The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-13
BUY FARM IN GU|LFORD
PURCHASE MADE BY TWO WIS
ro<SIN MEN WHO WILL MOVE
cuEIR FAMILIES TO THIS
cTATF-FATM PROGRESS.
Ry ANDREW

2 Hughes the Dr. Flagg farm OF
gor hundred acres, three and a half
no0 cash. at the rate Of $50 per acre.
rhasa Gentlemen represent the best
Lament of the German-American citi-
1anship, which has made Wisconsin
one Of the most progressive and
wealthy AGRICULTURAL States Of the
f.Didn, They left this morning for
WISCONSIN and will return with their
F~srniIies next month ready to begin
artive work. They are going to use
the land to raise feed for one hundred
Jersey cows and will establish a
~rdarn commercial creamery, which
XIII be q new industry in the agri-
cultural life of this section, and one
mar will be heartily welcomed. These
rauy-cOmers were delighted with what
1hev saw of this section and the low
nrice Of lands compared with Wis
ronsin lands, apparently not half so
GOOD. and with the advantages Of this
Climate for growing crops all the year
rnInd for stock. They We're also de-
7ighted to find a Moravian church
here. both being members Of that
church.
men in the world than they seemed
to be yesterday When they read of
The victory OF Senator Lat'ollette, for
they are insurgent Republicans every
inch Of them, and will no doubt be-
come natural democrats before living
in the South a year
TEis farm was sold ten years ago for
$4,000. Five years ago it was sold for
$4,000. at SIS per acre. The price
paid Yesterday illustrates how farm
values are increasing here in all sec
tions, where good roads and
schools have been established.
Mr.. J.. A. Gray, a Pennsylvania
farmer. yesterday purchased a 100
acre farm. two miles north of the
civ. There are no buildings on the
pl9t he purchased, and today he has
eli en- out q contract for material to
erect q residence and Out-buildinGs
and intends moving his family as
soon as the buildings can be made
ready for use.
Another immigrant is Mr.. L. H.
Caldwell, Of New York State, who has
purchased the jennings PROPERTY on
Fifth avenue. and will in future re-
side here and interest himself in
farming. These transaction, the first
hall Of one week, by only one real
estate dealer, indicates that business
is opening up. Every fall n sprlns
Guilford county farms are purchased
by Northern and Northwestern farm
err. and in every section of the county
the colonies are growing and the new
Comers are ~prOspeTlng. Ihey make
the best of citizens, and while learn
i'm much from our native progress
Sl\t ItIIILtIS, are dISO ltdChiIS hChiN
people many valuable lessons in agri-
cultural Development.
The native GuilfOrd farm<s, from
some cause, are rapidly improving
their system. Lands that a few years
ago were quilted, or impoverished. and
would not "sprout COW peas under
improved methods are now selling Tor
800 an acre, and worth every cent
Of the price. Great crops of COW pea
hay, vetch and oats, wheat, alfalfa,
clover. corn and tobacco, are being
grown on every medium sized farm
Where ten years 8 fifteen bushels
OF wheat an acre for a whole crop
was big enough to get publication
only the thirty and forty bushel yields
are now considered evidence Of extra
notice. Dairy farms have multiplied
along with the increase of feed crops
and smaller farms were manfred anc
lnteiligently cultivated and man
aged is the order Of the great change
l walked over two Of this kind o
farms yesterday. One was Of fifty
acres. the other rs acres. Both had
splendid residences and good out
buildings for stock. h fifty acre
farmer kept twenty mich cows. He
mad just filled two silos, holding III
'oh; from a seven acre field of corn
ana had to double press the rescep
1aieS III order to get the silage IN
lhree years ago, he planted twelve
'~' iLIoItdd u seven acres " III LIN
silos.
ON the 10 acre farm, there were ne
COWS, but the owner had several year:
"g2 parted with $50 acres, and pu
4II ms energies on the remaining rs
re quilt his land up with crimson
NoFei, COW peas and winter cover
eIopS, like vetch and oats mixed, ryt
ana red clover.
me whole place was covered will
mnme last growing crop, peas ant
sass following oats and Vetch O.
mneat, and late corn planted afte
"ntat This corn is magnificent an(
VIII mature before frost.
IS getting it's last blowing thi
Teeh and after the c%ultivator follow
S,@ed and sower putting in Grim
t rn Clover for a spring cutting and TO
ling under next spring. The regu
h ~; OF corn, is an eight acre field
cr"ll up entirely by this rotation o
tb1 ''Soh clover, wheat, peas, etc. Il
-, "llodIe Of this corn, the crimso