Monday, July 22, 2024

Robeson County Staging Comeback from Rains, Says H.C. MacNair, July 18, 1924

Robeson County Is Staging a Come-Back. . . Farmers Are Making a Winning Fight After the Torrential Rains for 60 Days

By H.C. MacNair

Maxton, July 18—There is generally a comeback to Robeson county. It is a most resourceful people who till its productive soil.

The torrential rains almost continual for 60 days or more, seem to be over. All of this week our farmers have made a winning fight. Much grass has been killed. Lots of the crops have been reclaimed, in damaged condition, but reclaimed. It’s too late now for corn, cantaloupes and watermelons, but cotton revives rapidly and if the boll weevil stays off and ideal seasons from not on, it will work wonders.

We are resourceful. One neighbor’s potatoes got mightily in the grass. He ran a furrow in the middle of the row, put new fertilizer, made a new bed, pulled up his plants, and set out in his fresh bed, and presto! he was out of the grass, so far as his potatoes were concerned.

Another farmer with a corn field that had had no plow in it since the middle of May, one day this week did in like manner; made a new bed in the middle, planting corn anew, abandoning the old corn.

Yes, we are resourceful in Robeson County.

From the front page of the Lumberton Robesonian, Monday, July 21, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026483/1924-07-21/ed-1/seq-1/#words=JULY+21%2C+1924

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