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Pine Barrens Experiments Attract Yale, Gates and More
A bold effort to tune up the pine barrens for diversified farming draws Yale graduate Ralph W. Pumpelly and Harvard alumni like Roger A. Derby and George Maurice into large scale trials. The Gates complex at Hoffman, the Tufts dairy operations at Pinehurst, and newcomers from Boston and York join a wave of investors and young farmers transforming sandy soil into potential cash crops through humane fertility, stock breeding, and long term land improvement.
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Pine
Henry A. Page
Court of St. James
Frederick T. Gates
Standard Oil
Pinehurst
Southern Pines
Aberdeen
Moore County
Hoke
Scotland
Richmond
Ralph W. Page
Frank C. Page
Sandhill Belt
South Carolina
R. W. Pumpelly
Yale
Samarcand
Roger A. Derby
Harvard
Pumpelly
Pine Barrens
Derby
Drowning Creek
Jackson Springs
Moore
Montgomery
Cotton
Sandhill
Young Derby
North Carolina Beef Breeders’ and Feeders’ Association
Roger Derby
Agricultural College
George Maurice
Pumpelly Place
Allen Brothers
Langdon and
Mitchell
Boston
Gates
Adam Haskell
Wil
Liam A. Slater, Jr
Lenox
Rabyatt
North Carolina
Rubyatt
H. O. Ruby
York
Pennsylvania
Norfolk Southern
Hoffman
Rockefeller Foundation
General Education Board
South
Long Range
Iis
Franklin H. Gates
Mr. Gates
Noah
Ihe Department of Agriculture
Washington
Leonard Tufts
Mr. Tufts
Tuftses
Derbys
Pumpellys
Gateses
Tufts
Raleigh