The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-09-01
EXAMINING, S. G, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER l. 1920
WHAT CLARENDON
FARMERS ARE DOING


fine crop and has put the stacks up
according to rules and the vines ant.
nuts are curing just right. While the
price of peanuts is away down from
the price last year the crop is not a
total loss by any means for it can be
fed to stock, either hogs, mules or
cows. A. peanut crop stacked in the
field is something new in Clarendon
and shows that the diversification idea
is being taken up by many farmers.
Mr.. w. S. Scurry has fenced a field
Of corn and velvet beans with the wire
he bought in the fencing cam .aign last
winter. He now has a good tipht
strong fence and plenty of feed inside
the fence to fatten hogs OF feed to
his COWS. Mr.. Scurry has some fine
Purebred Durocs which can, make good
use OF his beans and corn.
Mr.. Pearle Thomas near Manninp
has two very fine fields Of corn and
velvet beans. Mr.. Thomas is planning
to fence these fields in a short time so
as to be able to let his stock gather
the crop and also to keep from feeding
other peoples cows when they are
turned out. 1t always pays better to
fence your farm than to provide q |
boarding place for all the stock in the
nelghborhood. Besides when a farm
er,s neighbors see what a fine crop of |
velvet beans he has made and find
their own cows can't get a share of il |
they will plant some themselves the
next year; Just another thing fenced
mere are great many more vel |
vet bean fields in Clarendon this year
than there was last year or for a |
number of years previous. This is GER
talnly fine thing for the individuals
who have planted the beans and for
the County as whole. A fenced field |
with heavy growth Of velvet beans
and corn somehow make a farm look
prosperous. 1t tells the story at a
glance that that farmer is providing
ms own feed; that he is becoming more
self-supporting and that he will not
nave TO buy his feed on high priced
market. Likewise the nitrogen a crop
of velvet beans store in the ground
will make difference in his fertilizer
bill next year.
Mr.: j. Ebert Davis and Brother
near Manning have started their dairy
IN an to- date manner. Their dairyI
Darn IS screened ana has less flies in
IT than great many peoples houses.
The barn is cleaned daily the cows are
mllked by machine and they have all
the conveniences that can be installed
IN modern dairy barn. The Davis
Brothers have milk house where the
mix IS kept on ice and also where the
milking machine and other utensils
used are thoroughly washed and stcril
lZcd after each milking. I'll take a
drink Of milk from the Davis dairy
any TIME without even a thought of
germs. All cows il this dairy are
either purebred or grade Guernseys.
AT present they have eleven grades
and five purebreds, as well as a pure
bred bull and six fine calves. A tile
silo is almost completed. This will
insure plenty feed all the year round.
When you pass this dairy stop and see
how good milk j. produced.
All farmers are interested in
the Clarendon BuI Association should
go to see the Guernsey bull owned by
the Davis p theirs. This animal is
a speciman of the kind of bulls that
will be bought for each block in the
Association. After seeing this animal
YOU will not wonder whether the bulls
that will be bought will be under size
or poor looking animal All these
bulls will be from dams whose record
for butter fat production is 400 pounds
or over. ] was unfortunately taken
sick just about the time we were
were ready to organize the bull asso-
citation, but | will now see to organiZ-
ing this association as quickly as pos
sible.
In riding about the county / notice
many fields that are so hidden by|
weeds growing along the fence that
one cannot see what crop is being
grown in that field. 1t wouldn't take
long for one man with q scythe to NOW
down those weeds an dthat little bit of
work would quite lot of hoeing next
year. If weeds are left standing un-
I'll the seed ripcns the kind, rain, birds
and animals all help to scatter these
weed seeds all over the community
and IN many cases are carried greater
distances. XIII the weeds, they take
up valuable space and crowd out a
growing crop; a farm looks bad thatI
is ovcr-grOwn with weeds and gives
passers-by the impression that the
farmer is shiftleSs. Most contracts
with hands are now out and cotton
picking has started in a fc' places;
a great many kinds Of weeds nave not
yet ripened, so when VIII there be q
better time to xii 1.-THE weeds? Re-
member, too, that weeds harbor in
furious insects and keep them alive
until the crop you are cultivating is