The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30
BION BUFFERS SUNDAY LETTER
Largest Increase Ever In Values of Farm Property In
U. S-Doubled Within Decade
BUT N. c. VALUES SURPASS THAT
RECORD, BEING 141 PERCENT IN 10 YEARS
7Ocate Of modern and

ing. anu 11s1q,
]. G: Frazier. Of Guilford Collie,
is president OF the Farmers Union Of
Guilford county. He Is q farmer and
a man OF sense and Judgment. He
has been one Of the enthusiasts in
bringing a farm demonstration into
Ciuilford county. In talking of the
demonstrator Mr.. Frazier said:
I'VE need farm demonstrator in
the county business, not enough farm
ing is done right. Guilford county
IS farming section that should rank
nigh in the production Of farm CROPS
1t has good soil, mild climate and
market that can hardly be surpassed.
The growing cities uf Greensboro and
High Point will take every thing the
farmer can make, not only now, but
evidently for years to come. These
cities must depend for their farm
stuff on farms in other States when
they should be supplied by the farms
that are in sound of the mill whis-
| ties.
"In the first place only about half
Of the land in the county is in cul-
| tivated farms, and most of that is
not titled as it should be. Take the
farm of Judge Adams, where SO
bushels Of wheat has been raised to
the acre. The average yield of the
willy 40 oAOWA Wy TIC CELSIUS TO De
a little under nine bushels. Sorn
averages q trifle above fifteen bushels
to the acre."
Nothing Mysterious About 1t.
In the face Of an average yield of
nine bushels of wheat to the acre,
Mr.. Frazier raised crop Of five
hundred bushels that run "a bushels
to the acre. Naturally when man
increases the yield from nine bushels
to "a bushels a curiosity arises to
know the way tits done. But it Is
not difficult, nor mysterious.
Guilford county is not materially
different from other counties of North
I Carolina. Here is the same kindly
. climate, the same general rainfall
excellent markets, the same oppor.
{ tunities for the farmer and the same
Indifferent results that characterize
, SO much Of the State.
!, But here is q different ambition. The
appropriation Of hundreds of dollar.
{ to bring a trained young man from
Virginia agricultural training schOo
to help the farmers find out why th'
4 wheat crop makes nine bushels to tn,
a scYe when it should make twenty-four
4 rs on Mr.. Fl azier's farm, or thirty
! six on the farm Of Judge Adams, is tn,
: difference. The Guilford county peo
v pie have walked up to the needs o
e the case, and are about to learn wha
+ to do. 1t is no speculative task the,
e have set for themselves And Whe1
9 they have discovered the answer an,
a lapplied it they will have made star
: for all the rest Of the State as wei
n as for themselves.
h Already men like MIR. Frazier hav
: been hunting the cause Of the trouhl
: and applying the remedy. Mr.. Fra
e zier has learned that he must improv
). the condition Of his farm by raisin
i clover and keeping cattle.
! He has learned that Guilford
, one Of the best counties of the Unite
h States for grazing cattle, because l
IS the first place it has an abundanc
l. Of water which much Of the grea
= cattle grazing country Of the ives
d lacks. GuilfOrd has mild cllmat
so that cattle requires shelter but te'
days Of the year, another adVantas
,s over the west. GulfOrd is cOnver
,e lent to markets, which is another &C
a vantage over the west.
% Clover Growing.
+ Glover grows without effort on tn
j. friendly soils Of Guilford county an
If clover is the secret of the "a bushe
u. to the acre of wheat on the Frazlt
~ farm. In preparing for wheat IT
70 srounl l., plowed deep with teal
TO of big horses or mules. A subsoil plo
mr. follows the turning plow. Our soc
70 old friend, the Dixie plow, is retire
A. to the graveyard and held in sacre
al remembrance. A modern gener;
m yion of plows is in the field
es With the ground plowed deep u
next thing ls to get into the SOIL
M liberal mixture of decayng vegetatio
q which the farmers call humus. IN
10 nractice is followed on the FraZl
\ ia rn. Any thing that can be plow>
a. Continued on Page Twelve