The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-11

stayed below ten cents. Thirteen mil
lion bales would be almost a cotton
famine.
The crop of 1911. reaching nearly
sixteen million bales. was unable to
bring cotton down to nine cents in
New Orleans. 1t is clear that the
world has come to a place where a
sixteen million bale crop is not big
enough to leave a surplus, and that
presently it will not be big enough to
supply demands. The present price
of cotton is the signal. People would
make more cotton at hat figure il
is good money, take it one year with
another. no matter what anybody m
say to the contrary.
Question of Machinery.
1t is no longer a question Of the
demand for farm products. 1t is no
longer a question Of the ability Of the
land to produce crops. 1t is solely
a question of the machinery Of produce
ton.
And here is coming another singu-
lar feature. The factory al Aberdeen
is making a specially Of a pea huller.
That machine will aid in the prOduc-
ton Of a pea crop. In making it
easier to raise peas the pea crop will
increase. The Cole planter has made
it easier to raise all crops, and that
tends to a Investigation covering all
CROPS.
These implement factories that are
springing up all over North Carolina
are making the North Carolina farm
more effective in raising all manner
of crops, and bringing the North Caro-
lima farmer to a plape where he can
make his stuff with less dependence
on labor and meet the competition Of
the North and West on a common
basis.
1t is true that the North Carolina
imp ement factories are not very big
yet, but they kno what they are do
ing. remember when the old Cham
pion moving machine works were
constituted of several small shops at
Springfield, O.. where machines were
turned out as fast as they could be
with limited facilities. Then l re-
Pcall, also, the day the big East stree,
, shops were opened and thousands OF
[ hands put to work to meet the de-
mands for the labor saving device.
can ~recoltect the John Deere pillow
L works at Moline, ILL.,, when it made
2 very little fuss. Now it spreads al
> over lis w town and has distribut.
!, ing in every big city il
l the country. l nave noticed the anaaz
: ing growth Of a lot of these nipple
u ment factories. and I see no reason
\ why the North Carolina ilmplemen
factory shall not grow to gigantic pro
y portions.
Southern Farmers Requirements.
On the c%ontrary, it seem to me i'm
perative thai they shall grow in jus
such a way. These North Carolin;
factories are studying the needs O
d the Southern farmer right here O
. the ground These factories ar
: training a force of men who will in
vestigate the requirements Of South
ern agriculture and meet those re
r quirements. Take the Cole planter. a
an illustration. There are a lot OF goo
corn planters. But the twO-ro,
: Planters made for the broad plains G
the West do not meet the needs G
the different country of the Sou,t
So the Southern factory will build
- lplanter to meet Southern wants.. an
that factory will, grow to build for
trade that will grow.
The Southern farm has GiscOyere
- that it must have machinery of var
Gus kinds. Il IS too far from tn
Northern factory. and il wants imDlf
ments adapted TO its particular need
Those wants Will be met by Souther
manufacturers just as certainly as th
wants of the Western farmer we,
met BY Western factories.
l. would rather go today TO ii,
Smith il Hoke county, for a pillow
work on my Moore county farm, tina
10 buy one from any place III tt
North or West. because Smith bull.
a pillow, goes out il the field behlr
= his shop, tries il out to see if it f
North Carolina conditions, and
right there all summer to learn VIII;
is the trouble If it does no meet II
calls mad on it for satisfactory wor
2 Now I anu jlst like every other fe
low who has land to till. We all wa,
eel something that IS made for car conc
tons, and Smith work. from rGactic
not from theory.
~, The farmers Of North Carolina nee
farm help. 1t has not Yet soaked in
the the hcauS OF all q Us that farm he
consists in human help ana machi,
help. Human help is too scarce az
too expensive where machine help e.
inc he used Machine helm Is In he had