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three hundred pounds of eleven-cent will
pay. You can figure it about this way:
that is, you could figure it this way be
fore the Kaiser took a notion to try out
those new siege guns! Three hundred
pounds of eleven-cent (average) cotton is
thirty-three dollars. The seed on that
amount of cotton will be worth six dol
lars more, or thirty-nine dollars for all.
Allowing half of that for the tenant will
leave nineteen dollars for the land. Ten
dollars will buy the fertilizer and leave
nine dollars for profit. On land that
costs ten dollars an acre in the rough,
seven dollars to clear, ten dollars for
buildings, or twenty-seven dollars in all,
nine dollars is a reasonable return. A
better crop is better.
But best of all, North Carolina is a
coming farming State. It has unlimited
strings to its bow; an all-star performer.
The corn States of the West are corn
States. When the corn crop is taken out
very little is left. North Carolina can
raise corn like any other State, but be
sides corn it can raise nearly anything
else. This State can raise corn as well
well as Pennsylvania, tobacco to beat
boiled eggs, sweet potatoes until there is
nothing to compare, fruit of all sorts,
just like the place where fruit grows wild;
and other things as well. Here is a
great beef possibility, and as beef keeps
on going up in price, the North Carolina
farmer will be induced to turn some of
his corn into making corn-fed beef for
the particular householder wiio thinks a
j uicy steak a necessity of existence. Here in
the days to come will be a mutton country
because the world will pay fancy prices
for mutton. Mild climate, fine weather
and plenty of it, good pasturage in most
of the country above the sandhill, and
long season for outdoor feeding tell what
will be the future of the meat business
of the State. Those pioneers in the dairy
business show what can be done with
butter. None better is made anywhere
than in North Carolina where the farmers
care to bother with dairying. That more
butter is not made is simply because the
North Carolina farmer has so many things
he can turn his hand to that he does not
need to tie himself down to those tasks
that are more exacting.
To supplement the larger meat supply
the North Carolina farm is rapidly get
ting into poultry, for in the mild climate
poultry thrives to the delight of the
people who are interested. You can set a
hen almost any day in the year if the
hen agrees, and she is in the notion
usually from about the first of January
up to somewhere after Thanksgiving Day.
You can hatch out a bunch of frying size,
eat them, and hatch another one and have
them ready for the preacher by the time
the Christmas holiday comes. The family
at the poultry yard is in all sizes all the
season of the year, from the young
rooster trying to sing the opening meas
ures of the "Song Without Words,"
down to the little fellow that is picking
up his first bit of rolled oats and wonder
ing what it is all about. Since prohibi
tion set in in North Carolina, fried
chicken is one of the most popular bev
erages left to us, and it seems to be a
habit that is growing rather than falling
into disuse in this country.
Like as not, while you are talking
about it, prohibition is helping to put
North Carolina in the king row and crown
her queen, for prohibition, no matter what
some of the other folks may tell you, has
made old John Barleycorn more of a
wallflower than he used to be. Friends
up in Virginia undertook to relieve the
choking sensation that came over this
State with the prohibition amendment,
and it still takes an occasional gallon of
aqua-fortis and arsenate of lead mixture
from out of the bad lands to keep your
adams apple from sticking fast to your
jugular vein, but taking it all around,
the people have got into the habit of
going to the grist mill with the money
they used to take to the gin mill, and it
makes a difference in people as well as
in trade. A clerk of the courts where I
drop in from time to time to talk about
the weather tells me this prohibition busi
ness has saved him a lot of money. It
cuts down the court business and that
cuts down his income and that saves him
from being held up by the United States
income tax collector, and in that way he
is ahead of the game. It is also knocking
the life out of the witness fees, and that
kind of thing.
You talk about reaching the limit of
the food supply on the world. North Caro
lina has a hundred counties, and I don't
believe there is one of them but could
make a food crop worth ten million dol
lars a year. Down in Pender County,
some of the Italians and Hungarians who
have come over into the Hugh MacEae
colonies are taking a thousand dollars
from one acre in one season. That thing
extended over the State would provide
enough for all to eat that we could all
grow fat. Moore County has four hun
dred thousand acres. A crop of a
thousand dollars an acre in Moore coun
ty would give us four hundred millions
dollars. But it would take some harvest
hands to gather that crop, so it is wise
not to try for it until more people are
handy to help about the harvest. In this
connection it is worth while to remember
that a dewberry yield over at Cameron
sold six or eight hundred dollars' worth
of fruit from one acre a few years ago.
The thing can be done if you want to
try. The limit of production is not in
the land. It is in the generalship of the
man who plants. It is not any physical
defect in the land that prevents you from
making a thousand pounds of seventy-five-cent
tobacco on an acre. The land
will do it if you select the right seed and
see that the plants have the right care
all the way through. It is no great feat
to raise five hundred dollars' worth of
peaches on an acre. Moore County
farmers have done much better than that.
There is no limit to the yield that we
have found out yet, although probably
the limit of profit may be close enough
that men will discover it some day. But
when they do they will at once proceed
to set it further ahead by intelligent
effort.
With cheap water power, mild climate,
ample rainfall, convenience to everywhere
that is worth being near to, North Caro
lina is certain to give good accounts in
answer to the attention she is attracting.
No other State in the Union is making
faster progress at the present time on
farms or in the factories. The present
lively clip is only the forerunner of what
is to be expected when the fly wheel is
properly in motion, for the present
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