The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-25
VOL. 42. NO. ..

mahd. ana with no population IL be-
gin with North Carolina can easily
accomplish with those same chances
and with TWO million people To apply
their energy, money and experience.
North Carolina could not start to
farm on the same scale that farm
ing started IN Illinois. for North Car
ollna had To make a place - farm
The pine forests yielded turpenttn-
ana roSln. II was thought 10 be es-
! Sentlal TO the prosperity Of the State
that the pine trees should be worked
carefully To save them as Ions A. pos
slbie. When they passed beyond the
turpentlne producing period the lum-
herman took them in hand The en-
| ergy and labor of the people WAS III
verted TO the production of naval
stores and lumber instead OF To pre-
pairing for the permanent industry
| of agriculture. SO Illinois was build
| ing up farms and villages and towra
and cities while North Carolina wiAs
| tearing down and getting the surface
clear for the later step of building up.
In the West the whole process was
| a creative one. In this State the de-
structive step had TO be taken first.
and the destructive step was mad.
profitable in way and 10 such an eA-
tent that people looked upon il an
an incident.
Rapid Growth OF West Explained.
That big clearing which extended
) over whole States of the West - the
: one thing that really made the West
! the boom section OF the United
States Had the great West been GOV
cred with gigantic forests like The
East the West would have come along
much more slowly. II the conditions
. had been reversed and the timber OF
: the country had been put in the in
:. terror Of the Mississippi valley and
the prairies on the Atlantic slope this
q country would have been a wholly
: different one by this time. The tim
Der that has been rolled up and burn
| ed to get the land cleared for farm
q ing could have been saved. for being
teenth and Tennessee has gone from
8 fifth to seventeenth.
q You see the West has stopped hat
3 rapid advance.
Density Of Population.
h North Carolina has over forty five
e inha bitants to the square mile. Mis-
n souri, is the only States west Of the
0 Mississippi river that is SO densely
populated South Carolina is the only
State further South than North Caro-
: lima that has SO many people TO the
y
- olina is not distanCed very far by
= many of them.
AT the last census Iowa Missouri
> Indiana. Kentucky and Tennessee
were shown to have increased les
e than ten per cent in population in the
IS ten years, Iowa actually losing. North
Carolina had increased over sixteen
per cent Ohio. illinois. Michigan
d Minnesota and Oklahoma are the
r only Western States, except two on
st the Pacific coast, that added NOR
l. people in the ten years than North
s. Carolina did
IS You see that the big movement
,r westward has about reached It's mn
+ ish and that the increase of popula
,e ton in the future must begin :,
,e spread out over the country that real
ly has the room and the opportdnitl
,r for comfortably caring for a big aum
a Der.
ID People Need to Know Facts
le North Carolina has all that : ="
n quired except a better acquaintance y
l. people with the facts That has com
Ia menced. and eyes are now turned m
G. way. The preliminary work has oeci
ns done. The forests are cleared. IL
railroads are built the water pow
as ers are turning machinery. and =
Id gantfr momentum is sweeping over n
" state carrying with it everything.
az What has been done in tho .NeS
y was done with less Of real justiIica
, ton than is offered now in rhis Stat.
or which shows what is to b. done u
North Carolina from now on
If North Carolina had nothing els
but its liberal rainfall and its mii
=, climate il could be confident Of %
coming an empire. But IL has man
u other things only little. less import
III ant and not another Stat" n n
III Union is blessed with so many a ~ an
:aces. In this country Of d nultItuJ
n, of blessings thcre has been sue
rd | abundance that all could mol >
Craspcd. Hut as population has u
, ..Teased all good things are becoEtsu
d. yalua Ole. and as that becomes 14pr
d the case every day the rapid pro5r-7
On of North Carolina becomes more 4
v immediate certainty The swift ,,ae
IL l.ol !. =. .