The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-20
Attention Given to Prac-
ticaI Addresses
FARMING IN BEAUFORT
Truck Growing an Extensive and
Profitable Industry-tountrs ami
Towns prosperou-F>utur fnl
OF the Promise of stu Greater
chieyeiilent.
BY ANDREW JOINER.


Washington. n c. August II
There were about two hundred farm
ers of Beaufor county in attendance
on the Farmers Institute here FRI
day By an unfortunate error as 10
the schedules of the boat coming
down Tar river from Greenville. the
representatives Of the North Carolina
Department OF Agriculture. Prof F. l.
Stevens OF Raleigh. Mr. I + Brown
Of Ahoskie, and Col. j r. Redding.
OF Georgia, who conducted the insti-
tute. did not arrive until twelve
0 clock.
The late beginning made the ad-
dresses more or less hurried, but the
speakers were at their best. and never
addressed a more responsive or ap-
preciative set of actual farmers
lyrical Beaufort County Farmers.
Over half of those present were
! plainly. the typica. Beaufort county.
! hard working. owners of small tracts
| of land cultivating from one to three
| horse crops Another portion was OF
| the plantation variety of old time large
cotton farmers, with broad acres, ex-
! tensive country establishments and or
| prominence in public affairs. Still
another was the alert self made Dusl-
ness merchant and farmer. who had
| by energy thrift and shrewd trading
| propensities graduated into an eastern
| farmer m erchant- Ca pitalist.
There was also present group of
farmers living In and around the city
| OF Washington. who were engaged IN
the combined business Of truck. cot
| ton, tobacco, hay, and corn raising.
| 1t was therefore possibly one of the
Imost truly representative gatherings
| of farmers, the coterie of able experts
has yet addressed.
Mr.. w d Grimes chairman of the
committee, after calling the institute
| to order. announced Capt. w. II. Pat
rick. of Chocowinity. as president of
| the meeting Captain Patrick. in
! few appropriate remarks, explained
| the object of the institute. and the
need for them by all farmers, who
farmed for profit
Talk by Georgia Farmer
Col Reddlng. the celebrated Geor-
gia farmer and agricultural writer
made an excellent talk on cotton and
corn raising and the practical ques-
| tions put to him by farmers all over
the audience, showed the interest that
he had aroused
The address of Mr.. Brown
on fertilizers, how to buy,
| how to use, how TO mix
and when to apply, was highly appre-
ciated. and he. too. had TO stand fire
to spirited bombardment of ques-
tions
DR.. stevens closed the series Of ad-
dresses with a solendid talk on dis
| eases of plants, the means Of preven-
ton or cure. and the different uses OF
| pests Of insects.
The party left at four o'clock for
| Enfield, whore the Halifax institute
will be held tomorrow
Beaufort County's Riches.
The county of Beaufort, of which
the magnificent city of Washington is
/ the capital, has great variety OF soils
and Of productive interests. Immense
fisheries, lumber mills, canning facto-
ries are allied with the strict agricul-
tural employment Of its citizens.
Some sections are populated by
/ small farmers, who raise in a more
or less primitiev way, living crops OF
sweet potatoes, rice, peanuts cotton
| sorgum corn peas. In other sections
/ are large farms in the richest Of soils,
! that around Aurora, towards HYDE
county being wonderfully productive.
two bales Of cotton, and sixty bushels
/ OF corn to the acre being not unus-
| ual North of Tar river, towards the
/ Pitt county line around Chocowinlty,
| are the extensive farms. where the fin
/ est crops of corr, tobacco, cotton.
i irish potatoes are being raised under
the most modern and progressive
| forms of agricultural economies Ad-
| iacent to the city Of Washington are
the lands devoted to trucking There
farmers buy fertilizers in car lots, and
shin their product by train loads. The
i truck crops are irish potatoes. CAB
| baees. cucumb bers and beets. Most OF
these farmers raise a bale and a half
Of cotton or so bushels OF corn to the
4 acre on the same land they have sold
therefrom this truck crop, using no
further fertilizer.
Captains OF Industry.
Among the most extensive OF these
farrers-truckers all Of whom have
grown to be financial leaders are
4 S'Run1lev, R. r. Warren, W. d.
Grimes w H. Stancil, j. 5. Hodges,
F c WalIison, Sylvester Fleming, DR..
Joe Tayloe, ]. C. Rodman, j. E. Clark,
Jr DIR. D. T Tayloe and the Dixie
Agricultural Company, managed by
Messrs Bayham and Archben- The
shipments of this truck is immense.
and the prices for the past season
were fairly remunerative, with pros
meets of another heavy crop Of corn.
cotton and pea hay from the same
land
barrels of irish potatoes alone of his
truck and others long about the same
The yield of the early shipped po-
tate is from 60 TO 100 barrels pei
acre This yield is doubled II the
potatoes are allowed 10 stay in the
money in shipping early and getting
in a crop Of corn or cotton. and get
ting higher prices for the truck.
Resides the fourishing city OF
washington, with its enterprising mer-
chants. manufacturers, professional
men, fish dealers. truckers, shipping