The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03

the time nosing into affairs to see
where ne can lend the banks money to
somebody who is going To do business
with it. AS the Irishman said about
his neighbor, this kind Of a bank IS
Just as good as the other and better,
too. You find this sort s%prinkled here
and there over the State, and where
YOU find them you generally find m
body trying to get something nder-
way, and where you find people try
ing to get under way you find some
body in motion.
Where the banking assets double in
five years you must have a m
ity that is pretty near all graveyard
unless some other things expand at
the am time.
Why Wayne Is Flowing Ahead.
OF curse ] had TO ask MI. Norwood
why Wayne county is blowing ahead
at the gait it has struck, and he Of
fered several excuses for this new
speed. Possibly the most important
one is the better method OF farming.
Within recent years the yield OF corn
has nearly doubled, not in doubling
the acreage but in getting double the
amount from an acre. Where a man
by more aggressive methods can dOu-
bic the amount of product from his
plant, and at the same time not mate
rally increase the cost Of production,
it is las to see that that man has
to get a new pocket in his jeans to
store his money. The improved yields
of corn are brought about by the use
of more improved machinery on the
farms whereby one mar can do nor
work and do it at less expense. The
Introduction OF improved machinery
works two ways. 1t increases the crop
yield at a reduced expense. and it slim
ulateS the Introduction Of more i'm
proved machinery. It was harder to
sell the first two horse pillow in Wayne
county than it is to sell 3 dozen OF
them now. The first man TO buy and
try a new thing is a pioneer ventur-
ing on an uncertain sea. After he has
made one successful voyage and
charted the waters everybody is will
ing to watch his progress and E few
will follow him. Among the most
helpful missionaries on earth are the
new farm implements to the farm
ers and encourage the use Of them.
Tendency Is To Smaller Farms.
Another thing that Mr.. Norwood
regards as a factor in the progress
Wayne county is making is the ten.
dency to subdivide the farms into
smaller holdings. In the county are
something over four thousand farms
N they average about eighty acre:
to the farm. Only one in ten of al
the farms Of the county has a hundred
and seventy-five acres in it. TIL
? means that hundreds OF men are run
ming from two to ten plows, and sucl
J, men are right behind the plOwS Wit
the mar who owns the farm running
the pillow himself. or remaining il
close contact with the man who run
: it, the farm it pretty sure to be sue
cess.
r With the small farm operate,
largely by the man who owns it come
= the second factor that is maxim
Q Wayne county "a prosperous farr
o section. The crops are divided. Cot
ton is the chief crop OF the count,
running round thirty thousand bales
Three or four million pounds of to
bacco is produced. a large acreag
OF land is given up to trucking crop:
Under improved methods of farmin
n almost a million bushels of corn
made a year.
These things give the farmer
0 flexible product. and an enviable il
d come. They make a lot of bushes
for the towns, Of which Goldsboro
a the principal one of the county. a
though several thrifty little place
are doing a lot Of business in ever
" quarter of the county. The Southern
the Coas Line and the Norfol
e Southern are in Goldsboro, and the
y, find a lot of traffic out in five dire
le tions. With the building OF the Du
% ham Southern from Dun to NJ
Is Olive and the possible extension
the projected line to Sever Spring
n no farm in Wayne county will
I'd much more than eight or ten mil
re from a railroad, and few of them
f. fas as that. The county is We
lie equipped for easy transportation
e. its products.
Wayne county is feeling the benefi
ne Of the price Of tobacco. 4 lar,
s. crop is planted, and the high pric
IN have brought good money to Il
Is, farmers. Yet cotton is not forgotte
for while tobacco is a profitable err
,ts when it is profitable, the old Fo.
or ~Grandpaps OF agriculture insists tn
en cotton is the surest crop il the lol
g run n they do not care TO lea
the dependable staple for any Of {
new idols, except with a string {
rs, tached TO the change. So the conse
K vative farmer goes ahead planting I
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