The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-27
RALEIGH n c. THURSDAY, OCTOBER -. 1891.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

According to Naurys geography
North Carolina leads the thirty SIX
States Of the mon III one farm product.
Bet you cant guess IL? Sweet pota-
toes
The Postofficc Department has Is
sued bulletin pnrporting 70 give the
average per capita Of letters mailed by
the inhabitants Of each State. From
| the list it appears that North Caroiin-
ians write fewer letters than any State,
or territory. Of the Union. Our aver
age is ) letters aud fraction. MlssisS-
| ippi IS next lowest, viz 8 and frac-
ton. SOUTH Carolina and tennessee
average letters per head. Whereas
even the wilds Of Arizona and Nevada
each average 81; Colorado, 50; Mon
tana, 40; Massachusetts, 3S; New
York, II Pennsylvania, "A Cailfornla
26. and so on. New Haven takes the
lead in the cities, averaging 10 letters
to each inhabitant. New ork aver
ages 100: Phila. o.; Baltimore 33.
It does not seem reasonable to sup
nose these figures correct They were
based on the month Of June, If we re-
collect Alright, and there may have been
|
; ertheless, the showing is mortlfylng ioi
. North Carolina. Because the exchang
a of letters IN a State Is measured by tn.
intelligence of its inhabitants.
s'The fertilizer House which | repre-
sent. spent last year from $500, to SiOo
d II making exhibits at the Fairs, offer
:, ing premiums. &c, and | am sati>fie,
i ,l,at Il was almost money thrown away.
s, So said a wcll-known gentleman
; .hose Judgment can be relied on ln an
4, natter. Il am further satisfied san
d ae-'.that newspaper advertising is tn
,s only kind that pays. Ii we had take
e oae hulf Of the money spent for freight
- for hotel bills aud the other lncidents
EXPENSES Of making show OF our goooS
il md had divided that $500 among tn
ii nreSs. we should have had our car
5, printed for three months In forty OF tn
: ,ealing papers OF the State, and woui
5n nave reached the nuti ice of fully SO.OL
If our most substantial people; wherei
we spent S4Ou, and reached less tina
il lO,U00, and only a passing glance II
ITS stead of attracting their dttentt0h once
weaE. for ttree mouths lie furJh
:, laid that advertising by. cards. placdrd
N fancy desks, hotel registers, ETC., was
waste of money. That the true secret
advertising was persistent SQUIRTING
"a tie name so that people never forget
55l And the only way to do this Is to ke'
I54 a card in the weekly papers and rene
w t continually" This gentleman W
talking sense. 1t is proven by ma
:. roofs. The only men who make mon
ni' by advertising are those who use t
. rre,s iudiciousy. Look at Perry Day
h Pain Killer. Every drug store can t!
10. nish a medicine just as good; but
cause Davis has perslstently advertls
the year after year, he has tecome twei
il millionaire.
d" d" several years ago he stopped adv
this isiug thinking that because the Wo
zen mad been drummed for thirty ye
~, here would be no need of keeping
cey card in every little paper any long
an al..- But IN less than year the receipts
pr, ran TO fall off SO rapidly, that "a la
arn sum nearly half a miiion-is now
no Ing spent in rebuilding the fame OF
art III Pam Killer.
+ Lo k Ayers Cherry pectora
nty winch made his fortune 30 years a
), recently his daughter had the noto'
o. refusing an oner OI iEdiiiaSc IL
80 aead Of both Of the Royal hou~,
!, u bon, III France, who was enci AN
b, her many millions, won by adNer
20 a patent medicine yet the i
p oral is still advertised ali over
2 world
Lood at Blackwell 4 Co, Of Durh;
they have spent large fortune IN
ye1tising. But why? Because 1t bll
va. ten for one!
sson NORTH CARoLINA's GRAIN CRoI
hich We la se from Senator Vance sp.
hz'' ,eport by the Census Bureau SHOW
the cereal production OF the IN
ease States. North Carolina is quotet
time having Gao. 500 acres in wheat, yiel'
;. 397. 1893 bushels Corn, 2,5p5
~ acres, yielding 2S,0l9 $50 bush
Oats, so, ,4l5 acres, yielding 5,>3s,
,en.e bu> hels. Rye, 1883 acres, ylel
hun, sad 2S5, 100. Bariey, go acres; :
AIN bushels. Buckwheat, ), ,125 acres:
ses'1 66S bushels. 1t is little moriltyin
,ody. osw find that the old Noah State aver
ored. ony 5, b lshels Of wheat er acre;
d the the only III bushels of corn.
from
81,