The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-11
ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA.

PEOPLE who know nothing about
North Carolina except what they read
in ancient biographies, which amounts
to about this: ''The chief products
are cotton, rice, tar and peanuts, "
will be Interested in a few facts
about the State, especially as The FRO
GREssIvE FARMER goes to every State
in the Urion. We have a good many
undesirable things, but we have better
health. more kinds of climate and soil,
greater variety of minerals and farm
products than any State in America.
Added to this is a rapidly increasing
number of good schools, and it is be-
coming a leading manufacturing State.
1t is just 500 miles from Cherokee to
Roanoke Island, and every portion
from the fisheries of Albemarle to the
land of the sky has something peculiar
and desirable to boast of. Our farmers
are not prosperous, but factories are
doing we'll, and railroads are multiply
ing. There are nineteen cotton fac
tories in Alamance coun5y, seventeen
in CASTOR, twelve in Randolph, nine IN
Mecklenburg, eight in Guilford and 14O
in the State, besides a number in con
struction. In these mills are near
ly 10, 900 looms and over 500, 900 spin
dies, and they consumed last year
1866, 300 bales of cotton. Besides these
there are thirteen wooden mills that are
turning out the best quality of jeans,
kerseys, cassimers and blankets, and
there are eight knitting mills, soma of
them being operated day and night and
all declaring good dividends. There
are fifty seven factories that make car
riages and buggies, th1rtytwo that
make wagons, thirty-five that make
furniture, six that make hubs and
spoke5 and twenty-four that make
sash, doors and blinds. One of these
works 1875 hands. Then there are hun
dreds of sawmills a1d turpentine dis
tilleries.
There are twenty-eight canning fac
tories for vegetables and fourteen for
oysters, there are fourteen cotton seed
oil factories, fifty four fertilizer fac
tories and quite a number that make
barrels and crates and baskets and
brooms.
But on the high top of this pyramid
are the tobacco factories that far ex-
coed in number and capital those of
any State in the Union.
There are ITO that make plug to-
bacco, nine that make smoking to-
bacco. Durham alone sold II, 600, 900
pounds last year and paid to the gov
eminent for stamps $616, 1919; Winston
paid more than that and Asheville sold
over 5000, 900 pounds of leaf tobacco.
These are only the principal tobacco
markets, and the aggregate of the pro-
duction increases with every year.
berry meadows and the immense truck
farms that extend all along the coast
and find an early market in Washing
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia. At
New Berne alone there were shipped
in one day 90. 900 barrels of Irish pota-
toes and Is, 900 boxes of beans, and
this is an every day business, and does
not include the peas, tomatoes, aspar-
agus and cabbage. Indeed, the pro
duction Of this coast region seems in
credible. Then there are fisheries that
employ 5000 persons and 5000 boats
and ship 3d. 600, 900 pounds of fish in a
season. Nextcomes the medicinal herbs,
Of which one frmin StatesviIle shipped
in one month 49, 900 pounds. They
employ 800 agents to collect these
herbs, and do by far the largest bust
ness Of any similar firm in the world.
Added to all this we have millionaire
Geo. ". Vanderbilt and his Sc, 600, 900
residence and Bill Nye, the peerless
humorist.