The farmer and mechanic., 1913-04-01

From Texas TO the Pamlico sound tho
path Of the newcomer is extending
across the lines of latitude and all the
coast states have their colonies of
people from the North and West.
Eleven million acres added each
year TO the farm area Of the country
means about one-third the totai
acreage OF u state as big as North
Carolina. That is, if all the nv farms
needed each year were cut from this
Stale X would take but th-ee years to
appropriate the entire surface Of the
state.
The cheap lands Of t..e : ..tM lave
been discovered and the arrival Of
the settlers from the Noftl :aa west
has been under way Ions taodsii to
Indicate what is to bA the result IN
the next eight years. With the arrival
| or the stranger people comes a start
| ling advance in land values where the
new comers are settling. III this sec
tlon lands worth a dollar a few years
aga, are up TO te,4 and ,fWenty dollars
| 1.andE worth fiye are going 1T fifty and
! a hundred.
! The question is asked where can
j prices go to, and answered by a jttle
| figuring. The financial value of q thing
IS determined by its ability to pay
certain fixed charges and interest.
| Land that will pay its taxes and re-
| turn a rental OF ten dollars to the own
I, CT brings tive per cent on two hundred
dollars IN the cotton country the
| planters can figure their land worth
| two hundred dollars an acre because
| they can get a crop that pays them
satisfactory interest on such a figure
Now, we get back to the Aberdee q
| Farmers association. Here is d bunch
OF n1en-men OF foresight. means and
| wit hthe world and established them
selves as masters. They see the tre-
| mendous possibilities ahead Of the STATE
| in which they live or into which the.
have come. For both natives and new
comars are concerned in this farm as
sociation movement.
They rea ize the enormous power
Of associated effoft both III inyestiga
ton and III accomplishment. They see
the shortcomings Of crude methods o
agriculture. and appreciate the bvne
fiss OF modern theory and practice
1T is possible that their plans art
not worked out Yet to a dennite end
, Probably that is the case But they are
a lot of practical men who nave be"I
accustomed ali their lives to dissectins
business propositions and ana iyZins
) theories. At the meeting the othcl
night was probably the most repreaen
:
in Aberdeen. 1t included the owner
ship Of thousands of acres of farm
: land. men Of vast experience and o
, vast means. and of Intelligent 6eterni
nation. Men were there Wno are doin,
| I things With the most efficient aSricul
, tural implements known-the big disi
> ploWs dra wn by four horses at Pine
+ hurst, the traction engines that ar
pulling stumps on the Gates farm. tn
$ six bottom ploWs pulled by oil on tn
> half dozen places represented
/ Automobiles lined up in the street
to take these men back TO their farms
/ some Of them miles away. when IN
: meeting was over They held To tn
. cne idea al the meeting, which is tn
adyancement of agricultural knowl
s edge and practice.
n saw at that meeting two or thre
: things that the whole State of Mort
q Carolina should see for it seems tina
s this X a movement bigger than an
one section. The things that Wei
y apparent | will outline.
l. In the ti"~t place. here is a body