The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-17
COUNTY PIONEERS THE,
WAY IN DIVERSIFIED FARMING,
Community Effort The Key 10 It's Success Example Not Yet Fully
Appreciated But The Idea Guiding IS Sure To Sweep the
State Sooner or Later
State Sooner or Later

the hams in the meat house. All t
through that country the farm houses
had cheese curing in the cellar or in
the dairy rooms. Over in to New York |
and ohio millions of cheeSes were
made from year to year, and from
the farm the business of making
cheese spread to little factories
around among the farms Butter
Factories sprung up in the same way.
MILK routes were eSta bliShed Cream
and milk checks became a common
source Of income at the farm at the
end Of the month.
That pile of cheese that ShufOrd
had to show at Montreal brought bacl,
this picture, and it also suggested
another one.
l look over the figures of produc-
ton in North Carolina and it is shows
that in this State the farmers in the
census year sold $4,000 pounds of
| cheese. Pennsylvania farmers the
same year sold 1,375,000 pounds. The
! factories Of Pennsylvania sold many
! million pounds, for today the cheese
is made in factories, just as much of
| the butter is. little cooperative fac
| tories such as are springing up in
| North Carolina, and such as indicate
| that some day we will see in this
| State some Of the old farm scenes
that come back to me in memory
from the Pennsylvania mountains Of
the Civil War days.
A map from the census department
| shows the distribution of dairy cattle
in the United States. Coming out of
| Ulster and Sullivan and Orange and
Duchess counties in New York, west
ward through the western Reserve in
Ohio, up into northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin is a heavy Shad-
ing showing the dairy industry. Lit
) tie old New York has a million and q
| half Of dairy cows. No other State IT
the Union has so many. North Caro-
lima is not in the belt that is heavily
. shaded as far as dairy cows is con
cerned. but it Is in another dark belt
one that shows the amount Of com
mercial fertilizer purchased each year
That belt does not set in at Ulster
, and Sullivan counties in New Yorl
and go to Wisconsin. On the fertil
, izer map the dairy cattle belt is al
, most white, and on the dairy cattl'
, map the fertilizer belt is almost white
!, The two do not infest the same terri
4 tory.
e State Makes Little Cheeee.
We make in North Carolina 5000
pounds Of cheese a year for two an'
! a half million people. Pennsylvania
9 turns out in year nearly as man
8 tons Of cheese as we make pounds
| new OIk uOcS Stlll UclAcI du
e neither Of these States knows wha
n commercial fertilizer stands for as w
a use it in North Carolina. The chees
Y sold in New York and Pennsylvani
Il would buy about ten million tons c
e fertilizer in year, but those folk
d do not put their money into fertilizer
e They do not have to. Catawba count
= has commenced to raise cattle. TIL
n outlay for fertilizer the year the Ger
e sus reports, was less than s80,0O'
? About forty counties of the State eH
ceed that, eighteen of them gOin
e above a quarter Of a million dollar
1t and one passing a million in its out
e lay New York and Pennsylvania gt
IS about four times as much in Gro
q value for the fertilizer used as Mort
Is Carolina did Catawba county SC
ID nearly as much from its small Outla
IS for fertilizer as some of the cOuntif
l. did for two or three times as muC
It fertilizer.
a Cattle Not Numerous Enough.
1t North Carolina reported 5000,
If dairy cattle to the census man, Ne
York five times as many. New or
and Pennsylvania together have abOl
at nine times as many dairy cattle ;
"a North Carolina Together their con
" mercial fertilizer bill does not eNcee
m that Of North Carolina. ToSeth'
- their farm products bring about thrt
,e and a half times what the farm crol
IT Of North Carolina brine. That Is o1
10 of the pictures that can be seen Whe
rv locking over that pile of cheese aT
# the lars Of butterr}ilh that Shufoi
le had at Montreal.
10 One day my small hoy came in wit
\ Ia n