The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-22
RANDOLPH SIMPLY HAS To
UTILIZE WHAT IS IN SIGHT
Has tue Equlpment-All 1t Needs Is To Inv, - =,
hep Lot OF Energetic Neighbors From EyeTy
State in the Union '0'' D$e'3

Ai'N'c iii store Tor R;tnd0Inh t,,,.;.,,
the State par ol
Alter l had been looking over tho
county with some Of The neoIie ne me
ny "ahter me to stay longer and %
iurtncr One time in Nevada | vss
looking through one of the mines th.t
gave that State its raDutation yo.1,e
! ago we saw the rock as il carna 10
me mil at Empire, and the brilliant
coior OF the free gold in its pl9ca in
me VEINS. When my friend wanted To-
Silo" me heading after heading in
the mine that ! could see what il sicr-
nified ! told him fifteen minutes told
me story as we'll as q year The man
VINO haS TO spend many days in Ran
uolpn county to learn what the county
hdS IN store IS not Il close observer
Agricultural and Nanufac,urino.
Randolph commenced as a farming
ana grazing county. IT followed along
this line until the mills commenced t0
grow up. Since then it has been both
agricultural and nanufa cturinS
IiShty years ago Randolph was rails
ing some three hundred thousand
bushels OF corn, and eighty thousand
bushels OF wheat. besides tobacco.
cotton and similar crops on right
liberal scale. 1t has provided for
ginning. The county continues TO be
one OF the leading wheat and corn
counties Of the State. It's wheat crop
now exceeds Il quarter Of a million
DuSnelS and its corn crop runs close to
threc-QuarterS of q million bushels
the county being Cne OF the leading
corn counties of the State. The cen
sus of 1910 show that Johnston and
Robson are the only two counties OF
hn tot lii ri
| than Randolph
a Meat Making County.
Randolph naturally is found in the
front rank of matchmaking counties
| her product in the census year ex-
| ceeding $4,000 worth Of meat and
animals sold for meat. Randolph is
the sixth county in the State in the
| production of poultry products, pro
| yiding over seven million eggs q year
| and over a quarter Of a million chick
| ems. 1t is a good county 10 go TO a
| dinner time. The Randolph folks
| have things to eat. They do not raise
| their victuals in Iowa or Illinois. Ran
| dolph figures on about 10000 hogs tt
| turn off in sausage season. Only
| few counties Of the State can bea
! that. So you see the people or kan
dolph county live at home.
| s:Thc Wagon With County Stun'
! They not only live at home. bu
| they care for the people OF the mil
! towns and for the people Of the fac
| tory settlements Of the surrounding
| counties. For years the Randolph
| county schooner wagon has ted th'
| Yankee visitors at Southern Pines ant
| Pinehurst, the wagon with countr.
stuff being one Of the features o
| these resorts. Thousands OF chicken
and thousands OF dozens OF eggs an(
| mounds and pounds OF butter an'
| hams and pork and things OF tina
kind have been going down the Foa'
since long before the roads were II
fo 90 down. Thousands OF chicken
b,ye pone over the line into Stanle.
| county to the big army OF "orhei
at the Yadkn dams at Baden ah'
81 whitney until there IS not a hel
in Randolph but has SUSPICION l
| . Stanley county name IS written o.
the hotel registers OF tsai1uoipi
Couotv hotel. The cold tact IS that II
pndon dam builders have TequlSltlo1l
cd so many chickens that up III IL
this section Of the state cnichtn
| rated lust the same az me paLA % ~
bacco used to be III FhSti.-@ 49,
oonher in Florida or ginseng III LIZ
| mountains. ~. f +1,ipo
oda an the Randolph farms ana !o'
Gnd them all there. neat osto'
@ t'ilu L,'rfa1c Of buckHheat. a thousar'
h,,"teIs OF peanuts. Irish potatoes
seyentv thousand bushels oI :" e
notatoes. twenty-five thou3ai1o 80
IONS of syrup, slNty-Ii'e lo'.o, .tio 80, -
bushels OF apples, twentS th9qznn' \, fT,,it
bushels OF peaches, Other sniail lluIt
ard grapes TO fill the requlre:I.t,,.ts t,,,s
Even several tons OF nSs are 1ntiu,,
cd in what Randolph maAes - ca g.
| sell ..,o Cot,o,
Il p,ndolph does not make the COO
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