The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-17
"North Carolina Has Every Element of Wealth
Except Skill Labor" Says DR.. Winston.
THE Negro in the South Has Better Opportunities For In
dustrial Education Than the White Boys" $50 Boys
Were Turned From the A. and M. College
For Lack of Room.

SnInefS. MecKleHDuTk, Is il'Nt Win lis
wonderful city, its many towns its
numerous manufactures, its good
roads and its wonderful improvements
in methods of culiiNatng and mar
keting crops.
We often hear lamentations over the
growth of cities and towns as if the
to the town were in some mysterious
way a detriment to or agricultural
interests. The very contrary is ttue.
Every increase in the number OF tOCd
consumers, every en,orscI lcnt of the
local market for far.l produce is Il
help to the farmer. J North Caro-
lima contained a nlli.ion People not
engaged in food pro tioi:. but de
handing farm products for daily con-
sumption. the valu, OF ouI farming
lands would be doubled or tfCbleu,
and our farmers would - indcpen-
dent of competition with The mar
kets of the world
The ultimate solution of or farm
ing problem depends upon three fac
tors: |. The increased fertility of
the soil, secured through industrial
education and a better knowledge of
scientific agriculture. IL. Decreased
cost of production, promoted by the
increased use of machinery. by the
utilization of waste material and by
the application of more skill and in.
telligence in every department. CT
farm labor.
III. Local markets, furnished by
growth of manufactures and increase
of cities and tonws.
TRUCKING AND FRUIT GROING.
There are portions of our State
which is independent OF the agricul-
tural conditions above ramed as pre-
vailing elsewhere. Nature has placed
Eastern North Carolina at q poini in
the trucking zone. where. If 4 keep
pace with other trucking region in
industrial education, in industrial
knowledge and in the employment OF
industrial machinery, it m ISL COM
mand absolutely, for a certain por-
ton of each year, the trucking mar
, kets of the United States. This is Il
fact in nature which canno, easily he
overcome and our Eastern truckers
are beginning to understand its sig
nificance. But only beginning has
been made. The growth of immense
cities in the Northern States, the IN
crease of cities and towns in our
own State. and the multiplication of
transportation facilities must III the
near future tax to the utmost the
truck producing capacity ~ Eastern
Carolina and convert into q rich gar
den the vast areas now devoted 10 the
undemunerative production of corn,
cotton and tobacco.
Other sections of our State are pc
culiarly adapted 10 the production OF
fruits. But beginning las scarcely
been made in this direction. With
growth of population. increase of
transportation facilities and beteter
knowledge of fruit growing and iruit
marketing derived from experience
and from industrial education. no one
can donb. that fruit grow ar viii be-
come one of orr largest and most
profitable industries.
STOCK-RAISING.
The possibilities of stock-raising as
a source of wealth in North Carolina
are exceedingly large. In the process
of raising beef and fattening it tor
the markets, as practiced in tie West
and Southwest, there are three steps:
l. Herds Of cattle. turned out to pas
| ture without food. water or shelter,
except what nature supplies. struggle
| through the winter. as best they may.
Probably a dozen times each winter
| one half the cattle in these pa stures
are within forty-eight hours of tleath
from cold. hunger and thirst. When
! the winter is over, and the calves are
big enough to Craze, everything that
can stand on four legs and be pushed
into a cattle car is bought up and
| shipped to be fattened elsewhere
2. Then begins the next stage: in
On enclosure contai~ipU from 501 70
10000 cattle, an unlimited SUPPLY Of
! cotton seed meal, hulls and water is
furnished. until the cattle have hid
den their bones and taken on as mach
flesh as can be had from such food.
when they are again sold ard shipped
TO cattle dealers in the cities for final
fattening.
). l. he third stage is one OF fatten-
ing with grain. which continues until
the beef is ready for the butcher.
There is no reason why the first
two steps in beef making should not
areas of land in the esat are admir-
ably suited to this purpose. and our
mountain section furnishes pastures
in many respects superior to those of
Texas and Arizona.
| come now to other elements of
wealth some. of which | shall merely
mention and others briefly discuss.
OUR FORESTS.
A century ago we used our forests
mainly for fire-wood. Later we sold
them as raw material. to be cut down
and shipped away, either as timber
or as lumber. for manufacture else
where into finished products. At least
we have begun to manufacture our
selves; but we have only begun. an
the field is boundless. Recently In
High Point a single customer from
Chicago was anxious to place an order
for 100000 worth Of furniture. Fac
tories there are converting $500 worth
of white oak into $1,000 worth Of fur
niture. Skill and machinery are do
ing the work. With better skill and
better machinery, with our manufac
turing establishments in all lines Of
wood working as numerous as cotton
mile now GRO yye shall reolize that