The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-08

five miles out of town And | looked |
over his farm, forgetting all about |
him and his home and his business
relations, and thinking what that farm |
Lochmoor, might tell the farmers of |
North Carolina if they could see it and |
understand it.
l have no idea how Capt Parrish |
came to select the knob on which |
he lives as the place or his home |
Before him came another man who
had already picked the spot as suit
able, and there had pitched his tent
Capt. Parrish found the place and
improved on it by building a much
bigger house, celebrating on the plan,
and making it as attractive a spot
whereon to live as skill and good
Judgment could suggest.
LochmOor.
1t is hardly any use to undertake
| to describe the home at Lochmoor
| 1t is enough to say that it is hand
some house on a rise Of ground, with
| big oak trees shading roomy lawn
| which slopes down to the road which
| leads into town. The lawn is guilt
less of anything but trees and grass.
| 1t is q lawn. But off of the lawn are
| hedges of roses of all kinds and va
| rietieS. Climbing roses, tea roses,
monthly roses familiar old favorites
| fashionable new varieties, thousands
| of bushes, and hundreds of thousands
| OF blossoms, more roses than most
| people ever saw in one garden. Per-
hape there are twenty rods of hedges
of roses perhaps more, perhaps less.
| No matter. The fact is that long
stretches of roses line the fences, and
at the foot Of the rose bushes are
borders hundred Of feet long Of jon
quils and daffodils, and Of blue flags,
and Of other smaller flowers. Beds
of tulips and beds of poppies and
borders of sweet Williams, and bache-
lor buttons, and the old -fashioned d
flowers are there.
e 1t is a right big house, old-fash-
: ioned with some new-fashioned things
Running water all over the house
bath rooms, running water in the
e sleeping rooms. acetylene gas, opeT
Y fire places and furnace heat also
g these and other things are feature!
;. at Lochmoor Now do you know
: why I tell you about this countr,
home? Because it ought to be a,
e example to other people to ma.,'
4 more country homes like it. AS /.
4 pleasant home just outside Of Durham
Il a few miles this home is divertin,
It sight as viewed from the road. or a
n seen from the inside by the visito
> fortunate enough to share its hospi
1
II to make the ride out the road a.
is agreeable event. But it is as a Visio
Is of the future Of rural North Carolin
o that 1t is most interesting. Farmin
d at Lochmoor is an incident. Tn
:. main thing is the home. The occu
20 pant is a business man Of Durham
ID The friends and neighbors Of tn
70 Parrish household are Durham pee
le pie. They are Of Durham's socis
TO and industrial atmosphere. Thank
D. to three or four things Durham
I'd not confined to the city limits. wiz
a. is not cut off by feet in length, SO
IN telephone can reach to Lochmoc
ne farm as readily as to the fifth bloc
rs in the city good road is a di:
ry the country on a good road is NJ
e. much more than a half a mile or
mile. An automobile never argu'
about four or five miles on a smoot
,t. road SO a man who is in busine
nd in town can go five miles to h
r. home in the country in ten minut
is more than he can go mile or tv
no to his home in town. His wife ca
wv come to town in about ten minut
in more than it takes her to come dow
er from her home in town. COUNT
"a home is not out of town in the
IN days of good roads, automobiles, al
IN telephone wires.
~ Homes On Roads.
o. The deducation from this is that
ne is not to be long until city lii
he Durham is to be thanked on all Il
he good roads by homes Of the ty
ID which Capt. Parrish has offered
ma the pioneer eAaiipie' - 10 d
ws sonably safe guess that IN not MAJ
of years Durham is to be linked TO t
,s- country by a succession of handsor
homes occupying from two or thr
his acres to ten or fifty acres, lining eve
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