The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30
BON Butt ER'S
SUNDAY LETTER

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SUNDAY LETTER.
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down IS welcomed. Put lover is en-
couraged systematically. and after a
clover sod wheat is planted. With
a little fertilizer. say a hundred and
fifty pounds to the acre, just 80 an
evidence Of good faith. or perhaps.
none at all. the wheat is sowed, and
the condition Of the ground does the
rest.
Guilford has already got on the
right road. The scrub cattle have
Joined he ~retreating Dixie pillow. All
over the county Z noted good herds
Of Jerseys, Guernseys and the Dee1
types, clean and prosperous looking.
but above all things prophetic OF what
Is coming. It looks q though Gull
ford has reached the parting OF the
ways, and the new day had begun.
The improvement in hogs has also
made marked strides. The razor-back
has moved farther south, and in his
place have come the aristocrats Of h
| lard tub. Abou one farmer In every
five has at least n good brood SOW,
q lot Of them registered, 80 that Gull
ford is rapidly coming to a reput-
able place among the pork producing
farms Of the country.
wanted: More Wool and Mutton.
With the urgent demand for wool
and mutton Guilford could lend a
hand in suppling both in large guam
titles, but North Carolina continues
to rate the dog above the sheep and
the effort to raise both Of them in
one neighborhood has proved too
costly for the GuilfOrd county farmer,
so he has concluded to let the dog
have the right Of way, and the sheep
have been pretty nearly disposed Of.
It is q pity, for the county is SO
nicely adapted for sheep growing that
1.-THE mistaken preference for dogs is
, almost q calamity.
Something Out OF the Ordinary.
A farm demonstration is not a new
thing in North Carolina. Already that
line Of work has been taken up in
many of the counties. But a farm
demonstration, backed up by a farm
!, association. by a chamber Of com
merce, by live farmers of the type OF
= Mr.. Frazier, by the grain growers
= United States IS out Of the ordinary
: It is this strong combination of en-
, couragement and enthusiasm tina,
makes the coming Of Mr.. Styles t
Guilford an event of unusual import
ance to h county and to the who'll
8 State.
1t indicates that the whole activ,
I population Of Guilford county ha.
r recognized the importance Of tn
farm and set out to put the farm il
the place where b absolute necessit
. OF the human race compelS 1t soon t
i! stand.
= Tho big factory and commercia
Il growth OF Guilford county I hav
shown in a previous letter. A fac
e tory Is q great institution. but it place
n upon the farm a task that the factor
Is cannot AIRY, and that is Of providin
te subsistence. For before day Of Tubal
k Cain, that old artif1cer in brass an
h iron, came Cain, who titled the groun
ia and Abel. who raised cattle.
20 Factories Draw Labor From Farm
"a And here we come once more to GU
mutton. The multiplication OF ia,
tories has drawn upon the farm fo
y hands. Guilford from q farm count
u has been transformed into factor
IT county. From a population that j
re the early days fed itself has arisen
IS population that depends on others
ne feed it. This would not be SO ba
were it not that the same trouble 2
We spreading all over the country. I
the last twenty years the populate
of the United States has increase
over twenty per cent with each te
years. The improved farm lands ha1
rs increased fifteen per cent in aac
- ten years, which means that ponuE
ton is Outrunning the farm. In n
0liddle Atlantic States no more lar
is cultivated now than forty years az
although the population in thar GO
!" ton is one and a half times great
In New England the cultivated Ia1
is forty per cent less than forty yea.
n ago and the population has donhled
In the middle west in the same Tin
the improved farms have increas :.
one,sixth and the population has do
nj ton point right nov nd - Sedrv
IS west saved the country. for 80 !,
nj South has been increasing its ~.
lation in forty years much asterp ~
Dr. it's farms. Tx
~ Yet here in Guilford is an idea, +.
10 With power to make Gro