The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-20

all stores in the city We're seen.
At present wheat is worth from $50
to 1.35 per bushel, but making the
average at S1.00 per bushel the duan-
tity of wheat imported by Burlington
merchants from other states would re-
quire 1890 acres. averaging Il bush
els to the acre to produce. The cost
of wheat growing per acre is S6.2S. the
average fertilizer bill $500 per acre.
making a total of seas per acre to
produce Il bushels of wheat. Using
these figures as a basis the cost price
to produce the wheat imported into
Burlington would be S69,41S.00. which
If sold at 500, aggregates $69,41S.00,
thus showing a profit of S19.262.0 90,
which is a profit of S2.51 or 20 So per
cent. profit on the value of the land,
estimating same at@$12.0O per acre.
At S1.25 per bushel, there would be a.
profit Of s~41,5SS.0O. which is PC 1-6
per cent per acre"
If other farm products return the
same amount of profits as wheat the
farmers of Alamance county are los
ing a profit of upward of $50. 10000
annually by the buying
farm products from other states
which should be kept in Alamance
county to make more successful farm
ers in that section, to say nothing of
the increase of wealth., population and
value of farming lands such conditions
would bring about.
H showed that farms in North
Carolina could produce the same
-: = 6 %lo0 - W.
of work was expended. If the o
figures are true, applying only to Bur
lington, how many thousands OF dol
lars are sent away each year from
Alamance county that should remain
at home? These are things worth
thinking about"
The matter of sending out money
to buy those things that should be
grown on North Carolina farms is a
practical question that directly con-
Germs every farmer in the State, and
indirectly concerns every citizen also.
Three-fOurthS Of the people OF the
State live on the farm or in mall viii
lagos and the barometer of North Car
olina's progress is found in the pros
perity or hard times experienced by
the m During the years when
farm products brought the best prices
everything prospered in North Caro-
lima.
This paper has addressed letters 10
all it's correspondents requesting the
information from their sections
is furnished in the article from
the Burlington News Their answer
will be published as received. Dis
cussion upon this important matter IN
these columns is invited.
North Carolina al grow riches
rapidly if in every way possible it
keep it's money at home by grow
everything, the cultivation Of
which the land is adapted to and in
other ways hat viii check the con-
outflow of our money. The
chief drain has been for bread, meat.
clothes, and a~'thousand things
we should grow or make. The State
awake We are growing more
vegetables. truck, stock, hog and hon.
inv than before and this is response
BILE chiefly for the better condition
ont hundreds Of thousands of dollars
for these things that we should make
on our own farms. Let the successful.
example Of the farmers who. after
at home and boarding at the
place" nave grown the money
best suited to their land cause
every farmer this year to resolve to go
and do likewise until the drain that
prevents our proper prosperity is for
ever ended, and instead of buying
hog and honiny' from other States
shall grow enough for home con-
sumption and send enough to help
feed the big population that crowds
he cities. That is the road to indie