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TRtfjOK FARMING. Growth of Industry in South?"What .One County in South Carolina is Doing. Discussing the Southern truck growing industry as a factor in the standardization of the nation's diet, the Manufacturers' Record said last week: "Nineteen solid carloads of strawberries passed through Rocky Mount, N. C., one day last week on their way to the Northern markets, seven of them bound to New York, six to Philadelphia, four to Boston, and one each to Pittsburg and Syracuse. Atlanta commission men calculate tliat, barring accidents, Georgia will ship this year at least 6,000 carloads of peaches valued at $2,000,000, a rceorrt-rtreafcing crop. Mr. J. M. Mallory, the industrial agent of the Central of Georgia Railroad, has recently made public figures showing that in Georgia there are now 0,498,15/) bearing peach trees, 87(5,085 peach trees that will come It) bearing this season, 00,345 bearing plum trees, 38,109 bearing pear trees, .1,000 bearing fig trees, 2,000 bearing cherry trees, 3,015 bearing pomegranate trees, 5)00 bearing Japan plum trees, 4,002 acres planted in watermelons, 4,122 acres in cantaloupes and 521 ?u?res in potatoes and other vegetables. From the coast country of Texas tbere is now a heavy movement of truck, one road handling 01 carloads in two days last week. The watermelon movement from Texas is about beginning, and from the territory south of San Antonio it is expected that at least 1,-1 000 carloads of melons will move! within the next two or three weeks. "These facts are indications of the steady expansion of the area in the South that is rapidly becoming the great market for the country and from which thousands of cars are annually carrying to Northern and "Western market fruits and vegetables approaching in value $100,000,000. The trucking industry originated in the Norfolk section of Virginia about half a century ago has within the past 20 or 25 years, and especially during the past ten years, extended down the coast to the Mexican border, and is firmly planted in the highlands of Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia. The procession of early fruits and vegetables northward and eastward now begins to swell its annual volume from Texas and Florida in January or February, and the strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, peaches, apples, cabbage, kale, sprouts, tomatoes, yams and other fruits and vegetables not only arc striking evidences of the tendency to diversification in Southern agriculture but are potent contributors to the standardization of the national menu. "The growth of tire industry has bad almost dramatic ramifications. In a comparatively small area near Wiimlnton, X. C\. for instance, land that 10 years ago was worth hardly $5 an acre is now held at $250 an acre. From it re shipped annually from 300,00 to 500,000 crates of berries the net profits from 5,283 'acres in strawberries in 1007 having amounted to $353,873. Other net profits were: Lettuce. one and one-half acres, $812.40: radishes, one-lvalf acre, $54.05; onions, two-fifths acre, $.">S.05; cauliflower. one-ninth acre, $57.-10: beet*, onehalf acre, $08.00; Turnips, onequarter acre, $35.00; cabbage, one and .one-half acres, $123.58; beans, one S^jracre, $257.27; cucumbers, two-fifths acre, $11-1.57: egg-plants, one-half 3 acre, $302.17: tomatoes, seven-eighths acre, $80.37; peppers, one-eighth acre, ^ $10.80. . "One county in South Carolina wBf near Charleston yields each season $1,y 500,000 in cabbages or young cabR lb age plants; $850,000 in Irish pota toes; $500,000 in cucumbers; $200,000 9 in greens; $135,000 in strawberries;; r $100,000 in asparagus; $50,000 in green peas; $10,000 in sweet potatoes, and $.'100,000 in beets, t lettuce, radishes, etc. From the Chattanooga, CTenn.) section increasing shipments of strawberries are made annually; Florida's fruits and early vegetables are steadily increasing their variety and volume; Mississippi and Louisiana are becoming greater and greater factors in the industry, with the perfecting of rapid transit to the Northern markets, and (he Texas coast country produces such things as 80 crates of carrots to the acre, netting $250 an acre; between 400 and 500 crates of onions to the acre, netting $250 an acre; 21 carloads of watermelons from 05 acrrs. and cotton grown on land after the truck had been harvested. "!n the Seaboard States tire trucking industry has demonstrated on a comparatively small scale the. value, of drajTiaj-'C in bringing wH . < !- to production, it has been furthered in 4,;0*Texas by irrigation. Only a beginning has been made in tho utili/.alion of such auxiliaries to farming in t'.ie / / k ooutu, but whut can be done in trucking and what can be done for trucking by such methods arc the strongest kind's of argument for the reclamation of millions of acres of waste lands in the South." OUR SUFFRAGE LAW. Case of Pink Franklin, of Orangeburg, to Go to U. S. Supremo Court. Columbia, May 14.?South Carolina's suffrage laws will be passed upon finally by the United States supremo court at the hearing upon a writ of error in (he Pink Franklin case, the records and papers in which were j today certified to the country's highest tribunal by Clerk U. K. Brooks, of J the State supreme court, upon the request of Jacob Moorer, of Orangeburg, and .John Adams, of Columbia, attorneys for Franklin. One of the points in which the courts oP this State are alleged to have erred is in holding that the suftrage clause of the constitution of ISO.") does not conflict with the act of congress of June IStiS, (lf>th statutes as la rue, page 7.'U This Act readmitted South Carolina to the Union on condition that the new constitution that might be adopted should not have its sufirage clauses so changed as that he who was qualified to j vote under the constitution of 18(iS should be denied (he right to vote. LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY. Source of Prosperity That is Neglected in South Carolina. At the Fanners' Union held in Sumter. Mr. B. Harris, president of! the Stale Farmers' Cnion delivered the following interesting address on the livestock industry: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Oentiemen: It affords me t.he greatest of pleasure, to meet with the representative farmers of South Carolina, and especially of Sumter county. I have been assigned to talk lo you about the livestock industry in our stale and its needs. 1 find that the average fanner in South Caioiina needs education along ilie line of breeding, developing and handling livestock, more than in any other branch of agriculture. And" I wish to say right here, that a state cannot prosper, if it does not make livestock o,ro of the leading features of agriculture. 1 he first question f.Tiat arises in the minds of our South Carolina farmers, is whether or not the South is adapted to the breeding and raising of livestock. I hope that we will be able to prove to yc, that the fault it not with the conditions existing in South Carolina, but that the fault lies with the farmers themselves. If you were to ask me what county was the best adapted to slock raising in this State. I would answer you Sumter county. Then if were to ask what kind of livestock would be the most, profitable to raise in South Carolina, I would answer dairy catlie, horses, shciip. h-gs, and poultrv. II you ask me why I say Sumter county could foster stock raising with such great profit. T would reply because there is no section that offers more natural advantages for the breeding and raising of livestock. I say this because you can raise such a diversity of forage crops. Ten months out of ihc twcltc* you can have some kind of soiling crop to feed to your cattle, horses, sheep and hogs. I will not attempt to name the kind of soiling crops for this within itself would require too much lime. (However, I will say thai the Bermuda grass will do for the* South what blue grass lias done for Kentucky. T know of one place in particular where one-quarter of an acre of Bermuda grass, furnishes all the grazing that a 1,200 pound bull can eat for seven months out of the year and it takes an average of one acre of Kentucky blue grass for a siecr. Bight here In Sumter county, one acre of Bermuda grass will furnish grazing for three head. There is no country where feed can be raised cheaper than in South Carolina and where stock is freer from disease. Healthy stock should bo expected. for they can have outdoor exercise every day of I he year, which is very essential to the. health of animals. Now as to the necessity for raising livestock in our southland. How are we to reclaim our worn out soil? Can we do it with commercial fertilizers? The answer is no. We will have to do it with livestock, f wish to make a comparison of conditions along this line as they e> ist in Town and in South Carolina, In the state of Towa von will find that this ratio exists?to every inhabitant there afe one and one-half milch cows and in South Carolina lo every eleven inhabitants there is only one milch cow. fn Iowa there is one sheep to every inhabitant, in South Carolina there is one to every twenty-seven inhabitants. Con tinning this oinpnrison, statistics show: Iowa has throe am] one-half hogs | Jo each inhabitant, South Carolina has one ho# to each inhabitant. Iowa has one cow to every six and one-half acres, South Carolina one cow to every fifty-four and one half acres*. Iowa foaled 191,237 horses and mules in 1900, South Carolina foaled 2,820 horses and mules in 1000. Iowa value of farm products per agricultural worker, $985, South Carolina value of farm products per agricultural worker, $174. Iowa, horses and mules to every to arricultural workers, seven, South Carolina horses and mules to every two agricultural workers, two. Iowa value of dairy products, per each agricultural worker, $74; South < arolina value of dairy products, per each agricultural woiTv'er, $.*{. ttven the hens lay ten times as many eggs in Iowa as ll.ey do in South Carolina, not withstanding the elimale in South Carolina, far surpasses that of Iowa f.?r oiru- producing. Xow why d'id I s.,v we must have dairy cattle in South Carolina? Mo. eause the quickest road j, dollar s through the dairy cow. She pavs her expanse account every I wentv four hours and give* ycru a profit of len per cent on her cost |\.r ihree hundred and sixty-live days in (he >ear, and besides she furnishes von the most wholesome hood obtainable for your table. She does not run on a credit basis. It is all cash with her iU,(l "" fulures in it. Soulli Carolina buys annually $2,000,000 in dairv products and there is no Slat,, in the union I han can piv.ouce these products cheaper than we can here in 'Soul)i Carolina. Now let us see where our money is -oil,.- every year. We send from borne $13,100,000 annually for bacon. Any good* fanner in our State can raise bacon for three ceuls per pound. We send out of (he state for horses and mules annually $1 I,.*{.">0,000, and there is no country where you can raise a horse or unit" an\- cheaper than you can in South Carolina. T fan raise a better one here for $100 j than our farmers are paying $2.~>0 for out of the State. 7 can raise all o| tiie feed on one acre that a colt will require until he is three years old and at the end of that time will have $50 in cash to the credit of the land. Apply the manure the colt has made in three years to the same acre and you will increase the production of that acre twenty per cent. Xow why should we impoverish our country by sending west for horses and" mules and bacon. 'South Carolina spends annually $20,000,000 for (loin .-.ml .f0.ooo.ooo for corn. IIow are we to reclaim our worn out lands. The answer is- -diversification of crops and livestock rais[ ing. I have seen from the car window, since I left, my home, comiuu* two hundred miles, enough waMe land, if il was used for sheep raising, to ?row nioiv mutton than is now consumed in South Carolina. As this "land stands today, the taxes arc* a burden to the owner, but if properly husbanded with sheep raising, it would in ten years be the most fertile land on tn,? 'arm. I can see some cause for a machine or man to wear out. but more men rust out than wear on!. I lie re is no excuse for an acre oi land lo wear out; il should be twenty times more productive after beimr in cultivation one hundred" years, I ban il was the first two years. How is this lo be done? Raise more live slok nnd better live stockIt requires intelligent effort to breed and handle livestock. Xow it. is not that we lack Hie brains, and it is a bo a slander to say that we have not the energy and application necessary. We can grow cotton and do the other things ron want to do, nncT right successfully too?but you have never wanted to grow live stock. What has been the result of efforts to grow live stock in Ibis and other southern states in the .past? Xinetyninc! out of ever honored men who have engaged in il have made failuies. Why? Heeause they were men with money, but without knowledge or experience in the Business and they turned the work over to men who knew but little more and usually cared less. Any negro can raise cotton, but wncn it comes to diversified faiming, he is not in it. How are we lo keep our boys on fhe farm? We will have to educate them above a cofton held and a mule. How can we do this? My teaching them that by diversified agricullui? and slock raising they can make money on the farm and can cope with men in any other profession. It isn't necessary to mention your lawyer in your will; he's sure to get his share. NOTICE. a" All persons holding demands against the estate of "William C. Tyrce, deceased, are hereby notified to render an account of thir demands, duly attested, to Mr. Joseph E. Norwood, at the Newberry Savings Bank, Newberry, S. C., on 01* before the 15th day of June, 1908. John P. Tyree, Administrator &c., of William C. Tyree, deceased. 5-15-11 a w-3t. NOTICE. All executors, administrators and other fiduciaries of any estate i*emaining in their care or custory are urgently requested to make their annual return 011 such estate, of the recepits and expenditures the preceding calendar year, as required by law, before the first day of July of 'each year. Frank M. Schumpert, May 31, 1908. J. I>. N. C. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, I will make final settlement on (ho | B estate of Y. 0. Meyers, deceased, in the probate court for Newberry connly. on Monday. May 18. 1908, at 11 la. in., and immediately thereafter apj ply for letters disniissary as executor of said 'estate. All persons hold| ing claims against said estate will j present them duly attested on or be[ fore that date and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment. S. M. Meyers, Cj Ex. K. C. Movers, deceased. ! 4t-ltaw. i EXCURSION RATES. Via Southern Railway for Special Occasions. A/ ISaltiir.ore, Mi]., and return, account general conference M. ! }. church, May ^-1 (ith-.'iOth, 1908. Very low round trip rales open to the public. Tickets to )/ be sold May .'?rd-llh-5lh, good to leave Baltimore returning not later than midnight, May 30th. 1908. Washington. I). ('., and return, account Biennial Session National Association of 4 'olonial Dames, May (llh9th. 1908. Very low round trip rates open to the public. Tickets to be sold May .'lrd-;>th, good to return leaving Washington not later than midnight. May 12th, 1908. Further extensions, final limit to leave Washington not later than May 25th, 1908, can be had upon payment of fee of 50 cents and deposit oi" ticket. 'Kichniond, Ya., and return, acconni National Conference of Charities and Correction, May (ith-13th, 1900. Very low round trip rates open to the public. Tickets to be sold May Isl-'lth, ^ 1908, good to return leaving Rich- I I niond not later thau inidniirlit, May I 115 th, 1908. ' J Norfolk, Ya., and return, account S Ceueial 'Conference A. M. K. church, May -Ith-.'lOt 11. BIOS. Very low round trip rales open to (he public. Tickets to be sold May *2iid-'lrd, good !o return leaving Norfolk not later than midnight. May .'list, 1908. V For detailed information, rates. r schedules, etc., apply to Southern k Kail way ticket auents or address J. C. Busk, Y< Division Passenger Agent, w. Charleston, S. C. K. W. 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