The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-08
Il Can Be Done. EmpIoye Of
Cotton Mill in Charlotte Has
Shown
EIGHT KINDS GROWING NOW
During Past Six Years There
Has Not Been a Day When
He Gould Not Go Into Gar
den and Get Something To
tat He's Prize-winner; Mill
People Live Well


OOtiG 1isO TOll (
DOROTHY MITCHEILy
Charlotte. Dec. 5.-There are very
fe" people in the State who are aware |
oi Inc Iact that the greater portion
Oh the winter vegetables can > grown
az home-riSht in their gardens, and
mat instead of paying fancy prices
LOT stale shipped vegetables they could
go out II gather the fresh crisp
ones If they woulA try their hands at
winter gardening.
rms TACT that vegetables will grow
IN TINS climate during the winter has
been clearly demonstrated by Mr.. y.
,. HlnSon, an employee of the Anterior
null OF Charlotte. He has now grow
varieties OF vegetables, which are
capoages. onions, turnips. lettuce,
r~adlshes. mustard, and collards, all in
the garden, while he is experiments
Ing this year by keeping a few hills OF
pepper in the house as potted plants.
he took up some of his choice hills
and placed them in boxes and these
have been kept from the cold and are
1ourlshlng. Pepper as a potted plant
would not only be a useful thing from
which to gather fresh peppers now
and then, but it Would make an ex-
cellent Christmas decoration with its
vivid green and red colors.
\ Prize Winner.
Mr.. lilnSon is one Of the best -
deners of Charlotte, and he is a gard
ener Tor all the year rOund He stat
ed that during the six years that he
has lived at the mill that there has not
been a single day when he could not
go out and gather something to eat
from his garden. This year he took
the first prize for the best vegetable
display in the industrial department
Of the Charlotte fair. In this con
nection, / would like to add that the
mill people as a rule are much better
ZenS Of the towns Of the State. Having
come from the country, the mill peo-
pie have acquired the habit OF grow
ing things, n their Industrious hab-
its have not made them afraid of
work. The average city man thinks
that a garden does not pay. because
he says his time is too valuable to
work in a garden when he car make
three or four dollars a day and hire a
gardener for a dollar. He still thinks
it if he a time to waste in the after
moons before his office nous begin.
know a man who has amassed q for
tune and one Of the secrets Of his sue
cess has been is that he does not mind
doing a dollar a day job when he has
a rest spell from a $40 or 500 job
But fortunately for the mill man he
has not learned to figure on his time
but he makes a garden il he has the
energy to worn it and does not con
slider that he has lost anything. Thers
are some. however, whO make no eff
forts to grow anything, but this mum
Der is very small compared to tn,
majority.
The Collard q Favorite.
Most OF the mill people are sum
mer gardeners, although they ma!
not all have a great variety of vege
tables, but there are very few wh'
have branched into extensive winte
gardening, although nearly all of tn
J progressive ones have such vegetable
as onions, turnips and collards. TIL
tcollard is a favorite with the mil
people bees use they acquired a tast
for it when back on the farms an
mo frown OF society can ever max
them turn from it. The collard
mot known in society. In fact, Their
are quite a number Of people VIII
never heard Of one, and in order to In
troduce i ito my reader who perhap
, is not acquainted with 1t, 1t is a sol
of country cousin, as it were, Of tn
cabbage. When young, it takes
good gardener to tell them apart, Blu
after growing up the cabbage take
the big head and draws its leaves /
rather exclusively as if afraid of cor
termination, while the collard, afte
the true country type. wears a fran
open expression and spreads IT'S leave
wide open to the sun.
Mill People Well Fed.
Sometimes there are mtinatior
e that the mill people are poUrely fee
n Such a statement always shows ju:
: how little the speaker knows abol
d the industrial workers of the cotto
6 mills. II / bad to name the create:
e fault of the mill people OF the Stat
( should name first: Sepndjng to
much for something to eat. They q
not buy economically. u RalLpay.tf
Il last pennyfcrcsonething they paftic,
Hairy want For instance:5IElthe ear
n spring they will pay. 40. orI5o cents :ft
a chicken that will not make a pouT
of meat while the man IN the town