The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-07

But this year it is stock farm.
Cotton Out of TO-
Mr. Holderness has not wholly quit |
cotton. He has another operation on /
the Dunbar farm where along with |
800 acres of peanuts and 800 acres Of |
corn he has 400 acres of cotton At
Dunbar he has partners. so that he is |
not operating it as completely by him
self as he is his own FARMS but the
Dunbar plan of four acres of ten in
cotton IS not going to a cotton ex
treme 1t IS about as near diversif-
cation as YOU can conveniently get
But Mr.. Holderness tells me that
| he Is not the real type Of diversified
farmer of this section. He points out
Perry Jenkins as the diversification
man. Mr. Jenkins has herd of
! about 100 cattle which he is RAPIDLY
| making into Aberdeen-Angus by the
process of wedding out the others and
adding Angus animals by breeding
| and buying. He is feeding some 800
hogs. and just now he is doing good
business selling pigs for barbecue for
this section Of the good old U. S. A
| certainly does find pleasure in turn
! ing out to a barbecue, a job that they
just as certainly know how to touch
off in the proper style. Jenkins also
diVersifies in cotton, corn, peanuts, soy
beans, fruit, his peach orchard being
one of the biggest in the eastern part
of the State. Unfortunately the bark
beetle has been doing a lot of harm
in the orchard this year, and so fa1
nothing has been found to check it
But Farmer Jenkins has sold a lot OF
peaches from his orchard as we'll as
; a lot of other things from every de-
, partment of his farm. AS Mr.. Holder
!, ness says, There is a man who has
. something to sell from his farm every
ic
ample of diversified farming. for he
has money coming in all the time"
:, Plenty Of Diversiication.
9, L Kept falling over examples of di
. versified farming, but I don't recall
= more interesting exhibit than out a
the c. B. Keech farm. Mr. Keech i
, one Of a bunch of big farmers VIII,
: raise various things, cotton, peanuts
+ hogs, soy beans and I don't know
- what all, but I do know we had som
q Watermelons at the place that locke,
n as big around as small saw logs Blu
v after the watermelons it was corn
4 was interested in at that farm Cut
3 ting the farm is p big drainage cana
\ and the corn that f1anks that canal i
r scandalous to look at. For distanc
of about nine miles they tell me
almost continuous corn field a cor
s field that must remind you Of thos
g thrifty seven years in Egypt in whic
le the corn was heavy in the head to pre-
u vide for the current wants and
III lay up a supply against the seve
T. long and dreary years of famine ths
f. were to follow. OF course the cor
~ of the Egyptians was not the India
81 corn or eastern North Carolina, but
1e drive down the roads in this corn SCI
re ton corn filing the landscape almo
III IN an unbroken sweep until earth an
lg sky meet in the distance. corn of tf
re most perfect type, corn in enlesS pre-
Il fusion, until you wonder what in tt
re world will become of it all, is a prett
n of North Carolina.
L But the assessor has just mentiOne
ur to me that he has counted on the ta
ne lists some 10000 hogs, and he int
10 mates that when the assessors wel
es making the lists some may have e
nd away under the fences and escape
It the count. That 10000 will ha'
oy something to say about the supp
90 when the corn is harvested. Anoth
lie, thing transpired that has a bearing
or the game. The other day ue
ce drove into town and sold two wage
NO loads of corn, shelled and sacked {
is the same day Mr.. Holderness shippt
90 a car of sheep to Baltimore. He al
re sold a car of hogs in Baltimore al
ng they brought Sis more on the L
er pounds than hogs were selling for
lst Chicago Within day or two n
at gro tenant was in Tarboro with s
p barrels Of -four to sell from his sur
od mer crop.
Farm Improvement Gradual.
a All these things that are happenil