The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
CONSTRUCTIVE POLICIES APPLIED
ITO THE FARM BY HENRY A. PAGE
With Trained Faculties Moore County Man Undertakes
Agriculture On Same Basis That He Operated His
Factories and Railroad

with a. machine and sack up with 2
machine ready TO be sold and eaterI
AS the machine stops there SO Mr.
Pages interest stops there.
tie started the Marlboro farm on a
big scale to make over fifty bushels
of corn to the acre. That yield had
been looked upon as heretiCal IN the
SAND hills but Page made it a fact.
and although others have made big
ger records on small lots of ground
not many have exceeded this yield Of
five thousand bushels or more or a
hundred acres. 1t IS not what an oc-
casional acre produces that Indicates
the crop. 1t is what the whole farm
can be coaxed TO put in the crib
Marketing Corn.
Mr. Page showed his farm that it
could bring him fifty bushels of corn
| from each acre, and then he set
| about to provide some scheme to mar
ket that corr when the farm had
| done it, part. Two or three sugges-
tions presented themselves. Which
will be the final one is little far in
| the future TO decide yet, but two Of
| them are good enough for other Deo-
pie to try if they want to. One of
| these is cattle feeding. The other is
| the manufacture OF meal on the farm.
| Not just the ordinary water ground
rough meal that is put out and recon-
mended as a little better than any
| thing else on earth because it is
| ground in a crude way at q water
mill but real machine made meal
made under intelligent management
! by some one who knows good quail
ty of meal when he sees it. II the
Page farm makes corn meal corn
meal making will be a business. and
the quality Of the product will be OF
the character that one Of the family
| fol NJ
king Of England, to send up to Buck
ingham palace on the day when cakes
are to be made, or another one of the
connection can advise Mr.. Wilson, oC-
cupying a like high rank among his
people to carry home with him tC
the White House when the folks want
a good pone Of corn bread.
Henry Page has been conSpicuOu:
in bringing the sandhiN country into
public view and public interest. HI
5 has been broader than merely tina
: one thing. He has extended his in
fluence over much Of the State, anC
in doing it he has fathered more thar
one practical new idea.
North Carolina has been rated a.
d cotton state so long that some folk
$ seem to think cotton raising is
4 chronic condition. which is morall.
4 little better than idolatry or infidelity
I ! OF course tobacco has q certain CLAIM
i on a portion of the State, and wher
! cotton is grown habitually withOu
any show of penitencc or reforna
n ton tobacco is hailed as a reedem
, ing grace. Probably it is, for tn
q wise men who have ciphered on
: these things, say we want diversi
Q fed farming and a rotation of vari
{. Gus crops in North Carolina
e Member Of the New Club.
" Page is one of the new cult with
l .aa1t - in n
q practice Of his ceremonies Instea
r of ritual he presents his maChin
II training, and concludes that one c
o the crops that should be introduced
e a griSt mill on as many farms as ca
y produce corn enough TO make til
l. thing big enough to be worth whil
e He also has notions about packin
W house on his farm, or on some othe
Us mans farm, for as q lumberman /
has been down to New York ofte
enough TO acquire the taste Of a poi
e terhouse steak from corn-fed stco
'r and his saw mill training gives nil
"a the notion that a certain amount
4 corn will make a corn-fed steer
at North Carolina just as readily as
A. log fed saw mill will make boards
Is this State.
Is SO he has been buying cattle hcl
m and there to put on his farm ID Il:
~ up the rough stuff of the farm. pro'
V ably that comes from the saw IN
re practice of hunting un a way to uti
r ize slabs and edgings and shal
le butts, and the bynroducts that do II
make god SCantling and joissS y
IN (! a lurberman or rallroadman. or
st conbina ton Of the two does not Ill
" to see things wasted VI hen Iho .hin
ri can he turned to profit.
,p Therefore on Marlboro farm
i group C cattle has been pat OF 4
lg job OF eating everything Mat c2tt
e. can eat. and it is the expectation III
IA after they have eaten enough ~