Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-13

mcrated there is no way of estimating
properly, but the county agent has
handled individually something more
than $4,000 for the farmers. in addi-
tion 10 much larger amounts which
came to them direct.
AS an Indication OF how these other
products pay the producer, however,
one Allendale farmer who planted part
of his former cotton ac.eagc TO pota =
toes had yield Of 12O bushels to the
acre, which ncttcd him 500 per acre.
Twenty-Five to thirty bushes of corn
are grown to the acre without fertiliza-
ton, the average for the state being
II to ~ bushels. This yield has been
made possible for the reason that some
time ago the Allcndale farmers became
converts TO the value OF velvet beans
as u fertilizer.
Shipments Are Cooperative.
That Allendalc has made SO much
progress toward solution of the mar
ket problem is easily explained. Prac-
tically all shipments have been cooper
ative several farmers joining together
to sell their products in bulk. This idea
of cooperation Is the secret Of success.
And II is being carried even farther.
In the county there is one farmers
club and five community clubs. Three
of the latter-and the community CLUBS
hold regularly monthly meetings, men,
women, boys and girls attending-havc
adopted for the coming year well de-
fined and uniform program Of planting.
This Is the program:
Five acres Of cotton.
Seven acres of corn and velvet beans.
Three acres of corn and peanuts to
be hogged off in September.
Three acres Of Spanish peanuts.
Four acres OF oats.
Four acres of rye.
! acre of sweet potatoes.
5 One-half acre of sugar cane.
acre OF rice.
Q acres of Irish potatoes or cucum-
bers.
Through following this uniform pro-
gram a multiplicity Of small producers
are enabled to make up large ship
ments of the same products, and sac
is more readily found for farm pro-
ducts when it is possible to sell in bulk.
For instance, the woman who has one
or two dozen eggs 10 sell, must take
what she can get for them, or peddle
them about wasting more time proDa-
bly, than the difference would be worth.
But through cooperation, the egg cir
cles formed in Allendaie county have
found a ready market in Charleston
for all their eggs. and there get much
better prices than nearer home. The
county agent has marketed nearly
$4,000 worth of poultry this year.
Twenty two of the thirty-three cars OF
hogs shipped out of the county were
shipments.
One hears less of hard times talk to
the square inch in Allendale than inI
any place have been this year. or
course there are calamity howlers there
and suppose. there will be calamity
howlcrs in heaven, if heaven has any
street corners. But the people OF Allen
dale arc doing business and going about
their business hopefully and confident
~. Everybody is working. These peo-
ne have found out that they can live
and prosper in spite of the boil wccrli
and without cotton-and are striving
for the same efficiency in the growing
of other crops that they had attained
i'm the growing of cotton before the
coming of the weevll The farmers are
STAYING on their farms dcvotng their
energies to solving the problems still
ahead cf them in this period OF transi-
tions. They still have some problems
and they realize ii. Ono of these is the
of products. Right
now they arc figuring on selling solne
few thousand gallons Of cane syrup
next year, and to get thc\bcst price for
it they realize that their product mus.
be standardized, graded and put up
properly.
On the whole the coming of the boil
wcevil has not been n bad thing for Al
lcndale. 1t need not bc for any county.
What Allcndale has done other coun-
tics can do. But it will be Il mistake
for any community of people to wait
until the boil wcevil has ruined them
financially before beginning on the new
program.