Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-03-08
ohlUB AaHlsisR1sR THINKS CAPTAIN,
Ballenger Wants to Begin at Wrong
Place County Agents Needed.


Editor Keowee Courier:
please allow me space in your pa
per to express my thoughts. can,
not endorse every word that Capt.
y. y !. Ballenger said. nor the other,
articles, but. am glad that something
has started though think Capt,
Ballenger wants to start that some
thing wrong. 1t would be all right to
return to pre-war salaries. The
farmer has already returned, and Is
working just like he had never lost
anything. 1t is true that each one has
had to reduce expenses and must
keep on at it. But don't take away
from US the most helpful thing we
have-the agents who have done so
much for our county. OF course,
some of the communities are getting.
along, in way, without their help
such a pity, too, for they are losing
every day. wish that | were able
to say in exact figures how much 1t
would mean to the county for every
community to have we'll organ
lied club and make standard grade
Of butter; had pure-bred hogs, cat
tie and poultry, and good truck
patches for market. .H
Talk about cutting taxes! How
much does our demonstrators cost?
Just the small sum Of ten cents for
each taxpayer Well, the man who
cuts our agents out will not feel very
good at the next election, should he
desire office again, for the farm wo-
men are not all sleeping. We want
to get the best for our communities,
try to lift them to higher plane by
cooperating and bringing our prob
lens together for consideration. The
rural woman needs all the help she
can get, and q new day is certainly
dawning for the farm woman who
tries and makes use OF the help that
has been and is being given U.S. We
want to havo cultured homes for cul-
tured farmers. The agents want to
help every one who wants their help
And how could we have a market
for our productsrif we did not have
them to help us? Our club has been
selling butter up to Jan. /, 1922,
for As cents q pound, while others
got 20 cents in trade. and the mer-
chants do not even want 1t at that
price. We have sold hens for 20
cents pound when the market here
was 12h cents. OF course I don't
reckon these little things count with
Capt. Ballenger. He lives at Seneca,
and they don't seem to be interested
In the county very much. I wonder
II he was at the fair last fall when
the club boys and girls went across
the county, over muddy roads, to
carry their exhibits to Seneca. Didn't
they give us welcome, though? We
were not expecting the town to stop
business, or 60 to any expense for
us, but one thing we did expect, and
that was welcome to the visitors
from other counties. Not even a cup
of cold water! There was. appar-
emily, lady In the town who knew
that the county fair was to be at
Seneca. One little woman saw n lot
of country people" going up the
steps of the Chamber Of Commerce
and thought she would step over and
see what they had to sell. (My! what
If we did not pay any more attention
to their advertisements! Where
would their trade come from? And
where does the food, come from?)
The boys and girls had some real
nice exhibits, and we spent a very
pleasant day looking at each others
things, won the prizes and spent the
money before leaving town.
Now, If Capt. Ballenger will just
look around little I am sure he
will see that If ever we did need
help now is the time. We have no
town in our county large enough
to handle our produce. Therefore,
we cannot have curb market; but
we can grow anything. If we plant
the popular varieties of vegetables
and make q standard product, we
can sell 1t by the help Of our county
agents, when We could do nothing
absolutely nothing-without them.
So let's all work together to make
our county one of the best-and the
only way to do this is for everybody
to cooperate, and then our efforts