The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-03-16
SOUTH CAROLINA PRoGREs.
.SIVE AND UNAFRAID
By Clarence Poe, Editor Progressive
Farmer

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fully, with the boil weevl problem. I,
When we visited the state in Novem-
Der we feared it was not doing SO.
But by February there were abun-
dant evidences that the farmers had
on their fighting clothes. Stalks had |
been cut, bitches and hedgerows |
cleaned up, and land broken. Green |
fields of rye and oats were almost ev-
erywhere in evidence. People were
talking of other crops to supplement
cotton-truck, peanuts, sweet pota-
toes-and of hogs and poultry, cows
and creameries. 81 have been travel
ing this road twenty years and thaE
IS the first time l have seen a cover
crop on that land" one friend re-
marked to"us as we drove to his home.
A few years ago DR.. w. w. Long
was sort of John the Baptist cry
ing, Prepare! Prepare! The weevil is
coming!-and men laughed. "When
Clemson College sent delegation
lown South to study the weesil, I
aid it was wasting money-the wee
vii would be stopped before it got
here," says Mr.. j. A. Burton, of
Newberry. ''But now thank these
men for their foresigh
South Carolina PROFESSIONALLY has
been hard hit by the weevil. In many
sections the more ignorant people are
depressed and demoralized. The intel
igent people, however, are facing
situation with confidence and cour-
age. "Other states have pulled
through and we are going to-" is a
frequent remark. And DR.. Long
points out that bad as conditions may
be, there is no comparison between
,he' situation now and that which OBJ
tained thirty years ago:
"Then South Carolina made IL
bushels of corn per acre; now 19.
, Then 1873 pounds of lint cotton per
acre, now 247. Then 1915 bushels Of
! oats, now 81 Then the state made
;. 3.3. bushels of wheat per acre, now
/ II. s.. Then the state had 100000
hogs; now it. has 100000. Then
! Charleston; now the state has 400
! banks.
/ More Interest in. Livestock, Poultry
f. and Velvet Beans
! Interest in hogs, poultry, and cows
shows "a gratifying increase Said Mr..
| L. l. .Guion: ga few years ago when
! corn was 81 a bushel, rye Sd, and
| labor scarce and high, there was no
I profit.in poultry except to help con-
| sumo waste products. But this year
my wife's poultry has proved about
the best paying thing on the farm"
| 1t is gratifying to hear Southern
farmers talking of butterfat and
cream separators and arguing the
1 relative merits Of Durocs and Hamp-
shires or Guernscys or Jerseys and
vi different feeds fcr meat .. y,.ilk
Velvet beans nave proved not only a
wonderful soll-builder but great
stock feed District Agent Hem y
Johnson tells good story about a
party of Picdm6nterS who visited
near Aiken in early fall. A great, lev
| ell, 2O0-acre field seemed TO be about
knee-deep in velvet bean vines. "Why
didn't the blame fool plant some
scorn here2" asked one visitor Where
upon the "blamed fool" who happen
! ed to be standing by said, "Look
here ~ and pulled apart the mass of
bean vines, showed some fine ears Of
of corn underneath. "But how much
will you get per acre?" about SO
| bushels" was the answer.
And after going through the fields
and getting out the corn, the stock
convert the beans into beef and leave
| four-fifths of the fertility on the land
No wonder South Carolina swears by
the velvet beans!
Marketing
| Enterprising truckers are also
making profits IF you have turnips,
I spinach, mustard, bccts, carrots, we
want it, was message which had
| just reached j. l.. Walker the day
we were in Johnston. Of course the
man who furnishes these things later
on ':when the market is overstocked
makes no real profit. But early-bird
Walker catches the worm.
1t is much the same way with
sweet potatoes. An average of $1.4O
per bushel for No. rs has been re-
ceivedfby the members of the sweet
potato cooperative marketing associa-
ton, but mongrel, diseased, or mis-
shapen potatoes are drug on the
mafEet.- Rewards are for the man
who grows a high-quality product,
has it re2dy on time-and cooperates
~ith~9tbes growers. 'aWhere truck
groWefs'are not organized" one man
told US, "this sort of thing is con-
stantly happening: One man will
make good profit by selling, saw as