Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-02
THE AGRICULTURAL OUT
LOOK,
Another Year of Unusual Ac-
tivity for the Carolina Farmers
The Bulletin.

tlvity Tor the Caroilna FARMERS
The Bulletin.
Another harvest has closed, and
from indications we are approach
ing another year of unusual activ-
ity and progress.
There is much in the agricnl.
tural situation to encourage and
Farming is a better
business to day than at any time
during many years past, from the
fact that more thought and study
is being given the subject and the
plication of scienceand intelligence
to the management of the farm
economy.
Diversified agriculture is more
practiced than at any time within
the past quarter of a century. AT
no time has the introduction of inns
proved and high bred horses, COVE,
sheep and hogs been so great as at
the present.
Men OF large means and lntelll-
gence are giving their time and in
vesting literally of their means in
the propagation of all the best
known breeds of stock in many
sections of our State,
All this great increase in stock
growing indicates greatly increased
acreage in clover and the grasses,
which is a sure precursor of more
independence and better and more
prosperous times to the husband-
man.
We beg especially to refer to the
trucking portion Of the eastern seer
ton of our State, the farmers of
which, many of them, have met
with wonderful success. This sues
ces has been largely due to theil
diversitying and not depending on
a one crop system,
Another indication we are
pleased to note is the dis
position of some of our city peos
Pile to make their homes in the ads
%jacent country, which will be
greatly increased as the system OF
improved roads is extended. We
regard good, substantial public
roads as one of the most potent
means for the general betterment
of rural life. In fact, there is no
one thing hat will go as far tos
wards the general improvement OF
our rural districts as the extension
of some good system of improved
highways. Such, for instance, as
is nov in vogue by quite a number
of our counties Mecklenburg,
Wake, Forsyth, Guiltord, Cabar.
rus. and others.
Six years ago Mecklenbure
county commenced to work hel
conyicts upon the public roads Of
that section has been very great
and satisfactory.
The great increase in manufac-
turing Industries of the State, bu'
especially of cotton mills, indicates
a progress unequaled by any peo'
pie.
The building of every manufac'
turing establishment means for the
farmers of that section better ano
more remunerative prices for al
the food crops and supplies they
may have for sale, and hence they
are benefited and receive a certain
pros ortionate share of the benefits
accru;ng from such enterprises.
The increase of cotton mills in
the STATE has been about 100 pei
cent. within the last six years. There
are now between $50 and 100 mills
in the State.
With more food supplies grown
upon the farms, meat. corn, pota'
toes, ETC., than for many years paeI
with more land seeded to wheat
than have been upon North Caro-
lima soil for twenty-five years, i
ever before, and with a large GA
crop also seeded, we believe, and de
assert, that the farmers of our com
monwealth are in a more satisfac.
tory and encouraging condition
than at any time within many
years past.
If our farmers, in the cotton bel
Of the state especially, will only
profit by the experience of the
past year, and not increase
their cotton acreage but be
sure frts of producing 6
suficiency of food crop and ther
what cotton they can, they viii
continue to prosper. I don't be-
lieve there can be an oversproduc'
ton of cotton, if the farmers of the
South will first produce an ample
amount of food crops. There car
be no permanent success with oul
farmers unless they make theil
farms self sustaining.
This is a matter of even more
importance to us than the increase
in the number of our industries, fol
it means independence and pros
perity to the bulk Of our people.