The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
Constructive Policies Applied
to the Farm BY Henry
A. Page
Continued from Page One.)

railroad methods to his big farm.
That IS pretty nearly the eXactness
of a chemical analysis. What he does
the whole State will see and proflt by
What he does Will be done, with an
accuracy that Will make it authorita-
tive.
Farm Out OF tho Woods.
Marlboro farm has come out Of the
| woods in the last three years. 1t
| comes out with the prediction hat
where the saw mill stood and thrived
on its one crop the grist mill
stand and thrive on a crop each year,
and a bigger CrOp than was ever taken
from the forest.
Henry Page is one of the men who
are engaged in working out the prob
lens of advanced farming in the
South. Unlike some Of the men who
come to the southern farm as strang-
erS Page is a mar familiar with all
the conditions that pre- raj about him..
He is a man trained in active and
successful work in the community
in which he is beginning to farm, and
he does not need to learn some OF the
things that the newcomers have to
learn.
On the other hand he is tackling
some Of those things that have not
yet been learned by anybody, and is
applying to the experiments he is
making the judgment and knowledge
gathered by a life Of active partici-
patton in big affairs Of his State and
neighborhood.
Marlboro farm is at the present
time purely an experiment. 1t has
reached some conclusions, but the
most Of it's work is yet ahead. and
to be developed by the practice Of the
years that are to come.
Around it are the big experiments
Of the Gates farm, the Pumpelly
farm, the ThriftS farm, the Derby
farm. the Boyd farm, all Of them
places Of hundreds Of acres and every
one packed by ample capital, all Of
: them working out various problems
they have laid out for themselves,
the aggregate representing several
millions of dollars available for the
prosecution of the work if it promises
to pay, and all Of them in the hands
of men who are enthusiastic in their
: ambitions to make their projects sue
y coed.
A Constructive Agriculturist.
e Perhaps l have not made my
O theme clear in this story. 1t is this
s Henry A. Page, a bright young mar
from the community, beginning will
O a modest place in the little saw mil
with his father, broadens his worl
O unit. it makes for him a place anon
a the producers and builders Of his
State. He turns from his railroad
r and lumber operations to apply tn
O same constructive policies to the farn
d which he establishes on a big scale
d and with his trained faculties he I'm
II dertakes to farm on the same basis
IS that he operated his factories am
n railroad.
The farm is not the hobby OF al
n old man. It is the practical bushes
% project Of a man yet in the bushes
N years OF life, a man OF energy an,
vigOr, and it is to be mad a bushes
m success If farming can be made
N business success on a big scale by
Ie big man on business lines.
ot / do not think Mr.. Page has an,
n doubt Of the success Of his farm nov
r although not many years ago he ha
to a decided doubt Of the ability Of hi
cut-Over land TO produce much Q
rs anything. He is still feeling his way
t; watching to see which course to puT
IS, sue, with ideas about farming whic
he insists on dovetailing with pos
tive results before he frames his the
~ cries as positive.
ce Not along ago a man talking wit
IN me about these big farming exper
m ments asked what would be the resu
q if they failed. l answered that the
could not fail. n he was curiou
enough to wan to II my line {
argument.
1t is simple enough. Where a ma
n. goes SO far as to invest a hundre
thousand dollars in a project yo
is may be sure he has counted all OF TT
C. risks. and that he is q man who ca
es turn adversely to advantage or /
re would not nave the hundred thol
&c sand to invest. Moreover. he has
make his venture a success becau:
es he cannot afford to pocket a loss
big. \ man can lose on q thing tn;
" does not involve much, but where tt
i. amount is considerable he will dig
his toes II hustle because he has
he That is why I am confident tn
these bis farm projects will win OF
ed 1t is a grounding case, and when V
hit pat a man where he has to pump
Ice drown history shows us that
pumps.
SIS. ! Eaye no fears Of the success
as the big farm ventures. With HE ii
ere merely the ultimate course they w
to take. With a climate that is ideal (
crop growth, plenty of rainfall and
wide range Of possibilities a man Ii