Governor Morrison wants every North Carolina family to have a garden, a few chickens and a cow. And this paper is making bold to ask the Governor, before he distributes his chickens and gardens and cows, to see to it that a “pig-tight and bull-strong” arrangement is made whereby the neighbors’ chickens will be kept out of the garden and off the premises of the neighbors. Neighborhood rows without number have been promoted and feeling engendered that was mean enough to resort to murder and arson, by the habit of some neighbors wantonly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, rearing chickens on other neighbors’ gardens and lawns. If Morrison can think up something to stop that he will have won glory enough for one administration. But if he proposes to distribute chickens and gardens promiscuously, with nothing to keep them apart, then he is fixing to raise more—well, trouble, than he can quell with the state militia. The cow stables on small lots may not become a nuisance, breeders of flies and disease. But chickens and gardens without a separation that really separates won’t do; and if the Governor doesn’t know that some of his friends should coax him into a corner and have a few words of plain speech with him.
From the Statesville Landmark, as reprinted on the front page of The Mount Airy News, June 9, 1921
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