The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-12-14
A Great Stock Show
County Demonstration Agent
Gives an Interesting Ac-
count Of Trip to
Chicago.

Ter farmers and business men OF
Sumter county took the trip with tllG
Live Stock Experts of Clemson Col
;ege to the International Live Stoch
Show at Chicago and the Live Stock
breeding farms of Kentucky and II
lnois. There we-o f:fty-one in tbs
party from the State and two Pull
! .Qan cars were furnished Us. We oc-
cupied our berths Saturday nigh;
November 30, and early Sunday
morning the train left Columbia. All
of the party being familiar witt, the
road, not much comment was made
until we began climbing the noun
tains this side Of SaIuda. 1t is need
less to describe this part Of the jour
ney for SO many of the people OF
Sumter county have made the trip to
SaluGa, Hendersonville and -Ashev4l?e.
that they have either seen this country
or heard it described by others. One
melnber Of the party remarked that
mountains We're made only for the
purpose Of bringing out the senti
} nlent in man. AS the evening began
70 approach we began to reach spurs
of the Cumberland mountains and tc
see some, cattle and horses. but rG
farming land that awoke much inter
es! in the party. We passed through
several tunnels. deep cuts and ovei
some high trestics. We crossed q ri.'z
er that had cut its bed down through
seventy-fve to a hundred feet o.
shelving rock Before We reached
Knoxville, we began to see meadow
lands covered with grass, which we
supposed was blue grass. At Knox
vile our train ran into freight train.
knocking the tender off OF the freight
engine and doing some injury to the
engine that was pulling Us. One OF
the firenlen was injured and taken 20
a hospital. 2 OF our parry was shak-
Ell up The train was not going any
faStei. than eight to ren miles per hour
Or more injury would have been done.
When this wreck occurred most o.
n,1r party had retired to their berths.
One member of the party who had
gone@to sleep remarked in very
angry tone that he never saw train
handled SO rough before.
we arrived in Lexington about SIX
hours late. We were taken iroEle-
diately TO the University C kentucNy,
and there given hot luncheon, serred
! by the girls OF the domestic science
department Of the institution. After
Ginper and some speech making, some
! army trucks We're brought around
and we went out TO visit some sf the
real live stock farms Of America.
Here we saw some OF the finest hogs.
| horses and sheep that are to be found
anywhere. We saw q stallion whose
owner valued him at more than a
hundred thousand dollars, a ten thou
eand dollar boar, and hundreds OF am
mails chat were valued at more than
small farms sell for down here. The
homes. barns and buildings that We
saw around the farms out from Lex
ington were all expensive and mod
ern. If livestock farming will bring
such an appearance Of prosperity &c
South Carolina rs we saw on the
farms around Lexington. we need
have no fear for making the changes
in our farming in Sumter county th:l
we are going 10 make ii a lew year.
We were ver;. much impressed VIII
the people that we met in connec-
ton With The college and those Twins
on the farms. and TOO much cannot hE
said for the blue grass country anl
Lexington.
Another hing Of interest which w
saw and which may cause some TO re-
gret that hey cid not take the trip
- y
bottles Of blends for which they claim
ed Kentucky was famous. thouGh
that some members of the party seem
ed q little more cheerful after We
left Lexington. but it nlight.have bee:
my Imagination.
The trip from Lexington to Chicasl
was made at night and we did nc
see the country through which W.
passed When wc arrived N Chiea%>
early Tuesday morning, We found
light covering of Snow on tlie gronn.
5 and the wind blowing cold. Th
weather gradually moderated unit
Thursday and Friday it was ver!
pleasant
After going 10 the sherman Hotr
. and Gepositing oar baggage aad get
ting some breakfast. we went to II
: international Stock Show. Herc w
saw some revelations in the Wy {
= 1--we stock. TIE hogs. beef caf:i.
sheep ard horses weTe the best {
their breeds to he found IN the woi!
There was an attcndalt FOR almost g:
:. cry animal up there who spent ncari
ri! OF his time III currEinsg. l.Hnhla
and polishing the animals 50 tn;
c .hny might be seen at theii Best. I'll
. judging WAS Goins on al! day AZ
: breeders we're heinz; made EaI1o2s !:
vir,oing blu,S Ut 'hc Information
live Stoc,; :silo.s. We spent al d
h Tuesday IN the steam heated i,uild:ne