The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-29
Living Issues.
WRALTH-FACTORs NEEDED IN NORTH
CAROLINA.

Needed for Further Development.
An Address by President Geo. t. winston, of
the N. Z. College Of AgrIculture and Mechanic
at its annual meeting In Raleigh, OCT "a, ISOI.
Two remarkable facts concerning
North Carolina are presented in the
national census.
L. In variety of natural wealth
North Carolina surpasses all other
States.
2. In amount of accumulated
wealth, per capita, it is surpassed by
all others.
These two facts, apparently. con-
tradiotory, have been and still are
the basis for great diversity of Opin-
ion concerning our State. On the
one hand it's praises have been sung
with such persistent iteration, and
it's resources of wealth enumerated
with such extravaganza laudation,
that a stranger from Jupiter or Mars,
happening in at one of our COM
mencement orations, would wonder
how q just Providence, in distribut-
ing it's bounties among the various
countries of our globe, could bestow
them all upon so small a portion as
the Old North State, leaving the re
mainder of the planet poor and IN
inhabitable. On the other hand
critics of our State, judging it solely
by the small amount of it's aooumu-
lated wealth, and forgetting that
poverty and hardship frequently
produce the finest types of manhood,
have given North Carolina low rank
in the scale of civilization and
branded the people as ignorant,
vicious and semi barbarous. Both
these views are extreme and false.
The truth stands between.
It is my purpose to consider the
industrial status of North Carolina,
to see what factors the State already
possesses for the creation of wealth
and what factors she needs for
further development.
REQUISITES TO PRODUCTION OF WEALTH.
There T three general requisites
to the production of wealth
1. Natural resources.
2. Labor.
8. Capital.
"Naturalr resources" include every
thing that is furnished by nature ;
the soil with it's annual yield of
crops; forests for protection of the
soil, for fuel, for building, and for
manufactures minerals for fuel and
manufactures building stones and
precious gems; waters for naviga-
tionand fish supply running streams
for water power; and climate for
health and strength of man and
beast, as we'll as for the growth of
useful plants.
NATURAL RESOURCES OF NORTH CARO-
LIMA.
Taken as a whole, the natural re-
sources of North Carolina compare
~favorably with those of other States.
Our finest natural resource is eli
mate. There are four distinct eli
mates in the United States the At
lantic Coast climate, the Mississippi
Valley, the Rocky Mountain Plateau
and the Pacific Coast. AS the At
lantic Coast climate is superior TO all
others, so on the Atlantic Coast,
midway between New England and
the Gulf of Mexico, a golden mean
between North and South, is the
matchless climate of North Carolina.
Here, free from intense heat and ok
treme cold, from wet seasons and dry
seasons, from earthquakes and tor
nadoes, from plague, pestilenoe and
famine, man and beast may be at
work in the open air, with complete
physical comfort, more hours in the
day and more days in the year than
elsewhere on the continent. Our
blessed climate makes possible a
maximum of physical and mental
vigor, guaranteeing long life, health,
and strength, and the no less COM
forting joys of a numerous and Wig
Orous p%Osterity.
Our other resources are not so per
feet as our climate. They are pres
ent in great quantity and variety,
but they cannot be developed by the
exercise merely of Drawn and muscle.
For their development and full utiIi-
zation is required manual skill and
machinery, technical knowledge and
capital, business talent and intelli.
gent foresight. all to q praater de.