The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-09

.4ar,' 3Ud teueio
a,j picturesques ridge that
~ u G,y,n from Montgomery into
enunty west of Drowning
.' .nd east Of Naked Creek.
qna ridge is n Of the last outer
-. that hold the Pleumonl 1901
,r,m ~encroaching on the sandy
ra.r lands Of the coastal Piaih, anu
,tg step from the earlier
If the western formation to
"l'7' ~j.nosits Of the looSer surface
-, sweeps 10 the sea.
H.. ridge on which h Derby es-
.ni.bment stands is a long table land
-, occasionally by the trea
~, trop from the high ground into
,roct. that flow on either side.
IN the heart Of a broad clear
" ~, , tract Of two thousand acres,
IDS The Derby home. n the Der
b, establishment.
r,une fellow not long out of col
vet long enough to have had
.vneriences on both sides of the
So and some adventures hat
- mod stories for the front porch
af.r the mules have been put up,
OIL the supper things cleared away
and The tranquility of the descending
.,n has brought conditions to the
.s,,ar Stage for ventureSOme nara
live Derby doesn't look like a man
who has dug up pieces OF elght from
The treasure ships Of the old pirates
uba sailed the Spanish main. And he
aid not dix up many. But he has had
III. adventure. and the throwing over
hoard Of the several tons of dynamite
4, Tighten ship. and the cut-a away the
mast coloring. and shipwreck and
r.scue and about all the other ex-
naripucrS that fit a man to become a
North Carolina farmer.
sign OF the Traction PlOW.
:, when he sailed home one time
from a stormy venture in the Antilles
he turned his face down toward Ralph
Page and K. w. I'umpelly. who had
outhtted an expedition into the wilds
OF North Carolina, and finding a
couple OF thousand acres of land that
had the signs Of promise on them.
Derby raised the sign of the traction
plow on the territory and took p s.
session in the name Of enthusiastic
ambition.
Anybody who gets one look at
Derby will understand that he will do
something when he sets out. or make
y lot of muss with the things he has
w NhIk Will TIE Has uOllc polh a
his farm.
He has been on the place three Oh
four years. He has 500 acres under
the plow. and 243 in cotton this year
Derby is one Of the fellows who dc
not know where they are going, bu'
are on the way. The chances are thai
he Is going to be a cotton planter o
magnitude. but he may be a cattle
raiser. or a grain farmer. DIT a to.
bacco man. Or anything else that thu
fateS decide.
Not that he is a man without plans
II" Is a very methodical and careful
palmer. and his plans are worked Ou
along lines Commendable for the "a
anu thought given them. But he i
not a man of hide-bound convictions
ana II he say sees any weak spot il
.he plan Of his campaign he adapt
himself to- the situation, and tina
means the blue prints made the frs
time.
l am not sure but that Derby
n''ce made more of a hit with m
thln most any other Of the new plan
1iohS thai | have see in the State
WIN all Of its extremely practice
.ea'ureS 1t has also several gins OF
n'.uoI' anu some of them uninten
W""d'y cost considerable money. Th
,Is oa'tie barns are models. and the
,% ranked by two enormous sill
Ill., "'uld make any farmer proud c
Ill built according to the govern
III. specifications all the wa
on'ush' a huge water tank on top c
~, mem To supply the place wit
81 nut Mr.. Derby looks out c
nn r eye as he remarks that he coul
# h"'''S build them for less none
nn "'d To build them again.
" one section of the big plantatio
several modern cottages. tw
al 10 ni@h. designed by a profession
ua bel and ideal creations fl
So,,pe 10 live in. Farther down al
One o.heF ones designed by Derb
yet 10y not So aesthetic in mott
m" aol'ed by people just the sam
I've Bath and Tenant Houses.
". %"l hlm why the application
AM h'p'r tit" to the new cottage
hons. t'id me harmony. The mod
mod, r""S not exactly fit. Yet IL
Cont. mousse is fitted with mode,
t'I's shower hath
Tho I,Sh'd there. and Derby lauahe
$50 yw' sad With all reason. Il car
UsaiYI a shower bath is no, lust
a, =" I tenant house on tho fo =