The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-24

lle STALKS SO close III the row that !
1t IS like a juncle in the marshes in |
lts abundance, and all promising to :
make good ears. I wandered out
over the county considers BILE. and T |
think I IS safe TO say that / have seen !
in Sampson more corn fields that look |
like record makers than have ever
seen aHE whore else on the earth !
This is right broad claim but it
strikes ne that Sampson may safely
go on r cord as q county that can CON
tdent!y enter 2 race FOR acreage OF
yield Of corn with any county whera
corn IS cultivated. L at any time a
test should be made OF the possible
production "f a hurdred 500, 1,G90
10000 Or 10000 acres Of corn and
Sampson should enter the contest
would look for Sampson to be either
at the wire at the finish or close
enough to see the winners heels
They still market about $150, ,000
worth OF huCkleberries a year here,
and more things than you can think
OF or every conceivable kind, but they
make corn, cotton pork, and things
of that sort the big crops Farmers
! out in the big world might take cour-
age from the fact that Sampson gets
| lot Of money from selling the seed
| Of that nuisance the Jerusalem oak,
| thus making the field pest pay its
board if it determines not to leave.
| With the way they are developing g
| Things 1t may not be surprising to tell
| that the time merchant is an institu-
ton not familiar in Clinton, for the
| people are financing themselves
Sampson was not unduly excited over
| the buy a-bale Of cotton movement
last fall, or the warehousing system
| with money borrowed from the North
Sampson has three banks. the Bank
Of Clinton, the Bank Of Sampson and
the Bank Of Roseboro, and these
banks have average deposits of about
half a million dollars, which is loaned
to the thrifty farmers as the money
, is needed. They have never borrowed
, money Of any amount outside tht
county until last fall some outside
: help was called on to carry the cottor
crop by the banks, which institutions
saw 5000 bales through in bonded
warehouses while the farmers them
f selves carried as much more.
r The reason for this state of affair
is that Sampson is quietly maxim.
I about 10000 bales of cotton a year
1 100000 pounds of tobacco and rnea
and corr to sell to markets outside 0
, the county. Sampson has ambition
: now to make Of Clinton a corn marke
just as it is a cotton market and t
q have here in the fall a vast surplu
4 stock of corn to attract buyers an
4 make the town one Of the grain mar
9 kets of the South.
n Little Bonded Debt.
n This agricultural progress is might
: gratifying, but it is not what caugf
my eye. Here is a giant with an as
Ii sessed valuation of $10,0O0,00O an
p it has a bonded debt of about 500
g 900 for all purposes 1t is buildin
q roads. building schools, fostering a
y manner of improvements and doin
IL it from current taxes. And when
e say improvements Sampson is maxim
e improvements. and showing the re-
u of the State lot Of things that al
n worth while. Or it would be shown
lr the State if the State saw what
{ going on quietly down here in tI
Il huckleberry country.
~ / don't know how these things g
PC started. but in Sampson they seeme
"A to break out with virulenCc all Ov'
10 the county at once. and several OF tt
% ailments at the same time. COmlI
If out to Clinton from the railroad
40 KOSeboro a choice of routes ALLOW
rs the traveller TO go little out OF n
NJ Uav and como bv Salemburg. al
when he reaches Salemburg he IS
once impressed with the fact that
+ has encountered novelty Salen
at burg is one of the model cOnmInitl
a Of the country. | believe the first
10 he established in the nlt2d state
ar and is the pioneer OF ne" l0ed.
ds q set Of new ideas, or nobody can e
No exactly what. Salemburg * the
I'd lustration Of that doctrine winch ar