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Friday, June 24, 1927. ABERDEEN STARTS NEW WAREHOUSE. (Continued From Page One.) ial for high class cigarettes. The Moore county leaf has a reputation of its own, and it is said in the to bacco trade that if the production of this type of tobacco can be increased to satisfy the needs a special brand of cigarettes will he made, using the tobacco generously. The situation in cotton last year turned some of the farmers to to bacco this year, and a number of farmers have come into the Aberdeen territory from other sections, induc ed by the ease with the land is cul tivated, and the quality of tobacco made in this part of the S'cate. It is expected that next year will see a still bigger crop, and that the fu ture of the Aberdeen market will steadily be an expanding one. MOORE COUNTY FARM NOTES. (Continued From Page One.) gram for our county. The corn plant requires a large amount of soil mois ture during the fruiting season and large amounts of nitrogen. Some of this nitrogen for the acres mention ed above was added to the soil in the form of vetch turned under and there is no better way of improving soil. A soil filled with humus aids in hold ing moisture and we may expect the best yields from a soil with large amounts of humus in it. In these demonstrations accurate records will be kept on all materials and labor required to produce the crop. Every acre will be measured off in the same manner and accurate accounts of the cost and number of bushels per acre. The location of these demonstra tions will be announced later, and I am confident that all the wide-awake farmers of the county will be keenly interested in the results. Grow more com this year and sell it to hogs this fall. Hogs last year paid about $1.25 per bushel for com fed to them. Has anyone ever seen a farmer sold out for debt who always made plenty of com? Barley and Vetch Make Good Yields. Barley sown this year in the coun ty as one part of the Union county hay formula has done real well. On the farm of Mr. J. W. Davis, near Vass, a crop estimated at approx imately two t3ons was harvested from a fraction over an acre. Mr. Davis was well pleased with the Barley and Vetch combination and stated that this year he expects to sow several acres. Mr. Tom Harrington, near WMve Hill, had equally as good re sults with his mixture. He statin^j that he was pretty sure he got as much as three tons from a frac^^^ion less than two acres. This is the firdt time, to my knowledge, that tiie Union county formula has been tried out in this county. These werz t'vo very good denu>nstrations, with one on a sandy type soil and the other on rather stiff soil. I am hoping now that there will be good acreages planted to this crop again this year. The combination makes an excellent grade of hay and plenty of it. Barley in a good many cases is fast taking the place of oats. A demonstration this year where oats were badly froz en out the Barley still was a perfect stand. This makes it a very desir able crop as so many times the fall oats are frozen out and the spring oats unless conditions are very fa vorable some times do not make even a half crop. The Beardless varieties of Barley were used largely in de monstration this year. In judging value the Barley will compare very or oats, find the favorably with ercher coriv In the three grains we following in 100 pounds: Com Oiatis Bar. Total dry n^atter 89.5 90.8 90.7 Digestible Cme Pro.. 7.5 9.7 9.0 Total Dig. Nutrients 85.7 70.0 79.4 Nutritive Ratio 10.4 7.8 E. H. GARRISON, JR., County Agent. EARLY DAYS IN THE SANDHILLS (Continued From Page Two.) they could get a peach orchard. Of course many planted who knew noth ing of horticulture, who had every thing to learn. Many overlooked the fact that it was four years from the planting to the reaping of an harvest and that the carrying of an invest ment of this sort for four years would require a large acreage capi tal. Lack of accurate knowledge, much experimentation resulted in ex tremely heavy capitalization at the beginning of the bearing period. Mar keting problems had in a large meas ure been overlooked, the Curculio, the peach boll weevil made his ap pearance, adding to the annoyance and greatly to the expense of pro duction; the market demands were variable and somewhat uncertain; the fact began to dawn upon us that we were dependent for a crop at all upon weather conditions just as were First Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen the growers of any other crop, al ways with the addition of frost dan ger in the early spring; still on the whole it looked better than anything else that had been tried. Of course the Booster made his ap pearance upon the scene; the own ers of cut over pine lands were seek ing a market for their lands. Des tiny tumed in this direction a young New Yorker of North Carolina pa rentage w^ho had been trained fit Harvard for a lawyer and who had started on this profession in New York, in this direction. He immed iately caught the prevailing conta gion, organized a company of his young college friends who had rich daddies and planted a big orchard alongside the Clark orchard up in Montgomery county. Of course there were others of his friends left out of this organization who wanted to get in. He had a vision, not a dream, and the first Sandhill realtor was bom. Why not make a living out of selling this waste land to the fellows who were running over one another to get a peach orchard? The idea was the big orchard. Why not make a killing while the killing was good ? Ralph Page bought- Pumpelly and a three hun dred acre orchard, Roger Derby with one equally as large over the line in Richmond county and then Mr. Gates of the Standard Oil to the five thou sand acre tract down at Hoffman. THE PILOT Through these others invested until we had a boom in peach orchards, all in a stage of development requiring he continual pouring in of capital, but why mind expense when the pro fits were just around the corner? Of course the contagion spread; these natives had no idea of seeing the Yankee youth gather all the wealth. This whole movement needed or ganized direction at this stage. About this time a Western wind blew into this section Clyde Davis from the state of Kansas. Why he came I have no idea. That he was a live wire there is no question and organ ization was his specialty. Soon the Sandhill Board of Trade was organ ized with Davis as secretary. The slogan, “Don^t put all your eggs in one basket,” appeared, and diversi fication was preached. Good advice, but little heeded in the face of the returns from the peach orchards. There was much rivalry betweten owners of orchards as to which could have the most neatly pmned and cul tivated trees; who could produce the largest amount from a tree, increas ing the expense of cultivation and fertilization to high water marks. Bearing orchards changed hands at eight hundred, a thousand dollars per acre. The efforts of Davis and the Sandhill Board of Trade did a good many commendable things but run its course. When these large orchards came into bearing, orchards in other sections of the South had also and no longer the conditions of marketing that prevailed in the early tjays when buyers were waiting around the pack house and bidding against one another for every car that was loaded, existed, and the market moist be found. The greatly increased quantity sent the grower out for a purchaser. If he didn^t find him the fruit must be consigned subject to market conditions. With out organization.at the shipping end, with every grower selecting his own nothing could tum this tide, it must market, his decision reached from telegraphic quotations sent out, na turally they all frequently shipped to the same market on the same day causing an over supply on that mar ket and the inevertable. dropping of price. This condition led to the or ganization of co-operative selling or ganization, revealing that peach far mers were just like other farmers, in that they were not willing to sur render their individual effort to col lective effort. In other words the individual grower believing his fruit better than his neighbors was not willing to pool peaches and prices. This brings the story down to date, and since I started out to write of the historical development of the Sandhills, it seems time for my story to close. I do not desire to make personal comment on the present or prophesy as to the future. The sec tion has evolvQ.d leadership along al most every line of human endeavor and, proper leadership in time, al- wayss saves the situation. The Sand hills have long ago passed the ex perimental stages. New industries will no doubt develop; the mistakes of the past will be in time corrected. That I have made mistakes in re- Page Three citing historical incident I have no doubt left out of the story incidents and individuals that should have properly ng*ured in, for after all it is but one man’s Recollection of tjie passing show. Two errors have al ready been called to my attention. Of course the Pee Dee road Mid not go to Carthage at all, but on by Union church, Jonesboro, A vent's Ferry and on to Raleigh. The now Monte^/ideo tract was not entered by Mr. Charles Shaw in the name of hia daughter, Margaret, but was enter ed by Captain Archibald Ray him self. These mis-statements of fact appeared in the first article. Poultry Shipped From 32 Counties. Eighteen cars of live poultry from 32 counties were shipped from South Carolina last month through the ac tivities of the Extension Service. About 5,000 farmers co-operated m the shipments, the value of which was between $50,000 and $60,000. It is expected that shipments this year will practically double those of 1^26, when 104 cars were shipped. Subscribe to The Pilot. Only $2 the year, in advance. Aberdeen High School Building, Aberdeen, N. C. Page Memorial Church, Aberdeen, N. C. llie Sale for which you have been waiting June Clearance Sale of aD Coats and Dresses. Sale Starting Friday, June 24th Up to $19.95 Dresses $10.95 Up to $29.75 Dresses $15.95 Other Dresses up to $49.75 $24.75 GREAT REDUCTIONS IN PRICE OF COATS ft Up to $19.95 Coats on sale now at ._$10.00 Up to $24.75 Coats oh sale now at $12.50 Choice of balance of Coats $15.00 No free alterations on special sale goods. The Irene Shop Successors to Stein Bros. Sanford, N. C. Steele Street i.iiiiiiiiiiiiiinrtTftTr
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