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TEE PINEEUBST OUTLOOK PAGE 4 Pinehurst's Influences Biox H. Butler PI I TV 1 m 0 1 .jr-dmrn.. ... w , you cfcrira approach or putt, a firm and sure grip will help to insure direction. Hard, coarse leather gets slippery, hurts the hands and weakens your game. Rub in a little FOR HANDS AND LEATHER and in its softening effects you '11 find the confidence and comfort that make the game worth while. Prevents blisters, soothes, and heals tender or chapped hands and makes the use of gloves unnecessary. Softens and waterproofs shoes.' For sale by "Wanamaker, Wright & Ditson, Arthur L. Johnson Co., Marshall Field & Co., and other stores. If your dealer does not carry Golfix we will gladly send a large size tube postpaid for fifty cents. Address Dept. B. Nortn Star Chemical Works, inc. LAWRENCE, MASS. eolff Instruction by Mail Any Golfer who wants to improve his game can do so by taking advantage of our method of instruction by mail. 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Practical Correspondence School of Golf 58-60 West Washington Street CHICAGO One of the big influences that Pine- tion, and anything was a fryer that was hurst has exerted over the community big enough and not too old to stand for. which surrounds the village is the speciali- One fryer could be twice as big as zation of industry along a definite and another, but both were fryers. Now the intensive line. The poultry, hog, cattle broiler has set some demands. It must and fruit fanners are as highly success- be big enough, but not too big, and it ful as men are in any branch of farming must be tender, and plump, and a real in the state, and much more so than in broiler. A real broiler brings money, some sections, and much of the fanning Chickens when Pinehurst started were of the Pinehurst section has raised to worth ten to fifteen cents, and that in something more definite than plain farm- eluded all sizes from the little peet to ing. In the Berkshire hog field the Pine- the old hen. Pinehurst has shown the hurst region is wholly alone in its class, farmer that he can raise real chickens But all over the county and in the ad- and get more money for one than he used joining counties Berkshires have become to get for half a dozen of the mine-run numerous where a few years ago the kind. So the Sandhill chickens are tak-, razorback was the exclusive hog type, ing prizes at the fairs and money at the Now the razorback has practically dis- meat shop, and there is a substantial appeared, and the Berkshire is as typical evidence of what Pinehurst is doing, of hogs in Moore County as the razor- The peach orchard started about the back was when Pinehurst was commenced, time Pinehurst was projected. The or- This is a rather pronounced and start- .ehard had a hard struggle, but as men of ling substitution of the modern for the means and energy began to drop into inefficient old type, but it has so thor- Pinehurst they saw the possibility of oughtly spread over all of the country the peach and they put money and en around Pinehurst that the stranger thusiasm into the possibility The peach would never suspect the swiftness of the orchards of the Sandhills are largely change. Today in what was a strong- backed by men who got their first know hold of the razor back a quarter of a ledge of peaches in their construction century ago the Berkshire wins premiums from a visit to Pinehurst. The outcome amounting to more than $3,000 at the of that is such an orchard develop village fair, and Berkshire hogs are as- ment that the North Carolina Sandhills sembled from as far away as New Eng- promises to be one of the foremost peach land and the Pacific coast, and men regions on earth, and particularly of the gather from all sections to exhibit their kind of peaches that gave the peach its select stock or to buy that which is of- name. When Adam was naming the ani fcred here. This is one of the marked mals and things away back in the garden influences that Pinehurst has exerted, of Eden he would have known at first and it is as important in its way as the glance what to call a peach if he had development in social and outlier direc- seen a Sandhill Elberta or Georgia tions. Belle. Another impression Pinehurst has made Now it is to be remembered that all of on the neighboring country is that of this progress has been made in a section the Ayrshire cow. When the first Ayr- s0 poor the tax collector could not afford shire came to Moore county the breed to collect taxes on commission unless he , was little heard of here. But the Pine- h;X( SOme other job to make a living. It hurst cows gradually made their virtues is uot har(1 to understand that making known, and people began to realize that a thrifty farm neighborhood has been a there are other cows than,. Jerseys, and M.00,l job. Pinehurst has not done all of other uses for cows than simply making it, ln,t there is no discussion over the butter. So the Ayrshire cow, is a pro- faet that Pinehurst has been the act dueer of more milk than the Jersey, and liating force of much of the improve of a quality that is of high rating, be- ,nent iu these and many other lines on came acquainted with the farmers and which Moore county has advanced. Not town folks and they found the Ayrshire the least of these is the Sandhills fair, an animal of so many good traits that From a crude and seemingly impossible the Ayrshire is now prominent in all the (iream the fair, has grown to be a feature vicinity, and she- has made a place for of North Carolina. When Fall rolls-around herself that is a wholesome help to every an,i the other fairs and carnivals have community in which she enters. I have na( their little fling and passed along no desire to disparage the Jersey, or any the Sandhills fair comes on with some other good cow, but the Ayrshire is a thing different, and the people gather in hard cow to beat for general uses, and greater numbers than any other place of she is gaining ground as fast as she is the same size in the state. The Sand-known- hills fair at Pinehurst is now known all Pinehurst is also doing the same sort of missionary work in the poultry line. Before Pinehurst grew up a chicken was a chicken, Now to be a chicken a chicken over the state as a distinctive type of fair, after a pattern unknown elsewhere, and probably one that folks think could not be maintained elsewhere. Whether 1-. 1 1 1 1 t ! . . iiiusi im u rein ciucKen, ami a oroner in- t is true that the same kind of a fair stead of being a joke must be of proper could not be carried on at other points size, age, weight and quality. At first may be open to doubt. People are much people laughed when Pinehurst the same everywhere. But Pinehurst is brought broilers from Boston, for fryers nevertheless alone in the peculiar kind of were the ideals of chickens in this sec- Continued on Page 12)
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