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VOL U NO. 8.
PINEHURST, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1897.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
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THE PINEHURST FARM.
Broad, Green Acres and Substan
tial Modern Buildings.
Capacious, Well-Filled Barn and Large
Herd of Fine Cattle.
A Favorite Walk from the Village, Through
Pine Groves and Green Fields.
Shortly after Mr. Tufts commenced
building the model village, Pinehurst,
his attention was called to the need of a
farm and dairy to supply
the wants of his winter
guests, and steps were
promptly taken to pro
vide such a department.
A tract of about one hun
dred acres, on the south
erly side of the village,
was selected for this pur
pose and men and teams
put to work clearing up
the land. Ax and tire
soon played havoc with
the sturdy pines and oaks
growing there, and the
plow completed the trans
formation of the wilder
ness into a garden for
the use of man.
Passing through the
gate near the foot of the
Village (Ireen, a short
rise confronts us, from
the crest of which is re
vealed a gentle slope on
which the young grain is
j'oi springing up green
and beautiful a picture to
delight the eye of a visit
fresh from the cold,
frozen North. At the foot of this slope
aiv located the farm buildings, all models
l their kind, the most prominent being
the cow-barn, an excellent likeness of
which we print in this issue.
harn is 70 feet long and 40 feet
wde and contains two stories and a
h;ls,,'ent, The building is well venti
1 'led and has accomodations for about
11! it v cows, iUU)e room f01. tiie
borage of fodder, farm implements, and
' verything that should be kept in a well
'''gulated bam. The basement opens
,M1 commodious barn-yards where the
nff cattle are kept, and from which an
iiuTmed way leads to the floor above.
ln main floor contains the quarters of
l,u' i'1ice specimans of Jersey and IIol
Mein nnvs that 8upi)ly the rich milk con
'iined by our villagers. Here are also
ated two large silos, six by ten feet
""I about fifteen feet high; also, room
Jw storing tools, and a large space filled
with different kinds of food for the cat
tle. The upper floor is devoted to the
storage of dried cow-peas, a fodder that
is largely used in this section as a substi
tute for hay. The barn now shelters about
twenty cows, and more will be added
from time to time as the needs of the
village require. There are also numer
ous cattle being fattened for local con
sumption. The cows are all stall-fed;
dry cow-peas, cotton-seed meal, corn
meal, hay, and corn ensilage being the
food provided for their sustenance. A
line spring close by the barn provides a
never failing supply of pure water.
Everything about the place is kept in
the neatest possible manner, and the
whole is in charge of a practical farmer
from New England.
A short distance away, in a small oak
grove, is located a neat, home-like cot-
ways been a favorite with our vis
itors, and the improvements made
during the past summer make it more
popular than ever.
AUTUMN IN THE SOUTH.
Rev. B. A. Goodridge Writes of the Pleas
ures of the Holiday Season In the Pine
Woods.
It is a pity that so many people who
urgently need the conditions of rest and
recuperation that are to be found in Pine
hurst and vicinity should think it well
to wait until "after the holidays" before
going there. Much wiser would it be to
leave the North while the weather there
is mild and comfortable, and get well
settled among the pine woods in time to
enjoy the long, beautiful autumn of that
region. To do that is to get double
COW-BARN AT THE PINEHURST FARM. -(Courteny of S.A.L.Ma(jundi
tage the home of the farmer in charge.
But a few feet from his door a con
venient building was erected during the
past summer for use as a dairy. It is
20x20 feet and 11 feet high, with ce
mented walls and floor, and serves its
purpose well.
The razor-backs, so numerous in this
section of the country, have no place
among the stock of the Pinehurst farm.
Well-bred and well-fed Berkshires have
supplanted them and are housed in the
piggery, a couple of hundred yards from
tliTbarn. Sheep and goats graze in a
pasture near by while awaiting trans
formation into mutton. A short distance
beyond the farm buildings are located
the market garden and nursery, which
have previously been described in our
columns.
The walk of about three-fourths of a
mile through the pine groves and green
fields to the farm and nursery has al-
advantage from the healing and invig
orating conditions of the climate, But
to stay in the North through the trying
weather we are sure to have in No
vember and December, to get well tired
out with the strain and fuss and flurry
of our social life at its highest pressure,
to get a heavy, obstinate cold, and then
to go to Pinehurst in January when the
healing virtues of its atmosphere are less
active, this is to plan one's visit so as to
get a much smaller possible advantage
from it.
I suppose the great reason for this re
luctance to go South until Thanksgiving
and Christinas have passed, is the feeling
that a sojourn among the pine woods is a
jort of exile at best, and that it would be
, iljnost unendurable to spend the holiday
season there. That is, perhaps, a
natural idea, but it is also a very mis
taken one. Even in the old days before
Pinehurst existed, when, instead of
flourishing villages, there were solitary
houses separated by long stretches of
forest, there was no lack of good cheer
at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Was
there ever more joy in a household than
befell on one Thanksgiving day that I
well remember, when lires were lighted
in the two brand new chimneys and it
was found that they "drew" beautifully?
To live in one's new house nearly three
months without any chimneys, because
neither love nor money can secure a
mason, and then to have a man from
Maine came along one of those blessed
Yankees who can do everything and
build your chimneys as handily as if he
had never done anything else all his life
was not that enough of itself to make
a delightful Thanksgiving? But the
joy of that day and of other Thanks
givings that I remember were not all of
the mind and heart by
any means. There were
many substantial delights
as well. Perhaps the
wild turkey no more
abounds as of old, but,
once upon a time, mem
bers of his tribe almost
as large and mighty as
that tremendous bird
which l'hode Island con
tributes every year to the
presidental table at the
White House, were not
too proud to make good
cheer upon the Thanks
giving board of northern
settlers.
And when it came to
Christmas time there was
even less reason for any
feeling of homesickness,
for there among the pine
woods is the haunt and
home of Christmas. Up
here we make a feeble
attempt to look Christmas
like. We get a poor lit
tle evergreen tree, and
some strings of ground
a few holly wreaths,
thin, and if a little sprig
falls into our hands it
and
pine,
made very
of mistletoe
is a nine days' wonder; and with such
scanty Christmas greens as these we
make as brave a holiday showing as we
can. But in our miserable hearts we
know this Christinas never grew for us.
We had to buy it by the yard or barrel at
the grocery.
.Hut you favored folk at Pinehurst are
living right in the midst of a green and
growing Christinas all the time. For
you all out-of-doors is trimmed with
evergreen. In every direction you can
find the beautiful holly with its glossy
leaves and crimson berries, and you need
not go far to find abundance of mistle
toe. It is a land, too, where Christmas
is kept in good old English measure.
There must be full twelve days of it to
satisfy the natives, white and black,
(CONCLUDED OS l'AUK FIVE.'