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I; Thursday, January 16, 1913.] THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER Page Seven “CO-OPERATION IN MY NEIGH BORHOOD.” About two years ago some of the ■ brethren in our Local, Benham, No. 1361, in Wilkes County, conceived the idea, that it would be a benefit to the brethren, and a great stimu lus to the cause of unionism to have a general merchandising establish ment controlled by the members of the F. E. and C. N. of A. This idea soon found its counter-part in the nearby Locals. The Benham Local appointed committee to draw up a plan of co operation. A day was set for a meet ing of those interested. Quite a num her met. The plans drawn up by the committee were discussed and adopt ed. We then took subscription to the amount of $850, which was paid in to an executive committee. This com mittee at once purchased a small stock of general merchandise. We rented a house and began to sell goods on February 19, 1911. We sold our goods cheaper than they could be bought elsewhere. We‘also allowed a bonus to the membership. This plan of co-operation soon drew a large trade—much larger than our most sanguine expectations. By the end of the year, a Httle better than ten months, our cash sales amounted to $4,907.07. By this time our stock subscribed and paid in amounted to $1,310. Our labors had been crowned with so much success that we decided to extend the work. We asked for more subscription to the stock, which has been increasing, until we now have a paid in capital of $2,440. We elect ed another clerk, rented another house, in another community, divid ed goods, nad have been selling goods from two stands this year. Our cash sales from the time we began business on February 19, 1911, till December 26, 1912, amounted to $13,220, an average of $662.50 per month for the whole time. By dividing the goods and selling at two stands, we have extended the plan of co-operation to other breth- rerf. We have sold some goods on time, the most of which is in good hands. We now have in goods and fixtures $3,276. Besides selling our goods as cheap as they can be bought elsewhere ,we have returned to the membership a little beter than $350 in bonus. The stockholders have re ceived a good per cent on money in vested. Co-operation begets friend ship, friendship begets love, and where there is love there is peace and happiness. Why should we not co-operate? The greatest blessing ever bestowed on mankind was through the co-operation of the Fath er, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Fraternally, E. W. SETTLE. duced prices, but our. wagons, bug gies, roofing, and last, but not least, our fertilizers. Here is where we save the most money. Not only do we have our fertilizers shipped to us in car-load lots, but we ship off our cot ton in car lots and get better prices than are offered on the local markets. We have no desire to trade away from home, but we want the worth of our products and are willing to go to a little trouble to get it. When ever our local merchants give us good prices, we gladly buy and sell at home. Through the efforts of our Lee County Farmers’ Union we have a splendid cotton-seed oil mill and also a registered Percheron stallion, own ed by the Union men who formed a company to purchase him and there by improve the quality of work stock in our community. Our Union has always gone in for good roads, and by concerted efforts on the part of some of its members, working with others equally inter ested, we have issued bonds and good roads are in process of construction. Entirely through the efforts of Union men. Farm Demonstration Work was introduced in Lee County and an appropriation secured from our County Commissioners. The work has been successfully carried on for three years and the future pros pects are very encouraging. Aside from material benefits, co operation has been educational, has given us a common interest, some thing to think and talk about, has encouraged the cash system of buy ing supplies, and has drawn us to gether in a social way. MRS. J. H. HENLEY. December 30, 1912. NEW YEAR CUSTOMS. “CO-OPERATION IN >rY NEIGH BORHOOD.” Before the coming of the Farmers’ Union in our community each family lived to itself so far as business rela tions were concerned. We helped each other in a small way, but our re sources were limited. Now all this is changed. Four neighbors clubbed together and bought a stump-puller, a.nd now our fields can be cultivated without wear and tear on man, mules and machinery. Many more acres of land are under cultivation and cribs are correspondingly fuller. Instead of feeding our corn in a wasteful way, the corn shredder, purchased by three neighbors, comes around and shreds our corn. Aside from its education al value, think of the saving in feed and the helpful Influence on the boys. Who often want to leave the farm be cause of the lack of labor and time saving machinery! Through co-op erating, we have our Business Agents order not only groceries in large quantities, and at greatly re in some Old World cities the bells were rung muffled until 12 o’clock of December 31, and then rung clear for the New Year. Perhaps this is what suggested Tennyson’s New Year’s poem to the bells. It is cer tainly poetic enough to have inspired someone. At Oxford, a century and a half ago. New Year’s eve was called ‘Scrutiny Night.” On that night the servants of the college gave up their keys to the Warden and Fellows, and presently received them back with a atin address—and perhaps a tip in addition. A pretty New Year’s eve custom in Derbyshire is for the lady of the louse to serve posset into which she has dropped her wedding ring, every unmarried guest striving to secure it n his or her ladleful, for its posses sion means that one will be fortu nately married within the year. There is record of King Henry VII. receiving in state a New Year’s pres ent from his queen. The king had just arisen and sat in his dressing- gown at the foot of his bed, when the gift was brought to him, and he then returned one to the queen, after which both received gifts from their courtiers. There is a story that King Henry VIII. received as a New Year’s gift from Latimer a copy of the Bible with a leaf turned down at Hebrews 13:4. Apples skewered on three sticks so as to form tripod legs were New Year’s gifts in England, and so were gilded nutmegs. Perhaps, after all, the modern New Year has preserved more of the an cient customs than might be sup posed at first sight. Chimes, mid night feasting and masquerading are certainly features of it, as they were of the old English New Year. The "watch-meeting,” however, is more or less an innovation, though when we consider that half the old observances were once religious rites, we may truly feel that there is noth ing new in holidays. Consider Now what it will cost and how much money you will save on your next season’s fertilizer bill if you should buy your Nitrate of Soda and other Farm Chemicals and mix them yourself. Your own brand MIXED AT HOME will be better than any patent brand and .is sure to have in it just what you want. Book of formulas and full instructions for Home Mixing will be sent FREE OF COST Dr. WIIJJAM S. MYERS Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda 17 Madison Ave.. New York No Branch Officet Cabbage and Strawberry Plants and Long Staple Cotton Seed AT UNION PRICES Brother Union Farmers: I have for sale, at prices to sujt the times, Charleston Wakefield Cab bage Plants, 1,000 for $1.00; 75 cents per M. in lots of 5,000 or over. Klondyke Strawberry Plants until Feb. 1st, at $1.50 per M.: in lots of 5,000 or over, $1 per M. Hazel Long Staple Cotton Seed, $1 per bushel; 5 bushel lots or over 75 cents per bushel. These seeds have been selling at 17 and 19 cents a pound. ELROY BAILEY, Chadbourn, N. C. Member of Washington Local. f— Staht a Compost HEAP s And Save Money on Fertilizer. S TART a compost heap in the bam lot. Mix with the barnyard manure all waste of whatever kind—all straw, weeds, stalks, leaves, bones, everything. Rot as it accumulates, with Red Devil Lye. The lye starts it to rotting at once. All odors are killed. All seeds from weeds, I bad grass and other plant life is killed. By H Spring you have real fertilizer—all rotted black and fine. Until you try this one time you don’t know what you are losing. ReOTlar barnyard manure rotted with Red Devil Lye is improved fifty per cent in fertilizing value and costa you next to nothing. We have a booklet that tells howto start a compost heap and how to handle it. Write for this book today. It will prove the best penny you ever spent fora postal. OED DEVIL PULVERIZED LYE Is An Ideal Rotter. 104/^ balv Harp BIG 41^-INCH CANS, ONLY 10c. m, SCHIELD MFG. CO., St. Louis, Mo. CABBAGE PI ANTS u w best seed obtainable. “Wakefields” a specialty. $1.00 ner thousand. F. B. MARSH, Roufe 2. MARSHVILLE, N. C. (Satisfaction guaranteed.) NURSERY STOCK FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE FARMERS UNION. This is the Place to Bay Complete varieties of stock now on February and March delivery, tight Pi-ioes; they are PIEDMONT NURSERY M. C. SPOON, Prop.. Hartshorn, n. c. J30 FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants One Thousand - $1.25 Five Thousand - 5.00 Ten Thousand - 8.00 Satisfaction guaranteed. F. S. CANNON, MEGGETTS, - South Carolina When writing advertisers, please this paper mention Raymond, aged five, returned from Sunday-school in a state of evident excitement. He strutted around the room as if about to burst with im portance. The sympathetic eye of his mother was not slow to observe this. "What’s the matter, Raymond?” she asked. "Oh, mother,” exclaimed the small boy, his eyes sparkling, “the superintendent said something awful nice about morning.” "What did he say?” “He said, ‘Oh, Lord, we Thee for food and Raymond. me in his prayer this thank Life without endeavor Is like en tering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.—Japanese Prov erb.
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