The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-03-04
DAIRYING
INDUSTRY
MEETING
Good Meeting Held in Court
House Thursday Morning

House Thursday Morning
4 very good meeting was held AT
the court house Thursday morning.
in the interest Of dairying in sum
ter county The object of these
meetings which are being held in
various points over oar county is
for the purpose of creating the in
terest of everyone in the dairyinS
business and for the purpose of
looking towards the establishing Of
a market in this county for all
dairy products that can be produc-
ed in the county. The meetings Of
Wednesday were held in three
schools OF the Skiloh section and
il is stated that in the neighborhood
Of some $50 men. women. school
boys and school girls We're reached
and valuable information present
ed to them. At the meeting in
Sumter Thursday morning there
We're present a representative aud
ience Of some sixty business men
and farmers of the county Very
enlishtcning and instructive adj
dresses We're heard from Mr.. Ever
EFT Russell, dairy specialist OF
national fame, Of the international
Harvester Company Of America
Mr.. Schmolke. dairy expert, and
3. Harris, Of the committee of ag-
riculture Of South Carolina Every
detail and almost every possible
taken up and clearly explained
Just a, this time a copy comes
into our hands Of an address which
was delivered in Sumter by Mr.. &
Harris in 1906, before farmers
meeting. This paper is particular
ly applicable at TINS time and COW
ers somewhat in detail the dairying
industry. The paper follows:
Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
mep:
It affords me the greatest of
pleasure TO meet with the rcpresen-
tative farmers Of South Carolina.
and especially Sumter county
have been assigned TO talk TO you
about the live stock industry in our
state and its needs. find that the
average farmer in South Carolina
needs education along the line Of
breeding, developing and handl-
ing live stock. more than in any
other branch Of agriculture. And
wish to say right here, that q state
cannot prosper, if it does not make
live stock one Of the leading fea-
lures Of agriculture.
The first question that arises in
the minds Of our South Carolina
farmers, is whether or not the
south is adapted to the breeding
and raising of live stock. I hope
that we will be able to prove to
YOU that the fault is not with the
conditions existing in South Caro-
lima, but that the fault lies with
the farmers themselves. If YOU
We're to ask ME what county was
the best adapted 20 stock raising
in this state, would answer you
Sumter county. Then ii YOU We're
TO ask what kind OF live stock would
be the most profitable to raise in
South Carolina. l would answer
you dairy cattle, horses, sheep, hogs
and poultry. II you ask me why I
say Sumter county could foster
stock raising with such great pro-
tit, l would reply because there is
no section that offers more natural
advantages for the breeding and
raising OF live stock / say this
because you can raise such a di-
versity Of forage crops. Ten months
out OF the twelve. YOU can have
some kind of soilins crop to feed
TO your cattle. horses, sheep ana
hogs. l will not attempt 10 name
the kind of soilins crops for this
within itself would require too
much time. However | will say
that the Bermuda grass will do
for the south, what blue grass has
done for Kentucky. / know of one
place in particular, where one
quarter Of an acre of Bermuda
grass that furnishes all the graz
Ing that a twelve hundred pound
bull can eat for seven months out
OF the year and it takes an avcragc
Of one acre Of Kentucky blue grass
for steer. Right here in Sumter
county, one acre Of Bermuda grass
will furnish grazing for . head
There is no country where feeds
can be raised cheaper than in South
Carolina and where stock is frecr
from disease. Healthy stock should
be expected. for they can have out
door exercise every day of the year,
which is Very essential 10 The
health OF animals.
Now as to the necessity for rails
ing live stock in our Southland.
How are we to reclaim our worn
out Soils2 Can we 90 it with COM
mercial fertilizers? The answer is.
No. We will have TO do it with
live stock. | wish to make Il COM
parison Of conditions along this
line as they exist in Iowa and in
South Carolina In the state OF
Iowa YOU will find that this ratio
eXistS-to every inhabitanr there
are one and onc-half milk COWS
and in South Carolina 20 every elcv-
en- Inhabitants there is only one
milk COW. In Iowa there IS ore
sheep TO every inhabitant; in South
Carolina there is one sheep TO every
twenty-Seren inhabitants Con
tin,iing this comparison, statistics