Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-11-30

instead and count on that to pay their
bills and save them bother.
Ono Crop System.
To certain extent cotton has had
a bad influence oh South Carolina. 1t
| is an easy crop to raise, not difficult
to handle: Easy cotton money has
made the Southern planter one
crop farmer. The result is that he is
today buying corn from the North at
So, and many tenants on Southern
farms are,,buying New York hay, a
| bale at a time, at So per hundred and
paying the bill with cotton or tobac-
co, money. A planter in Clarendon
county told me this spring that last
year he bought for three of his negro
tenants out of their share of cotton
crops three automobiles, none costing
less than $1,000. One colored man
cleared little over S4Oo an acre net
on his tobacco last year. An old
planter near me planted three acres
of tobacco last year "just to be doing
something" and the gross return was
he is buying his mule
feed.
Dairying and Livestock Production.
The, South Carolina farmer takes
life easy. That is one of the expla-
nations Of why all the cities of South
Carolina are .inadequately served
with milk, why the beef and much of
the salt meat is shipped in from the
North, why Elgin butter is sold in the
state and why opportunities for MAX
ing money along many lines go beg
ging. Elgin butter is not sold in
South Carolina because dairy cows
do not shrive here; that is proved by
the fact that several fine dairy herds
exist in the state, most of them own
ed by Wisconsin men who get high
price for their butter and cannot
nearly supply the demand for their
surplus cows and bulls. Good milk is
not lacking because it will not bring
the price, for in Charleston milk
costs more than in New York and rs
per cent of the demand for good milk
is not met by the few modern and
clean dairies that sell in that market.
Nor is beef and pork bought in the
South because it cannot be produced.
We run more than 500 Herefords
ourselves and they do well on native
pasture and can be fattened on home
grown concentrates.
Speaking of concentrates, South
Carolina is the home of concentrates.
Here are produced cottonseed peal,
peanut meal, and velevt beans. The
velvet bean is one of the great possi-
bilities of this section. 1t win not
grow even in Maryland because it re-
quires long season. 1t is planted
with corn but does not make much
growth until after corn has matured.
Then it begins to develop and by fall
the cornfeld resembles veritable
jungle. The vines produce tremen-
dous yields of beans which are held
in a rather hard pod and will survive
trampling in the mud all winter. Cat
tie and hogs can.be finished in the
fields without any other feed than
the beans and vines and leave
heavy coating of humus and manure
on the ground to be plowed under in
the spring.
Pep" Not Lost in South.
But there, is lack of initiative in
South Carolina and a lack of cooper
ative effort. The man who comes
down here fired with ambition to
work and do something does not find
the competition very keen. The lack
of initiative is not due to the climate.
There are many native sons who are
hustlers and doers. Nor is it because
the country is not healthful; the wa
ter is good and the air is pure. North
ern people who come to South Caro-
lima do not lose their "pep." Andrews
is. c., was started by Minnesota
man and is settled largely by farmers
from the far northern states, and it
has name all over the state of being
a progressive, hustling little town
and, what is more, it is.
The Northern Man in the South and
His Earnings.