The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-30
VOL. AZ. NO. 81.

s'alty. and the Blue infiuS ncs has ex-
tended 10 the four corners OF the state.
The progressive man starts things tnat
reach far beyond his latitude Take
q back A,lrd glance at / = Whitney AMI
n tgttOn gin that he devised TO help
the folks he lived with when he taught
school down in Georgia. When Whit
ney built his hrs, gin re Was putting
MT a machine for every human crca-
ture that makes use Of cotton IL an
form. and Tor generations more r.
mote than ne ever dreamed Of
The man who talks with VIII Blue
sor an hour SO or who goes out
the road with John Blue will come L.
the conclusion that the cotton ques-
ton Is pretty sure 10 settle itself in
North Carolina This coming OF the
Norfolk commission man To induce
| the farmers TO raise potatoes is back
| ed by the need OF potatoes in the
| North. Next year more potatoes Viii
| be needed, and more lettuce. and more
| produce Of every sort. More water
: melon trains Will go out from North
| Carolina. More of everything Will have
| to be provided 10y the farmers AS the
/ North has more people TO feed. and
| learns where the supplies can be pro-
/ duCed.
Other sections will become the
sources Of supply for such things just
| as the Aberdeen and Kockfish coun-
try is becoming a source OF supply.
and proportion Of the farm income
Will be derived from the food for the
Northern customer as we'll q . from the
clothing.
How the Field Gr4 J.
1t is not as though a ~--ted field
remained for the things the Aberdeen
and Rockfsh farmers are planting.
The field gets bigger faster than tho
farm products multiply. and the trou
: bic Will Blue finds is not in discov-
, | 4 y, y y u .
7 ably on his road but 10 find people
} to raise the things.
1t is the same old cry that is heard
. all over the United States of a want
of more people. You can look from
: the car windows of this road and see
land enough to raise two million bush
: | els of potatoes a year ard follow OF.
II the same ground half million bush
u els Of corn year, and not thing is
II growing on it now but black jacks,
{ and similar Vegetation. Nobody 10 de-
: velOp and work the land. Is the trou
IL BILE. Nobody to make freight for the
# railroad is the point that the Blues
are concerned in. They see where
n ten thousand cars a year could be
is loaded from the idle acres that are
l. within reach Of their road, where
re nothing is done now. They are as
y tute enough to realize that one OF tho
le greatest triumphs of railroading is To
create business, and that TO create
le farm development is the most depend
I'd able increase OF business that can be
~ imagined.
S So Will Blue keeps his eye out for
at things that Will put his territory on a
broader productive basis, and his rail
road system is an immi grafton agent
ne an experimental farm. trainine
r school, a promoter of industry OF any
ie character, because all those things
ce mean traffic for the road.
lie Public Welfare Blues Motive.
Id 1t would not be fair 10 leave III.
IN impression that the Blues are alert
is to anything that stands for the desel
I'd opment Of their section simply be
le cause Of personal profit. on the con
or trary they are actuated by that Other
SIS motive Of public welfare Not man,
he men in high places in their comrlU
re nifty have more interest in tho genera
Ii public good than these men Of ~
n Aberdeen and Rocllflsh railroad.
ty Will Blue is one of the younge
st men, but John Blue has been ~
active man in the development ~ HI
he section since the days II reconstruc
I'd. ton, and ii may be said that he ha!
n done his share Of reconstruction of til.
Ity most enduring character.
III Another thing III this section tha
q. promises to compel King Cotton =
himself in his claim TO his throne :
b. the gradual tendency OF the farmer
tie to take up side lines for themselves
ial The canning of fruits and vegetable
by is an industry that represents many
ID dollar. Fruits. vegetables, jellie-. an'
tie things OF that sort. are put up in lars
BE- quantities. and at most of the loca
stores Of all the towns IN his vicinit
ise are seen on the shelves stacks O
nd canned goods bearing the labels b
~ local farmers who have taken up n
for canning of fruits and vegetables on
he | considerable scale Best or all the
it'll are making A product that y aOie :
ng hold its own with anything that come
"a this way from other States.
he All sorts Of canning outfits from
m tub to an elaborate SCENE with -
ity and cranes for handling cans IN Qual
titles are found. and the example !
one man seems 10 start others AT III
ore work.
.de Il Is not surprising that Mort
,ng Carol!Ias : agricultural prod ia.
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