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Friday, December 26, 1930. Wads Creek Proves Farming Can Be Profitably Done in Noore County rinehurst Project There Pomt- inff Wav to Better Agricultu- Practice for Section By Bion H. Butler people some times say that an op- i,nmist is crazy, and that he sees so far above the mountain tops that -le ,s always in the clouds and that his “j^ion becomes the impossible. Pos- <;ibly. But I have a liking for opti mists. One of th« tribe, Struthers Burt in a fit of optimism set out .0 get the road sigris. He aroused a sentiment that has extended over the 4ate, and by his persistence he has awakened a new viewpoint regarding roads, and in the course of a not very long time, backed by other crazy op- timTsts. he is going to see the chief | V. ads of North Carolina resemble ave- i nues in the parks and a new beauty | emphasizing every outdoor improve ment. Leonard Tufts is an optimist who has for o.ne if his crazy dreams the advancement of agriculture, and he has made North Carolina conspicuous i jo. J„st ordinary goats like Abraham for its Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire brought up from Ur when he came to Enthusiasm Prevails Weather is'Taken Cheerfully By Crowds Who Find Much To Entertain Them The weather has failed to damp en the ardor or diminish the good sportsmanship of a big crowd of Christmas vacationists in Pine- hurst for the Midwinter carnival. The snow that has prevented the golf program from going forward has been accepted cheerfully by one and all of the links folks, es pecially the amiable throng of young collegians who might be ex pected to be a little gloomy about being kept from their golf. Gay parties of riders, shootists, ping- pongers, and terpsichoreon trip- ers are laughing the weather man to scorn, and having a good time in spite of him. hogs, along with many another thing his t>nthusiastic confidence in prog ress has done. Over on Wad s Creek and Little River he has another op timist, G. T. Ragsdale, a Virginian, from the big, Curlsneck farm near Richmond. Ragsdale is optimistically working out some farm problems for the Moore county farmer, and he is not staying awake nights wondering if the farmer is to die ultimately of star- a Paper With Character, Aberdeen. North Carolina Page PiTi to provide milk and butter for tho amily, and with the surplus of milk to feed the hogs, chickens esjpecially t e small stuff. Poultry and ho^^s will then help to provide the family table and reduce the murderous out lay of money at the stores for home supplies. Feed for all the farm stock s ould^ be made at home he says be cause it is just as profitable to make feed as to make something else to buy it. He says all this takes^ more or less of the .%rmer’s time, but to afford that time he believes less time given to cotton and similar crops will be better utilized, and only enough time devoted' to cash crops as is need ed to earn the cash that must be had for expenses, but not enough to get cash that is used to buy stuff that can be just as well made at home and in greater supply than any farmer can afford to buy. A somewhat different farm psychol ogy is necessary to develop in much of Moore county to get the farmers to raise more of the money saving- crops, but Mr. Ragsdale is optimis tic enough to say tkat if the farms will look into the pasture proposition a little farther and get pasture on all the low ground that will make pasture, and then make other crops a casn- ,producer on the side and. the home production of home supplies the chief function of farming Moore county farms will thrive. Wbat can be done on Wads creek on a bigger scale can be done on other farms on a smaller scale. Moore county farming Is all right if it is done in the right man ner. produce a quality product. In market ing eggs, careful grading is of ut-' most importance yet few of our lo cal ipoultrymen pay any attention to this. Therefore, they place on the market, eggs of a wide range in size, shape, ^ell color, and shell texture. Then too these mixed eggs go in any kind of container that may be handy. When these local eggs are placed side by side with those produced by the large out-of-state concerns, the locally grown product looks bad.” It is not alone that tHe eggs must be packed in attractive containers and be well 'graded, they must also be consistently good, says the poultry- man. They ought never to be over 48 hours old and preferably infertile. One bag egg slipped into a contain er by accident might ruin the trade “ of a valued customer. Then, too, fresh eggs 'are used largely in the^ diet of babies and invalids. Those pur chasing for such purposes rightfully expects consistency in products. The same fundamental reasoning applies to marketing broilers locally, says Mr. Williams. The grower must study the demands of his market and endeavor to meet them. The season I of best prices should also be stud ied. Milk-fed broilers, finished in good shape, when everyone else is not sell ing them, will return a good profit to any local poultryman. Canaan, but they are workers. Some horses run the pasture?, a dozen or more, some o^them work horses and some saddle horses when they are not in the barns at Pinehurst during the season. Pasture is a big factor for the w'ork stock. Big, animals, in thrifty condition, but during the summer while they are working every day and full time they are run on pasture at night, and they pick up their feed with vation. He has a notion in his head | Httle or no help from the stables. that Moore county can make a living, ^ads Creek does not freight in from from the ground and is proving up feed store the supplies, for its work some notions that are likely to attract stock or anything ekt. I'^unny to tell attention and work out with profit some of the Moore county farmers and with marked advancement in the that Mr, Ragsdale works his horses fortunes of Moore county as a whole. (j^y, works them, remem'ber, and Ragsdale is introducing yellow corn j then lets them pick up their feed at v,ith a purpose. He says yellow corn ^ night, but they thrive on it and do contains more vitamins than white a real day’s work all summer long and corn, and is therefore a better food : keep fat and fit. The point is the product, so he is planting freely ^>1 pastures are pastures. They are nor: Reed’s Golden yellow, aiming to make ; simply European hotels where you get better feed for his stock and better nothing but a place to sleep. table product. He also plants Boone ! Raise Hogs Countv Special, a white one-ear va- ■ ■, ttt j • * , , • : The farm was made on Wads CreeK nety, anu he says one-ear com yields , . « ^ -j n- i. ^ mi . ^ : chiefly to provide for the Pinehurst the better crop. The two-ear types ^ ^ suffer more from dry weather than the one-ear corn. Over at Curlsneck they had about 5,000 acres in their farm, and Mr. Ragsdale picked up a lot of notions there about farming. He came to Wad s creek farm an opti mist, and continues to be one. He has a lot of chickens, and says chikens are an essential on a farm. They use up some of the small resources of the farm, and god chickens sell for money at a time when a farmer needs a lit tle money, but they do far better, they hogs. Forty brood sows are there, and they expect to produce a litter twice a year. This means many hun dred little pigs which will be raised on the place. The basis of raising hogs at the farm is pasture, and here the success of the various grasses sowed proves the soundness of the op timism Mr. Ragsdale shows. The grasses are carpet grass, Dallas grass, red top, blue grass, lespedeza and Dutch clover. These succeed each other from early season until late, and few sections can show such a f^ed the farmer and give him much growing season for pasturage, better food for no cash outlay than ; This almost anything else he can produce. ^ ^ Cattle Dot Hillsides : niigrht have been under more nat- Gradually the Wads Creek farm is ' ural condition, but it was still good -extending. It is now cleared out so it ; enough to enable to provide for six can be seen clearly from the Carthage- months the sole feed for tjie cattle, Southern Pines road, and the big and most of that time for the sows, bunch of stock dots the hills and low horses, and goats and an ample sup- ground like a farm from the stock ply for all of them. Nothing is under belts of the w^est. On the land south fed there at the big farm, for that is of the river a large herd of young ‘ not its purpose. Seventy-five acres Ayrshire cattle are grazing where hay can now be regarded as developed and silage have been taken off. This pasture, although 125 acres of ground is the old McLean farm, one of the ; is -now cut down and in time a couple substantial farms of the county for generations. It has been well handled and is a good farm. It is mainly de voted to hay and forage crops, and the cows range there after the har vest. A'bout fifty ar© on the pastures at the present time. North of the river hogs, goats and horses range the fields. Goats are clearing out the brush and the undergrowth. Sheep would be better to range the new pounds, but dogs make that imprac tical. Goats pay a little profit, but their chief purpose is the W3rk they of hundred acres will be devoted to hogs. The McLean farm section will produce hay and silage for the young cattle, and pasture after the crops are taken off. Much roughage from the grain crops is taken off for feed, and readily eaten 'by the stock. Mr, Ragsdale's conclusions are that on much of the land of Moore county pasture can be grown with decided profit, that every farmer should have a couple of cows, with a couple of heifer calves coming on to replace the cows as they grow old, these cows THE PARKVIEW Modern—Fireproof—Excellent Table Attractive location—Opposite Park—Convenient to stores One block fr©m Highway and Depot Open all year Sunny Warm Comfortable K. FLASCHLAENDER Southern Pines, North Carolina H ii ♦♦ :: »nnnnmnn:m:ttnumuuuiw»»»»»»g THE WOODWORTH Corner of Bennett Street and New Hampshire Ave. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. ♦♦ ji Now open for the season of 1930-1931 I A. S. RUGGLES ♦♦ The younger generation are return ing from their various schools by the trainload. William- Fuller arrived yes terday to spend Christmas with his aunt, Mrs. N. S. Hurd. Miss Anna'belle McNab Jias return ed from Simmons College in Boston to be at the Pine Crest for the holi days. Among others who have joined their families for Christmas are Forbes Wilson, Arnold White from Duke Un iversity and George Dunlap, the fam ous young golfer. Miss E. A. Askew of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who is staying at the Carolina is entertaining her sister, Mrs. H. L. Barton of Detroit and her daughters. Miss Mary and Miss Elizabeth, at Christmas dinner in the Carolina. Joseph Higgins of New York is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Meehan in their new home, Thistledhu. Miss Julia Scott Butterfield left Saturday night for Detroit to spend Christmas. She accompanied her fath er, W. S. Butterfield, who has been spending several days at the Caro lina. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston Biddle en tertained frineds at the Pinehurst club Friday night and afterwards at tended the mo'^nes. Miss Cora Swoope has joined her mother, Mrs. H. B. Swoope at Red Gables for the Christmas holidays. S. Leonard Lacks of Pinehurst and Charles Stevick of Southern Pines, both freshmen at Duke university, are spending the holiday Vacation with their parents at home. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Footman are spending Christmas with friends in Charlotte. Mrs. Footman plans to go on to Fountain Inn, S. C., for a visit* of several week's there with her pa rents. Cecil Adair dud Herbert Ehrhardt, first year students at U. N. C., arrived Saturday for the'holidays at home. Miss Elizabeth Rountree, student at"^ Columbia University, is with her mother for the holidays at her home on Midland Road. Mrs. Ralph Page and her daughter. Miss Carey Page, who spent the past several months in Boston, returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Stutts spent Christmas with Mrs. Stutts’ sister, Mrs. Breeden, in Fayetteville. The Rev. and Mrs. Murdoch Mc Leod and little dp^ghter, Dorothy Shaw, will spend this weeks with Mrs. McLeod’s parents. Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Shaw at their home in Sumter, S. C. Walter Page, who has been the guest of his cousin, Anderson Page for a week, left on Tuesday for his home in New York. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hennesseo have have as their guests this week their daughter. Miss Olive Hennessee and Miss May Dalton, of Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hardin and sister, Francis Adair, left Tuesday ville, Ga. Mrs. W. H. Coffey of Lakeview, was a week end guest in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Raymond John son. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thompson re turned on Sunday from Norwood where they had been called by the illness and subsequent death of Mr. Thompson’s mother which occured December 17. The girls and boys at home from the different schools for the holidays are: The MisseS Verdun Shaw, Eliz abeth McDonald, Lenora Sally, Thel ma Bliss and Peggy Brawley; Rod erick Innes, Herbert Ehrhardt, Thom as Henderson and Cecil Adair. Maxwell RusH who is spejnding the winter with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Picquet, went to Greensboro this week for a visit of Several days in the home of Mr. F. Sykes. 'The closing day of the public school here was a very happy one for the children, not only for the vacation, but there were two other reasons that added much to the gayety of the girls and boys. As usual Mr. and Mrs, Cheatham had arranged a very beautiful Christmas tree which yield ed a gift for every one ^present and gifts to take home to their bi:Qthers and sisters. And then Mr. Picquet brought on the climax by asking all those who could to come and see “Just Imagine” which was b^eing shown at the Carolina Theatre that afternoon as his guests. So all in all it was a very big day for the kiddies. DEVELOP LOCAL MARKET FOR POULTRY PRODUCTS There is no valid reason why North Carolina markets should buy a large part of their poultry and egg supplies from outside of the State. Present im portations ^re large and therefore the opportunity exists for poultry growers to develop local markets in a profitable way. “Local growers may capture these markets if they take the same pains as their competitors to produce a quality product and do a little judi cious advertising,” says N. W. Wil- liaans, poultryman at State College. “It is most important, however, to C** N t > ^ ‘ ♦ + "'A" Highland Pines Inn and Cottages (WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES SEASON NOVEMBER TO MAY Highland Pines Inn with its Splendid Dining Room Service and its Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Caters to the Require ments of those Occupying Winter Homes in the Pine Tree Sec tion.^ The Hotel is Situated on Weymouth Heights (Massachu setts Avenue) Amid Delightful Surroundings. Good Parking Space is Available for Motorists. All Features of First Class Hotels are Included at Highland Pines Inn. Best of Everything. Summe. 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