The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-03-13
PIGS AND PEANUTS
u MAKE PROSPERITY
Alabama Farmers Reap Harvest from
Raising OF Hogs and Planting OF
Peanuts.

Peanuts.
How the farmers of Alabama have
prospcrcd from the raising OF hogs and
cultivation of peanuts may Dc gathered
from a recent issue of The Montgon,-
cry Advertiser in which is an accoun;
OF hog sale held at Ozark, Ala, up-
der the auspices of cooperative as
sociation of farmers The account Of
lhls sale is OF particular interest here
at this time, when the movement rGr
more hogs has been recently stimu.
lated by the sale OF a carload Of brceG
hogs by the farm demonstrator IN CO.
operation with the Enterprise Naiicu-
al Bank. The communication to Thc
Montgomery Advertiser from Ozark /.
as follows:
Ozark, Ala, Feb 2.--Ozark again
cnthroncd pigs and peanuts this week.
The rain probably kept at least five
carloads of porkcrs away, still there
were about five cars in sight at .hG
sale. B. l.. Andrews, clerk of Daic
county, cries the sale every fortnight.
On the first day of this month the sale
brought $27, ,5Gi for 1892 head of h0g..
The second sale Of fortnight aGo
offered l01l head OF fine pOrkcrs and
they went off at 22,l5I39. On Jan.
10 Il special car was shipped out that
brought $4,000. Today were sold 700
head which brought $4,000. Pork buy
crs arc here from Atlanta, Nashville.
st. Louis, Birmingham, Hartford, Ala
bama and Moultric, Ga.
The association handling the salc!
ana the method. Of conducting its bus
mess originated in Ozark and was tl,r
plan OF b. L. Andrews and ten other
men who got together two years ago
and launched the movement. Thcy
started with nineteen coopcratine
farmers and now the association has
membership Of nine hundred and
thirty-six.
forclgn buyers were hard to intcr-
est al the inception OF the work O,
the association but now they wire. IL
ihat they will be present and if de.
laycd ask that the hour for sale be
postponed until they gct there The
main reason lies in the fact that they
have learned that the hogs arc hc,c
and thai they can get them when ;hrv
want them and at prices that tho
buyers arc glad to pay. Local buyers
take just SO great interest in the
sale as do the foreign and coopcrat2
with the association in the active
work Of the combine.
Tho peanut did it, The introduction
of The best stock and the maintain
ancc OF the standard Of registered
porkcrs keep the business, going ror-
ward with leaps and bounds AS an
Of the productivity OF The
peanut and the market values, yonr
correspondent gathered the nforma.
ton from the following men: e. c.
Martin. planted the North Carolina
variety Of runners, used one hundred
pounds OF phosphate to the acre. seed
cd sixteen acres and sold from that
area eleven hundred bushels OF pea
nuts for S1l9 ton. Barney CarawaE
planted eight acres Of the same varic!y
and gathcrc $50 bushels and used no
fertilizer whatever. H. r. Bcrndon
gatherc 5S bushels to the acre ana
used no fertilizer. Al A. Avcrii madc
GO bushels to the acre with 100 pounds
Of phosphate. J. u. Watkins harvest
cd d3 bushels on five acres with uG
fertilizer. There is alo accounting
made here for the hay and the feed for
hogs left in the ground after harvest
ing nor the seed reserved for plant
ing another year. Here is good il
luStra ton on forty acres owned by
b. l.. Andrews. Mr.. Andrews used no
fertilizer; planted the 40 acres in run
nerS, at total cost OF every item IN
the transaction Of $500 and gathered
this year the following totals: peanuts
5 ,329.50; 225 bushels corn sold for
,025; 300 bushels Of sweet potatoes
sold for soc a bushel; 22 tons of pea
nut hay for $40 a ton. That the forty
acres yielded to Mr.. Andrews this last
year total OF S2,19S.50 at a total cos,
Of 5000