The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-07-21
FARMERS OF THREE COUNTIES
TO MEET AT CLEMSON COL
LEGE.
Biggest Day in Years Planned for
Farmers of Anderson, Pickens
and Oconee Counties.

The farmers Of Anderson, Oconee
and Pickens counties will receive
with qualification the announcement
that perhaps the greatest "get-to-
gether" meeting Of farmers ever
held in South Carolina, or especially
the Piedmont section, will be held
at Clemson College, August II. On
that day the buildings and grounds
OF the states greatest agricultural
college and experiment station will
be thrown open to the public and it
is confidently believed that several
thousand farmers will spend the day
on the campus, in the college groves,
orchards, agricultural buildings and
stockfarm, bringing their dinners
with them. Although not the para
mount feature of the occasion, the
picnic dinner that will be spread on
the campus by the farmers and their
wives who attend the Tr-county
FARMERS meeting, as this will be prop
erly known, the picnic luncheon will |
oe an important part Of this get-to-
scthcr meeting.
The principal speakers on the list
will be Hon. w. w. Long, director of !
the extension department. Of the col
lege, who is we'll known to the farm
ers OF the three counties to be repre-
sented at Clemson on the 11th. |
Other speakers will in all probability !
be secured later and a completed ,
program will be prepared by the col
lege for publication in the news
papers of Anderson, Oconec and
Pickens counties.
AS many farmers as possibly can
attend this meeting are urged to do
so. a day spent at Clemson college
IS day well spent, in the opinion of |
farmers from this county who occas-
,onally make trips there for the pur-
pose of gaining information about
practical and modern methods of |
farming. Coming as it does in the !
middle of "lay-by" time, August II !
is good date for such netting as
IS planned and it would be hard to !
locate better place for a meeting /,
Of farmers in the upper part of the
state than at Clemson College.
Will Let Farmers See.
Farmers attending this meeting
VIII be allowed to see the things they
are interested in at Clemson. Those
who care to learn more about the
care of fruit trees, the proper prun-
ing and treating of disease of the
orchard will be allowed the privilege
of going through the Clemson orch
ards and will hear experts discuss
these subjects. The agricultural
building will be wide open to the
farmers and as many as like may stay
in there part or all of the day, while
the planters who are interested in
livestock will be taken to the barns,
given an opportunity of seeing the
Clemson herds of cattle and swine,
and will hear such timely and i'm
portant subjects as proper judging
and breeding of both cattle and
swine, and the treatment of their dis
eases.
Clemson is located convenient to
large number Of farmers of the Pied
mont, as the corner Of Pckens, Oco-
nee and Anderson counties are near
the school. The campus is beautiful
and well kept and will prove an ideal
place for an instructive outing for
the whole family, for there will be
something at Clemson on August II
that will interest every member of
the farmers family.
A special program relative to the
growing of flowers will be arranged
for the benefit of the ladies who at
tend. This program will be carried
out by one or more of Clemson hor-
ticulutrists, and will be worthy of the
time and attention ofany of the
ladies attending.
There are many progressive farm
ers in this county, the majority of
whom never fail to take advantage
Of the ideas and suggestions that are
| produced by the Clemson experiment
l. sta ation