The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-28
BICN I'll. BUTLER.

Maxlon, Sept 25.--"It is a JOY to |
ride out through the country and see !
the long sweetening and the busy cane !
mills on every road" said the genial |
old Scottish Chief" and his testi- |
mony was supplemented by the
Drowned batter cakes on the table for
breakfast at Major McKinnon's, cakes
thai came from the mill down the
road, which had ground flour from
the farm.
Folks in Robeson are living at
home these days" said Major Mckin-
non. People have all the -four need
90, all the corn, all the meat. and if
anybody has any supplies to buy I
don't know of it outside Of a few saw
mill men, and they can be supplied
from local products"
They have been singing the Heart
Bowed Down" around here in the past
year, but notice a tendency to change
the music and supplement the good
old tune, There's a Land That is
farer Than Day and the glooms are
getting out of the way of the joys.
Robson got her jolt on the low
cotton of last year, but nobody seems
10 have died from starvation, and now
that the war is over again the COM
munity begins to smile ones more,
and with the glooms dispelled they
appear to see lot of encouragement
ahead. Taking it all around much Of
the trouble was in a wrong count. A
good deal of the hurt was simply
scare. and Robson Is coming out
with the band playing, and the colors
high in the air.
Cotton Crop OF.
The cotton crop is expected to be
guesses, which will indicate about So
900 bales. This is not as bad as it
looks. To begin with a big cut in the
fertilizer bills mean cotton at prob
ably less cost. Then it is to be re-
membered, that the crop is made or
the best land. the poor land being
dropped out Of the running. and the
yield to the acre will not be 50 bat
as might be expected. The cottor
crop will probably be more profitable
TO the farmer for the acreage planted
than any crop in a long time.
More profit will come to the farmel
through better methods Of marketing
1t is said that the old fall-time earl.
arrival, Mr.. Distressed Cotton. will
not be as conspicuous a sight thi
year as in the usual run of harves
seasons, for the farmer has not s.
many bills to pay, and he has no
loaded his cotton with as many debts
He has made more stuff to feed him
self and stock and he is not pushe
as hard by maturing obligations.
1t is gratifying to note the change
tone that has come over the State
and here in the cotton market is on
of the most pronounced utterance
that I have heard. Cotton is comm
IN right freely now, and the advanc
ing market has inspired confidenc
that the winter is to be a good on,
There is something In the air tha
seems to be infectious. The peopl
are confident of the future. They ar
standing out for a price for their CO.
ton, and the determination Is givin
stiffens their backbones. Yet enoue
cotton Is moving to scatter som
money in the county, and that is stin
ulattng business. There is an a.
sumption now that out of the dar
clouds Of last fall and winter a perm:
hent benefit is to come, and 1 saw tt
signs which these people use in the
conjuring
New Conditions Arrives.
Editor Harker's constant discover
Di new fields Of long Sweetening as y
rode over the country with Major M
hlnnon was one of the assurances TIL
q new condition has arrived. I'll
lana that was not planted in cote
mas been given to something else.
stflklng feature of the new day is Il
Dig crop of sofa beans that the coun
collectively will harvest. Here al
there are men who have been tryil
out new things. SOFA beans happen
have found favor in many section
and the crops that have come W
Iasten the sofa bean on Robson cou
,y Tor keeps. The experiments tn
nave been made this wear show a r