The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
KINSTON A CITY INDICATIVE
OF LIFE, ENERGY, AND COMFORT
Live Thrifty Place Typical of the Best the Country AT
fords in Enterprise and Progress-In Center o.
Bunch Of Rich Counties

situation becomes critical. With the
fActory compelling the farm to in
crease It's production. and taking
away the hands that must increase
or even hold the production the case
Is desperate. Before we go any fur
ther we might as we'll make a note
or two or three significant changes
Comparing the census Of 1900 with
1910, l1enOir county finds that it's
land values increased in the ten years
two and half times the values -
building on the farms of the county
doubled. the value OF farm animals
doubled, and the increase averaged
years on all farm property Of the
county. That same rate Of Increase
held all over the entire State of
North Carolina. AS it was general
throughout the State, and not mere
| " local in Lenoir county, this co,ln
| ty may as Well serve as an illustra-
| ton, and that illustration may as well
| be taken as State wide in its arpli
| .,Gt.on.
| klnston is growing at a marvellous
rate. It's buildings are modern and
| handsome, it's streets are in good
! shape, its public onveniences are up
| to date. it's schools are models, its
| commerce is running away with it
| self, business is good on all hands,
ing their products, the factories are
busy, the future is extremely bright.
| Then we come to the fly i'll the
ointment.
This thing has progressed to such q
point that more people are necessary
to do the work. Lenoir is not a big
county. It has about 100000 acres.
Not many Of the farms are big. Three
| fourths Of all the farms haye less
| than nIJn6rod oonI1 ThnV
! are right we'll divided into tracts
small enough to handle. The land
! runs i'll the neighDOrhOOd Of twenty
TO twenty-five dollars an acre on ar
average, some considerable higher
some lower, but most Of it within req
| son.
There is hardly a farm III Lemon
| county that could not produce foul
times what it does. There is hardly
: farm in I.enoir county but wha
, would like to produce four times
; what it does. The farmer would lik'
: to increase his product. The factor.
would like to see it increased. IN
5 Warehouseman would like TO see l
9 increased. The business men woul'
} like to see it increased.
2 But where are the people TO tarI
1 four times as many acres as ar
: farmed?
t Lenoir County.
4 I.enoir county is increasing i'll pop
ulation, although at not rapid gait
This increase is felt most prominent
ly in the increase in the values Q
q land That increase i'll land value
q shows the demand for land. The de
e mand for land is the beginning Of
:. serious problem. for it is a probleT
e bigger than Lenoir. bigger tina
$ North Carolina, bigger than the Who'
u United States, for it is world wide.
it And that gets US back to the Pole
l. and Italians who have been eXclsli
IS discussion at kinston.
II The United States is tillinS UP.
is noticeable that as there is a df
e mand for people to work in iactorle
Is in North Carolina and for North Cal
Y. olina farm stuff fewer North Caroll IN
l. peopIe go West The westward move
is rnent is also checked by the uiling u
y of the West which leaves less induce
y nent for people from thlS state
le turn in that direction.
re This filling up Of the West is bour
Sc TO throw the wave Of migra ton -
Il ward North Carolina because here is
Mt demand for people. Pretty soon
to will not be necessary for this state
n hunt for Immigrants. Inc oVer1io
o. will run this way It VIII run IN
ne way because Alnston mas an opetil g.
for men. Here business man can III
ne opportunity, and laboring men, al
w farmers. and professional men, a.
w men in every calling.
ry Lenoir county has changed ~
~, high speed In the county are sou
of nvcentional advantages. Here IS
C fortunate section which has tE1 st
re Die commodities that can be Fais
ry on q large scale. These are topac
So and cotton. Did YOU ever thlnk VA
nd such a two-string bow means
noir county can turn eScltsIEelt
notton IL tobacco proves unsatisIa
5. 49, or exclusively to tobacco II &C
he fCortin,ed on I.ee Twelve