The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-28

progress in ali directions that =
equalled by very few other States and
possibly by none If the whole United
States Is making the percentage of
progress IN school. health and other
puhhc and social conditions that North
Carolina j. making ther this big coun-
try Is going 10 he what the boys call
q peach in the next few years.
Handsome Dwellings.
Another evidence of the progress
that has set in in this section is the
character Of the building Handsome
dwellings, have begun to mark every
street. The town is old enough "a
have wealth Of big trees and small
enough to have roomy lots on which
10 build. For that matter il has room
to do more than build. In town are
gardens, and bits OF farming. Truck
crops have been sent out TO market
from many Of these town lots. AMI
following the truck crop corn has
made a good second. Maxton suggests
Germany IN its ability To depend on its
own resources. No doubt a fore
handed man might live right we'll by
just reaching over the fence along the
street as he goes home at nights If he
| is careful Tot to be picked I'D as Ia
picks up his next day dinner from the
corn or potato or other small field
| that he can reach from the sidewalk
Several OF the business buildings Of
aNton would be credit 10 the big
y, WINS. In that respect they show
y Sxe, country towns OF North Car
olins> 1ql-, coming. MaNton is not to
be Ions ., n this respect. once
the patteri- e2c the rest follow. and
that is one G. 4e important features
Of this Improvement movement 1t is
like the painting up movement over
in Lee county which started last
spring on q small scale. Before II
had gone far the county and the
towns became infected, and Sanford
hardware man last week told me that
he had sold more paint this summer
than he had ever thought he would
: sell in any season in all his expert
F ence and that the enthusiasm has
reached such a state that this winter
he is going to plan for a paint cam
paign that will make Lee county
. smell OF oil and turpentine until the
| neighbors for miles around Will know
what is going on by the time spring is
we'll under way.
: These little progressive places OF
| the State are taking on all the nice
ties of community existence. They
= have electricity. water works, i'm
[ proved streets good taste IN their
i architecture, automobiles until gooc
Il | roads are an absolute necessity.
. Pecans for Shade.
q A suggestion as to shade trees /:
: found on two or three of the Maxtor
/ | streets where pecan trees have beer
G planted instead Of trees that yielc
a nothing but shade. 1t is the theor5
, that pecan tree will provide some
a thing for the small boy to wrestls
= with if nothing else, as we'll as shade
: and that the boy is a factor TO con
: slider. This idea is passed along fol
: what it is worth, and it IS not copy
:, righted. I will be frank enough Il
g say that the public service club dis
y cussed the question III front of th'
Flatiron building, and some testimon.
h was offered to show that the pecai
a tree is largely buffer, but when tn
=, debaters adjourned to A j. Mckin
= mons street front and were show
., % trees that had a right fair crop .
-; nuts the evidence seemed TO be IL
80 80 favor Of the tree, although the de
- bate continued after the trees ver
- shown.
II Robson seems to he trying "a al
H. vance all along the line Health q
ce we'll as schools and farm prodQctio
IL occupy the attention Of the peopif
and they say that the preventiE
le school Of medicine is proving NOR
lg effective by heading off sickness tina
IN the curative school would do In cur
d ing it This may be a debatahe sub
H. iect also but the exhibits seem I
= show that preventing sickness
TO working out in the desired manner
1g The old infections and contagious dis
ne eases have not gained much foothol
Ii in this corner Of the State n recer
ay years, and the people attribute IN
er escape largely to intelligent method
mt of putting up the bars against n
up microbe.
a Town and county are laying II
re foundations for a thrifty and attrac
ht i've section and with the advance {
agriculture that comes through IN
increase OF agricultural popilatio
en- and the diversifcation that follow
"a the experiments Of the farmers
gS, over the county are making, MaA,on
tie rural surrounding promises TO be
wv vast garden The trucking interest
he growing, and with the convenience
re the coast and to markets by both Ses
W board and Coast Line produce h.
n, an eYcenfionaliY good outset WI