The Bulletin. 11 



BUTTER 



JForty-one of the replies included butter. The amount and value 

 are given below: 



POUNDS 248,265 



VALUE @ 20 CENTS A TOUiXD $ 4l),G53.00 



It is a matter of common knowledge that most of the butter used 

 in the State is shi])ped from Northern and Western creameries. The 

 dairy business has a bright future with us, and a number of our 

 leading citizens are becoming interested financially in the better 

 breeds of dairy cattle, and are erecting silos and installing creameries 

 in different parts of the State. The local demand for dairy products 

 is great, and is waiting to be supplied or is being supplied from out- 

 side sources. 



CONCLUSION 



The State has, roughly speaking, five agricultural divisions, 

 namely, the cotton district, the tobacco district, the grain district, 

 the trucking district and the fruit district. Of course these divisions 

 all merge into each other more or less, but to most people of the State 

 these districts are pretty well defined. 



We urge that every farmer raise all of his staple food products at 

 home; but after this demand has been met it would not, in all prob- 

 ability, be economy for each of these districts to try to produce all of 

 the supplies it consumes. Generally speaking, the cotton district is 

 not adai)ted to wheat on a commercial scale, and it would, therefore, 

 in most cases, be unwise to replace cotton with wheat. Again, the 

 tobacco district is not well suited to wheat, corn and meat production 

 on a commercial scale, and there the money crop will continue to be 

 tobacco. The cereal district is not well suited to tobacco, cotton and 

 fruit, hence its main crops will continue to be grains and meat. The 

 great fruit section must continue to grow fruit, etc. 



But what we urge is that each district, after raising its home sup- 

 plies, exploit, to the fullest extent, its own natural resources, so that 

 the other districts may have their needs supplied by home-grown 

 products. We hardly expect Pasquotank, Kew Hanover and other 

 similar counties, with large cities, to grow enough for their needs, 

 but we do ex]iect them to be able to buy from Alamance, Iredell, 

 Davidson, Bandolph, or one of the other grain and meat producing 

 counties, and not be compelled to ship this product from the West. 



A number of the re])lies received gave percentage estimations rather 

 than actual figures. The consensus of opinion among the men who 

 submitted percentage estimations was that in their towns, and some 

 of these were among the largest we have, fully 75 per cent of the 

 food products were shipped in from without the State. 



