The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-17

Moore for less than seven or eight
dollars. and most OF the cheap land
has got up to Dun ten. In the
older sections of these counties cot
ton had already enhanced prices, and
in some parts ii is impossible to buy
land short of a hundred dollars or
even more. But until within the last
four or five years and could still be
had in the country north OF RaeIoro
for three or four dollars. That day
seems to be gone now, rorever. Tor
the a men say all the cheap
land of the sandhill part OF the county
is available for tobacco. If that IS the
case, and they appear TO know, n en-
tire sandhill country is on the eve OF
q new day of expansion and industry.
The people of Hoke and Moore
counties do not anticipate as much
of development from the newcomers
from other States as they do from
the men Of the CarolinaS who are
coming in to use the cheap land for
cotton and tobacco. The Northern
stranger looks on the land as ar in
vestment, zut only a few OF the stran-
gers take to actual development. The
man from the cotton or the tobacco
section of this State Or South Caro-
lima begins to plant a crop as soon
As he gets a piece of ground, and hat
starts things to rolling.
Noteworthy Tendency.
Along with the tobacco crop which
is revolutioniZing the prospects here
is the tendency Of the local people
to enlarge and to create new farms.
One of the best examples OF this is
the Dundee Farm Company. A few
| weeks ago a number of local men or
gained a corporation, bought several
hundred acres of land, and set up
work to max a farm. They have
already opened out a big tract OF
ground on which they will be able
to plant a couple of hundred acres
Of cotton, and they will push the clear
ing right through the season, in add
ton to making a crop on what they
get in shape. The idea Of farming
on a business scale has taken a big
ger hold Of the people of Hoke county
than is usual in most places, and the
cotton man is introducing modern
business methods and organization
into his farm operations just as has
been the practice in other lines of in
dustry.
Big Job Needs Big Men.
don't know that the Hoke county
plan of introducing big things car
be adapted to use in many places. fol
without q man like A. G.. Johnson tC
tackle a big job some modification
EO0A0 ~ u DoS I411
dee Farm Company plan car be utili-
zed by those men of means in any
community who care to jOin together
and open a big farm as a big bust
ness proposition. There is no reason
why corporation farming should no
succeed as we'll as individual farming
and possibly the corporation organi
zation, with the systematic method!
that corporations follow, may prov
decidedly better than Individual man
agement.
;, But there is one thing the Hok,
county plan is doing, and that is at
tracing attention to Hoke county, ar
likewise to the business of farming OF
a bigger scale. 1t is evident hat tn
fuss making now in this county i
!, catching the ear Of people all over tn
: United States, and bringing more tina,
, simply this particular section int
prominence.
And it is possible that other part
o of the State can find in the work no,
. being lone in Hoke some suggestion
v that may lead to- organized effort i
@ different ways to develop the farr
lands that are abundant all over tn
. State, and waiting utilization.
The question of planting too rnuc
q tobacco was brought up in talkin
I over this peculiar line of developmen
O Don let that disturb you any"
e sage old philosopher insisted. 20
e the day when too much of anythin
IS is produced we can stand just as goo
a chance as the rest Of the world
n the producing line. But take tn
tack. 1t is the business Of the farme
to make stuff, not to hang back b,
cause he is afraid he will make te
much. We must take the market col
ditionS as we find them. We have
do that with every crop made, and
we fool around and waste time tr-
:, ing to guess out what crop is poir
to be shortest mex year, and try
=, plant to fit that we are not farme
at all, but gamblers. Our busine
is to plant the crops that our china
Ia is fit for, and face the rest Of II
"a world with h we have. If we Ia,
~ too much it will be unusual. | nev
IN saw the time yet that people have +,
10 much of any good thing very long
- a time, and until they all get enous
We might as we'll plant our crops =,
make them do the best we can"
He was not very far wrong. nro
ably.
- At least that is the Theory rho So