The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-22
For the Farmer and Mechanic.

ENFIELD, n. c., March IL.
As INV other letter did not find its
way into your waste basket, | have con-
cluded to drop you an other. With
few days of genial sunshine and the
drying winds of March the mud has dis
appeared from our streets, and if mod
ern Noah were to pass this way, and
Gberate from his ark dove, there would
be no difficulty now for the dove to find
dry place for the sole of its feet. Al
though the mud has abated, there yet
remains nuisance for which this town
is more noted than any other on the
w. & w. Railroad, it is the countless
goat, that fill all the space not occupied
by something else, goats Of all colors
and sizes on the streets and side walks,
in the stores, under churches aud in the
vestibules, goats everywhere, snorting,
bleating, laughing, crying, and SO much
like child, you would think every baby
in town had the crapop colic at once, and
the same time. The regim, ut Of boys with
their grit shooters have despaired of ever
routing the goat brigade. Why sir the
small pox would have no impression on
the goats OF this town. If yJu Will
allow me to quote from an English poet,
| will say. you may break this town.
crush it if you will, but the scent Of
the goats will hang around it STILL
Although the weather has been so
unfavorable for farmers, yet they have
done good deal of work, and every day
the town is filled with carts and wagons
loading with guano. or some other so
called fertilizer, while many, if not most
of these farmers, have on their land far
better material to be had for only the
cost of getting it in position. Will
| Southern farmers never learn economy
and senses What is the use of making
eight or ten millions of bales of Gotten
when FIVE or six millions will supply the
demand. All over the demand will
tend only to lessen the price, while the
cost of making and housing will be
double for the larger crop. Since the
war, farming in the South has been
more abused than any other business,
except politics and preaching. The re-
suit of the war may have liberated the
darkey, but he has shown his gratitude
by enslaving every steer or bull yearling
he can get hold of, whether muley head
or stump tailed, if he can rent farm
and some one to run him. Farming to
pay, not only in the South, but in every
other country, can only be done by en-
riching the lands and cultivating less
lands, but doubling the quantity to the
area, and lessening the cost of cultiva-
ton and raising your own grass aud
grain, if not your meat. When we
learn to do this, you will hear less cry
for labor and emigrants, and more ring
of specie.
Quite serious, if not fatal, acci-
dent happened this evening to Mr.. +.
Forbis, proprietor Of the hotel here,
and his little girl, about ) years old.
1t seems that two young men had been
trying the speed OF their horses in a
buggy, each. One of them drove up tC
the hotel, and got out Of his buggy.
Mr.. Forbis remarked that he would take
ride, got in the buggy and took his
child with him, drove for one or two
squares, when the horse rapidly went
around corner of q street, struck {
wheel against tree or post overturnlne
the buggy and emptying Mr.. f. and biz
child out. it is thought Mr.. f. S skull
is fractured, and that he will die, as h'
has not spoken since the accident; ant
if the child RECEIVERS, it may be mainet
for life.
Most respectfully, but sleepily,