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SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1920
QUIT COTTON ON
400 ACRE FARM
Oscar Williams Decided
He Had Enough Last
Year
A fair idea of strides being made
in the cattle an 1 hog raising indus
try of Sunitei county can be found
in a visit to the farm of Oscar Wil
liams, two miles out of Plains, and
about thirteen iniies west of Amer
•is. Mr. Wi'.hvm, and his father
fore him, nave lived upon his. place
more than thirt ; years, being engag
ed in farming there.
This year he will not produce a
single lock of cotton.
All of the vast area embraced in
his nearly 400 acres enclosed within
a modern steel wire fence, is being
devoted now to the raising of cattle
and hogs and the production of
feedstuffs for these animals. There
are fields of corn and velvet beans
scattered about the big plantation,
and during the past season he ship
ped several carloads of splendid
watermelons, but nowhere is a cotton
plant to be seen.
Mr. Williams is just getting start
ed in cattle and hog rais
ing as an exclusive industry.
Only a few years ago he devoted
most of his time to the production
of cotton. Yesterday he told a vis
itor why he abandoned its production.
The last year in which he planted
cotton upon his place, he said, he
lost $1,300 or a little more than
SIOO for each month in the calen
dar year. He was then engaged in
the warehouse business at Plains in
association with Mr. Bacon, and at
that time owned a number of scrub
cattle and hogs, which he has since
disposed of. Now he raises only
pure bred hogs, and nothing under
a grade heifer is to be found grazing
upon his broad acres.
Fine Dtiiroc Hogs.
Most of his hogs are of the “Orion
Cherry King,” Duroc stock, with a
goodly sprinkling of “Defender”
strain included within his herd. His
fine young boar, an Orion Cherry
King product, which he believes will
prove a winner in the stock exhibi
tion, has a large grazing patch along
side the road near his farmhouse,
and he is taken daily for a trot of
half a mile to another field. This
exercise has given the young boar,
already big-boned and of fine form,
a splendid erect carriage, and has
made his as gentle as possible.
Scattered about in a number of
plots within sight of the farm house,
are numerous hog houses, where sows
and litters are cared for in a most
scientific manner. Mr. Williams,
intensely interested in the produc
tion of'pure blooded pigs, and con
vinced that the raising of such ani
mals produces the best profits, him
self personally superintends the care
of all sows and litters. Friday af
ternoon, when a visitor called at the
flhm, he found Mr. Williams view
with pride 15 fine young pigs
which had j'ust been brought in by
one his young sows. These spendid
little pigs he had placed in a large
cotton basket, and they were sleeping
there contentedly when shown.
150 Acres in Pasture.
Mr. Williams has recently put into
pasture a large area--probably 150
acres —heretofore devoted to the pro
duction of cotton and other products,
and now has a large herd of grade
cows and feeder steers grazing there
on This pasture he plans to seed
in lespedeza, or Japanese clover, as
a result of recent investigations
which have convinced him that les
pedeza provides the most profitable
grazing crop which can be produced
in this section. Already he has
patches of this grass all about his!
fields and he is now beginning the
eradication of all shrubbery in order
to permit its exclusive growth within
his pasture enclosure.
One of the Sumter county bull as
sociation bulls is quartered on the
Williams farm, and Friday afternoon
he presented a splendid spectacle
standing upon a slight elevation with
in the pasture enclosure with about
35 young cows and heifers content
edly grazing in an adjoining enclos-
UT Several fine springs, conveniently
located provide abundant water tor
all of the cattle in the Williams pas
ture, and at the farm house he has
arranged a distribution system
which puts water into every separate
cattle pen.
Raises Feed Aplenty.
Besides raising cattle, hogs and
watermelons, Mr. Williams has plant
ed corn and velvet beans in one or
two large fields, and these will pro
duce more than enough feed fcr all
his cattle and hogs. In addition, he
is now harvesting an abundant nay
crop which is to be stored in the
big barn near the farmhouse and
fed as occasion demands throughout
the winter. Showing that he raises
everything consumed on his farm,
Mr. Williams is engaged just now in
setting out his turnip pa ten, 0
about 5 acres, and which should pro
duce enough turnips to teed ha t
the county. . ,
Mr. Williams, who is one of the
best known young business men of
Plains, as well as a progressive far
mer, is a frequent visitor in Ameri
cus, being well known here as well.
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