The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-10-30
live STOCK HOPE
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
FINEST CATTLE LANDS TO BE
FOUND HERE.
Millions for EHorses
High Prices Paid for Thoroughbreds.
West Prospers From
United States.

From the great plans of the far
West every year thousands of car
loads of live stock roll into the Chi
cago stockyards. The cattle, hogs,
sheep and even poultry during the
holiday seasons, represent millions
of dollars-which is turned into the
hands of the Western ranchers. This
great food of wealth makes the West
prosperous-even at times when the
rest of the United States is feeling
the pinch of the stringent times, the
people of the West "have cash on
hand"
When people of any community or
section "have cash on hand" at all
times they are enjoying constant
prosperity. When you find this en-
viable consistent prosperity, you will
also find that it is not gamblers
proposition which has brought it.
Where livestock is raised there IS
prosperity at all times. Texas is
an example for the Southern states to
follow and then look away to the
great fenced ranges in Washington,
Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, North
and South Dakota and Arizona. There
are not so many people in those
states but most everybody has plenty
all of the time.
1t is imperative that the Southern
States have the continual prosperity.
There is no finer cattle land in the
world than the fertile STITCHES of the
South. But the hardest thing in the
world seems to be that of convincing
the Southern farmer that cotton
growing has kept him in poverty, and
will continue to keep him poor the
major portion of each decade. The
white boil on the broad fields seems
to have him hypnotized. But if every
farmer who raises great fields of cot
ton could only look away across his
fields, and, just for moment, in the
minds eye picture each white boil
of cotton as one big white fat steer,
without the shadow of doubt, he
would shake off the cotton growing
habit, so to speak, and his worries
would end. He would not become a
millionaire over night-precisely not
but within two years after he took
up live stock he would have an income
all the year around which would
make life worth while-and bring
to the entire South unprecedented
prosperity.
Today, the cotton raisers are get
ting high prices for the big, white
bales. This is an unusual year. The
European demand for everything and
the limited supply has kept the mark
cts in very healthy shape. But this
demand will not last always. Cotton
can not be put into mans stomach,
and cotton goods do not fetch any,
where near the price of good hides
for leather. It does not create the
business that livestock raising does
and there is not that fine year around
demand. You can take fat steer to
the market any day and get nice
price for him-but can you take a
bale of cotton any day and get
fair price Off it? Every man who has
ever raised a field of cotton can count
on the fingers of his hands the times
that he has really enjoyed "big
years." through fair prices. Nearly
every year he has faced dull mark
ct. If it has not been one disappoint-
ment it has been another.
This year, while prices have been
decidedly gratifying, the boil weevil
has eaten the heart out Of the cotton
\ crop. This little bug is the scourge
of the South, and yet he is the savior,
perhaps, of the farmers, VINO from
year to year, whether there are pros
poets of good prices and brisk trade
or not, go merrily on raising cotton
and suffering from poverty and incl
dentally sinking deeper into debt. 1t
is time that every man listens to both
the State and United States depart
ment of agriculture, who are preach
ing to the farmers like st. John did
TO the people against evil.
The gist of the modern message IS:
Prepare We while days of prosperity
are at hand!
If you have not enough money now
owing to the fact that your cotton
has been eaten up by the boil weevll
borrow money on your cultivated
farm lands, and purchase live stock
Cattle and hogs bring big money; and
if that land now used for cotton
growing were converted into peas