The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-05-22
OUR SOUTHERN BUDGET
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RALEIGH, NC, May Is. 1856.
( A gentleman from Reading, Pa, Wis
ting the sandy regions of the long-leaf
pine section of North Carolina, last De-
cember, said of the soil that it was
naturally the finest for strawberry cul-
ture he had ever seen, He said, "Why,
.you'can raise Strawberries here as large
as hens eggs = .
=. On the goth of December we trans
planted a few plants. They were green
and growing We covered them with
spine straw and oak leaves, About the
iiirst of March we removed the covering.
On the. 9th of March they were in
bloom, and at this writing they are
lan$ins full of green berries. The
plants, are yigolous--in fact VIC never
saw finer ones.
This region is within a few hours of
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington, D. G. 1t will surely te
Che strawberry farmers paradise one of
these days. >
Too many lank, lean, scrubby cows,
giving two quarts at a milking, when
they can be found near enough home to
be milked) roam orer acres of territory
in the South, hunting like dogs after a
scanty forage. These cattle are little
better than none. An acre to COW, on
the ensilage plan, would keep the very
finest stock. Get churns. Construct
cellars. Fence your farms. Cultivate
fewer acres. Use little mental man
ure on your lands. The result will be
an astonisher. Try it and see. r
The leaves onsthe trees in North
Carolina, even in the latest season, are
always full grown by the 10th of May.
This has been a late spring in the South,
but by the middle of April the sweet
| sltrhs and poplars are in leaf, and the
lazy oaks are clothed in olive. Adyices
from favored locations in PENNSYLVANIA
speak nothing of green leaves as yet.
Gardens are we'll along here. Peas
will soon be quite gone. Fruit trees of
all kinds are shedding their blossoms,
the fruit setting nicely.
Sweet potatoes are beddsd and soon
the draws will be transplsnted to the
| fields. -.-
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Florida oranges are experimental.
North Carolina peaches are certainty,
I Few are the states that offer land OF
hye'd6llar an acre, and five years TO pay
for it. North Carolina does that i
several sections,
1he soft coal mines in the Deep River
section of North Carolina are about to
be re-opened. They have not been
worked TO any extent since the close OF
the late war, 49, -. e.. D.: ..-. go.
J, Newspaper advertising. went long
way toward building up Florida. Real
merit, good soil and the finest climate
in the world are doing wonders for North
Carolina.
Cheap lands in the South can be made
an effective weapon against the grea,
monopolies of the country--if the labor
leaders really want TO benefit the strug.
Cling masses.
The South is removed as the land OF
''hog, hominy and molasses. And
yet Ohio furnishes great part of the
hog, and no small part of the corr, while
the amount of molasses that comes from
the Northern refneries is ho small
matter.
Men from the North who have capi,
tai to invest are looking this way with
anxious eyes. and if Southern Pines
isn't one of the most prosperous, as vel
as one Of the prettiest and most health
ful spots in the entire South, then al
signs are miss, and we cannot prophesy
worth cent. u.. ..s.
As to the literary part of the city Of
Southern Pines, why shouldn't il bC
literary? Two hundred lots are owned
by the leading newspaper men Of this
North, and elsewhere.
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