The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-17
CataWba County Pioneers the
Way In Diversified Farming
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lina's cotton crop each year. And
because we do not make enough cot
ton to pay the bill in a raw state a
Tot Of il has to b. manufactured and
"A lot of lumber, and furniture and
other things have to be made and
sent North and West to help make up
what cotton lacks OF paying for the
things we buy from other farms that
Catawba county is starting to make
for itself.
Example of immense Value.
don't imagine we appreciate the
value of the example Catawba is set
ting, or that Catawba realizes the
magnitude of the work it is laying
out for all of the State. The COM
munity effort that has started up
there is one thing that is bound to
sweep North Carolina sooner or later,
sooner in some sections, n more
slowly in other sections but once a
thing of that sort is begun it car not
stop.
The other thing that is coming out
OF Gaia VIDA is the butter factory, the
cheese factory and the keeping of
cattle and more farm stock Of all
sorts. The successful farming COun-
tries nave always been farming coun-
tries where cattle were plentiful.
Wheat is the greatest of all human
foods. 1t does not thrive best on the
virgin SollS VI lIt III les VI -
but on the old farms of the countries
where the land has been titled for
years and generations. The average
yield Of wheat in Germany for TWEEN
ty years has been 81 bushels in Great
Britain 80. in the United States less
than ID. But the average in the Uni
ted States is rising. In 1890 it was
il bushels. in 1900 II bushels, in 1910
13 bushels. We are moving the
wheat fields from the ranges to the
cultivated farms where cattle are
raised and are moving the cattle from
the range to the cultivated farms.
The farm that raises cattle will
raise other things successfully, and it
will be a permanent farm. That is
one Of the lessons Catawba is i'm
pressing on the State with its cat
tie, its butter and it's choose. | am
not very good at figuring out the
relative value of things so I would
hate to say hat that little pile OF
cheese Shuford had at Ontreat is
worth more than a million dollars
yet perhaps it is. 1t will show some
other farmer that he can make
cheese as good as can be made any
place else and that other farmer will
show another one. and so the infection
will spread.
Dairy products $5,79O. 600 is wha.
the census said for this State in 1910
That is about two dollars and a hal
ahead, and not enough to run tn.
average head very long. Two and
half pounds of butter apiece. a gallon
of milk for each of us, and % pound:
of cheese to divide between 300 O
MS for the years rations. North Caro-
lima is a right good market for tn,
dairy.
| have no idea that the ok Of tn,
State are going to turn from cOttol
mr. fnIn ann q 81 l@A,- @l-
agriculture and take to the notion o
stock farming all of a sudden. /
man likes to do the thing he is famil
lar with. and in that he usually sue
ceeds better than in something q
which he is ignorant. But it is eviden
that the dairy cow and the beef co,
are going to drift into wider area
Than the cream routes of Catawba
Here and there the farmer will get
COW or two and a silo will go up. an
the cream separator man will com
with his implements and his vile
where the separator is not sold h
the local hardware man, and grad
ua1ly the COW will be q more prom
nent factor. But if we work the thin
right North Carolina will be invade
by dairy men from other States VIII
know how to make butter and chees
and who are eager for a good ma
ket like we have here. and who al
eager Tor a SOOd dalrVlnS country lii
we have here and for a good climar
and Il good place to live and do bus
ness.
This State could take care of a hun
dred thousand dairy farmers this yea
and be ready to ask for more by II
time the bunch had settled.
II would hurry that number
catch up with the demand for dali
products that now has to be supple
willy i'm nnrfafinn frop, I+Ln. Cto+<
importationS sometimes gilt-edge
some times no edge at all. The ma.
nitude of the market for dairy pr
ducts in this state would not be a
lowed to go a minute if it was a ma
ket FOR shoes, or tools, or Somethil
that the organized and systematic,
big industries of the country make.
Catawba is showing North Carolil
what to do with sweet potatoes. He
is the great sweet potato State of t