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

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as much as our tobacco crop. Yet
Michigan is just a little bigger in acre
age than North Carolina. Not a u
~ in Michigan is As favored as Gran
vile county, or any one OF several ofh-
er counties in North Carolina Indiana
is a State about two-thlrds the size OF
North Carolina and it makes a grain
crop worth almost as much as our en-
tire crop of everything. The state
with two-thirds the land we have.
makes twice as much stuff on the
farms. Indiana's meat crop brings
twice as much money as our cotton
crop, lint, seed and all. Indiana is
another State that gets more from
her poultry han we get from our to-
bacco crop. Yet we have a mild eli
mate far better dapted to poultry
than Indiana Granville county has
a quarter Of a million acres Of land
tina is ideal for making meat, and
poultry and dairy products. and grain
and fruit, and you al go through
pretty near the hole list Of ordinary
farm products and include all of
them. Yet with 25O,OO0 acres carried
| along in idleness with the overhead
charges for the $4,000 used, North
Carolina buys meat, flour, grain, but
| ter, fruit, and / have no idea what
all, and in spite of the fact that North
Carolina peaches were the standard
at the jamestown Exposition, n
North Carolina apples have gon as
| far from home as Oregon and Wash
ington and won first prizes from I'M
der the nose Of the famous apples Of
| the Pacific Coast, apples that are sold
in this country and abroad.
Market FOL Stuff Needed.
Without improving her methods Of
farming Granville could add about
500 per cent to her farm products if
all the land Of the county could be
placed in the hands of people who
could find for their stuff a market at
the towns of Granville or the neighbor
counties. OF if the farm Demonstration
keeps on he hopes to increase the
yield of Granville county by increas-
ing the production Of every farm
worker and every farm animal.
One thing that struck me in Gran
vile is their fair project. The county
holds a fair. Each community is to
hold a little fair, or gather up articles
for competition, and the county fair is
to be shown the progress hat every
section of the county is making. Then
when the county fair has determined
the comparative merits Of the things
shown it is the intention to take over
to the State Fair at Raleigh the cream
Of the exhibit to show the whole State
W LIZ IN V14o1S >oU1A(y VI Nj Ill L
can do. The fair association officers
are encouraging the farm demonstra-
tor and the superintendent Of schools
to get the old folks and the youne
folks full of enthusiasm in making
Granville county look we'll at the coun.
ty and State Fair, and the people O.
the whole county are joining hands
to help the move along. In all such
schemes that come up the Commercial
Club ends a hand, and this stimuli
aids in lmpresSing on the county the
vast possibilities that are ahead. Really
the big thing in developing Granville
county is in getting the people to real.
ize what they have here.
Good Place To Anchor.
: Oxford is a honey old town. It i
. principally modern. yet somewhat an.
5 cient, and the big trees hat han.
over the fine houses are likely to b,
q mighty strong arguments to a strange,
e that where trees grow like these is
\ good place to anchor himself. Wher,
e trees stand throughout the countr,
n the home maker can ALWAYS find
n building site, n a building site b,
the side Of two Or three trees that cas-
s a shadoW over a space as big as
q town lot is one of the first requisite
q for a real Eden. Oxford has goo,
h churches and schools, and one of tn
e sound bits of wisdom uttered the othe
e HlSHt DIT tue commercial Club was tn
u adV1ce CT one of the town men that a
e the town had good school, houses
q would be a good stroke Of business fo
the town to whirl in and help get goo
Il schools in the count from the Virgini
/ line to Wake county.
The town has a variety Of industrie.
is with It's shops and factories, it's sub
W stantlal rural territory, its farm posi-
bllltles, its good roads and conven
= fence To every u-h0ro nvfo~1 --ya
be a right thrifty member of Mort
Re Carolna,s industrial household in tn
20 days to come.
/ has thrived on tobacco. ]
he can add another farm feature in graf
id ana nay and sustain a population 2
~ ois as us TOBACCO population. It ca
w add a dairying feature and srstai, -
at many more people as are now rais;n
IS. tooacco. 1t can raise fruit, and veef
tables and an unlimited list of thine