The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-29
HE SANDHILLS CROWD LIVE
WIRES AND SHORT CIRClITERs
hey Have Started Out To Make North Carolina Rest
State IN The Union and Best Known State Because
1t Deserves To Be known

leiIitofy ticn season. Tufts and
Henry Page showed how to get fifty
or more bushels Of corn TO the acre
on q big acreage.
Also Tobacco.
Hutchinson introduced the scppper-
nong grape To society Here ana there
tobacco crops Were breaking. in. Thad
Mclean, Zeb Blue and others in their
nelSnborhood were Civersifyns with
tobacco. The Blues over the Carthage
way commenced the canning OF veSe-
tables for the local markets, and they
turned out gilt-edged stuff
Pigs and Beef Steers.
1UIIS sells q carload of Berkshire
pigs sto an Illinois breeder who comes
after the best stock he can find. Derby
sends several cars Of beef steers TO
Baltimore and the North PunpelIv
makes cream for the nearby towns
and cities.
A lot Of these men formed the
farmers association, and proceeded
TO try what united effort could do 1t
another step, and organized the Sand
hills Board Of Trade. A dozen or SO
of local boards We're established one
in every town IL the neighborhood
and they united i'll Il central board
| which in that way was backed by
money, ability and enthusiasm. Roger
| Derby was made president and Clyde
| Davis, a young chap from Kansas and
| Harvard was appointed secretary.
| These two match up as neatly as a
pair of Devon steers. and they are as
| energetic and as active. The Sand
| hills Board Of Trade commenced to
| crystalline the stunts the Sandhiils
| country is doing, and 20 set some
| method into the operations.
| An Editor Comes.
| For some years this section Of the
| State has been getting into print, and
| there are two reasons. The first rea-
son is that some Of The crowd is GER
| tain to be doing something worth
printing, and the other reason is that
! somebody tells it TO the papers. DR.
| Fl. E. F'oSs came down here from
| Philadelphia, a clergyman whose
| health was not good. He took holC
| Of the village paper and ne has made
it a recognized authority on Centra
| North Carolina affairs. toss was boTr
to be a newspaper man. and his paper
is worth studying by every othel
country paper in North Carolina. I.
We had a man like him in each county
this State would be one of the best
most honestly, and most thoroughly
known States OF the Union. Any
thing that gets away from FOss ha
not much worth as an advertisement
Of the Sandhilis
Over at Pinehurst is JiiIson, wht
prints the Outlook. That is anothe
Horatius at the bridge and the mar
| who will stand at my right hand, an(
keep the bridge with me- is jim Nc
Conneil, at Carthage. Ralph Page
who was permitted 10 irnbibe SOM
publicity ideas from the World
Work" his fathers magazine in Nev
York, is another worthy member o
this printing ink battalion, and Davi
is no neophyte III the work. The grou]
has some more, but enough has bee
said TO. explain why tbs Sandhills ar
heard from.
live Wires and Short Circuitcrs.
This crowd, as l said, is compose
of men Of ability and means. The
are not only live wires. They ar
short circuiters. When the countr
fair season came along they arrange
for a. fair at PinchurSt and they onl
!, held it one day. They sent lot Q
their exhibits down to the Raleig
State Fair, and captured eight or te
prizes with the lot.
When the warehouse proIositio
came up after cotton went down til
: Sandhills Board Trade chase
around over the country for none
to loan on cotton. They found none
was not growing on every hIcllie
) berry bush in the SWa.nrS, but be.or
tney IAiu uONn Lney -ldO HuitS Up
l hundred thousand dollars or more
l loan on cotton Ill the SandhilS The
were loaning money while othc
! places were still talking about i. FL
these are incidents that il,Sstrayc n s1c
the Board of Trade is doing.
Cabinet Member SI>c>ks.
While doing things the nleIa.,e:
| comprehended that the moro the
2 walked up the nai";bcrs the bette
chance they have 70 5cC1fe:1.
they have been gettiii.. together eyeg
2 | oTce* in awhile TO swap experience
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