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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK DIXVILLE NOTCH NEW HAMPSHIRE THE BALSAMS, June to October THE BALSAMS WINTER INN October to June New eighteen-hole Golf Course and Club House unequalled in the Summer Resort Field. Playing length over sixty-three hundred yards. Superb Location. Ask Donald Ross, who supervised its construction, for particulars, and write for special descriptive booklet. Tennis, Boating, Bathing, Fishing and Wilderness Life. As the northernmost point reached by New Hampshire's splendid system of highways, and famous for its rare scenic beauty, Dixville Notch is a favorite rendezvous of motor tourists. Garage, machine and supply shops. Two well appointed hotels in the center of a vast estate embracing four thousand acres and including farms, dairy, fish-hatchery, hydio electric plant and abundant spring water supply. For booklets, reservation or information address, CHARLES U. GOULD, Manager Dixville Notch, N. H. S. S. PIERCE GO'S If tn ANU u UMKS Sold at the Leading Hotels dlEMfelJ White Rocic Mineral Sprinds L- mmtmfKjJ WAUKESHA.WIS. U.S.A. Ejl p 0ffice 100 Broadway- I pj Bank of Pinehurst SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO LET CHECKING AND SAVING ACCOUNTS 4 PER CENT INTEREST J. R. ricQUEEN, President F. W. VON CANON, Cashier SANDHILL ESTATES Benjamin F. Butler's Unique Planta tion Home A York Jlan'ft Contribution to the Carolina Idea THIS is the way I came to meet Mr. Guy S. Meloy, who is the expert for the United States upon the matter of the culture of cotton. May be I am wrong. It may be the breeding and the varieties of cotton. I was running into the Butlers to borrow a ham, or a drink, and invite myself to din ner. And there lie was, planning on be half of Uncle Sam to determine upon the Butler acres once and for all just what varieties of Long Staple cotton were most conducive to raising the mortgages in the definite, like the report of a civil engi neer. But these matters are neverMhe result of mathematics. Any more than the choosing of a wife is. Or a horse. Or a painting. This, says the connesseur, suits me. If you want to know why, you must read what I have read, dow hat I have done, see what I have seen. I know. Just as a man knows how to ride a bycicle. Any fellow would agree he knew the ways of the woods and the opportunities of the country, to see him build a house. There isn 't a dwelling in the whole region more becoming in design, more harmoni ous with the landscape or more in keeping with the conception we strive to attain of an architecture suggestive of the history and character and traditions of the coun try. It is a log house, built of poles cut on the spot and plastered with native earth, with a high shingled roof such as we have often admired in Devonshire, built to stay during the time of good Queen Ann. It is a country house, built by a country man out of his native stock, comfortable, sensible and remarkably effective and beautiful. If instead of imitating the third rate boarding houses in the commercial towns the rest of us had followed our fancy, our material and Ht3 1r$ E- " Hi W JsMW it. ii.-, ill V , v : - ---- ,gvs ft, - V V ...5- . ." ..... " THE BUTLER, HOMESTEAD IS IN HARMONY "WITH THE COUNTRY Sandhills, and just how best to conduct their infant growth. I ought not to have been surprised. Long before he ever heard of Pinehurst or Moore County Mr. Butler was a familiar of the Department of Agriculture, and a close student with them of all matters pertaining to the culture of cot ton. His very being in the neighborhood is ap rimary tribute' to it. For many years he was in charge of a great planta tion in Durango, now prey to the vagaries of presidential candidates in the hectic Mexican primaries. Searching for a more placid if less in teresting territory in which to pitch his tent in the open and to follow out the life he had mastered, he and Mrs. Butler came into the Sandhills and selected a headland overlooking a long valley and a distant view of Carthage for their home. I suppose it would be of the greatest interest to know exactly why a man of the world and an expert in matters bucolic and pastoral should have chosen this place above all others in the United States. I wish I had it for you in black and white, the obvious, we would have a neighbor hood of such dwellings, distinctive and attractive as any in the Avorld. It is built wait a wing, in the comer of which Mrs. Butler's guiding genius is apparent in a flower garden, and trellis and rustic arbor and the essential fore ground for any inhabitable place. Shade trees and perennial shrubs in their infancy surrounding a lawn running to the outlook over the widing valley give promise of delightful surroundings to come. We went out to look at the farm. There are fifty acres or more in cultivation which Mr. Butler has cleared from the rough, and planted in peach trees and cotton and corn and hog pastures. We were concerned that day, last April, in the cotton tests. Pure seed of every varie ty of long staple were planted in alter nate rows between his peach trees. The planting was done in a method unknown to us, called the hedge row method close together as one might plant peas. And in the fullness of time the cotton was care fully gathered and separated, each variety by itself, and weighed and tested for
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