The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-04

and formulate, and the matler oI ID
Dor. In reference to this last ne said
| "As farmers we are confronted Wath
probIem for solution that Will re-
! o,,i,.a time. patience and conservatism
! 80 daal with. With the old slave pass
INC awav. he who has been trained to
ba hits of industry and honeSty-with
his descendants taking his place who
generally have no conception of eth
er-this inefficient force to take the
Mace of trusted labor, we can but
seek other labor that is more reliable.
Hence it is that our largest farmers
have white men of our own section
who are tenants. From my obServa-
ton and experience / am satisfied that
during the six months of making a
cotton crop and the time of gathering
it labor will lose one day in each
week one sixth of the time, while
during the other three months they
will lose SO per cent of their time
this equaling 80 ner cent of the en-
tire time lost during the year. TO
obyiate and overcome this great loss
of time large farmers generally have
adopted the plan of having supplies
for their tenants carried to them,
thereby reducing the loss of time TO
one-sixth of the entire year. Is there
any business occunation or profession
that can survive With loss of 80 per
cent of its time? With tins system.
loss of time on the part OF those VINO
are dependent on this labor for the
maintenance of themselves ana 1arn.
ers the laborer will continue to be
hewers of wood and drawers OF wa
ter"
CaDtain Everett estimated the cost
each year for maintaining a one-horse
farm valued at $1,000, raising cotton
all expenses-as being $26S. From
his farm accounts he finds for the past
fourteen years that the crop raised is
C.S5O pounds lint cotton at Y cents
a pound. half of this amounting TO
s265.43 with one-half the seed
amounting to $62.57, a total of $32S,
the profit being $50. which with the
500 interest on $1,000. the value OF
the farm equals $120. Thus to the
farmer or landlord the cost of the
farm is IL per cent of the investment
This is an average for fourteen years,
but last May the figures would be
double while one wear there was no
profit. In this estimate there is no
account taken Of corn, forage, etc,
as the landlords half will be con-
sumed by the mule.
AS to the tenant in this estimate
he gets one-half the cotton. $265.43.
one-half the seed s62:51. and one nan
the corn and forage, $500. total OF
1878. His outlay will amount to S26o
and the profit will be sos. in addition
TO S245 in wages.
The speaker also submitted esti-
mates on farms off OF transportation
lines valued at $500 and made his re-
marks along this line very interesting
and instructive.
A Matter of Milk.
Mr.. c. c. Moore, OF Mecklenburs,
was the second speaker. That his few
remarks previously had attracted at
tention was shown by the applause
which greeted him. '"rhe salt of the
EARTH" said the speaker, as he bowed
ut his applauders and the salt
smiled and appauded some more.
Nh Moore gave most interesting
talk on Personal Experience III
Dairying and Dairy Interests in North
Carolina" He urged during the
course of his talk that cleanliness III
reference to a popular plea that
thunder has something to DO with
souring milk he set down hard and
fat, saying that when 1t soured there
was some trouble in handling X.
What and how to feed. and the early
rising life for the man OF the dairy
we're told of To his wife's ability
to kick" at three o'clock a. nj. he
ascribed his early rising hour, and
advised that single men, being with
,ut this advantage in early Using,
keep out of Dairying. Keep clean.
and keep COOL was his advice about
handling milk. He exhibited a neat
ly put up package OF butter ana tolc
how it was made. Put up your
butter neatly, with printed label or
t if you are selling it. / put on
mine. eff you find any fault with this
let me know what it is and when l
earn the trouble I try TO correct it.
Mr.. Moore's bright talk made an
impression, and as he closed there
were questions and more questions
He answered briefly and pleasantly,
and his talk on dairying proved to
be one of the features of the occasion.
He described dairying as the biggest
proposition he had ever tackled, but
the way he told OF 1t showed that
there was a super abundance of sense
n his make uD, ard that he would
tackle all right. In closing his inter-
esting detailed account he said it was
I most interesting and profitable
work. Certainly his address was OF
the same kind. Liberal applause
greeted many things in Mr.. Moore's
address.
Wool and Mutton.
Mr.. Samuel Archer was on the bin
Of fare for n talk on "Is North Caro-
ina Adapted to Wool and Mutton"
Mr.. Archer was not present. His pa
9ed on the subject was. and DR.. g. w.
3urkett read it. Tn this Mr.. Archer
gave as his opinion that the State is
SO adapted and that a profitable bust
ness can be done in these.
Industry and the consideration OK
climatic conditions he held us essen
tiaI In success in the business. An
open door to prosperity, he stated, is
open to the young men in tho South
n this industry. hundreds ana
thousands of fockS of merinos. he be-
,ieved could be raised Ill North Caro-
ina, and while speaking OF other
breeds he gave the great praise to
the merno. The outlook in North
Carolina for this industry he held to
be as bright as could be.
DIR. r. III. Speight, Of Edgecomhe,
not being present his paper on Neigh
borhood cooperative Cotton Seed Oil
Mills was not heard.
The Culture of Corn.
The convention, having concluded
the papers of the morning went over
INTO The afternoon exercises and from
the work there outlined it first pulled
forth DR.. Burkett, of the A. and M,
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