The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-27

sally May! why, the idea of a little
girl going to sleep at the table,! JUS
when the ice res is being served
tool"
This from Mrs. Jonathan Case, ex-
ceIlent mother and good housewife
at whose bountifully spread table sat
a goodly company last Sunday. d
ice cream came last, but the memory
of the many courses preceding tnaI
cold delicacy makes your mouth water
even now.
TOO much farm talk, 1 reckon" re-
marked Hirman Pace, looking regret
fully at his empty dish-heaped full
al frozen cream but a few minutes
gone. 'Too much farm talk for a
little girl. Hey, Salley May, what DO
you say "
But Sally May, three years old and
so tired and sleepy, had wandered on
into that unknown land where dreams
come true, and safe in her
arms was lost to the world and the
tales of her elders. :,
AThe Awakening of the Ridge,
WAS the burden of their talk, later FOL
lowed by an actual inspection of the
miracles's workings. They told OF
how the Ridge ace absolutely the
Doorest section of Henderson oun
fy is now coming into its own. u
~forty-fve acres of prize corn planted
nv its enthusiastic men and boy 1ar-
mers. Of thirty orchards OF two thou-
sand trees. OF waving fields OF cane
and long stretches of meadow. VI a
fair-yes, actually a county fair, 70
he held there sometime during NO
yember, when the eye-open1ng results
of the Awakening of the Ridge Will
be on exhibition to al envious world.
Mr. Jonathan Case, whose comfort
able home at Dana-"The Ridge is
surrounded by two hundred and fifty
acres of woods and fields, is an &C
tive and aggressive advocate OF any
thing and everything which will q
the agricultural interest OF his
part of the county. A successful far
mer and keen business man himself
he is ever ready to aid in any ag1ta-
iton looking to that end.
His extensive young orchard mas
been more than once the scene OF
demonstrators in spraying, graft
ing and culture by experts from the
Agricultural Department of North
Carolina. A farmers institute will be
held there sometime during next
month. The great silo on his home
pIace shows that he understands n
practices modern methods of feeding
cattle and the big barns and stables
there are logical sequences of this
understanding.
To stand near his home M see the
i~mmeasurable fields of waving corn
stretching in every distance, a sea OF
tossing green bounded apparently
In the fo~ distance .hv serried ranks
of gleGre~~ mountains, makes you
think of the Wanted corr belt of the
West-which most certainly can not
have anything on the picture of pros
-perity here spread before yonr eyes.
Mr.. Case owns between two hun
dred and fifty and three hundred acres
Of land on the Ridge" He has an
orchard of two thousand fruit trees.
thirty, healthy-looking, all of them,
q short walk from his home. On the
summit Of the gentle slope where the
fve-year old trees are growing and
which will soon be furnishing Mr..
Case a neat income, is al ideal site
for a summer hotel-of which much
talk is heard. The view of the sur
rounding mountains. q giant ci-cle
of blue peaks with Pisgah pushing It's
crest into the very clouds, is not sur
passed anywhere in this county and
that wise man who here erects a
needed summer h~ostelery will find
his judgment annually approved by
hundreds of visitors from the low
country.
Only part of Mr.. Cases big farm
is under cultivation: Those parts
that are show what the Ridge is cap
ab1e of .agriculturally, when modern
methods and business judgment are
applied to the proposition. 1t is Mr..
Cases theory that small farms, prop
eriy cultivated, Is the great need of
Western North Carolina. With the
intention of testing this theory he
has decided to place a part of his
great farm On the market--to he sold
in small tracts or as a whole to some
company or individual desiring to
develop 1t along this line,
Mr.. George Stevens, the owner of
Kanuga Lake, is also an earnest advo-
cate of the small farm ~intensively til
led. and has some idea of importing
German gardeners here for that pur
pose. The great number of visitors
in Hendersonville and in the county
during a part of the year creates a
tremendous demand for garden truck
Of all kinds-a demand which yearly
IL getting more and more difficult
to supply.
The Awakening of The Ridge" is
due entirely to the example, the en-
4ergy, the investment of time and CAPT.
tai of such men there as Mr.. Jonathan
Case. What was once the poorest
part of Henderson county bids fair
now to become one of the richest. II
is a sight good for sore eyes-the ire
mendous fields of corn surrounding
the home place of Mr.. Case, or the
prize acres of corr of his neighbors-
some of it with stalks already so i'm
mense that to state their exact dimen-
ions might raise a shadow of doubt
I'm YOUR mind.
MI. Case and his neighbors are
enthusiastic over the -oeult being
obtained from the organization of corn
clubs On the Ridge. AS someone re-
marked, the forty five prize acres
a30w%nd ~nonc- 0ryo~ Rr1 49,.