The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-04-07
WHAT OUR COUNTY
FARMERS ARE DOING

Mr.. Marion o. Evans of New Zion
has almost all his spring work done.
Has his cotton, cane, and corn planted
and the corn is already up in fine
stand. His tobacco plants are also
doing very nicely and he reports lit
tie loss of tobacco plants due to ad-
verse weather conditions. Mr.. Evans
expects to plant II acres in tobacco
and has cut down his cotton acreage.
great many more farmers Of Clar-
endon should cut down their cotton
acreage for the boil wecvil will if they
won't.
Well, he blew 'em up all right.
Passed by Mr.. II. II. McFaddin's place
at Gable last Thursday and found him
busy blowing out stumps. AS the
ground was very wet he had ideal
conditions for this work and the larg-
or stumps he easily raised with the
two sticks while the smaller sturnps
were boosted high with only one stick.
one stump on its way up leaned
against his new fence little too hard
and made the fence look as if it had
had bad day. Anyway Mr.. McFad-
am can now get in that field with his
tractor and fix it up in short order
and instead of working around stumps
he will now carry more money to the
bank, to say nothing of the better ap-
pearancc his farm presents.
Mr.. w. S. Scurry near Manning is
building new house, which will be
larger and more convenient than his
into his new home and finds how
handy it is he will wonder why he
didn't do this before. Mr.. Scurry has
some very fine Dmoc hogs on his
farm and he knows rs everyone does,
that purebrcd livestock and substan-
tial, wcll-kcpt homes go together, so
he concluded he had better get busy
| and build a good house
Sardinia and New Zion are FORUM
ate in each having a progressive dairy
cattle nan. Mr.. w. n. Rush at Sar-
dinia and DR.. G. r. Gamble at New
Zion, each have a purcbrcd Guernsey
bull. Mr.. Rush is doing a regular
dairy business with six fine cows, sew
cral purcbrcd. Farmers should take
advantage of the opportunity Of using.
such fine bulls for not every section
in Clarendon is so Fortunate We need
more men like these in Clarendon, for
Clarendon needs more good dairy cat
tie. Look what Bull Association did
! for Darlington county.
If You want to see half, mile of
good, substantial fence, take ride
out the Summcrton road past Mr.. AL
vim Ri@bv's farm. Mr.. Rieby used
cypress posts, American woven wire
fence with one barbed wire on ton.
| The woven wire is ABOUT AZ inches
high and makes good fence. Now
when Nh: Rigby gets his whole farm
fenced you will soon be able to see
some fine stock for no man would
+ think Of putting bunch Of scrubs
inside of such Il fence, especially along
such much travelled road Besides
scrub stock wouldn't pay back the
price Of his fence in less than one
! hundred years, but after that they
might bring in some money. Here is
one man getting ready for the boil
| wcev!!. More farmers should do like
wise before it is too late.
While | am talking about fence I
might as we'll tell you that Mr.. r. D.
Clark has regular fence on his place
near Manning on the Jordan road.
His fence is At inches high and made
! Of all No. 9 wire, with one barbcd
| wire on top. That is fence that will
be there longer than Mr.. Clark will
own the farm and then some. ANY
animal that is outside cannot get in
unless through n gate. nor can his
! stock get out except by the same
! means, for that fence will not break
nor bend. When buying fence it al
: ways paws to get good fence, especial
| " the fence that goes around the
! farm: cross fences can be lower and
Of li"htcr weight and still give good
service
Have YOU noticed the individual far.
r0wing houses ,as you drove past
/ that have been built at the Rradham,
D"roc Farm. With each house goes
n snail plot of ground which now has
n fine stand Of rye on It and which
! furnishes fine grazing for the sows
: This is the correct way TO raise pigs
! Keep each litter in its own back yard
until thew are at least several weeks
! old and furnish them with something
rrccn. At farrowing time sows
should always be taken away from the
: herd and be provided with shelter and
, this is about the best way Of doing
/ it. Stop i'm and see how the houses
arc built and then go home and build
! some like them. They pay.
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