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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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DIES SUDDENLY
Riff Orchard Man Called at the
Climax of His
Successes
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1925
(Bion H. Butler)
Death last Sunday at the Manice
orchard west of Pinehurst enacted one
of the most marked tragedies that
has come under my notice since com
ing to the Sandhills. The climax was
the death of A. E. Manice, tiie owner
of one of the most modern orchard
plants in the world, and one of the
or three biggest orchards this
side of the Mississippi river. Mr.
Manice had been in the pink of
health, but on 'Sunday he complained
on not feeling well, and a doctor was
called who looked him over and
thought nothing serious was indicated
and that the indisposition would pass
away. But after the doctor left Mr.
Manice grew worse, and in a brief
time he was dead. His death is so
tragic because it removes from this
section a man who has had a long
association with the Sandhill country,
and who has been a developer of the
most advanced type.
He was not very well known to
many people as he was a reserved
man, keeping rather close to his own
affairs. Twenty-five years ago he
came to the Sandhills the first time,
and since then he was an enthusiast
over this part of the country. About
five years ago through George Ross
he bought several thousand acres of
land between Jackson Springs and
Pinehurst, principally because he
wanted a place to hunt, where he
might be able to protect the game
and ensure the future. As the land
was not necessary in a completey wild
state he planned an orchard and farm
of six or seven hundred acres, and pro
ceeded to set over 300 acres of
peaches. He made of his orchard a
model, and this year counted on load
ing over a hundred cars of fruit, and
in addition he had established a can
ning plant where he was preparing
to can from his own orchard about
60,000 cans of peaches. In these
things he was a pioneer. He was a
keen business man, being a broker on
the New York stock exchange, pnd he
applied business methods to his North
Carolina farm and orchard, and was
making a decided success on a big
scale. The importance of his work
was of such magnitude that last week
The Pilot printed a considerable story
of his canning project, and that Char
lotte Observer of Sunday had a
lengthy story about his orchard and
his farm system, which is in advance
of most anything else in the Peach
belt. By the time the Charlotte Ob
server arrived in the Sandhills with
the story of what he had done in this
neighborhood the man who had done
the work was dead.
The tragedy of the whole thing is
that Just as he had brought to a
positive success the big plans he had
outlined for the Sandhills, and when
le could see the first real crop of
)eaches starting to market in the
leight of condition, in the peak of
*he first big harvest, his summons
came. He planned his work. He
dreamed his dreams of accomplish
ment. He established his industry.
But he was permitted only the one
ig’limpse of the success of his big
achievement.
It all seems to me so tragical be
cause he was a big man, broad in his
ideals, sound in his business methods,
genial in his ways, considerate of his
employes, and wholly in touch with
the proposition of making his com
munity an attractive and helpful
place to live and do business. In his
death the Sandhills has lost one of its
)ig men, for while he was unob-
strusive and had not as wide ac
quaintance as many men he was a
worker on a big scale, and his work
was planned with intelligence and
racked with ample capital. And he
was an informed and companionable
man, interested in human progress
and in the community welfare. No
man in the community has done more
with less noise about it. He was a
wheel horse in the development of
Moore county industrially and eco
nomically.
PEACHES MOVING
FORWARD RAPIDLY
Peak of the Movement About
Reached, But Heavy
Yet
The peak of the peach shipments
has been about reached by today, and
from now on a decline will nm into
next week, when all but a few later
Varieties will be harvested. From a
hundred and twenty-five cars up to
about a hundred and forty has been
the daily movement this week. The
quality has been good, and the
prices satisfactory until yesterday
when the reports from the marketing
cities indicated a decline. Whether it
will be of consequence could not be
foretold when this information was
received but it is believed a strength
ening will follow the rest of the crop.
There is some prediction that the
crop will not be as big as was antici-
(Continued on page 8)
W. J. BRYAN DEAD
William J. Bryan, three times the
unsuccessful candidate of the demo
cratic party for president of the
United States, and Secretary of
State in Wilson’s administration,
died suddenly at Dayton, Tennessee
Sunday. He will be buried at Ar
lington cemetery in Washington,
having been a colonel of volunteers in
the war with Spain.
nWANIS CLUB TO
SEND OUT PEACHES
A Crate to go to Visiting Edi
tors of Two weeks
Ago
JOHN WILCOX
of the Horse Shoe section and one of
Moore county’s best and largest
farmers. Mr. Wilcox is a graduate
of the University of North Carolina,
and made quite a record for that
college as a base ball pitcher, while
making the varsity team. He is a
son of the late Capt. George Wilcox,
who represented Moore county in the
legisature, and has a brother in
Florence, South Carolina, who is one
of the leading lawyers of that state.
TOMATO CROP
BRINGING MONEY
At the Wednesday meeting of the
Kiwanis club in the park at South
ern Pines arrangements were made
The tomato crop has been affected
by ^he dry weather, and it will not
give the total yield anticipated. But
the growers are much encouraged.
The prices have been highly satis
factory, and will encourage more
planting next year. A fall crop will
follow later in the season from which
it is hoped to profit as the expectation
is that rains will come some day and
help the crop out. Shipments to
Florida are bringing good returns.
Some mistakes were made this year
in planting and handling the crop,
but they will be avoided next year,
and altogether the growers have hopes
of making tomatoes a factor in Moore
county crops.
Pure bred stock is much better than
wild cat stock, says John A. Arey,
dairy extension specialist.
to the acre the alfalfa yields, but it
will be enough to give him one of the
most profitable crops in the Horse
Shoe district.
All soils are not fitted for the
culture of alfalfa, but the Deep river
section has land on which it will thrive
and in such an amount to the acre as
to make it worth including in the
farm scheme.- How far it Is wise 1*^4*
the farmer to turn his attention to
alfalfa The Pilot does not presme to
say, but it is apparent that Mr. Wil
cox is having success with it so far,
and unless something interrupts to
change the prospects it i.5 aso evident
that any farmer who has land he
suspects would be giiod alfalfa terri
tory would profit by dropping in on
Mr. Wilcox and making some inquiry
as to the procedure in raising this
crop.
Alfalfa makes probably the best hay
that can be raised in the state. It
makes so much weight to the acre
that it has an advent age in that
respect, while the quality of the hay
is such that alfalfa is a pronounced
soil improver. It is a good feed for
all kinds of live atock. giving them
the protein content that is so neces
sary to thrifty and rapid growth. A
liberal supply of alfalfa hay cuts down
the need of grain ration, and yields a
mlanure that is of higher than ordi
nary value in its yield of nitrogen
for the crops where it is used.
The roads to the Horse Shoe section
of the county are in excellent shape
now, and a drive out that way from
any direction is attractive. But v^th
the interest that is always to be found
in the Wilcox farm, with its house that
was there in the revolutionary days,
and its part taken in the war, for a
battle was fought there and bullet
holes are still to be seen in the wood
work, a little journey up that way is
more than usually interesting.
ADTOnOBILE SHOW
AT SANDHILL FAR
Charlie Picquet Will Have Big
Tent for Fifty
Cars
John Wilcox and Little Son in his Fine Field of Alfalfa
to send to each of the college editors
who visited the club two weeks ago
a crate of Sandhill peaches. These
were contributed by the orchards, and
forwarded by the club. Shields
Cameron sponsored the operation and
got it through in his usualy effective
way. The dinner was provided by
Jack, and was all right until some
Philistine raised the question as to
whether the peaches served were
Sandhills or California and Jack in
sisted that they had come from the
Cherokee orchard, and said it with
such a note in his voice that the com
plainants tamed down and said
nothing more above a whisper. But
insurrection was further invited when
it was reported that a number of
feeds have been spread in the neigh
borhood community with California
peaches on the bill of fare, and a
sentiment prevailed that any man
caught with the goods on him should
have hard knots tied in his ears and
his hair curled with a base ball bat.
Talbot Johnson, president, called on
Judge Way to repeat before some of
the members present what he had
(Continued on page 8)
WUCOX AND HIS
ALFALFA FIELD
County Commissioner Shows
How to Make a Valuable
Crop
John Wilcox, county commissioner
and Deep river farmer, has on his
farm up in the Horse Shoe country, a
crop of alfalfa that is worth going
up there to see. In many ways his
farm is worth a visit, for he has a
historical old place that- has been
famous from the beginning of settle
ment in the county, but he is adding
some features that his predecessors
were not used to. In one big field he
has sowed alfalfa, and the^ results
of the crop are interesting and profit
able. The cut shown on this page
tells the story of the growth of the
plant, but it does not tell the amount
of hay that has been cut from the
field. Mr. Wilcox makes several
cuttings a year, and until fall has ar
rived he will not know how many tons
RAISINfi HOGS AT
HARGDHF PROFIT
Feeding the Principal Factor,
But Others Im
portant
The Sandhill Fair will have a new
feature this fall in the form of an
automobile show, and already dealers
enough have indicated their intention
of exhibits so that it seems Mr.
Picquet will have no difficulty in filling
the schedule for this event. Some of
the exhibitors say they will have a
number of cars of different types and
models, and altogether it looks like
one of the biggest displays of cars
ever got together in the central, part
of the state.
The tent that will house the show
will be sixty by ninety feet in size,
able to cover a large exhibit. It will
be placed near the Agricultural
building, and on the fine Bermuda
grass turf will make an ideal exhibit
ing place.
The automobile industry is still
climbing up in the industrial world,
and with many prominent makes of
cars reducing prices with the coming
fall models that will be out in a short
time much activity is to be found the
last half of this year in this field, f»nd
Mr. Picquet feels confident that a big
show of automobiles at the fair will
be one of the most interesting of all
the interestig features. In a small
way the exhibit of automobiles has
had a popularity for years at the
Sandhill Fair, and with a real auto
mobile show, with many of the most
prominent cars on the floor he thinks
the automobile tent will be crowded
every day of the fair.
The value of improved breeds of
live stock in increasing economical or
production is well recognized. Pure
bred sires are accepted today by
many breeders and feeders as an ab
solute necessity. Those states which
have most universally followed im
proving the quality of their live stock.
Better breeding stock will enable us
to meet the great need of today which
is not necessarily more hogs, but
better hogs.
Pure bred sires should not be the
final goal of hog men; Hogs multiply
rapidly and with a single purebred
sow to begin with even the commer
cial hog man can have the female
portion of his herd purebreds in a few
years.
According to a study inquiring into
the cost of pork production carried on
by the U. S. Department of Agri
culture, several years ago, two thirds
of the cost of raising hogs was the
feed cost. During a period like the
present when feed is high in price,
the feed cost may represent even a
higher per cent of the cost of raisin|r
hogs.
Since the feed cost is such an im
portant item, here is a logical point
of attack. Fortunately, we have
thousands of experiments carried on.
by various experiment stations to
which we can turn as a ready source
of information. While some feeders
consider these feeding tests impracti
cal, most progressive farmers watch
the experiments with interest. Re-’
suits are studied and improved feed
ing methods followed wherever
possbie.
One of the most striking lesso.ns
illustrated time and gain in feeding
tests as the economy of the balanced
ration. The shortcomings of the
straight grain ration in the muscle
and bone building materials has been
demonstrated, yet how many hogs are
confined to just such a ration? Pro
tein supplements like tankage, dairy
by-products, fishmeal, oi meal, soy
beans and even legume hays not only
cause pigs to gain moie economically
but also more rapidly. Many feel
*hat they cannot afford to feed These
supplem,ents while as a matter of
fact, they cannot afford not to feed
them. The higher the price of corn,
the greater is the need for feeding it
efficiently.
Practically as impressive as the
showing for balanced rations is the
demonstration of the value of forage
and pasture crops. These crops not
only reduce feeding costs, but they
furnish exercise, aid in controlling
disease, conserve the fertility of the
soil, and make possible a reven'ie
from untillable land.
Numerous crops are available as
(Continued on page 8)
Properly fed pullets will more than
pay for the care and extra feed by
greater egg production next winter,
say poultry extension workers.
“Farming is a business,” says
Secretary of Agriculture, W. M.
Jardine. “It is a highly specialized
wd complicated business. Wasteful
methods will result in loss, and per
haps failure, in farming as surely as
in other business.”
SUIT REGARDED
AS ANNUAL nGHT
Timed As Usual Before To
bacco Season Begins in
S. C. Belt.
The suit filed against employees of
the Tobacco Association by J. A*
Wade, a farmer of Halifax County^
Virginia has created only mild in
terest among the members of the
association, according to all accounts!
What has become an annual bar
rage of hostile and sensational pub
licity against the organized tobacco
growers is timed as usual to precede
the opening of the association’s
market in South Carolina. Members
wearisomely recall the bungling at
tempt of three young men from South
Boston to start an insurrection and
collect “subscriptions” to “show up
the association” which occurred at
just this time last year.
According to the news from Dan-
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