The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-03-04

her expense account every twenty
four hours and gives YOU a profit
] Of ten per cent on her cost for
! three hundred ana Sixty-five days
/ in the year and besides she fur
niShes You the most wholesome
! food obtainable for your table. She
: does not run on a credit basis. 1t
is all cash with her and no futures
in it. South Carolina buys an
nually sl2,000,o00 in dairy pro-
! ducts and there is no state in the
union that can produce these pro-
! ducts cheaper than we can here
/ in South Carolina.
! Now let Us see where our money
I is going. South Carolina sends
away from home $l3. 100000 an
/ nually for bacon. Any good farm
cr in our state can raise bacon, for
three cents per pound. l can
raise enough Of it for home con-
sumption RI two cents per pound.
We send out Of the state for
! horses and mules annually Sill
! $50, 600 and there is no country
whore YOU can raise horse or
mule any cheaper than you can
in South Carolina. can raise a
! better one here for 500 than our
! farmers are paying $250.00 for
ont OF the state. / can raise all of
/ the feed on one acre that colt
Will require until he is three years
! old and at the end Of that time
will have 5000 in cash to the
/ credit Of the land. Apply the ma
nurc the colt has made IN three
! years to the same acre ana You VII
| increase the production of that acre
! twenty per cent Now why >lioul,,
we i1nprovish our country by
! sending west for horses and mules
I and bacon.
South Carolina spends annually
$40. .030 600 for flour and *:.:0"0,-
900 for corn. HOW are ,:e 20 re-
claim our worn out lands. The
answer is--dirersification OF crops
and live stock raising. l have seen
from the car window. since I left
my home. coming two hundred
miles. enough waste land, ii i was
used for sheep raising, TO grow
more mutton than is now consumed
in South Carolina. AS this land
den Ia the owner. hut if properly
husbanded with sheep raising. it
would in ten years nc the nIcst
/ fertile land on the farm. l can
see some cause for q machine or
man TO wear ont. but more men
rust out that Wear out. T h q 7 E
is no cause for an acre of land to
wear out. it should be twenty 1i.yics
more productive after being in cul-
tiration one hundred years. Than it
was the first five years. How is
this-raise more live stock arI bet
ter live stock.
1t requires Intelligent effort TO
. breed and handl. live stock. Now
it is not that We lack the brains.
and il is also a SANDER to say that
we have NOT the energy and
aplicati i o II ecess AIRY. You
can grow cotton and do the
other things rou want to do. and
right successfully too-hut you
have never wanted to grow live
stock. What has been the result
Of efforts TO grow live stock in this
and all the other Southern states in
the past. Einety-nine out of
every hundred men who have en-
gagged in it. have made failures.
/ Why? Because they were men
With money. but without knowledge
or experience in the business and
Z they turned tho work over to men
who knew but little more and
usually cared loss. Any negro can
rails. cotton but when it comes to
diversified farming. he is not in it.
How are we TO keep our boys on
the farm? We will have to edu-
cate them above cotton field and
a mule. How can we do this? BY
teaching them that by diversified
agriculture and stock raising they
can make money on the farm and
c,n cope With men in any other
profession.
Now. brethren. I think we have
rather discouraged our boys and
have sent them away from the
arm. have heard mothers and
fathers say to their boyS.-.There
is nothing on the farm-yOu Will
have TO get into something else.
feel sad whenever l hear this. for
as soon as we show them that they
can make money. they Will stick
Ia the farm II takes boy with
stamina and grit to go 10 city today
and develop into man that will
be an honor to his country. II we
viii teach sthe boys how TO make
farming profitable. they will be at
trart"d 10 the free and healthy life
Of the country.
How are Ne to do this? Again |
say by diversificntion and live
stock raising. The man who dl-
versifits. loves his family better;
the man who diversifies. feeds and
clothes his family better; the man
who GivcrSilies. educateS his fam
ilv better: the man who dlverSl-
li,S. makes Il better citizen ana
when he crosses over the river. the
people will mourn at his departure.