The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-13
Have Broad Acres and
Produce Big Crops
SOME OF THE LEADERS
Obserya tions Taken During the InSt-
tute in Grccnyilie-rTomise of IA
Special Institute on Tobacco
Next Winter of the High
est Importance.
BY ANDREW JOINER.

Greenville. y. G.. Aug 9-Two
weeks ago | received great benefit.
and tried 70 communicate il 10 the
thousands OF intelligent readers OF
The News and Observer. from a North
Carolina state Farmers Institute, held
for Guilford county al Gutlford Col
lege.
This institute was held in one OF the
most progressive sections of one OF
the most progressive counties OF the
Piedmont region of the State. There
were not exec eding one hundred farm
ers there, and they were fine type
Of the corn and grass raisers They
counted their tillable acres by fifty
or a hundred, their yields of 20 to 80
bushels of wheat. and 40 70 so bush els
OF corn to the acre, embraced indi-
viduaI crops of each. of from 20 to
80 acres. These farmers lived close
together, and the radius of representa-
tion present did not exceed four miles.
Today at the county seat of one
of the most progressive and wealthy
counties of the East | was delighted
as We'll as instructed by attending the
Farmers Institute held for Pitt
county under the auspices of the Unit
ed State Department of Agriculture,
made possible by the useful applica-
tton of brains, industry and official
faithfulness to duty, of the First Dis
trict's Representative in Congress,
John II. Small.
At the institute today, instead Of
one hundred farmers within radius
of four miles, there were three hum
dred from radius of twenty miles
They represented every variety Of ag
ricultural and business pursuit one
man often meaning combination of
merchant. farmer. banker. manufac-
turer and broker.
Instead of crops of corn. wheat
produced regularly large crops Of
corn, hay, cotton. tobacco, rice, pea
nuts, irish and sweet potatoes as
staple crops.
Instead of acres Of fifty and one
hundred in tillage, they ran from two
hundred to two thousand.
Representative Farmers.
As | sa. and looked over the audi
ence, comfortably housed in the ele-
CANT opera house of the splen-
did Masonic building. made
the following memorandum of
individuals personally known from
acquai aintance never to be forgotten OF
years long ago All native Pitt coun-
ty farmers, some on large scale and
some on a small scale all on an i'm
proved scale Of Operat, On All intelii-
gent earnest quick of application to
practical use of the fine subject mat
ter of the experts sent by the Ma
tional government.
From Falkland: John S. Harris,
Henry Harris, Green Satterfield,
Pierce Smith, w NJ. Smith, r. r..
Cotton, and others.
TarmyiiIc-A J. Move. r. l..
Davis. Benjamin Lewis. r. l.. Joyner.
Lessc Smith, Macon Smith. Alfred
Nichols Abram Joyner. S. Y. Joyner.
John Flanagan, and others.
Pactolus-R. r. Fleming, G NJ.
Moring. I. II. Little. Richard sat
terthwaite. J. R. Davenport. Richard
Carney. S. l. Fleming, Fernando
Ward. and others.
Grifton-J. ]. 3. Cox, E. s. Laugh
inghouse w n Laughinghou5e. l..
J. Chapman. Jesse Quinnerly, F.. l..
Tucker. r NJ fitzpatrick, Walter Har-
ding, George VeEters, II. c. Venters,
and others.
interyillc-Bennett Speight A. G..
Cox c. E. Lineberry, and others.
Ayicn-HCnry Corey, Wright
Mobiles, j. McDixon. II. c. Craft, and
others.
Greensyilie-J ". Fleming. w. A.
Hyman r J. Cobb, J. g. Taylor. l.
F. Evans J j. Laughing house w II.
White o. L. Joyner. ". II Harring-
ton Gennis Harringto n. Capt Rich-
ard Williams and many others.
Bethel: s NJ. Jones. r a. James,