The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14
FORGETTN NOT, Sill IER CITY SMORF
THAN RABBIT HAMS AND LUCKY FEET
1t Nearly Beats the World Eggs and Poulty Has Two
Flour Mills, Cotton Mill Furniture and Washboard
Factories, and Other Things

wheat
The two mills are not kept busy al !,
the time on flour grown on the farms |
of the Immediate vicinity. Wheat |
comes from neighbOrhood counties. 3,
AS | stood on the platform at the Rab-
bit mill a car was discharginG its load
of wheat from a South Carolina border
county into the mill elevator From
the wheat belts for miles around the
grain comes to Siler City mills and is
made into flour some TO be returned
to the shipper, some TO be sold to the
mills and disposed OF in ways 10 suit
the farmer who sends il.
But wheat is not the whole thing
| in the Siler City community. Corn IS
| a conspicuous crop this year, as it al
ways is, and the quantity and quality
| Of the grain afford evidence that farm
| ers up here will not go to the railroad
station for their corn bread any more
than they will for their wheat -four
| The farmers of this part of the
| State are diversifying and making
things that they can sell or can eat
| as the occasion requires. The town IS
| keeping up by diversifying in its in
dustries, for it is not only a market
town for the farmers. 1t is also a
producing town. The flour mills turn
| out product worth probably $50
600 year. That brings a steady flow
l y
round. 1t is a dependable industry,
for flour comes under the old adage
that describes things as good as old
wheat"
But Siler City has three establish
ments that are unique. One is a cot
ton mill. 1t is interesting because
when it was started it set out to make
a speciality in yarn. 1t has made that
peculiar yarn steadily, and today. if
that type of yarn is needed it is called
/ for as Siler City yarn, and no other
yarn is good when that particular va
, riety is wanted 1t is Of a kind used
for some sort of embroidery, / believe
: That kind Of industry is too deep for
! me, and I have not posted myself on
> it. But it is enough to say that it is
J a special fabric, and the Siler City mill
3 has built up a reputation for origi
> mating it and making it, and you
!. might as we'll try to put on the play
Of Hamlet without the ghost as tc
! try to sell this sort of yarn if it die
), not come from Siler City. And the
e Siler City cotton mill will continue
2 to make it's specially till the leaves o.
the judgment book unfold, If nothing
= out Of the ordinary interferes, for it il
[ a product that is reputation in 1t
n self
: Brentwood Furniture Factory.
y Another Siler City creation is tn
V | Dent WOOO prOOuCC. IIllS DeuI "OOt
d project is a strictly Yankee evolution
g The Yankee is a chap who probabl.
e never saw that indefinite region sup
: posed to contain the indefinite crea
ture, the Yankee, until he was wei
= along in business for he was an engi
y ner on the Aberdeen and Ashebor'
q railroad for years until he was over
r come by his Yankee instincts an
IF turned his back on the throttle an
# semaphores to dive into an unknow
e usineSs.
It "a little chap five feet, nnetee
y inches high, Boiling is, the funn
e men of Siler City tell you when the
" take YOU down to the shop to Sh0N
" YOU the bent wood factory. And yo
can easily believe the nineteen lnche
part Of the statement. and lot {
Is other things they tell about him. fO
lr when YOU find a man five feet an
IN nineteen inches high 1t IS enough I
Of base a lot of fairy tales on. May Q
20 this Joke is wasted on you. and yO
lie do not understand that Boiling IS 8
Il. most a foot higher than the aVerae
re grown person. They told me lots
IT Jokes about him. that he could NJ
le run on the northern roads because t
m could not go through tunnels Wlth0l
ut iukine. and all that sort OF stun. Dl
in when | found him l GaW | had foun
at a man who is really 4 big one.
at Any way he has one & the most II
,d teresting factories l ever saw, and
,e I am ANYTHING of a guesser il will !
is five fect nineteen inches h9A hel'i