The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23

Dec. 20.-The man who travels the
Goore county roads sooner or later
Pill ask the story of the Marlboro
arm. and it will never all be told,
IMPLY because IL Is not a story but
IN evolution, and no man can unfold
ne sequences of an evolution.
Marlboro farm. as a story, starts
With Henry A. Page, although the
tory Of the development of the farm
begins with other things, probably
the accidents that led people to in
cline toward farming in the sandhill
Country being the basic start.
\ few years ago when the bold
|Ones commenced to insist that cot
ton could be raised in this section
Henry A. Page and some associates
from Marlboro county, South Caro-
1ina, secured a big tract of land here
In the sand and started off to make a
Farm. / don't know why the proper
ty ultimately fell int the hands Of
Nr. Page, and do not care to go to
the trouble to ask, for that has moth
Ing to do with our lesson for the day,
which deals with the advent of man
Hike Page into the agricultural per-
Opective.
The Page family makes hit with
me. Henry is my representative in
the State Legislature Robert is my
Representative in Congress. Walter
Is my representative in the Court of
London The three are brothers.
They are men who are heard from
In their respective locations. They
are men Of originality and breadth.
They are men who moved up from a
less pretentious level of public ac-
QuaintanCe.
| have seen a good deal Of pOliti-
clans in my day, and it is pity. but
n fact, that of all my political ac-
quaintances L can only say of few
of them what L believe OF these
pages, that they seem to me, in al
the knowledge l have of them, to be
more anxious to give their represen
katives a square deal than they are t.
sustain their political fences.
When Hayes was president mem
Der OF his cabinet for a time Wa:
Horace Maynard. of Knoxville, Tenn
Tears ago I lived in Knoxville, ant
me of the public men whose name
regard with much esteem was May
hard who was in Congress from tha
East Tennessee district which l..
douk afterward appropriated, to be
pueath in perpetuity to his son JONI
Houk. with a residual legacy to Rich
ard Austin, his secretary, VINO hoio
the place now. Maynard was a.
1deal Congressman. On one occaslo
when his constituents complained tina
ne did not get the chicken pie aroun
at lively enough gait Maynard sen
out a notice that he was a membe
of the United States Congress. chose
TO serve the country, and not ensae
ed as an errand boy to chase aroun
after such plunder as might be a.
1otted TO some one who happened {
live in the second Tennessee dlstrlc
old Parson Brownlow, OF tn
Knoxville Whig, was not the on
one OF that old bunch that did ne
frighten at talk. Maynard pursue
In
of his way, and in the fullness {
time the people OF his town came
be proud to point out the nous
where he lived and died. PERSONAL
do not set high price on NOM
ments. for they have no convertlp
value while a man lives. so L thro
in this reference to others merely
a diversion.
Page as a Farmer.
Eut | did not mean to introdut
enough Pages to make chapter, Il
l started To deal with agriculture. AT
even that is not to be comprehel
sivc, for Henry Page told me tn
he did not look on himself as farm
er, but AS Il machine man. He n
been in lumber mills and rallroa
SO long that when he looks at a far
he is disposed to figure on how mai
revolutions. or how many horse po'
er or how many pounds of reSiStan
to the square inch something will ca
ry without breaking. He looks at I
farm from the shop point of view.
So he gets to Marlboro farm wi
no notion of making cotton. as me
of the other farmers breaking in ne
III this section are doing. Co
caught his eye Tirst. Corn IS a CT,
yoa can plant with machine. cul
Nato with horsepower and ridi
cIitiya.or. harvest with a machir
hu~il ana she'll with machine. gri