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

heIp1ui To the farmer. mat line -
advertiser and the statesmen profcle.t
instructors Of farming. and they never
lose a chance to extend knowledga
h possess. With all due regard "a,
the men who write things for the farm
papers. there is not. a more helpful
member of the farm paper staff chan
the man who writes the advertise
ments that sell the implements.
The merchants who handle the ma.
chimes in the stores, also become edI-
Gators in this big new farm uniye~-
sity eXtension>work. 1t is no longer
a simple matter of the farmer going
to the store to buy a few hoes and a
Dixie plow.\ When he reaches tia
store he comes with q pretty well in
formed head. and he meets a mer-
chant who talks to him on the subject
of deep blowing. disk narrowing. fel
tilizer constituents, soil Improvements
and the means of doing all thes"
things.
Supplement School House.
I ook on the building agricultural
implement factories and the imple-
ment dealers of the State, as a highly
important supplementary addition 10
the red schoo house We nave heard
so much about. and in some ways the
supplementary educational institution
is outclassing the fundamental one.
While the school house is instructive
the child in the cultural virtues ot
Greek mythology, the implement fac
tory is in%structing all the male mem
bers of the family in the practical
chemistry. Of the soil and plant
growth, the physics of crop produc-
ton. the mental stimulus Of agricul-
tural development and the useful
things that attend production.
Possibly it is too broad a claim -
say that agricultural machinery is the
principal agent in making the United
States the most progressive conn.ry
on earth. buff it is not agricultural
machinery, it is probably agricultural
machinery and the railroads.. for I do
not consider the greater freedom IN
this country. That is Il natural con
dition, and the restrictions in the old
world are unnatural. Extended fact
llities for crop production lie al III.
bottom Of all our success in the United,
States.
So I loo at the multiplying imple-
ment factories, small though they are
at the present time, as one of the sig
~nificant signs of North Cardinals ad-
vancement. 1t would not surprise me
to see the factory at Aberdeen some
day employing a thousand hands, for
l ave seen other factories started in
the same way, spread out all over the
town where they started. and spread
big enough to make the town q city
and the factory a worldwide supply
house instead of a little wayside local
institution.
Whether it happens this way at
Aberdeen or not, it will happen at
some of the little factories tina are
starting up in North Carolina, and il
will happen because the machines
!. must be built to enable the farmer
. to supply the demands that are mad.
= on him for a constantly increasing
: quantity of everything.
: One man put in a shop with an Gu
{ CINE and a few tools, can make ma
chimes that will do more work in the
fields than half a dozen men. So the
Farming OF the future will be done by
one man in a shop. one man in a field
and with the man in the field the
. machine the man in the shOp has
E made, and between them they will in
;, crease the yield of the farms to keel
pace with the requirements OF the
q people.
A big prize is yet awaiting som.
snop-man, and that is the cCttuf
r picker. That will be as big a triumph
as the cotton gin, but it has not beer
worked out yet. I would like to hay.
the money it will mean for the coun
!, try when it comes, and it must com.
some day.