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- S.A.L.magundi [1895 : September, v.1 : no.6]
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- September 1895
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S.A.L.magundi [1895 : September, v.1 : no.6]
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Devoted to the Seaboard Air Line, and the Agricultural and Industrial Interests of the South.
VOLUME I.
PORTSMOUTH, VA„ SEPTEMBER. 189s.
NUMBER 6.
SEABOARD AIR LINE.
R. C. HOFFMAN, President. Baltimore, Md.
E. ST. JOHN. Vice-President, Portsmouth. Va.
JNO. H. WINDER, General Manager. Atlanta. Ga.
HOPS AND BROOM CORN.
From experimental results of hop growing in the
vicinity of Warrenton. obtained by A. L. Jones, a
practical hop grower, formerly of New York, the fact !
W. W.GWATHMEY, Jr.,Chief Kng’r. Portsmouth. Va. demonstrated that hops can be grown in North Carolina
T. W. WHISNANT, Supt. 1st Div., Portsmouth. Va. at much less cost and of liner grade and flavor than in
WM. MONCURE, Supt. 2d Div.. Raleigh. N. C. . any other section of the United States. As stated by
V. E. McBEE. Supt. 3d Div. and Gen. Agt.. Atlanta. Ga. Mr. Jones in the June issue of this paper: •• It is con-
GREAT IS NORTH CAROLINA.
A trip across the state from the mountains to the
sea coast at this time, says the Morgantown HeraUI. will
teach a wonderful lesson of material and industrial
progress. The country between Charlotte and Durham
seems to be the center of development in the manu¬
facturing line. There is scarcely a town nr a village
ora way station In that distance of more than iso miles
where some new factory is not being erected ■or
some old factory doubled In size and capacity.
Then comes the great cotton belt, and a notice¬
able fact is that the tinest and the largest corn
fields In the state are now to be found right
alongside of the cotton Helds, showing that the
one crop Idea has played out and that the cotton
farmers are raising their own supplies at home.
Farther east comes the great trucking region i
where millions are made every year on berries
and early vegetables. Then come the sounds,
the greatest ilsh and oyster grounds on earth. 1
Truly, no one can travel all the way across |
North Carolina without being impressed with
the fact that it Is the best state In the Union.
The Southern Home gl
cations of progress In
town of Hamlet. Slno
houses have been erecte
there are now building
an eating house, a thir
building to b? used as a
tory that will employ t
oral smaller structures
eefully notes the imli-
:he active and thrifty
1 June 1. six dwelling
d (some nice ones) and
a new railway station,
ty-room hotel, a large
ONE TIRES LOOKING AT IT.
Cotton’s reign as king has passed away. Corn now
sits on the throne, says the Charlotte
Упет.
Ills 188
I miles from Charlotte to Wilmington, and on either
side of the railroad It Is almost an unbroken line of
corn. What breaks occur are made generally by the
I pieces of woodland through which the train passes,
and here and there a field not in cultivation, while 1
about the Laurlnburg section there are gaps in the
line made by cotton. From one end of the line to the
other the cotton acreage to be seen N so small as to be
hardly worth taking into account, with the exception
noted. It is corn, corn everywhere. In many fields
only the roofs of tenant houses can be seen popping up
above the waving field of green, the corn being planted
to the very doors. The traveler actually tires of look¬
ing at corn, and changing his view to the opposite car
window, it is the same there. In the level country east |
of Hamlet all the cleared patches of land between the
pines are green with corn, and on the hillsides coming j
west from there It’s corn. Possibly so large an acre¬
age was never before known in this part of the state.
Secretary Stafford, of the Men’s Business League
of Augusta, proffers a timely suggestion to various
ocean steamship companies which are now engaged m
running excursions every winter to the Orient These 1
A VALUABLE SUGGESTION.
Mr. O. Chanute. of Chicago, consulting engineer, Is
widely known as a gentleman of very superior scien¬
tific and literary attainments. Under date August 17
he addresses the following interesting communication
to Mr. E. St. John, vice-president of the Seaboard Air
Link:
’* Dear Sir: During my recent visit I became aware
of the great work which you are doing for your sec¬
tion of country and the development of Its material
I saw a copy of your paper Salmagundi: thought
it well calculated to attract purchasers for the lands
along the line, and noted the recurrent statements
that the fertility of the soil could be increased by
planting and plowing under peas. This brought to my
mind a paragraph which was floating around In the
newspapers a few years ago (I regret not to have cut
it out), stating the extraordinary results recently ob¬
tained In some French experiments, of increasing five¬
fold the fertilizing action of peas, by sprinkling lightly
over the ground some soil obtained from fields con¬
taining the spores «if a species of alga?, which, fecun¬
dating the pea plant, enabled It to extract a very much
larger amount of nitrogen from the air.
" 1 meant, did occasion serve, to call your attention
hands, and sev-
flfty *
affording :i
«■lots • Hamlet,
by hundred-
as fine fruit growing
world that are being i
figure* than at anv <**. ■
els. several boarding
•ment of saloons. Over
i4*
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completed dur-
nsportation facilities to
ie Home adds. •• is sur-
f thousands of acres of
inds as there is In the
I onthe market at lower i
r point in the south.
Jr.r FBKfiON I ASHE COUNTY ) AND NEGItO MOUNTAIN, IN WESTERN SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA.
VIEW OF MOUNTAIN ANI) VAI.I.KY IN THE WESTERN SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA.
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
H. W.
П,
GLOVER, Traffic Manager. Portsmouth. Va.
GEO. I.. RHODES. General Agent. Portsmouth. Va.
0. It. CAPPS, General Freight Agent. Portsmouth. Va.
T. .1. ANDERSON. General Passenger Agent. Ports¬
mouth, Va.
B. A. NEWLAND. General Agent Passenger Depart¬
ment, Atlanta. Ga.
I ceded by all hop growers and hop merchants who have
examined them that the Carolina hops are at least 38 per
! cent richer in t he element called lupulin than are either
the New York or the western hops, and that the per¬
fume or aroma of the seedless North Carolina hop is
•qua] to that of the finest foreign varieties.” The most
I promising locality for the development of this plant
«•n a commercial scale (Mr. Jones asserts) is the great
I plateau of undulating soil between the Roanoke and
Tar rivers. There arc also many other localities where
i the conditions of soil am! climate are most conducive
I t<» successful hop growing In the Piedmont section ad-
I Jacent to the Seaboard Aik Link.
The caption of this article is not intended to indicate
! the existence of any relevancy or association between
• hops and broom corn." Each, however, represents a
H. P. Shokmakkk, Soliciting Passenger Agent. 287 1 distinctively new Industry to the North Carolina
Broadway. N. V.
THE OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO.
It profitable to arrange excur-
cason on the same plan. They
ngers to far more Interesting
and New York in one of the Old Dominion steamers, is i localities than have heretofore been visited: to match-
nelther long, tedious nor wearisome. On the contrary, i «css Port Royal and the ports of Savannah and Charles-
lt affords a most delightful and refreshing interrup- 1 ton; to Norfolk-Portsmouth. through Its splendid
The journey by sea between Norfolk (connected by
ferry with Portsmouth and the Skaiioard Air Link)
companies might make
sions to the south this >
could take their pas
PASSENGER AND FR E IG HT AG E NTS.
WM. W. Tull. New England Agent, 30fl Washington
street, Boston. Mass.
Ciias. I. Malone, Eastern Freight Agent, 287 Broad-
way. N. V.
C. Ironmonger. Eastern Passenger Agent. 2S7 Broad-,
way, N. Y.
J. P. MURRAY. Soliciting Freight Agent. 2X7 Broadway.
N. Y.
P. Tennant. Soliciting Agent. 33 South Third street.
Philadelphia, Pa.
H. L. Elkins. Agent. 33 South Third street. Philadel¬
phia. Pa.
Chan. F. He doing er. Soliciting Freight Agent. 207 East
German street, Baltimore. Md.
P. B. Thompson. Agent. 207 East German street, Balti¬
more. Md.
H. M. Boykin. Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent.
K30 East Main St.. Richmond. Va.
Wm. B. Clements. Dbtriet Passenger Agent. G01 Penn¬
sylvania avenue, Washington. D. C.
J. W. Brown. Jr.. City Passenger Agent. Norfolk. Va.
F. P. Jarvis, Soliciting Freight Agent. Norfolk, Va.
C. .I.Voorhkes, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent.
Portsmouth. Va.
E.
1». К
ylk. Soliciting Freight Agent. Favetteville. N. C.
A. J. COOKE. Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent.
Raleigh, N. C.
Chan. S. Heard. Soliciting Freight an.l Passenger
Agent. Augusta, Ga.
J. N. Wright, Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent.
Laurens. S. G.
farmer, and one that could be developed with proper
care and exjiense (less than is given to tobacco or
cotton) so as to l»e made to yield large profits. We note
In this connection recent exi»eriraents made on a farm
in Wayne county, near Goldsboro, in raising broom
corn, which were attended with most gratifying re¬
sults. The owner, Mr. H. E. Bonitz. and Major C. W.
McClammy. of Scott’s Hill, in Pender county, each
planted this season ten acres in broom corn which
averaged from ten to fourteen feet high. The stalks
were sturdy, and brush heavily developed. A broom
factory expert pronounced them to be of very superior
quality. As the demand for the straw of broom corn is
great and it sells for from $75 to $100 a ton. there Is no
reason why broom corn as well as hop growing should
not stimulate the efforts of the average North Carolina
farmer, and be added to the profitable list of his diver¬
sified industries.
FORES"
KNK NEAR CHIMNEY ROCK.
;ight and Passenger
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wm. C. Flksnikkn. S lic;*»i
Agent. Columbia. S. C.
F. M. FREBMOXT. Soliciting Freight Agent. Equitable
Building. Atlanta. Ga.
W. 1. FLOURNOY, Traveling Passenger Agent. No. 6
Kimball House. Atlanta, Ga.
E. J. Walker, Citv Ticket and Passenger Agent. No. 0
Kimball House. Atlanta. Ga.
О.
M. Sparks. Traveling Freight Agent. Equitable
Building, Atlanta. Ga.
J. G. Ramey. Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent.
Rome. Ga.
J. 11. Griffin, Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent,
Montgomery, Ala.
K.
C. Mahoney, Traveling Freight and Passenger
Agent. Macon. Ga.
W.
Л.
I*
к
lot. Florida Freight Agent. Jacksonville. Fla.
W. H. Knox, Soliciting Freight and Passenger Agent.
Nashville, Tenn.
B. S. Tkhhune, Commercial Agent, room 5 Fosdick
Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
H. I. Nokvell, Commercial Agent, room 505 Bank of
Commerce Building. St. Louis. Mo.
R. 1 1. Tate. Southwestern Freight and Passenger Agent,
303 Camp street. New Orleans, La.
SOME PROFIT YET IN COTTON.
Greeley said: ’’The way to resume specie pay¬
ments was to resume." In like manner.the way to make
cotton profitable is to make it ig to produce it. This
can be effected only by intelligent farming and keep¬
ing expenses down to the minimum point. Professor
MM«y tells of a Halifax farmer who in 1870 raised
three bales on one acre which did not cost him more
than four cents a pound. Besides a premium at the
Weldon fair, he got about $100 a bale, making $300 for
cotton raised on one acre.
The Sampson Democrat knows a Robeson county
farmer. Mr. Daniel l\ McKinnon, of Rowland, who did
better than that last year. His cotton crop he com¬
putes after close calculation. co.sUhim only three cents
a pound to raise. At seven cents he made money on
his crop while other farmers lost. The secret of his
success was good management. His land is under ex¬
cellent cultivation, and he looks closely after details.
tion In the continuity of railway travel to and from
southern and northern points. 'Phis Is especially true
during the summer and autumn months, when storms
or high winds are of exceptional occurrence, and the
expanse of ocean along the Atlantic coast Is hardly
more than ruffled by a cool and ever welcome breeze.
Six of the steamers (eight In all), making trips alter¬
nate days, are propelled by screw, the largest of 3.000
and the smallest of 1.600 tons. All are staunch and
seaworthy, of improved modern dealer.- built to with¬
stand the buffetings of the severest weather in perfect
safety: a$e manned by competent sailors and cap¬
tained by accomplished and experienced seamen.
The broad upper decks are inclosed by netted bul¬
warks and protected In sunny weather by awnings,
under which, hour after hour, passengers and families
with children, sit. read, converse and amuse them¬
selves in the open air. The staterooms arc commo¬
dious and conveniently fitted up. and the beds sleep-
inviting. Other than the monotonous throb of the
powerful engines and the swish of waters that rush
in foamy turbulence along the sides of the vessel
there is hardly a sound to disturb the soporific quiet.
The slumber one indulges in at night is something al¬
most supcrnaturally profound. The waking (even for
the invalid) Is In the nature of a sweet surprise. The
drone and bite of mosquitoes have Inflicted no torture:
the air, surcharged with ozone, Ills Imparted an un¬
wonted vigor: the nerves have been strung up anew;
the pulse beats with a strength that Is even as well as
strong, and a sense
«»
f physical and mental exaltation
supersedes the lassitude of the previous day. One
realizes almost what It Is
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be born again. All these
symptoms or Indications of revival and complete
гев-
I toration of torpid human functions and faculties are
demonstrated in the appetite with which the guest
attacks the sumptuous meals placed before him.
On board the Richmond (not very fast, but exceed¬
ingly comfortable) It was the recent good fortune of
| the writer to partake of banquets to which no one
could fall to do «ample Justice. They were of far more
i than usual excellence, not so varied or pretentious.
■ i>erhaps. as some, but delectably prepared and served.
I The chief cook. W. II. Langley (colored), proved hlin-
I self a culinary genius, and the chief steward. H.
| Frasure. so far as quality of material was concerned,
an excellent and discriminating purveyor. Here is
I the sample menu of a dinner that doesn’t read half so
I well as It lasted:
OLD DOMINION DINNER.
harbor: to Augusta, where many northerners spend
their winters to enjoy the outdoor climate: to Atlanta,
where the great exposition will be in full blast, having
! passed en route through the beautiful mountain section
[ of North and South Carolina and Georgia the Switzer¬
land of America; to the battlefield of Chlckatnauga
and Lookout Mountain: to Pone
Augustine in Florida, and scores of similar attructiv
and historical places. The south, which Is the wonder¬
land of the United States, might prove a drawing card
to the great steamship companies, and if they study
their own interests they will play It for all It Is worth.
to this important ami promising fact, but you are per¬
haps already aware of It. and may know whether It
can confer upon southern soils the fertility which ob¬
tains in more northerly regions.
“In any event 1 find upon my return here an arti¬
cle in a new French review, giving a scientific (rather
too scientific) account of the results attained In
France, ft Is entitled • Nutrition azotde des vdgdtaux.’
and I send you a copy herewith. It describes the
methods which have been found to enrich without
manures both ordinary cultivated fields and lands re¬
cently cleared of timber, and these methods scent well
de Leon and St. 1 worth experimenting upon.
"As the article does not describe sufficiently the
practical steps to be taken. I beg to suggest that cor¬
respondence with the department of agriculture at
Washington [or experiment station at Raleigh ?- Ed. ]
may elicit further facts and practical suggestions."
EXCURSION RATES TO ATLANTA.
With the concurrence of Vice-President St. John
and Traffic Manager Glover. General Passenger Agent
Anderson announces the following programme of rates
from various points over the Seauoakd Air Link to thfr
Atlanta Exposition and return during the j*erlod in¬
cluded between September 18 and December 31.
1КУ5,
For Tickets Sold -j £
Daily and Lim-
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a
ited to-
SlfDa’h
Limited
f
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м
Abbeville...... C. •
«.10
Athens . Ga.
Charlotte.. . N. G.
Chester . S. C.
Clinton . "
Durham . N. C.
Elberton . Ga.
Green wood.. S. C.
Hamlet . . _N. C.
Henderson.. "
Maxton .
Norfolk . Va.
Portsmouth. ’’
Raleigh . N. C.
Richmond... Va.
San ford .... N. C. !
Suffolk . V a. 23.25|
Wadesboro. N. C.
Washington. D.C.
Weldon.. N. C.
Wilmington. ’’
a ib
20,40 *15.00
I 4l
Irt 20
17 35
17,05
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Frank S. Packard received during the first week
of August at his borne in Warrenburgh. N. Y.. a basket
of fine grapes and pears, sent by his father. Prof. L. S.
Packard, of Pine Bluff, as samples of the fruit products
of that section. They were of superior quality, and
arrived there In excellent condition.
In the vicinity of Hamlet the grape crop was
gathered about the middle of last August. It was un¬
usually large, and although three weeks later than
last year, the growers cleared over all expenses five
cents per pound. The peach crop of this section was
also very full and tine. The early Amsden, Alexander
3.55
2 70 ...
5.25
3.15..
11.50
7.60 ...
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i’2.35
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12. <
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12 . 40 .
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12.40 .
14.00;
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10.70).
12.00
.! 8.45
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.1 7.20
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Chicken.
Ox Tail.
KISH.
Baked Blue
with Wine .Sauce.
BOILED.
Ham and Cabbage.
ROAST.
Ribs of lleef.
Lamb. Mint Sauce.
ENTREES.
Braised Duck
with Green Peas.
Macaroni au G rat In.
Orange Fritters,
VEGETABLES.
Mashed Potatoes.
Sweet Potatoes.
Green Corn.
Lima Beans.
SALADS AND RELISHES.
Lobster Salad.
Olives. Pickles.
PASTRY.
Cabinet Pudding.
Apple and Pumpkin
DESSERT,
Ice Cream,
Watermelon.
Fruits. Nuts. Coffee.
In no case will tickets be made
passage after January 7. lxwk
Special tickets issued Tuesday» and Thursday*
will be limited to ten 10) days from date of sale.
Rates for military apply only for companies In uni¬
form moving in bodies of twenty-five or more men on
.a solid ticket, and uniformed bands accompanying
them. Tickets will be sold dally and limited to ten
(10) days from date of sale.
•THE PIEDMONT REGION.”
very timely and |
u thorn Immigra- ;
ta. Ga., of which )
The following is
Each Individual dish was cooked to a turn, and
pronounced fully up to the most exacting epicurean
standard. The selection of wines and malt liquors for
those who ordered, was also of the choicest brew and
vintage.
It is hardly necessary to enlarge upon the good
cash for what fertilizers he uses, this being about the
only thing he has to buy. He makes all the bread and
usually all the meat consumed or. his plantation, and
with one horse and one hand produces as many bales
of cotton as two horses and two hands usually do.
The Charlotte Qtmervcr comes up smiling with one
James Potts.of the Flint Hill neighborhood who.it says,
will harvest this season, on his two-horse farm.Ji5
bales of cotton of 500 pounds each, which at seven cents
a pound will foot up a handsome total: also 500 bushels
of corn, which at fifty cents a bushel will be 8250.
, , , , . . , Besides this, he will make plenty of meat, potatoes,
commercial pines of the state are used in its construe- | oats and wheat. This crop, it claims, will he made at
In the spring lie doesn't buy on crop time, but pays | taste exemplified in ihe furnishing and embellish-
The North Carolina Car Co. has built for the Sea¬
board Air Line a very handsome office, to be placed in
the Atlanta Exposition forestry building in the center
of the Seaboard Aik Line’s exhibit. It is as unique in
design as it is beautiful in finish. It is 18x21 feet, with
a passage running through it. and contains four com¬
partments. two small and two large. The wood of
which it is constructed is North Carolina pine, finished
smooth with white shellac and filled. All four of the
tlon. The office (of which John T. Patrick will have
charge) will be used for the entertainment of the
friends of the Seaboard road, for business connected
with their exhibit and for the distribution of literature
setting forth the advantages of North Carolina and
the south to immigrants.
a cost of only *75. It reads like a Munchausenism. but
the Otmrvcr publishes the statement as a fact.
Work commenced the 15th ult. on a new mill of the
Cannon cotton mills at Concord, this state, which- is to
contain 12,000 spindles and 400 looms.
This subject is elaborated In a
interesting pamphlet, Issued by the So
lion and Improvement Co., at Allan
company .7. H. Mountain Is manager,
the splendid initial paragraph:
Georgia. Alabama, tile Caro
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and East Tennes¬
see constitute the Piedmont region of North America.
Here the lower end of the Appalachian chain spreads
out like a gigantic cornucopia, pouring its wealth upon
the plain: here the Atlantic ocean reaches far inward
to catch Its freight of nature’s rich profusion, and
floats the largest ships nearer to the western granary
than at any other part of the long coast: here the gulf
approaches with moist south winds that soothe and
fructify the earth : and here the primeval forest, wrap¬
ping the folds of the great cornucopia In its evergreen
mantle, sweeps from Hatteras to the Mexican border.
Descending by easy stages from mountain to plain this
marvelous region presents in quick succession almost
the entire vegetable series of the United States. This
is the hospitable home of the husbandman, the vine
dresser, the fruit grower and the florist. Here. Dm*, Is
nature’s ideal seat of industry, with materials spread
out in endless profusion, and the bracing breezes of
the hill country pouring out an aerial champagne that
stirs men to effort. This incomparable tonic of ozone
their opinion seem like gilding gold or painting the I
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Piedmont region that Iran*,
lily—" a wasteful and ridiculous excess."
As a result of researches made under the direction
and supervision of Prof. J. A. Holmes, state geologist,
at the Hermitage plantation near Wilmington, con¬
taining about 2.000 acres, a rich depoRltof phosphates,
three feet thick, has been discovered. So far only
twenty-five acre* have been explored by boring and
digging.
ment of the dining and drawing rooms of these steam¬
ers. The judicious expenditure of money In artistic
arrangement and decoration is visible on all sides, in
general and detail. The public by tens of thousands.
5*ear after year, have learned by experience the mem¬
orable Joys of a voyage In one of the steamships of the
" Old Dominion." and a tame rehearsal of its exhilarat¬
ing delights and home comforts or an attempt to pict¬
ure and frame them in an appropriate setting would in
cendent energy by which, as in Atlanta, they rise
superior to obstacles, and build even upon occasional
failure the fabric of success.
North Carolina ha* loaned from the state
museum at Raleigh some very fine specimens of build¬
ing stone, coal. iron and gold ores and timber to the
United States to fill upgaps in the forestry and geologi
NORTH CAROLINA PLUM TREES.
and May varieties cleared t>* the producers *1.75 a
bushel. Blackberries have done equally as well, pro¬
ducing 3.000 to 5.000 quarts per acre, on which the profit
was four to six cents a quart.
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first shipments of Delaware grapes from
Southern Pines this season sold. in the New York mar¬
ket at twenty cents a pound.
Wmi.E the Sand Hill fegion of North Carolina Is
the healthiest in the world. It Is also the best for fruit»
of all kinds. The clay lands are the most suitable for
raising grass, grain or stock. Nevertheless, says the
Hamlet Home, enough of the last named products can
be grown In the Long Leaf Pine belt for the farmer to
keep a team and a couple of cows and corn enough to
feed them.
A hybrid cotton Is growing in Harnett county,
that bears about three times as many bolls as the
cal division of its exhibit They will cover about 150 average stock of cotton. Its lint is of a fine quality
square feet of floor space.
I and resembles the Sea Island lint.
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