The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-28

out the children Of a PoffSh settler
Keen-eyed, healthy, active little cna4ts.
they give promise Of the best possible
material II make into energetic
Americans. That Is the one question
Mr.. MacRae has been keeping upper
most-will these people make go q
Americans? He approached n an
| sWer not in a way calculated 10 pre-
iudice him against them, but 10 DIS
cover the fact. There Is no Couef OF
the intelligence Of the European stocks
which he Is importing. Italy Is the
mother of nearly all OF enlightenment
| and culture that has come to civilized
men. Italian influences carried civil
liZation through the dark ages, and
to the Mediterranean we still turn Tor
| the examples Of refinement and edu-
cation.
With that basis to build on. there Is
a sufficient beginning the German
stock Of central Europe l. good, and
so is the Polish and Hungarian ele-
nlent OF the Hollanders nothing but
good can be said. The Norwegian
has given good Of himself
wherever ne appears.
The Foreigner AS a Teacher.
All of these people have one advan-
tase over the American. Long years
of necessity have taught them the
value of time and money. The for
eigner he's learned one lesson that in
this country we must ST. II pick up. He
asks for the value Ct everythin" be-
fer he lets go of il. The foreigner
will get rich on what the Americans
discard. We have deluded ourselves
with the BELIEF that economy is parsi-
mony, but that is where we have lost
out. Economy is salvation. The giant
enterprises of the world are those that
have grown great thrOugh their far
reaching
The foreigner comes here teaching
our native people a lesson of econo-
my, which is simply to get out Of any
thing all there is in it. The foreigner
goes at his work in the morning. and
he stays with it jealousy until night
He rudge d minute that is lost in
doing nothing. He wants results. He
wants to get the most possible done.
1t is not a question of ages or
money, but the thing that he can &C
compliSh.
This make the foreigner an in
~tensive farmer. He is not a cultiva-
tor of a hundred acres with a pair OF
horses in a riding cultivator. That is
too wasteful. He wants to get to each
individual plant with a hoe or weede1
and make each plant do all 1t can.
He is not content to drive down a row
where half the plants are missing
He does not mean to pillow past empty
hills nor to allow fertilizer to lie il
the ground unused. He stops at the
first unSatisfac Glory hill aid proceeds
to make it satisfactory.
The Italian will not make a farmer
content with half a bale of cotton t6
the acre. He will ask for two bales
or three bales or whatever the limit
may be when he make each stalk
do its best.
Diversified Farmers.
The fact is these European DO no
{ take to cotton. or corn or those things
that require much unning over the
} ground and not much return from al
acre. They want a good big yield @.
l something that will bring a goot
!, price. So they plant various things
1.-The Holtanders take to shrubs ant
trees and Towering things. They know
what to do with such stuff from Ions
t experience IN the old country and the,
J, Will take from an acre a proGuc
!. worth more than our cotton field dar
1 kies will take from ten acres
Mr.. MacRae showed me fields tina
had yielded d Thousand dollars d sea
0 son from an acre-fields that yielt
e crop after crop the year through
some fields having six or seven crop
between January and December
t When an Italian plants a crop he till
+ it carefully until it arrives at a poin
where it is able to go alone, and abou
that time he plants another crop be
e tween the rows. When the first GRO
is harv 1sted and the stalks CLEARED
. out Of the way, the second crop j
coming on in good shape. 1t goe
d through the same process and an
other crop is planted between tn
h rows. That thing is continued unit
/ the year is ended.
| have not meant to go into the de
tail of this colony scheme which MI
MacRae has established. The poin
that seems far more im important to m
k is that he has found a way to bring t
& North Carolina land, a class of PEG
y pie who are intensive and intelligen
r farmers. Or perhaps it would be bet
: ter to use that intensive word and sd
a they are gardeners. They exhibit
patient and persistent habit, IA pro
II greSsive intelligence, nearly all @
IS them read the Progressive Farmer