The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-28
DIR. HOUSEAL'S HELENA
REHABILITATION FARM

All DrO1eSSlOnaI NicI o1tSl Se"i' VI
toll in their professions and the cares
incident to the strenuous life Of most
professions have a tendency as they
grow older to have hobbies, and ma
turally most of them turn to the farm,
and it is we'll, because the farm
gives a certain recreation and pleas
ure that can be gained from no other
source.
DR.. Gus Werber, after years of SER
vice in the government in Washing
ION and the hard life of the city, as
he grew older felt desire to hafk
back to the farm, so he came down TO
Newberry and amused himself with
his conservation ranch and dreamed
of things that would help the human
race, if he could only make the race
see the advantages as he did. Or.
Houseal coming from the sturdy stock
that titled the soil in the other days.
very naturally desired to amuse hlm-
self and help his fellows by eHper-
imenting with a farm. Not that we
desire that it shall be understood
that we mean that either one OF
these eminent men in their profession
is growing old. Not at all, because
both of them are still in the prime
of sturdy young manhood, and are
still plying their trades and serving
humanity as healers of the SICK IN a
most efficient manner.
The editor of this paper has mad
the desire for many years to hark
back to the hills, but unfortunately
the profession of editing and pub
fishing a country newspaper, While 1t
Is great service, yet it does not
bring the returns that other profess
sions do for the labor and mental
work necessary to rroa.2e a ctedl'-
able product, and, therefore, ne must
still serve and labor, but then he has
The satisfaction that possibly he too
has been able to render some helpful
service to his day and generation.
But the oint of this pstory is to tell
YOU of the Helena Rehabilitation
Farm of DR.. w. G. Houseal, and the
success he is making of it, and he is
not only getting the recreation which
comes from the farm and the amuse-
ment it affords him, but it is profit
able enterprise, and he is doing that
which more farmers in this country
should do, and it would pay many OF
them to take trip to this farm and
see what he has done to rehabilitate
the land, that is to build it up, and
at the same time make the process
of building profitable to him and
those who. work with him. And the
process is simple enough and could
be followed by others with profit.
Some years ago he bought small
farm of some so acres near the town
Helena, and by rotating crops and
planting crimson clover and ploWlng
it under he has built up the poor land
to the point where now he produces
two bales of cotton to the acre where
before it took two acres to make
bale and sometimes more than TWO.
On this farm he plants the cotton
right in the clover field and before
the clover in the middle of the rows
Is turned under and up against the
cotton, and rich crimson, luxuriant IN
growth. is beautiful to look upon, and
when other lands are suffering for
rain the clover keeps his lands moist
and the cotton grows right on. And
he has the practical demonstration
of the value Of this clover as land
builder right on the farm. The
same class of land in the same field
that has the clover makes just twice
the cotton per acre as the land that
has not had the clover growth.
And another thing he has refused
more than twice what the land cost,
and only the other day he bought
some three or four acres that a.
Joined him to get another outlet to
the road for something around $500
the acre. 1t is just ordinary land
but by the planting Of crimson clover
and the right sort Of cultivation it
has become very productive. 90
out some day and take a look at it.
After the above was written and
in type the editor received letter
from DR.. Gus Werber who is now in
Washington from which we take the
following paragraph which confirms
what we have said above that his
mind is now turned toward the farm:
"The world is certainly rushing
forward at a wonderful pace; and I
a meven told you are to have a sue
Icessful cotton picker, the Dana pneu-
natic picker, on demonstration at
your State fair. Truly the eighth
wonder of the world which we have
all waited to see"
It would be great thing for the
cotton growers if tbs eighth wonder
could be reality because with the
scarcity of labor on the farm some
thing must happen to make it profit
able to grow cotton even at the pres
ent prices. And the gathering of the
crop is one of the big problems con-
nected with its production.