The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-11
NORTH CAROLINA MULTIPI ,YINC,
FARM IMPLEMENT FACTORIES
One Of the Most Significant Signs of Material Advance
ment ofDState-Farmers NJ l.p1efor Homo
Made Implements. tQr1 o.,

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CONDITIONS were arising one after the
other TO permit the serious considera
lon OF important economic questions
lAe bitterness that followed the war
tne crapet bag reign, the reconstruct
tion' the political. the apprehensive
ana the misunderstood all took the
attention Of men from things that
which were really the only importan,
things.
You can't readjust the industrial.
political and social customs of several
millions of people without consuming
lot OF time and making innumera-
Die experiments and backing and fill
ing time after time. And that is what
1he whole South had to do, and what
The whole nation had to do to get new
conditions in the South adapted to the
new ways, and to get the nation ad-
Justed to the changed conditions in
the South
The people of North Carolina are
Identical with the people Of the
North. The Quakers of Guilford
OF Guilford county are the same stock
the Quakers of Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania. The Moravian Breth-
rem Of Forsyth would feel perfectly
at home with the Brethren of Cnaden-
| hutten, in Ohio. The same English
! stock. the same Scotch stock. the same
| blood flows in one section as in the
| other. The difference was that the
white man of the North learned soon
er that a machine will do as much
work as several men, and that it does
not cost AS much for upkeep rs a
slave.
! Well, after war settled the slave
question men bothered With argument
a long time, politics for years hold
try is the big thing in the long run
and gradually industry commenced tc
put politics on the side. and the big
men took up the actual practice OF
doing things instead Of the pOlitica
theories Of doing things.
AT that stage the leaders com
menced to recognize the wisdom o1
increasing effectiveness of productive
units, and that pointed to more ma
chinery and less dependence on hu
man beings. A man is the most ex
applied to production. A machine i
the cheapest.
That gets us back to the factor.
that is starting at Aberdeen to max
agricultural implements.
Limit Of Production.
We have practically reached tn
} limit Of production in this State
We are to depend on human labor.
The people of the South are con
stantiy guessing at tie price of cot
? ton Let me make a prediction, whic1
I is not better of course than any Othe
: prophets guess. except that ] wi
! give you some suggestions whereof
! YOU may guess some for yOurseI
Then you will conclude with me tina
it is not the planter who has t
bother about guessing the prices c
I cotton in the future so much as tn
:. fellow who wants the cotton goods.
!. About every twenty years in tn
;. fpast. the cotton crop has had
q double in order TO keep pace With tn
q wants Of the increasing populatio
= Of the country. and the muitiplyin
: needs for cotton fabrics. With IN
opening Of China and Japan 10
broadeE commerce. it is likely that tr
!, old world will continue 70 increase tf
- wants for cotton goods. 1t cannot
e many years until the world will nee
twenty million bales of American co
- ton No doubt some of Us are -iivir
y who will see the demand for fort
Il million bales.
. 1t is a problem today how 70 pr
= duce fifteen million bales. The lar
. will do it. but the limitation Of II
n labor to make and gather the crop
;s the difficulty in the way. Cotton ms
20 figure on thirteen or fourteen miilit
bales of cotton this year and insi
!. that such a crop means from thirtet
= to fourteen cents pound. A crop
% ten million bales in 1905. saw cote
. sell below seven cents in New =
IN leans. A crop Of ten million bales {
Ill day. only eight years later would
il looked on as cotton famine al
e. it would be cotton famine for ma
n industries that now depend on C
ne ltop.
Id The cotton crop Of 1905 exceed
pa Itbirt cen million bales. and in tile "
tier of 1909. cotton in Kew tsrsa'
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