The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-20
Harnett Gets North Carolina
Idea of Starting Something
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Of the county disliked to ferry across
the river and then drive several miles
out into the country, SO they asked
that the county pitch its seat or JUS
tice on the banks Of the stream. Sum-
merville gave up it's dream and L1il-
ington took the place at the head OF
the table.
LittlerOn's Renaissance.
For a long time Ellington was
restful sort of a place, and pastoral
| in it's temperament. The coming or
| the Raleigh and Southport Railroad
| fired the old town with an ambition
Then came the Western and Atlantic
road. and Ellington is confident that
| it's friends have arrived. There is
pretty good evidence that it is only
a question of a brief time until this
| road will push on toward the east,
and it's ultimate destination is the
coast. The folks at Ellington have
| information that leads them to ex-
pect the work Of construction to be-
gin almost any time.
Harnett county is finding a good
deal of satisfaction in its neighbor-
| hood relations. To start with there
is Dunn in the southeast Of the coun-
| ty, which is a mighty wide awake
| member itself. Dunn has grown and
| thrived in recent years and is now big
enough so that it compares other
places with itself, and people on the
| outside of the county are beginning
to confess that they know where this
| progressive Harnett county town of
| Dunn is. Dunn is setting a creditable
| pace for the more conservative region,
and the feeling is extending out over
| the township lines. From Dunn has
come down into the cotton counties
a story Of prosperity during the dull
| days after the war broke out last fall
| in Europe. Folks in the cotton belt
| have heard from time to time Of the
farmers up in the Dunn region with
rolls of currency sticking out of their
| boot tops, and sheafs of tobacco taint-
ed money salted down in hogsheads
until their prosperity is scandalous.
or course this may be exaggerated.
but to the folks in the Slough Of
Despond last winter any kind Of pros
perity looked fabulous
Fuquay a Live One
Then up across the border is
Fuquay Springs. Fuquay is another
place that came out of the woods and
is now saturated with all kinds of
getting on in the world.
A peek at the map shows Fuuuay
Springs a close neighbor Of Harnett
county. The Fuquay tobacco belt has
!,
, tobacco. Harnett folks have observed
that the bright tobacco Delt from
tuQuay region in pushing out across
! the line. The farmers who have beer
r plenting tobacco in Wake county
! | have shown that the type Of soil com
mon in Harnett is as good as any fol
| bright leaf and Harnett farmers are
catching the infection.
n Across the river from Ellington i!
: a model new farm created from al
old farm by j. L. Roberts, who cam,
II down this way a year SO ago from
4 Granville. Mr.. Roberts has been put
il ting up red barns as artistic as tn,
p big red Pennsylvania barns Of Ian
3 caster county, which are the standard
o. when farm barns are mentioned. Hi
h | tobacco barns are built on brick foun
n dations and painted red They ar
e enclosed with German siding an,
,r their cornices are of planed boards.
O. Don't think that the Roberts farm
d is show farm where money goes in
n and accounts come out Mr.. Robert
: has crops growing on his farm righ
now that tell of substantial fertility
,e He keeps cattle He plants cove
ic crops. He is setting an example Q
+ intensive cultivation of the acres h
IF tends He has 800 acres here on tn
IF rise above the river, and a bit of bot
e. tom land that ought to make a her
t. OF cattle think they are living at tn
Waldorf-Astoria of Cattleville H
n means to have the big end of tn
w tract in tobacco just as fast as he ca
get the land in shape and provide tn
70 equipment.
of Model Tobacco Farm
f. Back tC the west of Ellington
10 few miles Eugene Moss and Joh
DO Moss and Hiram Baggett are maxim
ed a model tobacco farm. Eugene Mo.
of is a soil expert in the Department ,
Agriculture at Washington. He hs
rt been taken with the Harnett count
at tobacco soil, and he and his broth,
ne have bought a large acreage of Ha
nd nett county land. They are plantir
Of about 100 acres this coming year. M
Raggett in the same section will ha
-e- 80 acres or so. They are inclined
te | scientific methods Of farming, ar
rs their plantations will be mighty go,
1g, experiment stations for the neighho
by-l who are disposed toward tobacco-
To- From down the Cumberland ),