The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-19

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1t is equally evident thar the
or live stock means an ircra
SOFA Deans and OF other fore.
II Is possible that the low
coVon last year was a rn.4
for this State. 1t certain,
f1uenced lot Of men 20 ttlr-
things than cotton, and VIII
of the men who have intro
things are found TO be tha
of the State, and their e>..-
are found to be working ot,- -
the inference is that man.
will stay with the new cross
more the live stock crop i =, a@
more favor it finds. not or.
section, but all over the @t-
is seen here in this respec, .
of the other counties Once ''
great feat for breeding sto-. "
out of this State to other St4.e>
the BiltmOre farm begun 10 sous
hogs and cattle elsewhere
Leonard Tufts won consiter. ~
tinctiOn by sending a car of
hogs to breeder in Illinois rh..
heard Of Edgar Moore. of cr.,,.
sending out high-priced hos, ~,
A. L. French, Of Rockinghar ..-..
and 3. F. Mebane. Of thai -
ton, put Angus and Hereford 4s..,.
into other States. Enoch McI.tn,t 4.
Sampson county, comes along ur,b
| sale Of 100 young pigs to an r|,r-a
| breeder for $4,000 for the bur,b .rs
| we pick up this kind of su4 ~ .1
sides. 1t gradually dawns On IL .f,.
North Carolina is breaking away f~or
all cotton.
Breaking Away From Cotton
| The Rocky Mount section IS ~.
alone in this respect Nevertheless ~
I he ,f,Sv,
vanceS are pronounced Cominr +,
from the original Rocky Mount ont
across the river | met r II Rirke
| a man Unidentified closely Win -ha
business affairs Of his community and
| the town. He lives out on his farm
! four or five miles from Rocky Nonr.t
and there he is developing the stock
idea, and also the model farm scheme
Not that he is undertaking 10 make
| show place. He is just pushing ahead
| with his farm in practical way as he
works along with other things and The
plan leads him along the live stock
route. Another man suggested by he
name of Ricks is r L. Bland uro-
prietor of the Ricks Hotel Nj Bland
has a farm out in the country for The
purpose of supplying his hotel With
the farm stuff needed and he is maxi
inS his farm more or less Of an HAS
tratiOn of what can be done I'm his Inc
of garden stuff. He fancies hogs nd
proves that he would make a good
stockman if he could get time from
being a good hotel man to he a
. farmer
But it is not necessary 10 multiply
examples. The list OF some thirty
t cars of cattle reported from The Aer-
cultural Department as having been
| co 3 4
{ last spring in the particular markets
, of the North as top-price beef covers
, the ground as far as illustration is
concerned.
Rocky Mount is a farm town I .
going to be the center Of a good i've
stock country before very long as Wcl
as a good tobacco market and good
cotton market The farmers of his
t part of the State are hitting ou he
f | idea Of making their herds conform
7 to a certain definite type TheV re
working to make their community ne
o home Of defined varieties and to have
enough Of the particular kind that Il
will be easy to attract buyers when ar
n loads are desired. SO far many q 'hf
| cattle fattened are bought n ne
: | mountain counties of the western IaT
r Of the State but that is gong Z" -
s done away with before great "al'e
: for the increasing herds viii SuFHA
the feeders right here in the |'l'.@
= and breeding good stock VIII h' "
6 conspicuous a factor Of farm ~ =
q as raising or feeding. The grown ~
n young stock makes on the COCO t9
r. lures and on the sofa beans ana
J., crops that have been faVored 'ft~
# fixes that branch Of farmln2
# Hitting The Fast Clip
J., Rocky Mount is a live comm
l. as can be inferred from the .nfF',
~ noted at the opening Of ihi~
= Where a town can pick up H"ih
% than three thousand to over
n thousand from one census 10 @I- ,--'
a it is not likely to be plckea
10 graveyard Fine homes, suhS'"- ..'
% buildings, good streets, a,Ira ~
% looking stores, and all that A.A.
q thing testify that here IS CONN W.
NJ ity that is still hitting the fa7,
,e The price Of cotton this fan al
- advancing price of tobacco aIoh-
the abundant crops Of almosl
thing tell the story Of the lai
winter. Business will be OF me