The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-10-18
A Scheme That Pays.

Chorlotte News
The North Carolina Department of
Agriculture is made up OF a progress
i've and energetic set of men. The
good they are accomplishing is inesti-
mable and the money they are spend
ing to advertise the State is yielding
a hundredfold. Neither is their work
spasmOdic, but rather continuous
and regular.
The Board under the dictatorship
of Mr.. 7. X. Bruner, secretary of the
Board, has adopted a scheme of ad-
vertising the resources and posi-
bilities of North Carolina for the
purpose OF attracting capital and
good citizens, that pays.
In this connection the Charleston
News and Courier of the 9th instant
contains the folfowing article concern
ing the display of North Carolina
farm and manufactured products at
the Food Fair now i'll progress in
Boston:
"A Food Fair is now i'll progress
i'll the Mechanics Building at Boston,
Massachusetts. So far as we know
the only Southern State represented
at this fair is ent erprising North
Carolina. The exhibit made by this
State occupies the whole of the Paul
Revere Hall. 1t was arranged by
the North Carolina Board of Agricnl-
ture under the direction of Mr.. II. X g.
Bruner, Secretary of the Board, and
is in charge of Mr. II. II. Brimley ,cura-
tor of the State Museum at Raleigh,
both OF whom are very well known
in Charleston. This exhibit is de-
signed to show the advantages of
North Carolina as field for the
small farmer.
The view has prevailed among out
siders that the Tar Heel State was
only adapted to the cultivation ofcot-
ton, but the fact is that North Caro-
lima is one of the most productive of
the truck farming and fruit growing
States in the South, and the adapt
ability of garden truck and fruit is
amply demonstrated by the exhibit
now made at Boston, which is at
tracing the interested attention OF
the people of New England. The
specimens of the vegetables and fruits
grown in that State, showing the
greatest possible variety, make up a
part of the exhibit at Boston. In
addition to these garden and field
and orchard crops u great deal ofat-
tention is given i'll the North Caro-.
lima exhibit to the marvellous forestry
and mineral wealth of the State. A
great many thousand well-to-dO Yam
KEGS have been attracted by the
variety OF the North Carolina exhibit
ut Boston, and it is not unreasonable
to expect that this exhibit will be the
means OF attracting many hundreds
of thousands of dollars to North
Carolina for investment
1T was not until the first Cotton
States Exposition held in Atlanta
that North Carolina began to attract
the attention OF investors. In the
biographies that were studied in the
schools of the country its staple pro.
duets were included in the phrase
pitch, tar and turpentine. The e1-
hibit ut the Atlanta Exposition was
made under the direction OF Major c.
{. McPhail, of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad system and the
country began to take notice
at once of the great possibilities
OF industrial development in what we
know to be one of the richest States
i'll the South McPhail's work was
taken up by Bruner, a remarkably
able man, and with the cooperation
of the State Board of Agriculture
North Carolina has been represented
in a most creditable way at every
great industrial and commercial eX-
position held in this country in the
last twenty-five years.
The above is true and it is a source
OF rejoicing to know that North Caro-.
lima is taking the lead in bringing the
South before the public. 1t is like
wise gratifying to note the success
with which the efforts of the Board
are being rewarded
The farmers are asked to believe
that the recent rise in the price of
cotton is due to Roosevelt and pro-
lection. Are they responsible for
starving ont the tobacco farmers?
The tobacco trust is Republican and
Republican administration pro-
tects it in its destruction of com
DptitiOD and rOhbary- of tbo ,,oo,,.