The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-16
NORTH CAROLINA FORGING TO
THE FRONT AS FARM STATE
Making a Whirlwind Advance-No Longer In The Bush
League of Agricultural Commonwealth Climbing
Into Fast Company
(By BION III.

few days that ought to set
every Southern man to thinking over
the vast changes that have been go
ing on in the past twenty years, and
the advances they imply. The Conf
missioner OF Agriculture estimates the
farm products of the State now at two
hundred and sixty million dollars a
year. Commissioner Graham does
not, in the brief outline furnished by
the press. distinguish between the
crops and the live stock products, but
II we allow the live stock products
to be rated considerably higher than
at the census report the total Is Stlil
enough to make a product nearly
double that of 1909, the year for
which the crop census was taken.
Say we deduct thirty million dol
lars for the live stock products leav-
ing two hundred and thirty million
dollars for the crop products. 1t is
surprising to learn hat five years &
only Jour States of. the Union re-
ported "A crop so tiS. The were
Texas, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio. No
doubt some Of the other States that
were ahead of North Carolina at the
census are still progressing, but it Is
more than likely that North Carolina
is rapidly climbing up into the fast
COMPANY among the agricultural
States of the Union.
InlS Is lnOlcdte0 by the DullellH
from the Experiment Station in which
is given "a list of names of the larger
fruit and vegetable W OF the
State, and in the bulletin are some
facts as astonishing as the rapid
growth farming generally is making
i'll the State.
For instance, it is seen that w. Deb.
McEachin, of Scotland county, has
his year for shipment 40 acres of as
paragus, twice as much of canta-
loupes, that at least seventy armer
of Scotland ave from one to seventy
five acres of cantaloupes each, that
W.. w. Pearsall, Of Rocky Point will
ship seventy-five acres of beans, two
acres of cabbage, over a hundred &C es
of cucumbers, two acres OF beets,
twelve acres of peas, and almost a
hundred acres of strawberries. He
has also two hundred acres of sweet
potatoes. w. II. Eason, at Oriental.
has over six thousand crates Of cab
bage TO ship. Irish potatoes have a
big acreage. Mclean and Gibson at
Laurinburg have two hundred and
fifty acres of watermelons, and three
other shippers will 20 above a nun
dred each. The four biggest shippers
Will harvest among them seven hun
dred acres of melons. A number OF
big peach orchards are reported, as
well as dewberries and strawberries
The bulletin gives sixteen pages OF
names of men who are producing fruit
and vegetables in lots big enough tC
make it worth while to procure then
names for the convenience of the
commission men who want to get holC
of North Carolina products, and NJ
doubt a considerable number OF
names are overlooked. The countie:
in which this development of frui
and vegetable farming is breaki~r on
include all sections of the State. From
apples in Henderson to melons il
Currituck they run, not including al
the counties, but embracing many
localities in many counties. Twenty
six counties report a probable Outpu
OF a quarter Of a million cans O
tomatoes for the fall trade to be pu
up chiefly by the girls of the canning
clubs, which are spreading over tn
State like an epidemic disease. SiXt
thousand cans of beans are ais
scheduled for fall delivery.
These are only the big things i
this direction. They help to illustrat
what is doing.
\ WIlilrwind Advance.
These things show that North Care
lima is making a whirlwind advanc
to get among the first of the farr
States of the Union, and that if tn
gait is maintained we will be surprise
in Il few years more at the place "
Occupy in the front. Every new b
of Information is another chronic
of surprising advancement in som,
thing. 1t is rarely "A losing streak tn:
Is noted. And they come so fast tn;
North Carolina is no longer in II
Bush league.
The man who has watched IL
triumph Of North arolina can ir
aEine the joy Sis. plus would feel,
after for ages rolling the stone t
ward the top of the hill and having
get away from him to fall back aga
time after time, he should some q;
it gain the top and drop over o. I
other side. North Carolina has a
rived at the top of the hill with [
stone, and it will never go back az
have an idea that John :. h
Robert Y. Hayne. if they happen
be cognizant Of worldly things in (
other life, feel a certain SatiSfacti
in working off a little joke n Dan
Webster and Henry Clay as they I;
over affairs in the South now, for
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