The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-24
(BIDN II. BETLER.)

tHnIOn, Aug. ZI.-I OSSlDly, were
Ola King David drifting about in the
astral body in this section Of the uni
worse he might reiterate with different
application that the stone which the
builders had refused has become the
head Of the corner. Sampson county
only needs q little more newspaper
publicity to give the Sandhills race
for the prize for going farthest with
nowhere as a start.
is not more than a hundred years
a4D that if YOU mentioned Sampson
county everybody laughed about the
hie blues and figured that all had been
said. Today those who know Sampson
county intimate that an unknown new
hnight has arrived to take a hand in
thr tournament. and from the actions
thr newcomer is destined to show the
fost uf the contendCrS something they
= not suspected.
sampson is big county. stretching
for fifty miles along the east side Of
the South river, skirted on the west
side by the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road tapped by branch Of the Will
minSton line of this system on the
east and in line Of promotion to a
place on the Durham and Southern
road which is preparing to enter the
county from the north. 1t has all the
advantage of location, of climate and
soil that it can desire. Yet it has fO1
q century and a half been winning
distinction largely because it is the
principal station on the huckleberry
line.
A few years ago Sampson took ;
new start and it seems that from on
side to the other, and from top t.
bottom the big old county has waket
up, and 1t has walked for a fact, no
merely theoretically. A stranger com
p ing into Sampson county and expect
ing to find nothing but the buckle
berry bushes that gave the county 1t
first shove along the road towar
fame finds himself bewildered by tn
multiplicity of things the county
doing for the advancement of it's pee
pie and the surprise of the rest c
the State.
Steps Forth as Leader.
Sampson has stepped forth out {
the huckleberry swamps as a leade
In material things, agriculture, com
munity progress, education, an
mighty near anything you have min
TO talk about.
For instance I meet a farmer O
the street. His name is F. B. JohI
add 10S pounds in rs days, that +
weighs them once month. an
knows what he is feeding them, an
what they are gaining, and as he tel
me a neighbor interrupts to mentic
his Holstein cow which brought hi,
In the month $4S from milk sold, b.
sides leaving milk for Johnson.
They point out their new flour m
Just built to care for the wheat crt
which has proven a success, runnlI
from Is to 90 bushels to the acre, al
cite the big acres where as high as
bushels is told of with corn knee his
IN July on the same field after Il
wheat is taken Off They tell of Il
enormous quantities Of roasting e
corn that has been sent from Clint'
year after year and of the peculi
Fumate conditions that enable rOas
lng ears to be raised here with great
success than any place else. for rig
mere in Sampson the weather m;
has curious trick of sending shove
~ the time when they are need
Tor corn. Some oddity of the altitu
winch catches the wind and moistu
currents is the cause and the RESI-
IS that wherever you turn you 5
heIds which have raised roasting ca
20 80 out car load after car load I
lh' early northern markets.
"rn Fields That Are Surprises.
"rn cotton. field crops of that so
corn heldS that are surprises in VIZ
th"\ are going to produce. | saw
'"fh lleld At Roseboro, not z very
one, but it looked to me as if III
lttle field would shatter all recol
l"r production if it holds out to t
LhiSh, for the rows are so close. a