The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-07

70 sell off some of the land TO men
who want to make farms; and ms
scheme is to put up a cheap ouiidlng
to house the new occupants MAKE .
price tina can be paid IN small IN
stallments until the man Is estao-
lished. and thus enable an
ambitious u man TO start on lhe
road toward getting a farm
How Settle the Country.
h discussion Of these subjects IS
becoming somewhat general all
through this section. and those who
want the country settled have come
to the conclusion that the settlement
is a task that hould invite
ity of action.
1t is suggested that the men who
will be most likely to make new
farms are the young men, n the
young men are in most cases men OF
little capital. Men who have capital
are likely to be men who are estab-
lished elsewhere, and they are not
the men to pull up to make a start
in a new country. Men OF means
| mean men of big farms, and big
farms mean hired hands or tenants,
Owners are more desired than hired
hands or tenants, for small Owners
make permanent and interested citi-
zenS.
So the desire is to get as many
owners as possible, and to get work.
ing owners means to get young men,
who are likely to be men OF limited
capital.
To induce such men to become farm
owners means to make it possible for
them to acquire small farms, n that
means a plan that will enable them
to make the one to pay for the
farm from the farm.
Several plans for financing these
small farmers have been proposed.
all Of them considering small annual
payments running over a reasonably
long period OF years, Zach payment
being sufficient to include the interest
and reduce the principal somewhat.
The argument offered in support of
such a project is hat it gives a safe
and rather permanent investment. as
the term Of payment a be extended
to five, ten,-fifteen, or whatever term
Of years is desirable. and h income
is as certain as almost any income
investment that can be made.
IT any Of these schemes can be put
in systematic shape and put before
the people of money it is thought the
result will be free investment, both
on account of the security as we'll as
the return, for the interest rate will
probably be better than the rate on
bonds, or other safe securities run
ming for q considerable length OF
time.
Highly Significant Sign.
:. There is no n sign more sisnif-
can to me of the changing attitude
Of North Carolina than this effort or
I. the part Of people to work out these
real problems. It is a part of the
: movement that is calling together a,
Raleigh next week men from all parts
j, of the State to take up the real prob.
q lens OF existence and of the pro.
gress of the State. It is the aggres.
2 sive impulse that is waking all OF tn.
= State from the mountains to the sea
. | have noticed it in New Bern, il
GoldsbOro. in Charlotte, in High Point
in every place l have been.
1t is h announcement tina il
!, North Carolina are live problems O
an intense character that are press
ing to the notice of the people, ant
that from this day IN new themes ar
to attract the attention Of men,
Rising up all over the State ar,
e men who are taking hold Of these new
questions. The remarkable report O
The Department Of Labor of tn
state. in which is shown the progress
made by the manufactures of tn
: State in the last fourteen years give
occasion for thinking men to tax
stock of what is coming.
- One day this week l was on tn
io train with DR.. A. J. Bethune, of Aber
deem, who had been looking over som
= land records OF his grandfather. I
C. his notes he a a memorandum Q
a sale Of eighty-two thousand acre
= of land for which two hundred dol
" lars a been paid. We were ridin
: over the land at the time. A milIio
. dollars would not buy it today. for
embraces a lot OF the best agricu,
~ tural land OF the South.
Some Of that and has a %speculatiy
n yal,,o apa in 70 4, 80 80,
ne uorth anv tbino ony noore 80 q
when Auchlin Bethune was gathe1
IL ing it in at a quarter of a CEN a
Il" acre. But lots of it is worth muc
honey because on it men are DR.
no ducing crops that bring money an
IS lard is bringing q CROW worth . -,
rst dred dollars an acre II &c -
.tI money now because men and CAN'T