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THE LATTICE GIRDER COW
"Wherever in the world the original cat
tle of this country came from it would
be interesting to know. Probably they
were developed from gradual selection by
nature of the unfittest just as some
places good cattle are created by careful
selection of the best. At any rate a few
years ago the thoroughbred piney woods
lattice girder cow was among the most
picturesque of all the creatures that de
scended from Noah's collection of the
ark. Pinehurst started to build up a
dairy, and men commenced to discuss the
proper relative wages of the one-hand
milker and the two-hand milker. A one
hand milker is a milker, usually a woman,
who milks with one hand, while the other
hand is engaged in a running fight with
the calf that it does not cross the dead
line and purloin milk from the side set
aside for the milker, for a one-hand
milker allows the calf to feed itself in
this way while the milking operation is
going on, thus reducing the job of milk
ing to about a half, and the job of feed
ing the calf to nothing. A two-hand milk
er is one who shuts the calf in the other
barn and milks with both hands. To
milk without bringing the calf out to
encourage the cow was regarded as a
thing that could be done at Pinehurst,
but if you proposed it for any other place
there came that funny look again.
WHAT IS ISN'T
No, it was not confined to the people
who live here. On the day when Henry
A. Page, of Aberdeen, took a govern
ment agricultural expert to look at a
field of cotton that some fellow had
grown down around Pine Bluff, not know
ing that cotton could be grown in this
thin soil, the expert looked at a little
field that had a crop of about a bale to
the acre and said cotton could not be
grown in the sand. Mr. Page asked him
how he accounted for that, and he said
he did not account for it. All he knew,
he said, was that cotton could not be
grown here. Zeb Blue, over toward Car
thage, raises tobacco year after year and
tried to get his neighbors to make tobacco
one of their crops. But they told him he
could not raise tobacco to be worth while.
Then L. L. Johnson, over by Aberdeen,
planted three acres of tobacco and raised
five hundred dollars on it, and everybody
wondered why he had the nerve to do
that. For you see, everybody knew that
you could not raise tobacco in this soil.
Human creatures are a funny bunch.
You ask nine men out of ten how it comes
that if you take a bucket with twenty
pounds of water in it and drop in a five
pound fish the whole thing will still weigh
only twenty pounds, and they will all ex
plain why it weighs but twenty pounds.
The tenth man will tell you you are a
fool and that the weight will be twenty
five pounds, and then instead of follow
ing the truth to its conclusion you pro
ceed to have a row over the unimportant
bit of misinformation.
LIBELOUS AXIOMS
The old chaps around here were lum
bermen and producers of turpentine and
rosin. They farmed a bit of ground
about as big as your foot and owned
some hogs and cattle that ranged the
woods and got about as fat as an oflicial
government envelope and had to be care
ful when they laid down that they did
not cut their sides on their bones. But
the idea of farming as a business was
too absurd for anybody.
When I hit California the first time,
more year ago than most of you can re
member, a lot of enthusiasts were in
sisting that the man who took to farming
out there and forgot about mining would
make the most money. Now California
is a farming State, and the mines are of
use principally for the old timers to tell
big lies about and to point out to tour
ists to illustrate the ancient romances
when everybody wore top boots and car
ried a bowl to wash gold and a revolver
to give dignity and tone.
TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
The poorest land on earth the Sand
hill land was rated. Then the fool land
commenced to raise things, and in spite
of the continued assurance that it was
good for nothing it continued to go
ahead in its stupid way grwing crops,
although everybody knew that what it
did was impossible. And today we have
two cults in the Sandhills. The fellow
who knows you can't raise anything
here, and the fellow who is raising things
in a perfectly heretical style, absolutely
inconsiderate of the feelings of that
school of philosophy which 'knows and
can prove that it cannot be done. You go
over to the corn field where some irre
sponsible men has raised a hundred bush
els to the acre and you find the argu
ment in progress. The apostle of the
one school claims that because a hundred
bushels of corn can be seen on the acre
that corn can be raised there. The rep
resentative' of the other theory insists
with all candor that such a thing is
against all laws of common sense and
all theory of soil fertility, and that you
can't be misled by circumstantial
evidence.
The bad feature about the whole busi
ness is that other people, instead of lis
tening to the discussion, and carefully
weighing up the evidence, have a ten
dency to dip in on their own responsi
bility, and as a result you see men plant
ing various crops all over the Sandhills
without waiting for an authoritative set
tlement of the possibility of raising
things, and the results of this promis
cuous and irresponsible experimenting
is that more crops are raised, and the
situation thus becomes complicated.
VANDERBILT'S MISTAKE
I always joke a thing of this kind.
When my Protestant and Catholic friends
started an argument in my younger days
over the Boyne water I always figured
that water of any sort had its draw
backs, and let it go at that, and most of
them agreed in that one respect. Yet,
when I see the cars of handsome peaches
loaded at some of the peach orchards,
and the cars of. fine dewberries loaded
at some of the dewberry vineyards, and
the handsome corn and the excellent cot
ton, it becomes apparent that the men
who insist that things can be grown in
the sand have some grounds for their
claim. You are justified in a way in
believing in success, no matter what the
theory may be. Old Commodore Vander
bilt was hot because George Westing
house wanted to try the air brake as an
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