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Do Not Lend Cotton.
Thin is a subject which has had
considerable attention at mj
hands in the past and which 1
find it necessary to discuss attain
Reports are coming in to mi
from correspondents in different
sections enclosing copies of letters
from prominent cotton firms at
tempting to perfect deals with
spot holders who have on hand
from fifty to one hundred 01
more bales of cotton for sale
The plan of the transaction is to
induce the spot holder to give
up what cotton he has now at an
advance of ten cents per pound
and the privilege of calling the
price for settlement any time be
tween now and the last of May.
The main object of the deal is
to get possession of the spots so
as to fill orders for January and
February delivery. The buyer
who can accumulate considerable
cotton under this plan simply
hedges in the future markets,
and is safe on any advance that
may come in the future. Their
great desire is to get possession
of the cotton and the plan is a
slick one to induce the holder to
bite at the bait.
The proposition is to advance
ten cents per pound and relieve
the spot holder of storage, in
surance and interest on borrow
ed money, at the same time
agreeing to settle at any price
that may be higher than present
markets between now and May
1st.
Of course present market prices
are guaranteed in the transac
tion. Many of our local mills are
also trying to borrow cotton
from farmers on promise to pay
any advance above present mar
kets in the next few months.
What they all want is the cotton.
don't get caught.
These are shrewd and inviting
games, but spot holders had bet
ter beware. 1 have heard of sev
eral people who have already de
livered up the cotton they were
holding on these propositions.
Stop for a moment and think.
The plan may look like a good
proposition on the face of it.
But what will be the result? The
only hope that we have to ad
vance the price of cotton is to
hold it in our own possession
and force the buyers and spin
ners into the markets as pur
chasers.
w m . % m . . ?
it tnese people get ttie cotton
into their hands for delivery on
contracts or for spinning, what
possible inducement is there to
advance the price? The specula
tive market is against us and
the only strength in the market
is the fact that farmers who have
cotton will not force it on the
market at present figures. If the
spots are firmly held all along
the line we will soon whip the
fight. We are now complete
masters of the situation and
have the spinners and exporters
absolutely in our power,
a There is but one proper course
to pursue and that is to refuse
all offers of any kind unless it is
ccorapanied by a spot cash of
er representing the price that is
satisfactory.
When that is done, then give
up the cotton, but not otherwise.
The spot situation is getting
more serious for the buyers and
spinners every day. The crop is
short and they know it. They
have sold the cotton or its out
Eut in the form of cloth and they
ave yet to buy the spots.
Paper contracts are no good.
Spinners can't weave that sort
of material into cloth. The de
mand is daily growing stronger
and I urge every farmer to stand
firm and see to it that his cot
ton is not interfered with until
the right price is reached. That 1
price is, or ought to be, fifteen
cents per pound, and it will pre
vail in the next sixty days if ev
ery man does his duty.
.My mission is to study the sit- 1
uation and give advice that the 1
people who are holding cotton t
can depend upon as reliable. I \
have never deceived you in the \
past and will not do so in the fu j
ture. I
Pay no attention to buyers I
and spinners who are short, un- t
less the pay the price down. It is e
easy to get caught and when j
once in the trap there is no way 1
to get out.?Harvie Jordan. c
Contract Between Landlord and
Tenant.
The manner of renting farms
will have to be revolutionized in
Indiana in a great extent before
the landlord and tenant get the
beet profit from rented farms.
There is a great lose to both in
the eingle year renting. The
tenant, when he is only assured
of one year on a farm, can only
look to the present crop for his
profit, can make no calculations
on future crops and cannot con
sider any rotations of crops,
whether he pays grain or cash
rent, and all agree that the far
mer must plan his crops for three
years ahead at least to get the
best results. .Also, the expense
to the renter in moving his house
hold, live stock, graiu and ma
chinery, each year, is a heavy
tax on his income, and is also a
tax on his landlord, for what im
provements the tenant may be
compelled to make to protect his
interest are only made for the
single year; if he repairs a build
ing or fence, he only repairs so
that it may last a single year.
He selects his fields, breaks his
land and cultivates his crops in
view of the present crop. What
does he care, or what can you
expect him to care, for future
crops, when he has no hope for
the future?
I have been both landlord and
tenant in my forty years' ex
perience on farms. I have drawn
up many rental leases, in various
forms and for different lengths
of time, and have watched re
sults closely, and I would not
rent a farm, either as landlord
or tenant, for a single year.
Three years is a short enough
period, aud the longer the better,
for both landlord and tenant
If I were to-day renting a farm
as landlord, i would go in part
nership with my tenant, not on
ly in the grain raised, but in all
live stock kept on the farm and
all tools and machinery needed
on the larm. If my tenant was
not able to furnish his part of
the means to run and stock the
farm, 1 would furnish the means
and let him pay interest on the
amount above his half. As to
the proportion of investment
and production each should have,
that depends on location and
kind of soil.
i nave in mind a tarni that
was rented in this way: The con
tract ran five vears. The farm
consisted of 180 acres. The land
lord and tenant each invested
equal amountH to furnish all
that was needed to run and stock
the farm. The tenant was to do
all labor in cultivation and in
feeding stock, and put all prod
ucts into market, and the re
ceipts were divided equally. The
landlord was to be consulted in
the management of the farm In
other words, they were partners.
At the end of the five years'part
nership it was so satisfactory
that they renewed the partner
ship for five years more.
There is too much renting of
farms where the landlord tries
how much he can squeeze from
the renter, and on the other
hand the renter squeezes the farm
to the last penny. Therefore,
rent in such a way that your
farm will not go entirely from
your control. If you are in full
partnership, what is the interest
of the landlord is the interest of
the tenant.?I. N. C., in Indiana
Farmer..
It invigorates, strengthens
and builds up. It keeps you in
condition physically, mentally
and morally. That's what Hol
lister's Rocky Mountain Tea
will do. 35 cents, Tea or Tab
lets. A. H. Boyett, Druggist,
Selma Drug Co.
The Philosophy of Currying Horses.
When the editor of Wallace's i
Farmer when a boy could not
jnderstand why colts running in i
the pasture grew and thrived i
without currying, and why it <
was strongly insisted upon by |
>arental authority that horses (
n the stable should be curried i
thoroughly at least once a day, \
ind twice a day if they had been |
iweating freely in the field. We 8
iresume a good many boys are 1
nclined to take the view that we c
lid of it at that time?that cur- s
rying horses was done entirely
for show.
Tbe philosophy tbat underlie*)
tbe practice of groomiug horses,
however, lies deeper than this.
A horse tbat is running on grata*)
and doing nothing takes more
exercise than is necessary to
gather his feed. This feed is
largely laxative and its debris,
the excretions of the system, are
carried off mainly by the kidneys
and bowels. If however, a horse
is stabled ami doing work,
especially hard or fast work,
work that brings the sweat, tbe
secretions of the glands of the
skin are enormously increased.
To do fast work he must be fed
on dry, highly nutritious feed,
and this again increases the se
cretions of the skin. Hence the
philosophy of currying is to as
sist nature by artificial means
to get rid of these increased se
cretions to prevent clogging the
pores of the skin and conse<jueut
injury to health.
The farm horse needs less cur
rying than the driving horse, for
the reason tbat he is generally
less highly fed, gets green feed in
summer at night, w bile the horse
that is driven aud is fed on high
ly nutritious feed must be cur
ried if he is to keep in health. A
horse can't be in health unless
he has a healthy skin. This is
shown by the appearance of the
hair. If the skin is unhealthy,
the coat is harsh and dry.
Currying is to the horse what
bathing is to the man. In fact,
where bathing facilities are luck
ing, as they are in many country
homes, the health of the family
would be very greatly improved
if they would use a good stiff
brush and curry themselves just
as they curry the horses, then
follow it up with a sponge bath,
using first warm, then cold water
in winter, and warm water alone
in summer. If you want to keep
cool in the summer use hot water
after the brush. You will then
understand the philosophy of
currying the horse, and take
care of your own health.?Wal
lace's Farmer.
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES
Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Pro
truding Piles. Druggists are
authorized to refund money if
PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure
in 6 to 14 days. 25c.
A Few Words to the Renter.
The number of renters is evi
dently increasing in all sections
of the west and will undoubtedly
continue to increase for some
time to come. Every year they j
are forming a larger per cent, of
our subscription list, and there
fore their interests require at our j
hands more careful considera-1
tion. It is no disgrace for a man i
to be a tenant upon another |
man's land. It is the only way I
many men have to secure homes j
of their own. We find as we get!
into the inner life of our readers
that a great many men who are j
now living at ease in the towns j
and villages once began life as
renters, and many of them began
as hired hands. We honor them
for that.
No man should ever undertake
to farm land for another unless
he pets a living chance. He
should pay a fair and equitable
rent either in cash or in grain or
a share of stock. Injustice to
the tenant, no matter now poor
or hard up he may be, in the end
works injustice to the landlord,
and, what is a more important
consideration, to the land itself;
for the people of the entire coun
try have an interest in the land,
no matter who owns it. A poor
farm grown up to weeds ana run
down through bad management,
whether it be the hoggishness of
the landlord or the carelessness
of the tenant, is a menace to |
good farming in that communi
ty. Therefore every tenant
should have a square deal. He
should have a clearly defined
contract, and then should live
up to it and require his landlord
to do the same.
Even though the tenant in
tends toj grow grain for sale,
there will in almost any year be
grain that is worth more as a
feed for live stock than it is on
the market. A well bred hbg will
oftentimes give more for grain
than the gentleman who presides
over the elevator. If the tenant,
however, is to grow hogs even in
a small way, he must have a hog
pasture, and this is one of the i
things that the tenant should
insist upon. For while the hog i
trill not use a large amount of
trass, he must have some of it,
ispecially the first three or fou
nonths, if he is to consume grain
vith profit afterwards. This hog -
rasture should be well fenced
ind well seeded. It is not abso- s
utely necessary that it be clover i
>r blue grass, but it must be ?
ome kind of grass, and as our t
grains are all true grasses, as
distinguished from the legumes,
it is quite easy to make a good
bog pasture out of a mixture of
wheat, oats, aud barley, and at
tbe same time seed it down to
clover, so that when the grasse
are exhausted, which they will
be by harvest time, there may be
a staud of young clover to take
itsplace. Where this is not avail
able it is not difficult to give
them a piece of rich land conven
ient to the barns and make a
good hog pasture.
In some way, however, the
tenant wuo expects to commend
himself to his landlord must
have a square deal, and part of i
tne square deal should be a hog
pasture, and he should have this |
on liberal terms. No landlord
loses anything by providing suit- j
able pastures so that his tenant
who is farming on the share'
or cash rent can- have the
means for turning his inferior
graiu. or waste of any kind? |
skim milk, buttermilk, or kitchen I
slops to the very best advant
age. In a case like this the pros
perity of the tenant means tbej
prosperity of the landlord as well.
It is needless to say that the
tenant should have, free of rent, j
room for a garden, a potato j
patch, and should have at least
his share of the apples and other
fruit that grows on the place.
He should be encouraged to put
out strawberries, raspberries,
things of that kind, which add
so much to the comfort of the
family, especially of the children,
and which, by decreasing the liv
ing expenses of the tenant, in
reality add to the resources of
the landlord.?Wallace's Farmer.
Three little babes were nestl
ed in bed,
"I'll name William, Willie and
Bill," mother said;
Wide was her smile, for trip
lets they be,
She lays her good luck to
Rocky Mountain Tea.?
(Great baby medicine.) Selma
Drug Co., A. H. Boyett, Drug
gist.
Safe Plan.
Cynic (savagely): "They say
the fashionable mother of to-day
recognizes her baby only by
looking at the nurse." Fashion
able Mother (unmoved): How
extraordinarily clever when one
changes nurses so often! I al
ways tell ours by the mail cart."
?London Tit-Bits.
A reasonable amount of food thorough
ly digested and properly assimilated will
always increase the strength. If your
stomach is a "little off" Kodol Dyspep
sia Cure will digest what you eat and
enable the digestive organs to assimi
late and transform all foods into tissue
building blood. Kodol relieves Sour
Stomach, Belching. Heart-Burn and all
forms of Indigestion. Palatable and
strengthening. Sold by J. K. Ledbetter,
Hood Bros., Benson Drug Co.
Bright Boy.
High Financier: "My son, 1
am pained to hear that you are
at the foot of the class." Son:
"Why, pa, 1 judged from your
testimony that it was proper
not to know anything at all."?
New York Sun.
One Minute Cough Cure contains not
an atom of any harmful ilrug. and it has
heen curing Coughs. Colds, Croup and
Whooping Cough so long that it has
proven itself to he a tried and true friend
to the many who use it. Bold hy J. R.
I^edbetter. Hood Pros., Benson Drug Co.
NOTICE!
The firm of Whitley & Rich
ardson, trading in the mercantile
business, at Selma, N. C.. being
composed of R. B. Whitley and
R. E. Richardson?has sold the
entire stock of goods for value
to the Selma Supply Company.
The said R. B. Whitley is in no
way connected with said Selma
Supply Co.?except extending
to it his best wishes.
The firm of Whitley & Rich
ardson as above, have this day
dissolved their Copartnership,
by Mutual Consent.
All debts, dues and demands
Df whatever nature, payable to
said firm of Whitley & Richard
son, have been duly assigned,
aargained, sold and conveyed to
the Selma Supply Co.?who have
assumed all debts, due by said
irm of Whitley & Richardson,
ind will pay the same at maturi
ty
The firm heretofore existing
as Whitley & Richardson thanks
he public generally for all pat
?onage extended to them.
Whitley & Richardson.
R. B. Whitley and
R F. Richardson.
Jan. 22nd, l'JOtj.
Go to W. G. Yelvington's
tore for your jackets, cloaks,
eady made skirts, dry goods
,nd ladies' fine dress shoes and <
nillinery at reduced prices.
X MULES! MULES!! |
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A broke Mules which we are offering X
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ft Godwin, Futrell & Co., X
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