The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-04
More Coed Farming in North
Carolina.

MFR ID. Aaron, Of Mount Olive, y. c.,
tails about his farming in the American
,.,..tI.nrI-t and his experience Is not
.a uncommon one in that fertile section
.. small fruit growers and truck farmers.
rI. '.t- made q little farm of 50 acres yityd
...1 $3.50 in products III q season, be-
..f4- Producing feed fer stock. He pai
,le lu arrc Tor his land, but would not
.a. $500 Good farming on an intensive
,nu rIvs a. we'll IN the South as else
..n... This section of the State las
..r been famous as the locality that sup
,Il- MI The tubc-rose bulbs sold III the
3ma.1run and English markets, and the
-..arrs-r growers along the Atlantic Coast
Lin. Ra5Ioad are now spreading out INTO
,tI.r lines OF Horticulture. Gladioh are
Ian- grown IN large areas, and acres ard
.,9r- of haIia5 and cannas make a grand
show from the railroad. Experiments are
being made with the Bermuda lily, and it
is believed that eventually these will be
.ruNa there with success commercially.
with O. mild climate and q soil of great
natural fertility Eastern North Carolina
is last forging to the front in horticultural
production. Mr.. Aaron says that this sea-
son from seven and a half acres in straw
rnrrt- he received $3,052.72 He gets
tr.m % bale and a quarter to bale and
q ha.f Of cotton from the same land from
which he gets from 375 to 400 barrels Of
Irish potatoes IN June. by planting the
potato rows wide enough anart to put III
rows of cotton between them after the
potatoes are uD. AID Mr.. Aaron Is but
ouc OF many intensive farmers in the
-ane ueiehborhood.
Mr. d. J Aaron, also of Mt Olive.
lr.raar OF Mr.. J. D. Aaron, OF whose
tanning we quoted above, writes: 4 had
In cultivation sixteen acres of Strawberries
and received from them $3.50; twenty
"aros IN Irish potatoes and received from
them. $l650. twenty acres IN cantelOupeS
and received from them $4,000; total,
s. $40. The potato land is now in cotton.
having been planted in 4-foot rows be
tween the potatoes. l have land IN sweet
potatoes which last year yielded me $1oG
uer acre. and expect as much this year,
a~ they will be off soon, and early ones
~g near by for 81 per bushel TWO acres
in tuuips paid me 500 per acre. The
Bermuda lilies can be successfully grown
here as well as anything along that line
Mount Olive j. in the great bulb growing
section CJ North Carolina, where fields are
devoted to tuberoses. dahlias, Cannas aud
gadioH. and the bulb growers there are
branching out into the cultivation of
other bulbs. With a level, warm and
fertile soil Eastern North Carolina nronr-
.>ng 10 be a garden rivahng Long Island,
jE reason of superior climate. which ad-
mis- Of Il repetition of crops on the same
lana during the season that cannot be inu-
lated North. The twenty acres of Irish
potatoes which brought Mr. Aaron $3.50
III early June are now growing cotton
tHat viii make. IN all probability, twenty
liz" bales At present prices for cotton,
aoW selling in North Carolina for 13 cents
far twenty-five bales viii bring about the
~mo amount as the potatoes, making
$4,000 trom twenty acres Of land, or over
SID. per acre.