The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-21

OH new ground with about two
uonoIeo pounds OF acid phosphate, or
II heeo be, With nothing at all, will
Dr1ng nfteen to twenty-five bushels to
the acre. and seed rye from native
Seeo brings a dollar and q half ,
oushei. giving an extremely profitable
crop, and preparing the way for cot
ton. corn or tobacco the season fol-
owing; or Tor rimson clover, vetch. or |
any other cover crop. or for corn the |
same season the rye is emoyed
ihese things have finally been learn
eo concerning the sandy lands, and
ms explains why a hundred new fam
iiles are expected to locate in Hoke
county between now and blowing time
ior the text crop.
Seeking Sandy Soil.
a hundred new families in one
county IN three or four months, es-
peclaify IN a county as small as Hoke. |
and on land that has been condemned
LOT a century is something more than
ordinary. Hoke county is typical Of
a lot or other territory of North Caro-
lima, and while Hoke county has
reached a point where its wild land
is becoming rapidly attractive TO out
saoe farmers. the same development
Will IN the course OF time characterize
a lot more Of the southeast section Of
the state, depending largely on how
swift the other sections are in bring
ing to the front their communities.
For 1t must not be forgotten that the
community that shows what can be
done through doing it, is the commu-
nifty that is seen ,of the world and
visited by new people.
The Hoke county folks are not vet
wholly out of the woods as far as
farming goes. Their successes have
been so pronounced that they know
HOke IS to become a great farming
county, yet what it is going to raise
besides cotton they are not predicting.
1t is a great corn county. and the small
grains have proved themselves in this
sand. Melons and cantalOupes are
showing themselves to be the same
new ground crop that cow peas are.
because the melons take a rcop Of COW
peas among the melon rows and that
makes hay and develops the soil as
Well as furnishing a profit from the
fruit. So melons and c~antaloupes are
beginning to go out in the season by
several hundred car loads from this
, sandy belt i'll Hoke and adjoining
. counties, bringing in money to sup
plement the money Of the cottor
crop.
Now m the tobacco people TIL,
> tobacco men have been here in spie
and battalions. and they are locating
half a dozen or more every week
. The influx Of tobacco men is interest
: ing. Not only do those come VIII
want to make tobacco farms, bu
:. warehouse men, inspectors, buyers
: manufacturers agents, and men j
. almost every way connected with tn
= tobacco trade are dropping into Rae
n ford from day to day until 20
would think to sit in h hotel an
listen to the talk, that this is one c
" the big tobacco sections OF the Unite
2 States. All agree that these sand
It lands are the ideal spot for tobacco
t. for that delicate colored, fiue-cure
e bright leaf. hat mid favored, dainty
" texture sought by the makers Of mil
D. smoking North Carolina Tobacco
l. everywhere.
remember yet when the Pike
D. Peak gold hunters were setting out j
quest Of the gold of Colorado. an
"a when they were passing farther Q
Of across the mountains on the long ira
N for California Wagon trains fouowe
re each other on that tedious journe
n Then one day the worthless lookiI
brown dirt on the was dl
e. covered to be silver carbonate ar
he around Leadville sprung up the gre;
Of carbonate camps. destined to becon
he the scene OF one OF the most remarl
able mineral developments on earth
r. unsupported Riches.
w And SO wagon train after Wag<
no train has passed up and down Il
n roads for a century or more. runnil
w. over the worthless sands OF the T
re gions from here to the coast. unsu
pecting the treasures in store. al
&c. even now, when the discovery is mao
nobody knows how to rate 1t at
er- proper value.
The government in its friendly
tor titrde toward the farmer and in
oil fendeayor to broaden the ~agricultur
er, possibilities for the benefit of t
nm whole country. has classified the va
Dr. ious kinds Of soils on which crops a
to raised.
he A large portion Of the soil of I
m sandy lands is called the Norfolk
ro- the Portsmouth, II these inclu
lay VARYING grades, running from {
1t Norfolk coarse sand OF the sandf
Is type to the Norfolk and Portsmou
mo sand loans sand being the predon