The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-09-28
SCIENTIFIC FARMING
IN HENDERSONV|L[E

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tended sides reminds you again that
Summer has faded out and Thanks
giving's on the way.
Yea turn and ascend the gentle
slope leading to the handsome home
of Mr.. Jordan which overlooks all
his fertile fields-a modern resi-
dence, with electric lights, and run
ming water, and bath rooms, and all
that sort CT thing. To the rear are
the barns and the stables those real
ly wonderful COW stables, where
cleanl liness and cement reign sup
RENE. Where all the manure is TAX
en- out daily, and where the cement
floors and cutters are flushed by
powerful streams of water every
twenty-four hours. Where the regis
tered beauties whose home it is are
curried and cleaned twice day and
where their carefully balanced ra-
tions are mixed in car that traN-
els around in front of the two long
lines of stable.
Oh, its truly wonderful barn-as
different from most COW stables as
this farm now is from what it was
two or three years ago.
The, building is thanked on either,
side by a great round silo. Over
six hundred bushels of that fine corn
from th6 bottoms is now being cut
by an electrically driven machine and
being blown into these two towers
for modeSn dairying demands green
feed-ensila ilage-for the dairy herd
during tHe entire year.
The dfiry itself is simply all you
would haturally expect dairy on
such Arm as this is to be. ItGis en-
tirely Of cement shelves, walls,
floors, and again that powerful stream
CT water plays daily and important
part in it's irreproachable and almost
painful cleanliness.
Not the least interesting sights on
the farm are the many thorough
bred Poland China hogs in their long
row of individual residences-and
Mr.. Jordan admits that he likes this
feature of farming above all Nothers.
He has one pure Poland China boar
which weighs four hundred and fifty
pounds. He is a perfect speciman-
back straight, legs short and remar-
kably thick. He is fed but four ears
of corn day, in order to keep down
his propensity to put on flesh. Mr..
Jordan says the big fellow is but sew
enteen months old and that he will
Wefgh MAI W. ton when he reacness
the, mature age of four years when.
soIAething is going to happen to him.
SHb-soiling and stable manure -
Nothing is sold off this farm but
fat cattle, prize hogs and dairy pro-
ducts. In the generous cribs there
rests still six hundred bushels of
last year corn. / nthe sheds is the
well-cared-for farm machinery. Down
yOnder are only COWS which are test
ed and known for the percent Of but
ter fat in their milk. The horses ON
the place are horses-not shadows,
but great, big, cheerful, wetl-fed
powerful fellows-horses capable of
taking sub-soil plow as deep as de-
sired, almost.
Everything on the place breaches
the modern gospel of eficiency-of
results-getting.
For Mr.. Jordan is a business man
no less than a farmer. AS wealth is.
counted even in this modest commun-
ity he is not rich. He has never had
unlimited capita available to develop
the latent resources of his sixty
acres of Henderson county soil. Start
ing with definite purpose in his
mind, and he has accomplished along
strictly business lines.
And that purpose was simply this !,
To demonstrate tc the farmers of
Henderson county, and to the world,
that as fine crops could be grown
here as anywhere in the United States
His model farm, once a waste and
barren piece of land, has demonstrat-
ed that fact beyond argument and
to that extent Mr.. Henry Jordan is a
benefactor to all of Western North
Carolinaa.