The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

are all practical farmers. planting
farms of their own. and conducting
them successfully. They are bringing |
TO the Dundee corporation the expert
ences they have gathered in years OF
successful individual work. and that
experience says the tenant system is
the satisfactory one. They realize
that 1t is not profitable to make mis-
takes They a many thousand
dollars invested in their venture
They want the best method. They
are after results and nothing else.
Tenant System Attractive.
But they are making their tenant
system an attractive one. On every
tract Is to be an award of ground
sufficient for a garden, for the chick
lot is held in reserve for a future fuel
supply. The stumpy field is also cor !
s1dered as a source of more or less
fuel as the days go by, for a fat
stump Is a good ~neighbOr on a cold
day. Down in South Carolina where
they have taken to mining fence posts
at night to provide for the family
woodpile there is said to be an ex-
preston OF sorrow occasionally for
the departed pine stump. At the
Dundee farm the stump is expected to
join the family at the fireplace on
some winter evening when his pres
ence will be welcomed.
The Dundee farm has been planned
with an eye to economical handling.
1t is a corporation because the men
who have organized il believe hat a
bigger operation will enable econo-
mics that a small operation cannot
command.
lots Of several car loads, and get the
lowest possible price. A big opera
ton will handle its product with the
least overhead charges. 1t will Secure
economies in gin charges, in sales of
cotton and seed, in the purchase of
supplies of ali kinds, in the super
vision of it's work, and it will have
the benefit Of the judgment and skill
of several of the best farmers instead
OF the ability Of one mar Of limited
experience and skill.
5 The Dundee farm will be primarily
, a cotton farm. TObaccO may work in
later if tobacco realizes the promises
5 that are made for it in ills section.
But cotton is the melting cause ior
Dundee and it has been figured on
: the basis Of sc many bales of cotton
to the farm. The figures have esti-
mated the cost of the plant, the cost
e of operation, the cost Of supplies, and
e the probable yield. They have est
: mated the probable average return
f for each year, and the probable aver.
e age dividends. These things arr
based on the experience of the mer
who. have farmed individually, an(
they are satisfied that as individual
farming has been successful compan
FARMING with its greater possibilitie
# tor economical production will see
better return for the investment.
al incidentally the Dundee compan
IT has planned hat If it should be
n thought desirable to sell any Of tn
Z farms each f~orty-acre lot can be dis
; posed of without interfering in an
l. way with the other. This idea is nc
1t fundamentally a part OF the Dunde
re plan, but as the sentiment through
out the country seems to indicate
d multiplication of small farms tn
3 Dundee company determined that
IT the time ever came when the prop
IL erty should be sold it would be S
arranged that it could be sold t
* small farmers and when sold to ther
be of such character that it woul
Ks meet their wants.
he The Dundee farm scheme is of NOR
lie significance than the first though
r might indicate. It is prophetic.
the past farming has been chiefly
I'd venture of individual concern, an
IN in a vast majority of cases it he
been a ~haphazard venture, with tn
RS rewards not in keeping with the lab
It. and effort spent. The Dundee Farm
x Company will set an example of col
he poratiOn management of farms, an
ty it will not be content with anythir
he but a profitable return for the woI
as and capital employed. The Dundt
farms present a new idea in farmin
wv in the extremely systematic mann.
in which the whole enterprise
scheduled if in nothing else. In a
tn manufacturing enterprises system
d. the big thing.
ry No particular advantages of loo;
sis ton are found here. The land
Of black jack and sandy. 1t is levt
-er we'll drained, inviting tillage, not I
I'D markable for its fertility. but a goo
farming proposition in the hands
lie capable men. 1t is typical of il
VS., surroundings. 1t is of that class
he land that a few years ago was look
on as dear if a few dollars were pa
for it. Now it is getting in the ella
that will bring a hundred dollars
ic- acre. partly because they have learn,
yaS that such land can easily pay intere