Henderson, June 29—Sideline activities for farmers in Vance County are beginning to take on turns this season, and more and more farmers are turning to other means of income than tobacco and cotton, for many years almost the sole reliance for the growers of their money income.
County Farm Agent J.C. Anthony reported today the procuring of 25 heads of shoats by J.C. Puckett and M.T. Greenway, who are co-operating on their farms a few miles east of the city in a demonstration to show how money can be made in raising pork.
The county at this time also has at least one commercial peach orchard, which covers only seven acres but has approximately 600 trees, each of which is expected to average two bushels of fruit, and which may net the owner, W.H. Ayscue, from $2,500 to $3,000 for his crop. This is in addition to Mr. Ayscue’s other crops and has so clearly demonstrated the possibilities of peaches in this section that it is regarded as not improbable that there may be additional orchards next year to supplement the farm incomes.
All of these side lines are in addition to poultry on hundreds of farms, and the dairy industry, which is now being agitated.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 29, 1926
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