The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-08
FARM PROGRESS IN HENDERSON
COUNTY r.-s.IE-<,<'.s

& The 1885 federal farm census releases
- some interesting figures for henderson
: county. showing that the acreage OF laiio
q in cultivation in the county has increased
more than forty per cent. IN hve years
The estimate is that the acreage OF MAJ
81 vested crops increased byt 9,53e acres lii
:, that period. This is an increase OF Al per
& cont Farms increased from 1888 TO T.
; 800. = -. ,o.
The largest increase in crop acreage was
q of corn-5,225 acres-the increase OF rye
was 1852 acres, of hay FIST acres. otner
increases were smaller, Including notice
8 able additions to the acreage of wheat ana
=, Irish potatoes.
The census report lists corn as the num-
q Der one crop of the county in acreage. III
1884 the acreage in corn was 1891. HAY
u was produced on 4,757 acres; rye was
= grown on 3,459 acres; the acreage OF irish
- potatoes was 2,270; and wheat was grown
s on 1,487 acres. 80.
y The census report shows an increase Tor
the fve-year period of horses and mules IL
Athe county and more than fifty per cent.
Tincrease in cattle, from 1852 to S,iOS; put
zthere was a decrease of IA .per cent. IN the
Enumber of hogs in the county.
- On the whole these figures and facts
Mpoint to increasingly satisfactory condi-
Mtions on the farms of the county. The I'M
-cpressive increase in the number OF farms
Aunder cultivation and the number of acres
Hsin cultivation is evidence of development
in the right direction in a section where
Eonly a small percentage of the total land
s[area has been brought into cultivation. Oh
course, much of the area of Henderson
scounty is not suitable for cropping; but /:
lis a fact that many thousand acres of land
Fsremain uncultivated in the county which
with proper attention and modern and Ell
@fcient farming methods could be made
reproductive and would show profits on the
necessary operations.
The shortage of hogs in the county is a
Tweak place in the program of farm opera
-tionS. The Times-News is informed thai
9there are many farms in the county with
Esout hogs. These animals certainly shoulc
be raised on every farm, large or small. Ne
EHenderson county farmer should buy hos
ssmeat. No farmer can afford to buy meat
under any conditions, and to buy it at pres
Nent prices is one of the biggest mistakes q
farmer can make.
- More hogs - many more - should be
sTraised in the county; and there is room TO,
r-more cattle and poultry AS long as any
&of these products of the farm are imported
gginto Henderson county there is a local mar.
Ssket for them. There is, also, big market
Especially for poultry and eggs, in the
Piedmont country of North and South
&Carolina and beyond. There are few days
2on which one fails to observe poultry
trucks from Tennessee passing through
EHendersonVille with great loads of poul
try and eggs going into the territory cas-
sSsand south of Henderson county. If thu
HTennesseeans, whose poultry is produced
from one to two hundred miles furthe
@from the markets than this section, find i
gsproftable to do business in the Piedmor
land further south, is there any reason tt
Ebeheve that Henderson county poultry ant
Seggs could not be sold at profit in tina
territory?
s Farming in Henderson county has mad,
more progress IN the past FIVE years tina,
sany other line of business Other business
2has steadily decreased through the SO
Called depression years. The business o
e s:sSs. So 9 y IS y u,