The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-05-04

$500 per year. That will mean
TO The business interests an m
creased trade Of 81, 800, 900 an
nually over what is now en- 5
joyed. c
Mr.. Goodwin rightly declares {
that National drainage is as
important a work as national II
rigation, and when undertaken
it will show equal benefits lie
saws TINT the area of swamp
lands in North Carolina is
given as from 5000 TO 5000
square miles, and he thinks it
must be nearer the latter figure
for the area of what IS called
HYDE County Swamp is given
as nearly 5000 square miles.
Some swamp lands that have
been reclaimed produce 81
bushels of corn per acre with
out fertilization and without
rotation, while the largest av-
erage production per acre ever
known in the United States
was only 1913 bushels. One
authority quoted says, 1.-The
swamp soils of North Carolina
show a greater power Of endur-
ance than the prairie soils of
Illinois. We quote further
from Mr.. Godwin's forceful
presentation of the subject:
THE swamp land of North
Carolina is nearly as great in
area as that of the little King
dom of Saxony, which has
nearly 100000 people. The
swamps Of this State, if drain
ed, could easily sustain larg'
6 err population than the entire
State has at the present time.
They would be capable o
j growing a vast variety o
: products. The rice produced
If in my district is superior t.
= any other grown in the Unite'
- States. It's superiority is s
we'll known and so general
!. conceded that the planters i
n South Carolina and GeOrgi
q have for generations been buy
y ing it for seed.
1T is not generally known
J. but it is a fact that, looked a
"a in one way and in the best way
S North Carolina is the secon
r. cotton-producing State in tt
20 Union. Of course, the maio
:; ity of the cotton-growing Stat
produce more cotton than Mort
OF Carolina, but this State pr
IN duces more per acre than al
G other, except Oklahoma, al
IN the productiveness is rapid
II. increasing, Years ago Nor
~ Carolina was far down the lii
j" not only in number of bal
er; grown, but also in product p
nd acre; but she has been movil
on forward so fast that, in the /
70 ter respect, she is now next
IL the top. North Carolina
-" one of the three States tt
produce more than half a b;
lea to the acre. These lands,
i'm sides producing an enormC
hat yield of the common varie
NM would be suitable for the 5,
island cotton, which is wo,
Cd about twice as much as
The land cotton per pound.
Cd "But the chief value Of
, ir- drained lands in my State. Z
,ere especially in my distr
an5 would be as a market gar(
anu for the large cities of the No
uch Atlantic seaboard. Their +
gov ducts, if moved by expr'
, is could leave their nearest II
Sew ket towns at sunset and
yo.t ready for the breakfast IL
I''' in Washington or Baltim
aVer the next morning, and CO
!, by reach Philadelphia and \
ands York by noon. The firing
here country down the Alta
W." coast is peculiarly adapted
road market gardens, not only
49, cause of its fertility of
VIC but also because Of it's Gin
y OF and IT'S proximity to the g
markets. In this part of
amp county isothermal lines do
amid run east and west, but nc
,ates east and southwest. Eas
i'm North Carolina is warmer
area northern Georgia or Alabs
the Its gardens are ready for
, and markets at about the s
rain time as those Of middle G
inter- gia and Alabama, and are
more than half as far
ex- them in distance or time.
do this account market garde
" has already become an i'm
: IN tant industry in this sec
Train and with the addition of
be 100000 acres of the
fertile land in a nario, or