The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-25

but before. he had gone very far along
the road DR.. Hugh cabot, Boston
specialist, advised him against gath
ering so many sufferers from a dis
ease that was just then coming to be
recognized by the doctors as conta-
g1ous. and Mr.. Tufts then abandoned
the small farms for consumptives
plan, and set about to make a winter
resort.
as it's present magnitude testines.
Where Mr.. Tufts had intended to
make demonstration peach orchard
golf grounds were laid out. Just about
that time the San Jose scale. which
has made such inroads in fruit cul-
ture, reached this State, and tho peach
industry was seriously affected. Pine
hurst as fruit philanthropy passed
from the face Of the earth, the site Of
tho model orchard was sown to Ber-
mnda grass, and the crop OF caddies
that has been abundant on that part
| OF the place in the years that have
gone by. has probably brought more
money than peaches would.
James Tufts in 1902 died, leaving
| Pinehulst to his son, Leonard Tufts,
who has proven a worthy successor,
| for the young man has been moving
| along on an intelligent, although Of
ten doubling, pathway. arriving fire.
| Quently at a point he did not suspect
! when he started, yet willing to try an
other part as soon as the first was
charted.
One Of the first important depar-
lures was that which led to the breed
ing Of Berkshire pigs. 1t commenced,
| like everything else at Pinehurst, in
an attempt to do something which ap-
peared to have no relation to results
that followed.
To dispose Of the waste at the ac-
cumulating hotels and cottages Mr.,
Tufts gathered bunch Of razor ba OK
hogs. These cleaned up the garbage
in satisfactory manner, but the razor
back pig has no sympathy with the
lard can. He is Of the bacon type OF
pork producers that we read about in
} the farm papers, and he refused to get
enough fat on his ribs to be received
with any cordiality when offered tc
the eccentric man who buys the meat
in the Northern markets.
!, Cruel as it sounds, the Yankee mar
laughs at our native North Carolina
pork, when it is offered to him in ex
change for money in the butcher:
7 stall. He is willing to use the pine9
woods rooter for kodak purposes ant
to tell humorous stories about, and t
eat when he is down here, but he i
nor yet Scll-COuuUSAl cHOuSH " OU.
it when among his friends at home.
4 So Mr.. Tufts sent for some Berk
! shire hogs, and before he knew it hi
1 Berkshire hogs had become famous
He built up herd OF ONE 200 ami
e mails, and he goes around. or the hog
4 do, over North and South Carolina
a taking prizes at the agricultural fairs
e until if a Pinehurst hog is at fai
these days. the prize, like the coon
J. when Davy Crockett went hunting
t saws. Don't shoot [ am coming righ
: down to you"
n The Pinehurst peach proposition
: which started out as a philanthropy
n measure, found an early grave. Tn
t Pinehurst scheme to dispose OF tn
g waste from the village has 1eache
r one Of the most successful plans Q
e any scheme projected, for all over tn
: two Carolinas it has made the berk
| shire hog popular, and this acciden
+ has imDroved the stock OF the t"
= states to the amount Of more dollar
than can be told or probably imagined