Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-11-30
South Carolina Well Adver-
tised by Breeders Gazette.

SGuth OarOliHd GA
tised by Breeders Gazette.
In general the coastal plain is level
and fiat and the soil is,a sandy loan
underlaid by clay sub-soil, The
country is served by, excellent rail
roads and has moderately good sand
clay roads. Plenty of small towns are
scattered about; there are some large
cities like Charleston, and some fine
farms are found in every part But
by and large the country is undevel-
oped and tremendous areas of virgin,
,cut-over land lies waste, land that
can be easily put into cultivation.
Northerners always ask why there is
waste land in South Carolina. The
answer is that the population is not
sufficient to farm nearly all the land
in the state that could be farmed.
South Carolina Has $500 Land.
South Carolina has it's $500 land.
Near cities like Darlington, Florence
and Sumter, land readily brings a
price comparable with the cost of
good land in Indiana or Ohio. Nor
is land cheap close to good town OF.
few thousand people. But near
these smaller towns the cheap land
areas begin. Land may be worth $1o0
or 5000 an acre near a town of
three thousand souls, and ten miles
away by good road, within stones
throw of the depot of some smell vii
lage, there is land that can be bought
for from SIS to SIS per acre. Ten
years ago it could have been bought
for So to S5, and ten years from now
it will cost $50 to $100. This land is
not cheap because it lacks fertility
1t is cheap because it is surplus land,
because the people of South Caro-
lima still farm in the old-fashioned
way with practically no machinery
and consider a one-man farm to be
20 acres.
Great Opportunity for Using Up-to.
II Date Machinery.
To touch on the farm machinery
situation little more definitely:
there are many sections of South
Carolina where one could lay circle
ten miles diameter with the center
in an agricultural town, and in that
circle find only two drills, two bind
ers, no threshing outfits, no riding
cultivators and no two-row cultiva-
tors, no wagon heavier than light,
two-horse wagon, no plow heavier
than light twoshorse plow and 80
per cent of the plows one-horse i'm
plements. How can man make liv-
ing and farm that way? He could not
anywhere except in the South where
a long ,genial season, plenty of rain
and high priced crops work to his ad-
vantage.
Excepting Tropical Crop. Every
thing Grows.
What crops grow in South Caro-
lima? All crops, practically everything
that will grow anywhere, eliminating
the tropics. A yield of 232 bushels of
corn was made on a South Carolina
acre. Good wheat is, produced and on
an ordinary farm last year 3S bushels
an acre were grown without any spe-
cial fertilization. But there are other
crops that will return so much more
money that the standard crops of the
North are neglected, and cotton, to-
bacco, peanuts and truck are the fav-
orites. While South Carolina can
raise corn to compete with any state
in the union, the fact is that she does
not raise enough for her own use, and
imports, with a result that the price
of corn in the state is the Chicago
price plus the freight.
South Carolina Has Fine Climate.
Summer in South Carolina is not
SO hot as in Indiana, and nothing like
the summer that is encountered in
Kansas or Oklahoma. And she win
+ers-well. the winters are like No
vember in Ohio; farmer can work
at any job during the winter and on
almost any day. There is little snow
and the cold comesin snaps of few
days duration with the thermometer
around 20 degrees and now and then
down to Is. Few, houses in South Car
olina but depend on open fires for
winter heat. Rye or wheat can be
planted up until Christmas and oats
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