-
crs have long since been given their
course confidently expected.
Just what valuation might be placed
upon the improvements to the farm
since 1t has been under government
lease would be a very hard matter for
estimate. Its former tenants will agree
that it is better looking place than II
ever has been before and the fertility
of the soil Is greater than ever, because
Of the fact that thousands of loads OF
compost from the camp have been
broadcast there.
The Reclamation farm has not been
and probably would not be for a num-
ber Of years a paying proposition from
a financial standpoint. 1t might posi-
bly, be made so in the course Of time
That, however, was not the object OF
the government in starting it. 1t has
provided employment for several score
men who by reason Of physical or 9TH
er disability, were disqualified for any
other service. 1t has served to show
the surrounding country what soldiers
can do in the way Of farming.
1t has produced $1,000 worth OF
truck which has been eaten by soldiers
Of Camp Sewer, the quality Of which
they would in all probability not have
gotten had it not been for the farm.
Already $4,000 pounds Of turnips
grown on this government farm, have
been delivered to the subsistence ware
houses Of the Camp Sevier Quarter
master corps. There are another 15O.-
900 pounds In the fields which will
very shortly be delivered. A total OF
125 pounds Of black-syed peas were
grown. This summer $500 dozen
roasting ears were raised and turned
over to the subsistence department and
issued to the Twentieth Division and
other troops in camp. About twenty
bushels Of tomatoes were grown this
summer, as we'll as 100 bushels OF
string beans. Irish potatoes grown and
turned over to the subsistence depart
ment total several thousand pounds
Twenty-Five tons Of cabbage are in
cluded in the farm produce up to the
present.
Although 1t Is November and the
middle Of November at that, and this
is South Carolina, where most Of the
farmers know only one crop, which has
about been gathered. the soldier farm
ers of Camp Sewer are just as busy
now as they were n couple of months
ago. They have five acres in Bermuda
onions, which are looking good and
give every promise Of big yield. They
have Just completed the sowing Of fifty
acres in wheat and there may be more
to SOW. Besides this they have set ou
10000 lettuce plants. Every foot o.
land on the farm which Is under culti
walton, about 400 acres, and which II
not now devoted to some crop. will b'
turned this fall and winter and ever!
preparation made for next season.
The Reclamation Farm company
which Is commanded by Lieut.. A. G
Quinn, includes eighty-five men. ever!
one Of whom, including the command
ing officer. was either raised on th'
farm or had considerable farming ex
perience before coming into the mill
tary service. Men report for farm
work at Z q. m, and the days work Il
done at p. m. They work. No gov
ernment farm in the Southeastern de-
partment, operated under conditions
anything like similar to those at Caml
Sewer, has made better showing.
The farm has not been such a grea
expense to Uncle Sam. The larges
item Of course. Is the pay Of the sol
diers. Forty head Of horses and mules
have been worked and maintained OF
the farm. Very little has been ex
pended for farming machinery; $500
will cover its cost.
Taken all in all 1t Is felt that Uncl'
Sans initial experiment as farmer q
Camp Sewer has been quite successful
The men employed there are happy
and as one put 1t the other day, "I'c
rather be here than any place I know
except home" 1t has been demon
strated that foodstuffs can be produc
ed and produced quite cheap on th'
outskirts Of Camp Sewer. 1t has alst
been demonstrated that were there
real necessity for It, had the war con
tlnued. It would have been possible II
the course Of short time to have pro
duced almost enough, II not altogethe
enough foodstuffs to feed the soldier
In training at Camp Sewer.
Jas. D. Grist.
Prihibition for a While Anyway
| President Wilson has signed the en-
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