Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-10-23
DOuu11 on the Farm

Winning Fame as Breeder Of Fine
Hogs at Same Time He Works as
Conductor.
Roy Elliott, Pullman conductor, is an
embodiment of the new spirit of back
to the farm.
He's. still Conducting" but mean
while he is becoming one of the best
known breeders in the south of ped1-
greed and registered hogs.
Some day, perhaps, he will be rich
enough to ride in Pullmans as a pas
senger, and even to tip the porter be-
SIDES.
He was born in Rockdale county,
was Roy Elliott. He was reared on
his fathers farm. But when he at
tanned young manhood the city called
him, and he became a city man.
Eventually he became a Pullman con-
cuctor, an dbegan to travel all over
the United States. He was a sort of
special conductor, holding a regular
run. but going off on long junkets
with big parties of travellers. He pro-
crossed about as far away from the
farm as it was possible to go.
t, Then the Georgia agricultural col
lege planned to run its second educa-
tinnal train, with lectures and ex-
hibits, around through Georgia. A
Pullman wa sneeEed for the party that
vas to travel with the train. And
Elliott wa s~assigned by his company
to go with the Pullman.
'SBack to the Farm
That the the beginning of Roy FL
1iott's return to the farm. He had
time enough, at the various stops, to
get off and walk around while the lee
tut ers talked and displayed their fine
cattle and chickens and hogs One
day he got an accidental earful o ftalk
from one of the lecturers and moved
I'm closer in the edge of the crowd to
hear more. Thereafter he listened
whenever he got a chance. And when
the agricultural train ended its six
weeks of work the seed of a 'back to
the farm" idea had been planted in
Roy Elliott's mind.
He had decided that he would try
Ills hand at hog breeding.
Getting into correspondence with the
agricultural college workers whom he
had met and lived with on the train,
he asked for pamphlets and books and
first hand Information. Then he
bought three registered hogs of the
Tamworth breed. There had been a
6ne big TamWorth hog among the ,ex-
kitits on the agricultural train, and
Elliott liked it best of all. He had to
send away off to get those pedigreed
animals. and he had to pay a fancy
Lrice for them. But he got them and
installed them on a three-acre plat
that he fenced in, back of his fathers
home in Conyers.
All of this time Elliott has been
taking his run to New Orleans and
return as his shift fell due, and has
been learning nor and more about
hoPs from books and from Prof. Nj. P.
Jarnagin, at the state agricultural col
lege, and DR.. E. M. Nighbert, the gov
eminent expert, and DIR. P. F. Balm
sen and Entomologist Lee Worsham,
at the state capitol. All this time he
has been culling his hogs, d~iscarding
the undesirable ones not perfect in
points and disposing of them in the
local markets, while he distributed
the more perfect animals among pur~
chasers everywhere in this section.
Last year he went to Canada and
bought seven more of the finest Tam
worths. Now he has gone again to
Canada to be gone about ten days, ex-
Tecting to come back with eight or ten
fine registered Tamworths.
There are great possibilities inNhog
in this state If a man will go
it right and start ina small way"
said Elliott yesterday before he left.
'I've got a lot to learn about it yet,
hur / know that much already."-At-
lanta Journal.