The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-22
Less Cotton and More Farm
Supplies the South'S Needs
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for her mills, but she makes cOnSid-
cradle Of it, and she has neighbors in
the next counties that contribute a
helping supply. She can make more
cotton if it becomes desirable, and
some day will. Just now the county
is tolerably we'll occupied. 1t has to
provide wheat and corn for a number
of griSt mills. 1t must prOVid the logs
and the wood for saw mills, furniture
factories and other wood working
plants. 1t must care for various en-
terprises, and that does not leave the
people time to provide all the cotton
the mills car use.
Randolph started as a farm'county.
Three-quarterS of a century ago it be-
gan manufacturing cotton goods, and
since then it has been advancing to-
ward what it is destined to become.
a manufacturing and AGRICULTURAL
Self-depending community. North Car
DINA is unusual among the industrial
centerS Of the world. 1t raises its raw
material INC then manufactures it
into finished product. 1t employs farm
and factory in the same operation. 1t
has a broader basis than almost any
other section of country. Randolph
raises it's grain and makes our 1t
raises its timber and makes wood pro-
ducts. 1t raises a part Of it's cotton
and makes textiles and knit goods.
1t makes the food for the operatives
at the factories. Its type Of industrial
organization is economical in it's Op-
Grafton, and because it is economical
it is bound to broaden. Randolph is
designed in such a way that it is
bound to grow, faster or slower as the
people elect, but faster in spite OF
anything that can happen. If it is
allowed to take its mild course, grow
ing merely from it's own necessity for
expansion, the growth will be slow. II
the people become impatient one OF
these days and decide to AXE advan
, tage of the unusual opportunity thai
: is next to dormant at their doors
there no end to the speed to which
their development Will go, for there i:
no end to the limit of resources
e More People Needed.
Randolph now needs more settlers
: just as every section of the Stat,
does. The farms are too far apart
Two or three times as many people
. should be raising wheat and cattl,
T on the fertile hillsides and valley bot
toms.
S Randolph is another illustration 0
the need Of thousands Of ~industriou
s farmers in North Carolina. TIL
growth Of mills in the county an,
in the counties Immediately adjoinin;
has drawn on the farms steadily 70
mill hands, and in spite Of the effor
Of the philosophers to find a way t
bring the people back to the farm
they do not go back TO the farms. 1
:. spite of the terrible tales told by som
Of the professional agitators about tn
:, condition Of the mill hands the hand
, continue to stay at the mills. An
, the people at the mills continue +
!, want from the farms things to ca
20 just as is the case in every place wher
mill communities are providing maj
kets for the farmer.
- Room For Good
1T Randolph county has plenty 6
+ room on farms for good farmers :
IT live and thrive under the most agret
Io able conditions, and at the farm is
market for everything that can +
made. That market will become mo,
insisteHt every year, for the m,ltinl
cation Of mills will require more far,
BY products. The problem of feeding r.
ct town of Baden alone is one that W;
puzzle the arms that are in the y
he cinity. The city Of High Point h.
tO grown up Just across the line fro
ne randolph and it is growing up farth.
every lay. and as it grows asking :,
er more supplies. Greensboro is cali,
ay TOT more farm stuff. All of he Sta