The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-12-17
Meeting at Pisgah
Campaign to Beat the Boil
Weevil Under Auspices of
Committee Of Progress

At Pisgah School in Rafting
Creek School District No. % a
splendid meeting was held last
night as the first Of series Of
meetings under the auspices Of the
Sumter County Committee Of Pro-
grcss to discuss the program Of di-
vcrsificd farming under boil weevil
conditions.
About twenty-five farmers and
several ladies We're present. Mr.. j.
e. DePre presided and introduced
the speakers. Mr.. J. c. Bryan, the
manager of the Carolina Farm
Products Corporation which opens
its doors for business at the Farm
ers' Tobacco Warehouse on East
Liberty street tomorrow, December
18th, was the first speaker and he
Interestingly told of the object Of
his corporation and urged the
farmers to patroniZe same, also tell
ing them of the methods pursued
by farmers in other. boil weevil in
tested sections to supplant cotton
with more profitable and perma-
nent prosperity crops.
Secretary e I. Reardon was re-
uuested to cover several subjects
and he occupied about forty min
utes time and told Of the canning
factory just organized and the de-
tails OF the organization of this en-
terprise and how the stock is to be
raised and paid for. kinds Of truck
necessary and prices to be paid.
He invited those present to be-
come stockholders He then guar
anteed the farmers that ample mar
keting and manufacturing and
shipping facilities will be in Sum
ter from now on to buy and sell
farm products Of the county-there
being the long established Sumter
Roller Mills to grind the wheat and
| the corn, the Sumter Creamery
company wanting now six hundred
! pounds OF butter fat daily for man
ufacturing butter. the Carolina
Farm Products corporation ready tc
buy all farm produce except cot
ton and tobacco. and there are 9TH
er marketing and brokerage con-
Germs in Sumter ready to buy farm
/ products. The farmers Of Sumter
county, he said, no longer have the
excuse that there are no markets
in Sumter for their roducts other
than cotton. He urged every farm
er to produce at least enough
wheat to make -four for his fam
lily and his farm hands, to in
crease the oat and corn crop, and tc
follow the program Of diversified.
ton primarily suggested by the
Sumter County ChaRber Of Com.
merce and ClensoAs college. now
the program Of the Sumter County
Committee Of Progress.
He gave out the gratifying infor-
nation that plans are on foot with
practically assured success Of Sum.
ter having sweet potato curing
and storage plant with forty thou
sand bushels capacity to start With
/ but advised that community or In
dividual farm, sweet potato curins
j and storage houses be erected Over
/ this county-the potatoes for mar
/ ket to be sold through the Caroline
Farm Products Corporation and
the South Carolina Sweet Potato
Growers Association. He urged
growing Of sweet potatoes With due
regard to standardization of va
riety and quality, and called for {
township school district branch Of
the Sumter County Committee Of
! Progress in every township OF
school district. He urged that 10.
cal farm products be given pref
erence by merchants and consum'
ers, and local merchants patronize6
by farmers.
Mr.. ]. l.. ellis Of Renbert, {
prominent farmer and merchan
was then called On and enthusiastic
cally endorsed e"erything said by
Messrs. Bryan and Reardon. es.
pecially the suggestion about com
! munity sweet potato curing ano
storage houses, and said he wa:
going to organize one or more II
| Rembert and Rafting Creek town
ship if he could get the co-opera'
ton of his fellow farmers of that
section Mr. Gillis also urged buy
ing at home. from the farmer and
from the home merchant and man
ucact3rer, and vas for community
or township organization to pu
into practice diversified methods o.
farming and for cooperative mar,
kctinS. Chairman DuPre II er
/ thanked the three speakers fo1
coming to PiSgah to help start
program of crop diversiication ant
promised that the Sumter Rollel
Mills will have 20 operate more
than one-third time next year tt
grind wheat from his section, ant
said tha; his township and schoo
district arc in line with the Com
mittee OF Progress and with th'
Sumter County Chamber Of Com
merce. and with the Young Men:
Business League of Sumter in thei
commendable efforts to organic
our county for overcoming Dol
weevil troubles.
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