The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-08

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man the mastery Of the steel trade Of |
the World
When some of the educational So
cieties Of the United States undertoo,s
70 study the ruins Of antiquity in the
lnterlo OF Asia, Prof. Pumpelly was
selected as the man best equipped to
head the expedition. and he set ont
with the enthusiastic support OF all
governments Interested, and the back
ing of the Russian army as we'll.
which marked out his sympathy
down into the wilds Of lands that
even the geographer hardly knew the
name OF = With Raphael Pumpelly
on this expedition went his son, Ra-
phael w. Pumpelly, and the young
man helped along with the work un-
til what had been contemplated was
flnlshed. Then he undertook a little
exploration on his c:vn account. and
with few attendants he made a
horseback tour into Thibet and the
heart or that great mountain interior
or Central Asia which holds more of
the secrets of the human race Of an
tlQulty than any place on the globe.
The Pumpellys, fatlser and son, were
able to push back the records Of
| mankind. Their explorations un-
earthed information antedating any
thing that had previously been avail
able, and the works written by both
Of them are Of the highest interest.
Raphael w. Pumpelly the son, saw
other lands than Asia and his own
country before he tied his feet to
North Carolina, and then one day in
New York he met Ralph Page, who
had a notion in his head that out of
doors in the pine belt was better
than shut up in q house in New York
and the two Of them packed up their
Sunday clothes and set out for the
con do of
bought several thousand acres Of
Sand Hill lands, and presently Pum-
pelly began to make a farm, while
Page interested himself in other mat
tiers.
When 1 say that Pumpelly started
to make himself a farm. / do not
one-stOry, twO-room cabin. He bought
traction engines and modern machin-
cry and started to cut something like
a thousand acres out Of the black
jacks. He built "a castle in the heart
of the territory, two..story building,
cement walls tile roof. tile floors a
hall as big as many houses, cellars,
bath rooms, tile porches. a pictur-
esQue structure that is a home in ap-
; pearance as well as in fact.
Over the place were built tenement
houses, shops. barns, an office, store.
station building. permanent cement
construction being the five dominant
, notes. The barn in which the cattle
are housed is one of the model build
. ings of the place, being of cement
,, from the side walls to the floors OF
: the stables.
} Mr.. Pumpelly brought with him te
North Carolina the intention Of doing
things on the best possible basis The
3 dairy is an illustration. He bough,
3 no ho
. started to make the best milk an6
. cream he could offer the market
;. Last winter he supplied the big High
4 land Pines Inn. at Southern Pines
s with milk and cream. This summer
8 he is furnishing cream to a number
0 Of the particular ice cream maker
Of the State.
Between twenty and thirty cow
: are MIXED at the Samarcand dairy
G AS soon as the milk is drawn it i
e taken to the separator room wher,
: if cream is wanted the milk is sep
V arated. After the cream Is takel
from the milk the cream is passet
" through a cooler that lowers the tenn
/, perature to point where it will
d keep for many hours and it is pu
: into cans for shipment by rail t
Y whatever customer it is consigned.
e Milk is treated the same way OEl
e it is not separated. The train come
" to Samarcand soon after milking
It time, and carries the dairy product
n out over the State.
y Good roads lead in all direction
j. from Samarcand, many miles bein
is on the Pumpe1ly farm. This enable
lie the owner Of the establishment to ge
around in his car over much Of hi
is operation and to cover his territOr
,e quickly. Flowing is done with traC
ID ton engine. or with two OF three c
r them. All work that can be done b
lie machinery is done by machinery, an
ne this big farm Of several hundred acre
rv in cultivation depends on a minimum
le of labor. Cotton, corn and the othe
he icrops staple in the neiShborhood al
re grown, constant experiment Soln
20 on all the time in trying out ne