The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03
WHY WAYNE COUNTY IS PLOWING
AHEAD ATCAIT UHASSTRUCK
Better Method Of Farming Perhaps The Most Important
Reason-Tendency To Subdivide Farms Into Smaller
Holdings Another-Crop Diversification
,By BION IL.

terial / have TO deal with, as there is
n m~isconception in some quarters ~
10 relative merit and ability.
About every little while some well
meaning but misguided man expresses
10 me a wish that North Carolina had
more people from the North, people
who woU come dow 10 this State
and pat Il new life into things.
Right there ] have to give up more
or less valuable time in importing
some information concerning the peo-
pie from the North. In my newspaper
career of more years than a woman
of my age would confess ] have been
thrown into reasonably intimate. con
tact with leaders in the North in all
lines of advanced industry. Iron and
steel men, oil and gas men, railroad
men, politicians, merchants, manufac-
turcrS, educators. clergymen, profess
sional men. and let me tell you, once
for all, they are just the same Ill
Of men that you find in the same lines
in the South.
If you have wandered about over
the earth much YOU I've observed
that you can tell a Hereford steer il
you see it in Texas, in Iowa, III North
Carolina, In England, or any other
place. 1t is not where YOU find it, but
where its ancestors are from. i be-
lieve In blood.
~ NItl Dlooh that oSttA1o III
the Neus river country or over in
Forsyth is just Us intelligent as the
Germans in the iron trade in PittSburg
OF on the farms Of Lancaster. The
Scotch OF the Cape Fear are as big
men as the Scotch Of the central
South. Men with English names like
Clarence Poe or Gen. Carr or d.. A.
Tompkins show their blood Just the
same as men of the same descent in
Massachusetts or Illinois.
More People The Need.
We want in North Carolina lots OF
Northern people, not because the
quality OF people in North Carolina is
lacking, but simply becaus the guam
tity is at fault.
big men Of the North. They are busy.
But we can make OF the stock we
have here just as big men as can be
made any where, North Caro-
lima has the blood, and North Caro-
lima has the training schools that are
making the trained and educated men.
1t is not necessary to refer to Dur
ham, for instance. as a big technical
school where manufacturing is system
atiZed, nor to WinstOn-Salem where
the Wachovia is teaching f.
nanciering, nor to the Durham South
ern where in a little school some big
lessons of raiiroading are the class
WI ", boi w hAiSh ~ 81 1870
like Fred Tate conduct al advanced
class in hustle. The school is in ses.
sion in every town and hamlet o,
North Carolina, teaching the brigh'
boys those things that are fitting then
TO be practical members of a grea
productive society.
The man who reads American his
tory does not go far until he sees tina
North Carolina has the stock, all right
And he does not ave to go Tar Owe
the State until he discovers that NOrtl
Carolina is playing practice game
every day in the year to bring tn
stock mp To proper efficiency for tn
big job of living and advancing.
&. \. Norwood a Type.
This ZONES To me as l get to put
ting the Bertillon measure OH @. a
Norwood. Norwood is a young char
l don know how many years he ha
lived. but he is a young chap. eve
if he has heard the thunder of a hun
dred years, which ! think is not ]ikel.
lie is one Of those young fellows VIII
will be young when they die OF oil
age. His edge is hollow-ground, tia
kim that ~Sharpens itself with just
little daily contact with the things
rubs against, and he is not an ise
lated type. He represents a lot {
men all over the State.
We sat there IL the bank talkin
about GoldSboro and Wayne count,
and with q man like him to do SON
OF the talking it is no hard task
understand why Wayne county
thriving.
Goldsboro shows the thrift. \ hun
bred thousand in a new Jail ar
court house and half as much mo-
in a new school house, the Grant o
flee building that will cost $40, 900, IL
Borden building to cost as much NOR
New houses all over town. n crow,
ing out beyond the boundary of II
town into the township. A water sly
tenn hat brings filtered water fro
Little river. Cotton mill. oil mil
knitting mills, fertilizer mills.
In the last five years banking asse
have fully doubled. There is one
the things. not always as quickly Sc
as the new buildings. but just rs 81
nihcant when il is seen.
There are two kinds Of banks. o
kin receives deposits and make LOAF
pays q dividend regularly TO its stoc
lnlJnrS and wnlld he haCnu if