The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-11

simply set down as being as good as
wheat
New Interest in Wheat.
The United States is the greatest
wheat-producing country on the
globe From the beginning this coun-
try has been caring for its own needs !
and helping to supply those le cor
tunate counties of the old wOr-I
cannot feed themselves. Our v
| has been made in the past largely |,
pushing forward into the new ground
! Of the North and West. That day has
| ended. New lands in the new West
| are ended. Wheat from now on will
| have to be made in increasing Quanti-
! ties on the older farms. North Caro-
! lima has been feeling the Influences of
| advancing wheat prices, and the State
| has taken q new interest in wheat
| some Of the records proving a sur
| prise to wheat growers who have been
| content with the low average yield in
the United States. The Piedmont
| country Of North Carolina has found
| that its substantial clay soil is unusual
| wheat land, and more and more each
day the culture of wheat is spreading
over the hill counties.
Lincoln, along with the other cOun-
ties in the foothills has lot of fine
wheat fields this year. While this is
gratifying, to the observer it is signifi-
cant in this one fact It shows that
| before long a far greater wheat in
duStry is to be established. The high
cost of living means that more wheat
must be raised. No other food pro-
duct provides SO much of nOurishme Mt
: at SO small cost as wheat, and even
though wheat should so much higher
, than it is the same is true. Wheat
will be called for in increasing guam
l titles as long as population increases
for wheat will fill the bill at a lower
2 cost than probably anything else that
2 can be made. So wheat will have tc
1 be provided more and more each year
, It takes about 60O,OO0,00O bushels OF
e | wheat a year to run this country now
= That quantity is increased on an aver
s age by ten million bushels a year
t Thirty years ago our demands were
f but half as much. The constant cry
a is for more wheat, both at home and
abroad, Wheat is one Of the crops
t North Carolina must make in greater
= abundance, both for local use and fol
r relief to the world wide requirements
s North Carolina must make more whea
# because the State can make it, and car
Il make it in great quantities.
Il Turning Attention To Cattle.
. Wheat farming is not an isolated
y manner of farming, for it invites di
~ versification. The wheat man in
!, clines to things that go with wheat
- and one of the chief things is cattle
- Lincoln, and the counties round about
- are turning to cattle Recently mucl
" talk has been heard over the count.
about cream routes. Lincoln is
neighbor of Catawba, where many ex
periments have been tried in connec
Ie ton with many things. and success
It has resulted on all sides. Catawb
d has made name for good butter. Ca
le tawba farmers are operating coop
g erative schemes that are provin
z. profitable. Catawba is setting man
le patterns and the surrounding coun
er ties are observing what Catawba i
is doing. The cream route infaction ha
N spread to Lincoln. Farmers are be
in ginning to buy separators and to bull
a. silos. Lincolnton is talking Of build
e, ing a creamery. But whether tn
y creamery comes at once or come
~ later, for it is certain to come som
n time, the cream route has started tn
Id development of dairying. The crear
t route now gathers the cream for tn
o. dairies of Catawba county. Crear
r from many Lincoln farms is made int
Id gi1t-edged butter over in Catawb b
te county, and the money for butte
Sc comes back to the Lincoln farms.
n does not matter so much where tn
It. butter is made. The chief thing
Ii where the cream is produced.
IN Lincoln farmers are taking an II
ly creasing interest in cattle and othe
ny live stock. They are taking an ii
d. creased interest in Improvement
ed their farms. They are taking an ir
is creased interest in wheat. hay an
vn pasturage crops. Lincoln count
at farmers are looking into the question
ID of farm economy and farm efficienc,
On and a lot of st ldious farmers al
al leading in experiments that the Who
lie Of the county will follow as fast 6
ng