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


Aberdeen. Nov. S-Arsing along
side the Seaboard tracks as the trav-
eIer enters Aberdeen from the North
is a building which in it's shape and
style proclaims that it is to be a fac
tory To the thinking observer it is
miIe~post in the progress Of the
State and guideboard that tells the
direction that North Carolina has
started TO travel.
The factory is the new home Of a
concern that has been organized to
manufacture pea-hullers. fertilizer
distributors. and kindred farm i'm
plements. and while not very big
concern. it is significant one. 1t is
in line with others of its kind all over
the State.
typical institution of its sort is
the Cole Planter factory over at
Charlotte. Some years ago a young
chap un lin Moore county kept fOOliny
with machine to plant corn and
cotton. when he should have
paying attention to his work. accord
ing to the local wisenen. He fooled
with that thing until it planted corn
and cotton in crude way, then il
distributed Iertilizer, and it kept do
ing the things better until the conf
dent inventor went to Charlotte and
interested some other folks and his
planter has become a mighty vel!
known help on the farm.
Down in Robson county man
who was dissatisfied with the old
methods of distributing commercial
fertilizer with a tin horn, devised a
machine that a mule could haul and
now the name Of Blue on farm i'm
plement is common. The Jim Smltn
plow is seen all over HOke and io'
Of other cotton counties and al
though Smith has but little shop ne
has big idea, and that shop ano
that idea are simplifying the far"
work.
Salvation for the Farmer.
Now. I am not particularly figuring
out just now how North Carolina na'
set out to build up big agriculture
implement industry, although IT Il
evident that that thing is coming
sooner or later. Rather | have beel
struck with the salvation that IS II
sight for the farmer. and which is go
ing to make the Southern farmer tn
leading farmer Of the world, becauS
the Southern farmer has the best eli
mate in the world to farm in.
You notice that when | start to tel
anything I always have to go back I
the beginning and get my teet on IN
foundation Same way in this case
II has been preached SO long tina
some folks believe it that the fanke
is an Industrious. hustlinS fellow, an
the Southern man is inclined 10
lazy and Indifferent. That Is
wrong. The Yankee is the LATEST ma
on earth, and you know | know IN
whole tribe. You never see Massa
chuSetts man do anything that q
can get machinery to do for him. n
will work patiently and persistently
build a machine to do anything tina
he finds needs to be done He mus
have riding plow. a potato digger
wood saw. a churn that runs With
gasoline engine, machine TO mn
the cow, to write with. to hsure VIII
10 do everything with.
North's Greater Progress.
That is why the North made TASTE
progress than the South w heh CiH
War came it was not the negro u
abolitionist emanCipated. IL was u
white men and women OF the Sout
The Northern man was quicker TO s.
that slave la Dor was an incubus al
he lodged il long before the Sou,
awakened to that fact. The Nortl
ern man was lucky enough TO see IN
machine is q better slave tnah
man ever can be. and the Nortne
man invented machinery and SOLO =
slaves 10 the people south Oh y
Pennsylvania boundary
Then one day came John BToWi
foolish raid on the United states a
senal at Harper's Ferry with u
avowed purpose of stirring up n
gro insurrectiOn To put an enc
slavery and that started the ~
War. People thought the emo OF
signified the emancipation Of the n
gro. But il really marked the ema
cipation of the white men or I
South from the old notions that ma
labor is cheap and effective il it dc
nat have to be paid wages.
After the war too many eNcii