Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-10-11

Immediately covered his already fne
fields With leaves. III
William David Cox, our most pro-
Eressiye farmer in the Fant's Grove
section, read my article, and on Is
acres Of cotton used no other fertil-
fizer than leaves, aud has the finest
cotton in This neighborhood by 8 to l |
of any other farmer save mine, and
mine has had the leavesN treatment
for several years past. have acres
and acres or cottomsix feet high, we'll
fruited, on land you couldn't raise an
umbrolla on six years ago. All leaves!
You could buy this land for a song
six years ago. / can borrow 500 an
aero on 1t to-day. II any one doubts,
come and look. make on two acres
what farmers about here do not make
on 20 acres. Come and look and see
for yourself. Send me some more
Progressive Farmers with my last ar
ticles in them. You doubtless will be
at the Wade Drake meeting. His
methods e. soil building are doubt.
less better, being quicker than mine.
Combine the two, and-oh, mamma!
Then you can raise stock and make
manure and SO on and so on, an end
loss chain Meat to make brain and
blood and bone and Drawn and finer
and better girls and boys-and ami
mails as we'll as humans. Grain ad
libitum. Straw to go back reinforced
by the animal manure, liquid and
solid, to make and remake soil. Here
Is sum In arithmetic that any 10
year-old girl or boy can solve, and
rot one man in the South out Of a
thousand seems capable Of solving it.
Take out Of one acre of land 100
pounds Of goodness, fatness, fruit,
Oil. lard, lint, concentrated matter,
per annum. Put back 800 pounds
and that not so strong. How many
pounds are gone each year, besides
what are lost by erosion, wash, and
fired out by the hot sun? Nine hun
dred and ninety-nine out of thou
sand say by their actions that 800
from 100 leaves HOO. The 10-year-
cid school boy says 800 from HOO
leaves 500 pounds of goodness gone
forever each year. Oh! when will the
South borrow the stub of a lead pen
Gil, pick up a used envelope, figure
three seconds, and awake to wealth
IN
10 future Of music and flowers and
home comforts and longer life and
peace and prosperity and plcnty--of
education, cultured leisure, ribbons
for the girls hair, roses for their
cheeks, and q spring in her step, the
droop out OF her shoulders, and a
better race? Leaves will do all this.
Mother Ewes nakedness was clothed
with leaves. Leaves will clothe the
nakedness Of the South and hide her
shame from the eyes Of the world.
Leaves will make every red hill to
burgeon and to bud and bloom and
blossom-a veritable great green en-
erald in the ,Southland's diadem OF
psecious gems. Leaves will in Flora's
mystic transmutation make the wool
to make the broadcloth that every
good man may be royalty clad; the
silks and satins to adorn and beautify
and please and charm our maids and
matrons. Leaves will clothe the ma
tions Of the globe, translated by ag-
ricultural alchemy from the forest to
the fleecy staple, thence to the fac
tory, to the marts Of trade across
continents by train, over boundless
oceans by white-winged ships, and so
to the bodies Of the people Of The
whole wide world. Clothe your orch
ards and your vineyards with leaves
and their golden, ruby, amber fruits
will clothe you with the mantle Of
health and line your pockets with
cloth Of gold. Leaves will, make the
lean fat, the poor rich, the sad smile,
the tired rested, the worried peace
full, the MOI tagged free and clear, the
bond free, the farmer a man, his wife
more than a queen, and his children
the superiors Of princes and prin-
cesses.
Wade Drake takes worn-out land
and feeds it short term Of months
and makes 13 bales Of fine cotton on
four acres. EYES," you say, che had
money to SOW peas, etc., and turn
them under" Now listen! When he