The farmer and mechanic., 1914-08-18

have a iievlief business, and when the
war is done some of the trade plckeG /
up should stay with American mills
The stimulus should result IN IN ac-
quaintance IN new territory tnat VIII |
mean permanent business
Farms Must Vary Products
1t is known that the cotton nIlf
business is fast expanding southward,
and that the South increases its pro-
duct much more rapidly than the
North has been doing. There IS no
reason 10 think that propertionate IN
means that North Carolina cotton
milling is quite sure to be more or
factor in the worlds work with each
recurring year. More mill hands mean
more people to feed. and more people
TO feed mean greater demand on
the farmer for a varied product
That product must include the
staple crops and also an increasing
amount Of meat and other animal pro
ducts like butter milk, eggs, etc
was over the other day at the
home of Dan Lemon on the road be-
tween Southern Pines and Raeford-
He had sent his teams up town and
over to Pinehur and the other towns
with several loads of wateFmelons-
They had sold a good many dollars
worth of melons, yet when | went over
with three or four neighbofs TO cut
melon Mr.. Lemon took the crowd out
| under a big scuppernong vine and
| marched them up to a wagon nearly
| full
| Help yourselves" he said, and the
way melons were slaughtered there
| was a caution. Yet he said he was
getting a good return from his
melons, even if he did ask his neigh
bors to come in and help him eat a
| whole wagon load once in a while
| Passing on the train between Aber-
/ deem and Fayetteville the fields look
as though the farms have enough
| watermelons to feed the whole United
States. Melons have been going out in
train loads, and two or three times
have noticed that the passengers on
the train step down and run over to
the fields and grab a melon or two or
half a dozen cantaloupes as the train
stops at the various points to pick up
or drop the traffic. Nobody protests
There are enough for all.
The first thought is that the crop
is SO big it has no value, but there is
the mistake. It is SO big it supplies
the market, and then leaves enough
for the small demand made by the oc-
casional stranger who wants a melon
. Think about it. What signifies the
man who takes a melon Or two from
a thirty acre field?
The point is this: North Caroline
I has no idea of the limit of the melon:
that can be raised. The farmer plant:
| enough to ship train loads of tn.
: things, and what are left on the field:
} and by the roadside give the hom,
} folks enough to haul out loads to thu
pigs. But while the markets are be
ing supplied in the North by rail
2 enormous numbers of melons ar,
4 hauled into the towns and taken ther,
4 at rate that is cheap for the towl
d T11Iy ftaI@ 10 e.,
\ few years ago the farmer thought h
i could not get any money for thing
: like watermelons. Now he finds tha
d as other industries spring up abou
d him he can sell all manner of stuff a
e the local markets, and that by havin
q enough to send away he can send ca
! loads of the same stuff to Northern
e markets, and the limit of demand
d pretty near the limit Of getting tn
Q plunder hauled to the railroad sta
ton.
y Meat Question Like The Rest.
4 The meat question is like the res
= Of them The North Carolina farme
e never tried to make a surplus of mea
r because his neighbOrs were max in
II some for themselves and what was OF
fered for sale did not bring a yer
good price. With the price of hog
al running from eight dollars and a ha
d to twelve dollars a hundred pounds o
J. the Richmond market, it gets to b
I another story, and Holderness, of Tai
\ borO, will find that other men a
:" over the State will be following tn
RS experience that he has been workin
as out in making pork
m The Catawba county farmers hay
o. taken up the butter question. The
or have systematized, and created a su,
Of cessful butter producing industI
re which gives promise of being MOI
hi hn h,xff
Of the North because here is a better cl
in mate for cattle feeding, and here is
ee market that has never yet had enoue
er butter to meet the local wants Mort
Carolina buys butter from the Mort
gs Even with the butter industry grOwir
lie in CataWba county the local demar
r. is not affected for Catawba county
it. merely the moving southwark of Il
Id butter frontier. If Catawba cOun
in could produce a hundred times
in much butter as it does it would ha,
re calls from all the country south