The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-22

Is ASKING LOT more NOQE ana Et|Gt cn1
poultry. North Carolina has TO nuy
several million dollars worth Of fooi
products now. and will either hatc &,
continue to buy farm products r
make less cotton. which will mean t9I
buy cotton. or get more farmers.
Typical of State.
Randolph IS typical OF the Stat. $
a whole. Randolph has the land t0
raise all the food products the county
needs. all the cotton the county needs. /
and has the proper soil and climate
1t Is short Just that one thlng-peopIe
Il is an interesting situation. Few
farm sections Of the United States
have such an unsatified market at
the door. and such soil and climate
TO make the supplies, with insufficient
people to make them. Randolph
county is not like the new States II
the West which say to prospective SET
lers that an opportunity to make a
farm and home awaits them. Ran
dolph goes that far and says a chance
is here TO make a farm and home.
and also that the farmer is needed len
help the market get the supply If
things imperatively demanded. In the
| West the farmer can hunt his mar
ket. He must look to the East or 10
the old world. In Randolph all he
needs to do is to provide the stuf
The market doe the rest.
IIAdAA1D1C liz 80 LulISlIlS.
Randolph is setting an exampi, IA
some of the other counties Of the
State in the way of building roads.
The people decided that they did not
want to put a bonded Indebtedness on
the county, but that they did wan
roads. So they arranged to build 4
hundred miles OF mighty good roads
and to pay for them as they were
built. Fortunately the count has an
excellent road material convenient at
nearly every point. 1t is a hard gravel
from the broken down silica rocks.
and FIVE hundred dollars a mile grades
and builds q road that is almost ~
enduring as the old roads of ancient
Rome. In all directions in the county
these hard gravel roads nave been
built, n the hundred miles already
constructed are sufficient to awaken
the people to want al increase Of the
dose. When you start a good road
IN a community YOU have stirred up
trouble. for one good road inevitably
means the thing runs through the
county like an epidemic. Randolph
county is fairly Well gridironed with
good roads N the main thorough
fares, and the mileage built has shown
what a good thing a hard road IS.
You know the rest. Before Randolph
stops the road work a good road VIII
! go within easy reach Of every farm
within the county boundaries
With good roads is coming another
, good feature of country life and that
l is the school house. The farmers
have voted special school tax IN nan
Of the districts, and are putting W
l. new schOol houses, extending the
: school term, and going to the front
i along modern lines in education. Ran
' dOlph is doing every thing it can d0
with the population it has. What
u it needs now is two or three times as
"a people on the farms that the
, griSt mills may have two or three
- times is much wheat, the meat mar.
kets w OF three times as muct
meat, the h~OusehOlders of the mil
= towns two or three times as many
chickens II eggs, and the mills sev.
eral times as much cotton.
The county needs two or three time
It's present population that the goOC
roads may be settled more thickl,
= with farm houses on each side all tn.
way to the county line, and that tn
country schools may have increase
attendance and increased force OF in
StructorS.
~ The People Will Come.
If h increased population Will come
IF ASheboro has a lot Of energetic me,
n who are putting their town on tn
1t industrial map Of the United States
rs over on the Deep river are severe
h 1--we towns. Ranseur and Randlema
is are factory towns that indicate tina
they have a fture. Manufacturing
scattered all over the county, so tina
g the entire territory is diversified !
to ITS work, depending on no one thins
= The accommodating ca pital OF the cour
10 ty is in the hands Of business me
10 VINO are progressive and clear heade
+ and they are building for the futur.
Their surplus dollars are going int
Investments that for.
1e shadow further development Of tn
10 towns and the county.
ID And what a picture Of intelliger
~ thrlIt and satisfied prosperity you ca
oP read in the fate Of Randolph count
~ when the resources are DEVELOPED I
to a busy farm population supplements
ne by n growing towns that have mao
their start in every direction in ever
80 township.
~ Randolph has no occasion "a &C