The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12

the one that eQuipS each house sever
ally with inconveniences ar as great
an outlay of money.
The whole community will be
planned on a systematic basis, and
when it has been created the intention
is to put on the place small white
farmers, picking the men from those
sections of the United States where
small farming has been systema tized.
Some Of these farms will be offered
for sale as the right sort OF men want
to buy, and singular,y enough al
though the deal which puts this pro-
ject i'll motion has been signed but
few days and nothing has been done
yet but the surveyors work. several
persons have asked to have q farm
allotted to them as soon as the plan
| has been cut into lots.
Not a Scheme"
| This affair is not a land selling
| scheme. It is a development project.
| The man who wants to get a farm on
the tract will have to be settler and
| one who gives promise Of being a
successful farmer, for a strenuous eff
| fort is going to be made to keep back
| anything that will stand in the way
of bringing the entire acreage under
the ploW. For years this long strip
| Of undeveloped land lying Oh both
sides OF the railroad has been a dis
gress OF the Sandhill country, and on
all hands the desire to see the land
get into action has been acute. Some
years ago the land came into the
hands of the Southern Farms Com
pany, which Is practically E. L. Ash
Hey, of Glens Falls, n Y. A few weeks
ago Mr. Ashley came down to this
section and looked over the farm with
the idea Of discovering its value as
farm site. In the north he conduct!
| one Of the biggest horse farms in th'
| United States, seventeen hundred
, acres of land and ESQ of the highes
/ priced breeding horses in America. 4
big farm in Virginia supplements tn
3 New York farm, and Mr.. Ashle.
wanted to look into the advisabilit.
} Of establishing q further stock farm
on his five thousand acres of land il
Y North Carolina.
Meets Kindred Spirit.
He was not encouraged to plan
stock farm, but he was fOrtunat
; enough to fall in with A. G.. johnson
!. | who has been the factor in establish
: ing tobacco as a crop in Hoke county
and they fell to talking over the pros
a poets for farming, and the result wa
; that they came to a conclusion tina
!, the Ashley land was worth sOmethin
!, for other uses than raising horses.
s The upShot Of the mtter was tha
Tf Mr.. Ashley asked Mr.. Johnson
o plan some way to develop the 1an(
t, and Mr.. Johnson quietly set to wor
n to continue the scheme When sui
f mitted to Mr.. Ashley the two togetf
g er modified it to suit individual nc
e tions and to adapt it to the condition
o that prevail and an agreement We
e reached whereby the tract has bee
put into Mr.. JOhnSons hand for de
d velopment.
e While the plan was framing up M
d Johnson had been in Consultatio
Il with II. M. Lilly, of Raeford a civ
is and landscape engineer, and as SOC
It as the deal was closed Mr.. Lilly VIZ
e. ready to begin his surveys, and he
le asked to have his plans ready for al
Te tive construction work by the midd
w OF January. The balance Of the viii
,e ter it is expected that dirt will be fl
l. ing on the entire job, for it is the d.
le sire to have some of the farms rea6
IS for occupation by spring if possible.
st Preparing For First Farms.
re Already, while the surveyors a.
he preparing the map, and getting reat
De to lay off the farms, b. Is. SaundeT
IS, who has been placed in charge Of Il
L work Of clearing, has started with
force of men to prepare for the fir
lot OF farms He has crew alteril
"a and repairing some old buildings 1
ne Office and administration headQua
ei ters, and another crew is preparil
is, for q clearing sufficient for the 1ir
IN ten farms, that the carpenters m;
In star at the 6rst minute to build Il
Ell first ten houses.
IN Teams are hauling out manure
y. large quantities for a fifty acre fie
IT. Of tobacco, which will occupy t
,St clea ring made some years ago by
eS mill which operated here when t
es
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