The farmer and mechanic., 1913-03-11
VOL. Al. No. 10.

pounds of fertilizer aided the crop 81
cotton that WAS planted in the patches
in small way Then a bold chap
put out more fertilizer He made a
hit, and he grew bolder. He had tn.
nerve 10 clear some more ground.
Then the neighbors waded in
It's an old story for a community
that has been trying The thing cut
for about twenty years. They have
just about arrived At the point where
they believe that cotton can be made
in pretty near any quantity now III
Hoke, and Cumberland and Moore
and upper Robeson. which has been
cut off To make Hoke.. And the point
is that thousands of bales OF cotton
are coming from the farm each year.
that the country is reused up. several
million dollars is coming in that did
= grow on cotton stalks before:
rxs ZONES, new school houses. new
"tD, new farms, new everything.
lnc.~ e1b, new knowledge of the
world !. 's . comfort it holds for
those who Ill get close enough to
the throes Of nature to command
the
| can't measure the progress these
people have made in the last twenty
years. L might say fifty per cent or
five hundred or any thing in figures,
Il
terially there has been a wonderful
awakening, which has only set the
pace. For bigger in importance is
the consciousness that has come to
this section of its gigantic possihili-
tiles, and the limtless capacities OF
its people.
The men here are Of the world
and it's work and responsibilities.
sat talking with A. T. McCallum in
Office in nd
cident called up one day when he and
Senator Mclaughlin were N the Swiss
| Tyrell. At RaefOrd | went out with
| L. 3. CDchurch to look oVer some
water-pOwer and mill development
projects in which he an 4 number or
his neighbors are associated. Nh'
| Blue tells me OF several hundred acres
thaf he is farming over in ritt co!.n
t., niai :ng tobacco. s; Mon, 4, The
| hardy Ar. store is hl:ncsoS in I'M
proved farm Implements in cor loads
These fellows are dong 'l:T,9s
They alc seeing thin,s. Thcy als
| Of H.. progressive HniVelsA. rh,H
are tuil'ing mills and dams AMI fac
tories at home. and are concerned ]:
affairs away from homo.
One day this section Of North C,r
ol:na Was set down as in the hopelcs,
belt. Now it is pro tu..ive. TN,
automobile shop is on the front street
and the blacksmith shop has moved
from under the spreading chestnu
, tree to let the tixer of gasoline bug
gies set new tires instead Of new hors'
shoes.
No. not yet. They are not who'll,
! awake here, nor anywhere else. Civil
, alton is just breaking into life
When the human race is fully awak
a grain Of radium will be prepellin
the plows. Gravity will be neutra
lied so we can step from HOke coun
ty to Raleigh. or project the materia
body around the world or leave it a
home while the spiritual body goe
visiting. All that sort of thing Wi
4 happen which is now regarded i'm
r possible but none of us is awak
enough to pI edict what these thing
I will be.
!, The great awakening of the Orien
: is one of the significant events of tn
:. opening century. Yet it seems signili
| cant to me only because of the encr
+ nous mass it involves. for the aWaN
ening that is really pOrtentous is tina
. awakening of these people who ar
so far ahead of the pOpulOuS cas-
= and who are awakening TO astonish
9 ing new truths in agriculture, in tn
a knowledge of their resources. of na'
ural forces, and, better than all els
Of human power and ca pabilities
4 The cost Of feedinp the ayeran