Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-06-01
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!. COUNTY AGENTS NOTES. !.
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Meeting at Retreat No. 2.

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Farmers interested in the con-
struction and operation of a sweet
potato storage and curing house are
asked to attend meeting at Re-
treat No. 2 school house on We'd
nesday night, June 1st, at o'clock.
Spartanburg county has recently
planned to build nine or ten such
houses on government plans. There
Is In this State Sweet Potato Grow
ers' Association, which looks after
the sale Of surplus potatoes in car
load lots. This county Is long way
behind in such matters, and now is
the time to start.
Live Stock Sales Day.
Last year fifty or more carloads
Of cattle and hogs were marketed
co-oper9tively by farmers Of this
State through the Extension Service
specialists and county agents, and
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama
have done great things in this line.
What about "Liye Stock Sales
Day this fall? The marketing ex-
pert is ready to assist farmers in
getting the highest market price for
their cattle and hogs. He grades and
classes them on the market day, Sc
cures quotations by wire from pack
ing plants, and usually there are sew
eral buyers along to bid on the Of
fers. Let me hear from those i'll
terested.
Moro Hogs Needed.
With a good corn crop planted,
with more velvet beans. soy beans,
potatoes and peanuts, there is room
for more hogs in this county this
year. Visitors from the Middle West
tell us that the farmers there are
holding over big supply of corn.
The most prosperous farms are those
which build soil with legumes, feed
extra foodstuffs to livestock and
market their extra feed in this man.
ner, returning the manure to the
soil. "Legumes, lime and livestock"
are called the three "L's" Of success
full farming, the three working har-
lAoHlOuSly LOBeIHeF.
Twenty-Five Acres of Vetch.
Robert L. Shirley, who farms In
the lower part Of the county. in the
Townville section, plants vetch in
all his grain, and by harvesting when
the grain is we'll matured, finds that
the vetch re-seeds itself satisfac-
torily. Vetch is becoming very pop
ular in the Townville section, and
should be more generally used over
the county. A carload or more Of
seed should be planted in the county
this fall. 1t is a valuable winter
legume, getting you free nitrogen
from the atmosphere, holding your
soil together in winter and furnish
ing valuable feed.
A Wise Thought.
Clarence Poe, In his Success Talk
for Boys" states that even though
the cooperative marketing of cot
ton will be a big benefit to the
South, no boy can consider his prob
lens solved in farming unless he
first. last and all the time puts soil
fertility fOremostin his plans "Show
me a poor soil and I'll show you a
poor farmer" is we'll worth think
ing about. Now Is the time to plant
free nitrogen gatherers for the soil
and for hay. Velvet beans, cowpeas
and soy beans should be planted in
large quantities this year and every
year. The time is almost past for
planting and seed are getting very
scarce. Act now. Plant nitrogen
traps" in all corn.
At tho M0ulncrs' Bench.
The mourners at the bier Of "King
cotton continue to weep and moan,
and they are not yet comforted. Cot
ton will always occupy certain
place in the Southern farm, but we
must break away from thinking that
we must slave away for 1t as the
only and entire money crop Of the
South, for hundreds Of farmers are
proving that it Is not and should
not be. Many steep hillsides Of Oco-
nee are better adapted to grain and
hay crops and fruits, pasture and
livestock, but 1t must be gone after
more or less gradually.
Geo. r. Briggs. County Agent
Box supper and Lunch at Salem.