The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29

lize it's worth for feeding animals and
plants. Yet at present only a frac-
tion of the supply is used here. By
far the larger portion of it goes to
the North and West as cotton seed
meal, or across the ocean in the form
of cotton seed meal and cake. If
those feeders can afford to pay the
high prices, which include the extra
freight, handling and commissions,
how much more can our Southern
farmers afford to use it? Live stock
and dairy should consume here all our
cotton byproducts and make enough
manure to restore our lands to full
yields. This way leads to prosperity.
Those who are considering the pea
nut as a substitute in part for cot
ton may be interested to know that
already the 100000 acreage given
to peanuts is nearly one-tenth of that
given to cotton. The return from the
peanuts alone is $60,000,000 and
this leaves the hay crop as surplus.
Thus it will be seen that peanut
growing in the South is no new in
dustry. In fact, it got its real start
in the territory around Suffolk, Va.
The most remarkable banking in
stitution in the United States is To-
Gated at Suffolk. 1t is known as the
Peanut bank. 1t was started with a
capital of $4,000, which has never
been increased. But the reports
show that it has surplus of s5O0,O0O
and undivided profits of 100000.
It is rare for the bank to declare
less than 100 per cent. dividend. The
owners and managers of this bank
soon after the Confederate war en-
couraged the farmers in that section
to plant peanuts. AS result the
people have become wealthy and the
bank is marvel. There is field
and an opportunity in South Caro-
lima.
The boys corn and pig clubs in this
state are f1ourishing under the earn
est direction Of the state manager,
L. L. Baker, of Bishopville. This is
another forward work started by the
state department in 1912. The COM
missioner learns that this branch of
service has grown to such proportions
that Mr.. Baker may be given a full
time assistant next year. Nothing,
no one thing, has done the state more
good that starting the boys to COM
pete in corn growing and live stock
raising. Mr.. Baker has proved to be
the ideal man for the place. What I
say of the boys clubs I intend, of
course, for the girls domestic sci
ence clubs, only much more so. 1 be-
lieve we will have better cooks in the
next generation, and without good
cooks there is no use to preach Back
to the Farm"
Berkeley County to Front.
It is a matter of almost daily chron-
icle to observe in the newspapers
where some enterprising South Caro-
lima farmer has shipped car load Of
hogs to Richmond and other mark
cts. The Boykin farms near Cam
den have been notably successful this
year.
But it is unusual to consider that
Berkeley county is coming to the
front as an exporter of hogs. Some
years ago this rich section of the
State was regarded as the Valhalla of
the mule foot hog and the razorback.
The great swamp of the county con-
tains hundreds, perhaps thousands Of
hogs, in a more or less wild state.
But some of the most progressive
farmers of the State are pushing
Berkeley to the front. John w. Hart
on December 20 received $4,000 for
a car load of hogs of his own raising,
shipped to Richmond from his farm
at Holly Hill.
J. Fred Shuler has Poland-China,
two years old, weighing 500 pounds,
for which he refused $4,000 at the
State fair. People thought that big
sum to refuse, until he announced
that he sold $4,000 worth Of his
offsprings while at the State and
Crangeburg fairs.
The South has had and has pro-
claimed her monopoly of cotton, but
the entire South can produce any
crop, except citrate fruits, that any
other temperate country can grow,
and he finds that oranges are grown
in a Southern state. In corn the
South has made remarkable develop
ment. In 1900 the average yield per
acre of corn in Georgia, Florida, and
South Carolina was less than ten
bushels to the acre planted. In 1918