The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17

ln0 dQSWSEy We are Su10S ALuoO OO
in favor of the latter. But it is not
enough to know that we are on the
wrong road we wish also to know
which is the right one.
President Winston points us in a
general way in the direction Of the
right road, but he does not say
enough. tRaise more truck, more
fruit, more live stock" he tells us.
Good advice this, but before it can
be done successfully, and before any
substantial progress can be made
along agricultural lines in North
| Carolina, our farmers must learn
more of three things:
Education, organization, co-opera-
ton.
The farmer must get some of the
profits that now go to the manufac-
turer. He must not stop with the
production of raw material, butmust
get it just as near as possible to the
manufactured state before it leaves
his hands.
Yes, our trucking industry must
be further developed. The advan-
tages of Eastern Carolina for truck
ing are not surpassed anywhere in
our Union. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of strawberries
alone are now sold annually and
the trucking industry is still in it's
infancy.
Fruit growing must have more at
tention. Our peaches of the sand
hill region are famous. Grapes
flourish in all sections of the State.
Apples from every quarter of the
civilized world were sent to the Paris
Exposition, yet specimens from Wa
tauga county trees to which the
owners paid "no attention whatever
80 trees, cultivation, pruning, fer
tilizing or spraying" as a Watauga
paper tells US, easily won a second
prize. With proper care and atten-
ton in no portion of the United
States can apple growing be made
more profitable than in Western
North Carolina.
More and better live stock. We
must "catch on" to the methods of
the West. There is no reason why
Chicago and Omaha beef should be
sold in Raleigh, or western meat"
to our North Carolina farmers. Our
growing s T longer than in
the West our cotton seed are made
on our own plantations forage crops
with our longer seasons r more
cheaply grown winter feeding costs
much more in the West than here.
A modern system of dairying.
During the year ending June 80,
1899, 1859, 400 pounds of butter were
shipped into Virginia ITO, 224
pounds into North Carolina and $685.
159 pounds into South Carolina.
Such a condition will continue until
North Carolina farmers combine as
Western farmers do and establish
cooperative creameries to make but
ter on scientific principles. Yet a
member of The Progressive Farmer
staff this year, backed up by facts
and figures to show the advantages
of the work, spent several weeks in
a fruitless effort to establish coop
erative creameries.
Doing everything on the farm that
can be profitably done there. More
than five million dollars will be paid
out for fertilizers by North Carolina
farmers this year. More than two
million go for cost of manufacture
and sale, more than one million of
which could doubtless be saved to
our people by cooperation in buying
and intelligent home-mixing.
Cooperation in building up home
industries. When you can get a
North Carolina product, buy it, keep
your money in circulation in your
own State, and make a market for
home products. For example, when
you can get a good North Carolina
farm paper, take it in preference to
one from Pennsylvania, Kentucky or
Good roads. Bad roads cost the
country $500, 600, 900 per year. Give
US Mecklenburg's good roads in every
county, and we are in sight of the
solution of many problems that now
puzzle us.