The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-08

Farmers of GuiIford Another Object
Lesson of the Progressive Spirit
That is Stirring the Agricultural
Glasses of tile State From Murphy
to Manteo-Means a Greater DAY
for the Old North State.
By ANDREW JOINER.
Greensboro, n. c., Feb. 4.-The
large gathering of intelligent farm
ers here yesterday. and it a rainy
day, for the sole purpose Of hearing
from experts the doctrine Of the new
witness actual results Of their own
individual efforts last year in his
county to raise the standard of farm
ing by first raising more corn under
improved methods. with the acknowl-
EDGED corn in abundance present to
prove it, means a great deal more
than the casual observer or unim-
questionable news-gatnerer or pub
Usher would consider.
To the faithful and valuable expert
representatives of the State and Ma
tional Agricultural Departments it
conveyed the gratifying spectacle o
$50 white adult farmers. fifty at least
of their sons, from eleven
to seventeen ytarS Of g and eighty
hive coiOred agricultural students, in
one body, filling a county courthouse
in a large city and not ad. ourning
Tor dinner. so intent was the crowd to
get agricu4tuIa al knowledge and TO ex-
change experiences in the ~actualities
of farm operations Ct an improved
order.
along with these representative
armer was the result Of only one
years effort in improved corn farm
ing, a hundred specimens Of seed
corn being on exhibit. and fifty re-
ports of fine results from demonstra-
lon work i'll corn culture for last
year being available for every mans
perusal.
Anolner strange, but significant
fact, was that in this Interested and
interesting audience of stnlrdier dwell
ers on the farm and progressive Oper-
ators Of the soil of GuilfOrd cen
tiguouS to Greensboro and essential to
its genuine prosperity. there was not
seen a single Grs ensbOrO banker, mer-
chant, manufacturer, minister, lawyer,
mechanic or other representative Of
the so-called industrial, commercial
and religious progress and uplift OF
this great uplifting lip era. There
was not Ii single editor of the city
daily or weekly papers present there
to get q new view Of the coming real
healthful of North Carolina.
But the official educational force o.
the county was there, lending Nalua-
BILE pr4sen ce and actual aid and CO.
operation.
There was no organization of the
city in the shape of committees on
. a~ ofn
present or in existence or even
thought of.
Thousands and tens of thousands
of doilats have been expended by
such Greensboro organizations within
the past few years in a Whoie-souled
commendable effort to entertain
within her gates, but ii
| Aad not been thought of before yes
terday that it would be the rlgh~
thing, and a paying investment to
hayl prepared ahe.d of the occasion
rne token of the real appreciation
n Greensboro telt at the presence
these home brethren AID OF
nose from alar who had come 70
! breach the gospel Of better farming
and better living for the country folh.
These here yesterday dlon [
| need a three o'clock dinner. AFTER the
meeting was over, gauglng then ny
city stomachs, for they had perhaps
each one eaten ououSn
Of ham and eggs and sausage ana
cracking bread and the other sub
stantial etceteras, which most city
people owauay cannot afford TO last
a city man we'll on towards his seven
| o'clock supper, out all the same. a
spread in their honor would nave
meant much more than imply the
grub" or ~..provender" furnished. 1t
would have meart that Greensboro,s
business men and preachers and law
| yers and editors, had b!azed a new
path in North Carolina for other
towns to follow, by showing that they
| saw the light at last, to-wlt: that
on1v nv actual earnest heartfelt CO.