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S| ia*, '"it -*-.> .-->?, g.r t- ? - ;THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER |ilti-Million Dollar Produce Business Envisioned For Haywood Countv Moisture, Soil Held Favorable (Continued from pace I) ing which he has proved, to his >wr satisfaction at least, that Hay vood County produce can be ?.row n profitably for sale on the south's big-city markets. Haywood County has already established itself solidly as a lcad ig Southeastern apple-growing ?enter, and there's no reason wh> we can't do equally well with oth er produce. Shorty contends. The present agricultural picture, as he sees it. is this: Farmers in states to the south of North Carolina have a distinct advantage over Tar Heels in the ?attle-raising industry?because ol milder climate and cheaper farm and. (Haywood County land, as is well known, commands the second highest price in the United States. > Farmers in Georgia, for in tanee. can get started raising cat tle for the same amount that i' ?osts Havwood countians to build barns and silos?which are not needed in the Deep South. "We cannot compete with those " Mr 1?* "*? * 1 _ ,-ww^.v . mi . iwnin K IIlUI KrU, ? However, he says, when it comes to raising produce, Haywood Coun ty is blessed with better soils, more rainfall, and "strategic near ness" to major metropolitan mar kets. Using Henderson County as a basis for comparison. Shorty re lated that our neighbors to the southeast had only two packing houses 15 years ago but now have 30 and, in addition, two large auc tion houses?with buyers from the Army and major food distributors. Its growth has been such that Henderson County now calls it self "The Mountain Fruit and Veg etable Capital." and realizes sever al million dollars each year from the sale of produce grown in Hen-1 derson and surrounding counties. Comparing the two counties, Mr. Ketner says that while Henderson has more level ground, Haywood generally receives more moisture I during the growing season. Outlining his own farming op- j ! erations. "Shorty" explained that ! he raises spinach, green onions, j and radishes from the first of May I until the middle of June and grows sweet corn and green beans from mid-June until fall Some of the land is his own: other acreage he utilizes on a "cash-rental basis. To prepare his crops for mar IlSoldier Takes I Anti-Aircraft I? In Germany ? GERMANY ? Army I i; Phillips, -son of Roy ? Route :i. Canton, re Ecipated with others of Kiitry Division's 47th Eft Artillery Battalion in t field traiaUg exercise th. Germany. Lrd his buddies carried Mical test under combat | in order to maintain j t efficiency and combat- | ivar-old soldier, an as- I ply clerk in the battal- I ry D. entered the Army gust 1R53 and arrived st February. Iltson Completes ig At Benning KENNING. Ga. ? Pfc. ' Watson of Waynesville. the four-week Quarter sat cutting course this ?rt Benning. I hour course includes nstryction at the meat i j lint and courses in re- ! and storage, tools and ' plant sanitation, ? pro- 1 beef, veal and pork, and ir.istration. it cutting course is one est activities at The In ter, SACKING BEANS at Lake Junaluska for use in the Ketner packing house are Carmen Arring ton of Panther Creek (left) and R. M. Stiles of East Waynesville, employee- of the 'Farmers Ex ^? T" ^ '?a%BRWPH" ?HI change. At the peak of the season, 350 bushels of beans were being picked each day. (Mountaineer Photo). : nouncing... Jimmy Daniels WITH 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A FURNITURE SALESMAN IN WAYNESVILLE NOW ASSOCIATED WITH I HAYWOOD | FURNITURE CO. STREET WAYNESVILLE JIMMY FOR ALL YOUR FURNITURE NEEDS AND THE BEST VALUES. I&Wi awWallq Worn & . - - - ana yei so Light and Comfortable! ? SUEDE ? LEATHER ? CORDUROY MEN'S JACKETS $3.95 To $11.93 BOYS' JACKETS $3.95 To $7.93 All Sizes Many Styles (BURNER'S STORE | Street ? ? History Shows Haywood Areas Began To Develop In Early Part Of 1800 By W. C. MEDFORD ??? Chapter 6 ' - ' As stated heretofore, several I settlements had been made in this part of original Buncombe County, now Haywood, by the year 1798? at Mt. Prospect and on Richland, Creek, Ford of Pigeon and "The Gardens" and at "Shooks". now Clyde. They had also been made at Crabtree, Jonathan Creek. Beav erdam Creek and Fines Creek, j Bethel section and on Raccoon Creek. In The 1830's We have seen how these settle ments grew and were gradually ex- < tended?and how others sprang up. Also mention was made of the system of crude roads?roads that were cut out and made passable i for sled and wagon teams of oxen and horses! connecting up with these various settlements. By 1835 we find such settlements' had been made in almost every j section of what is now Haywood j, county. Those not mentioned here- j tofore are. Allen's creek and Plott , creek. Panther creek. East Fork. Iron DuiCand Upper Hominy. Cata loochee, Big creek. Cecil, White Oak and Hurricane come later. At that time Macon county had been cut off; so that left Haywood with only one school of any im portance. Green Hill Academy. The meager state "free school" system with county tax-supple ment had not yet been put into operation, but the bill authoriz ins it had been passed in Decem ber 1839. (More about this later.) The Baptists had their three or four places of worship, mentioned heretofore. The Methodists had also been here since about the fall of 1810, when Francis Asbury first preached at the "Shook house". They had about the same number of mission-preaching places in the county. The "Yarb Doctors'* There were no physicians in our county in 1835. licensed or unli censed. During nearly all the years we have been considering, the pioneers made out with their lo-. cal "yarb" (herb) doctors. These self-certified "doctors" diagnosed, prescribed, compounded and'treat ed for such diseases as the hives, cramp colic, "miseries," "aigers and fever" 'ague and fever), "rheu matics," etc. They also did some surgery, such as blood-letting, lancing "bi'ls" (boils) and dress ing wounds; and they often pulled teeth?with crude home-made pli ers. AlsO, for those who believed in witchcraft, there was probably a witch doctor within reach. These old herb doctors, com pounded their remedies of slippery elm bark, bone set leaves, ginseng and sassafras roots, dock, shiney havi', may apple, mullein, cherry bark and other roots and herbs. Sounds strange today, doesn't it" But such was medicine and surgery j here, as regards both ipembers of the "profession" and their prac tice, in those days -and even lat er lii ere of childbirth there war of course, a mid-wife handy in most communities. The midwives had a fairly lucrative practice here long after the medical doctors made their advent, not disappear ing entirely until well into the present century. Real Estate and Land Holders During the latter part of this j period, in the 1830's. there was much activity in the sale of real estate. It seems that some were proving up on their claims and were getting either deeds or bonds for title, while others, of course, were buvine outrieht these tracts of land for homes and for specu lation purposes. The Loves (Col. Robert and Jas. R.V, Thos. Lenoir of East Fork. John and Chas. McDowell, John Dobsort and the Smatherses of Boaverdam and Clyde. Joseph Mc Crat'ken and Thos F^reuson of Crabtree. Henry Plott. Waynesville, Joshingand Jesse Kinsland of tip per Pieeon and W G. B Garrett of Jonathan's Creek about this lime <in the 1830's> nrobablv own ed a ouarter of all the land in ! what is now Havwood counlv. John Rlrother at one lime (1797 1R0R> the hi<"*esf landowner of all i hv far had passed awav his hold ings mostly passine to the Loves. Phil Burford was the first coun ty recorder or register. He was followed in 1811 by Holoman Bat tle who served until March 1815 Battle was succeeded by William Welch who served for 20 years ?? when Baxter Turner came *in. Welch then becoming Clerk of Court. Samual Fitzgerald also was Clerk along then. "Indian No Drink Firewater" It was in 1830 when Chief YoU na-gusha tCherokee for Drowning Bear) persuaded the tribe at Qual la to sign a pledge of total abstin ence from the use of spiritous li quors They kept the pledge, it is said, for quite a number of years? certainly until 1838. when Col. Thomas made confirmation of this in a report on the Cherokees. Note: Aecording to plan. The Pioneer Period (up to 1840) will be concluded with our next chap ter. keting. Mr. Ketner operates a -mall packing house near his Farmers Exchange on North Main St. He also buys considerable pro duce from other farmers for dis tribution in Atlanta and other Southern cities. The solution. Mr. Ketner be lieves, is for the small farmer in Haywood County to convert to produce growing to realize a good profit instead of a "bare subsis tence." His recommendations, he says, are not for the large, well-estab lished farms but only for the small operators and the newcomers to j farmers. "As farms get smaller, more intensified farming is needed," he J remarked. "1 am not urging any radical chances." "Shorty" savs, "but only I asking that produce growing not be neglected." As more farms grow produce, outside capital would be attracted and additional packing houses would be constructed to get food products on the big markets. "We are not jealous of cor\jpe tition," Mr. Ketner asserted, "we are as big as we want to be." Haywood County produce could, he opined, be marketed in such cities as Atlanta, Charlotte, Col umbia, Nashville, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Charleston, Tampa. Louisville, and Cincinnati. "The entire South and East are wide open. The produce business has been and is good. Why don't we take advantage of it?" WEIGHING AND CHECKING PRODUCE at the Farmers Exchange parking house is J. K. Ilipps of Waynesville (right). Looking on are Claude ? Itolick of Waynesville (holding: basket of poppers) and Lynn Chambers of East Pigeon. 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