The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-19
North Carolina and Her Great Farm
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In view of the effort now being
made to bring former residents of
North Carolina black home with a
view to the greater development OF
this states the following
from the rem CT Col. Wade Harris, OF
the Charlotte Chronicle, on North
| Carolina and Her Farming Resour-
ces" is of peculiar interest:
During the past few years agricul-
ture has come to be recognized as a
science as we'll as an industry n
during the same period it has become
profitable to a degree that is rather
surprising to the person who thinks
of the farmer of the caricaturists as
typical. As a matter of fact, b most
successful farmers of today are men
who would be most successful in other
lines Of businessmen with brains
and industry. The more education the
farmer has the easier is his path and
the more certain his success, because
the science of farming is developing
and advancing very rapidly and it is
the man who keeps abreats of the
times that gets the most out of his
farm.
The high and increasing value of
farm products of all classes, together
with the increasing cost of living in
the cities is bound to result in an
exodus of city and town people to
the farms. In fact this movement has
been very ~perceptible during the past
two. or three years, and strange to say,
most of the men who leave the city
and go to the farm are successful.
They are willing to learn in the first
place, and having been used to work
ing all the time, they keep their eyes
open for something to do and keep
their farms in the best possible shape.
Most of them become specialists, grow
ing just a few crops and endeavoring
to get the very best results. Many of
the most successful fruit, berry and
truck growers are city bred men who
have learned their business thoroug-
ly and are making tremendous profits.
No state in the entire union can Of
fer such opportunities and advant-
ages to the man who would make his
living and fortune out of the soil as
can North Carolina. No state can Of
fer such variety of crops and soils. No
cal offer such a climate as the
people of this state enjoy. Almost
any staple crop OF fruit that a prof
itably be grown anywhere in the Unit
ed States a be proftably grown
somewhere in North Carolina. This
raises more cotton to- the acre
any other cotton state. With
one or two exceptions this state raises
corn to the acre than any other
state. Wheat and oats and rye and
ear be grown in many OF our
counties as pro1tably as in the great
wheat states. Glover, alfalfa and
other hay crops grow l~uxuriantly in
most sections of the state. No great
er opportunities can be offered to- the
trucker and berry and fruit grower
by Florida or any other section.
The state of North Carolina has an
era of unprecedented prosperity and
before her. The great truck
ing belt en- the east has come into it's
The middle section and the
Piedmont section are advancing very
in the intensive cultivation OF
and corn and other staple
The mountain section is just
becoming known for the unsurpassed
advantages for the apple grower ano
or the cattle raiser. The mountain
promises to develop very rap
dly. The Chronicle of last Saturday
a comprehensive story of the
very remarkable development during
he past two or three years of the
iandhill section of the state. No Sec
ion of North Carolina has a brighter
than this. About a million
of land cleared of it's timber I
md long considered absolutely worth
ess for farming purposes because Of
he sandy character of the sell, has {
,een found to re the equal Of any
arming land in the state for staple !
and unsurpassed for peaches, I
and grapes. All it required j
vas the right sort Of cultivation and
his has been found to be so simple {
hat on account of the excellent lay /
# the land and the lightness of the
it is the most easily cultivated
and in the country.