The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-11

all over the eastern section of the
old North State as we'll as in other
sections, as one of the most fertile
spots in the South, a section which
has proven itself to be almost as fer
ale as the far famed valley Of the
Nile.
Oriental. in itself is q town of good
~ proportion but in speaking of it,
me includes the whole section lying
for miles around. Just when Orien-
.al first came into being, no one seems
to know. Fifteen years or more ago
The writer paid his first visit to that |
Wonder-spot. At that time the old
seamer Neuse and the Ocracoke fur
nished the only means of reaching the
Town except via the country road
icading down from New Bern and
the semi-weekly trips of the boats
were of great interest to the citizens.
Their there were but few signs of
habitation there. Old man Lou
Midgette, better known all over the
county "a Uncle Lou" and Aunt
t'ecky, his estimable wife, conducted
the one and only holy in the place
and around this had sprung into be-
ing a church, a few stores and a few
houses and there the citizens lived,
plospered and were happy. However,
they did not know of the vast wealth
which lay at their door.
lIiit pdSSCu ny, IoOdDly I'VE years
sped into the dim past and the town
began to grow by leaps and bounds
as did the countryside around and
soon ii was a prosperous village inc
The hum of machinery was heard on
every hand. While being an excellent
place for the numbering business
O~riental's future lay in farming and
finally the efforts Of the major portion
of the inhabitants of the outlying sec
ton turned that way and today some
of the finest farms in the State are to
be found within half a mile of the
town.
RealiZing the advantages that the
Oriental section offered, progressive
men q few years ago built from New
Eern to that tow a railroad and this
opened that section to the world and
gave them al outlet to the market
aplaces of the State and nation. Then
it was that farming began in real
tarnestness. Truck farms sprang into
being on every side and it seemed
that everything that was planted
thrived in the rich soil and like Jack:
famous bean stalk grew overnight
1itto plants of marvellous size.
The fame of the section was broad
Casted over the whole country. Thu
Norfolk Southern Railway Compan.
who never lose and opportunity o
doing "A good work along this line
hay given that section great pub
licity and even at present are plann
ing to TAX there a party of home
seekers who are looking for a fertil
soil which can be made doubly pro
ductive by the use of s~cientifi
methods.
Anything that is planted in tina
wonderful country will grow. CottoI
corn, potatoes, tobacco and in fac
any plant life thrives on the rio
black loan N produces crops thu
cannot be surpassed. This sort c
condition exists all over Pamlic
county. On up the lines from Orier
tai, past A~shwood, on to Stonewa
and Bayboro, the county seat, u
through the Alliance section and o
40 Olympia the same sort of rich SO
as to be found and the farmers theI
have only to till the land a little
the spring to pluck from it at harve;
time the bounty of it's richness.
Oriental individually and PamliC
county as a whole is a wonderful Sc
ton and one to which the seek
after wealth from agricultural pu
suits, could not find surpassed if I
were to ravel across this broad CO.
tinent and to visit there and see IL
vast possibilities lying at hand is &
that one desires to convince the
That the section in the FL Dorado
Eastern North Carolina.
In Craven County.
We had at first intended to tell on
of Oriental and of Pamlico count
but these two names, coupled Wi
hat of vast agricultural riches are
the writer synonymous with Crav
county and what it has to offer
this line. Craven is annexed
Pamlico and the same conditi
which prevails in the latter will
found in the former and in a w
Craven has gone her sister cour
several better by adopting more pl
Sressive and scientific methods
farming and of being more idea
situated. In this county will be fou
some of the largest as we'll as I
finest farms in the State. In the p