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THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER
] Thursday, February 13, 1913.
Important Information
for Trade Agents.
For the benefit of our readers, the
following list of manufacturers and
dealers from whom they can buy
their supplies at lowest possible
prices is given.
Local and County Trade Agents are
requested to get prices and buy where
they can get best values. Compare
prices and quality. No member of
the Farmers’ Union is either required
or requested to buy'from the follow
ing list of firms, unless he can get as
good prices, quality considered, from
these as elsewhere:
Hay, Grain and Provisions:
Richmond Grain & Provision Co.,
212 S. Tenth St., Richmond, Va.
Roofing, Fencing, Implements:
Spotless Company, 39 Shockoe
Slip, Richmond, Va.
Planters, Cultivators, and Distribu
ters;
Cole Manufacturing Co., Box 660,
Charlotte, N. C.
Farm and Garden Seeds:
Richmond Grain & Provision Co.,
212 S. Tenth St., Richmond, Va.
T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond,Va.
Diggs & Beadles, Richmond, Va.
W. H. Mixson Seed Co., Charleston,
S. C.
Hickory Seed Co., Hickory, N. C.
Fertilizers, Acids, and Chemicals:
Caraleigh Fertilizer & Phosphate
Works, Raleigh, N. C.
Carolina Union Fertilizer Com
pany, Norfolk, Va.
Interstate Chemical Co., Charles
ton, S. C.
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
NOTICE.—In sending your order through
the State Agent, you have the privilege of
saying who shall get the business, and we
especially request that you Instruct him to
place your order with "one of the above com
panies, provided freight rate Is satisfactory.
Buggies, SiuTies, and Harness:
Golden Eagle Buggy Co., 27 Guy
ton St., Atlanta, Ga.
Spoltess Company, 39 Shockoe
Slip, Richmond, Va.
Organs:
Adler Organ Co., 3351 W. Chest
nut Street, Louisvile, Ky.
Spotless Company, 39 Shockoe Slip,
Richmond, Va.
Stoves, Ranges, and Heaters:
Spotless Company, 39 Shockoe Slip,
Richmond, Va.
Kalamazoo Stone Company, Cata
log No. 659, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Chas. H. Cosley, 423 W. Broad
Street, Richmond, Va.
PYuit Trees and Nursery Stock:
Piedmont Nurseries, Hartshorn,
N. C.
Clotliing for Men and Boys:
Producers and Consumers’ Alli
ance, 231-241 S. Market Street,
Chicago, Ill.
Great Central Tailoring Company,
124 Jackson Street, Chicago, Ill.
Regal Tailoring Co., 842 Regal
Building, Chicago, Ill.
For information in regard to buy
ing anything not included above,
write Union Farmer Information Bu
reau, Box 342, Raleigh, N. C.
Ship your Poultry, Eggs, and Produce to
NEWCOMB COMMISSION CO., Petersburg,
Virginia. Write for weekly market quota
tions.
How it Hurts.
No subject of recent years has re
ceived so general attention and dis
cussion as the high cost of living.
Everybody is affected. Therefore,
everybody is interested, suggests
causes and offers remedies. Consum
ers complain that producers are get
ting too high prices. Producers re
tort that their profits are moderate
and that transportation companies,
handling combinations and middle
men are squeezing the public.
Trusts, tariff, capital and labor,
according to individual viewpoints,
are held responsible for undisputed
facts. Then a fe wobservers insist
that it is the cost of high living rath
er than the high cost of living which
is hurting us.
We simply use the present general
ly admitted condition as pertinent
introduction to a single suggestion.
We insist that the farmer, as a
whole, particularly in the South, is
not getting rich, for his effort, capi
tal and risk. He is not so well sup
plied with necessities as he has a
right to demand. When It comes to
luxuries and pleasures, to education
and social advantages, the average
farmer is outclassed by the average
business man or mechanic occupying
similar economic or social position.
We insist on the correctness of this
position, while gladly admitting all
the evidences of agricultural prosper
ity rightly claimed.
Prosperity is measured by the sur
plus left after all natural expenses
have been met. A business which
merely meets expenses is not profit
able—not prosperous. The surest
means for providing this surplus is to
prevent waste. The Southern farmer
is the most wasteful business man in
the world. Pie will never become
truly and adequately prosperous un
til he stops some of the most serious
wastes now draining his resources.
We often remember a dinner taken
with a poor Georgia farmer. We were
offered roast turkey, broiled quail
and fourteen kinds of hog meat.
There were five kimLs of bread, at
least a dozen kinds of pickles, pre
serves and jellies, and half as many
cakes, pies, and puddings. It didn’t
seem to be very much of a day for
dinners in the family, either.
We mention this case because it is
so typical and so illustrated every
phase of Southern farm life and
work. We are not going to either
philosophize or theorize. We merely
propose to point out one of the most
common of our farm wastes and of
fer a practical remedy. We refer to
the unsightly, troublesome, wasteful
stumps found on so many farms.
They are a constant nuisance and an
expensive luxury.
Stumps take good money from your
pocket in three ways: They occupy
land which might be occupied by
crops and bring in money. They
cause loss by preventing first-class
work and resulting first-class crops.
They increase the cost of making
crops because they prevent the use of
much labor-saving machinery.
Labor is the chief item of expense
in growing all crops. Next to good
crops and prices, the most important
problem if profitable farming is that
of reducing the cost of labor.
Less muscle and more mechanical
work means less expense and in
creased profit. Improved implements
are the application of this principle in
farming.
Mowing machines and horse-rakes,
in place of hand tools; disk and
gang-plows, in place of one-horse
plows; weeders, in place of hoes.
These mean lower expenses and more
profits. In the North and West they
are universal. Cheaply-made crops
are the result.
Why does every acre of corn in
Illinois feel the weeder or tooth-har
row, while the Dixie plow remains
supreme in the “land of cotton’’?
* No differences of soil, climate, or
kind of labor can explain the great
difference in practice.
Stumps! The all-pervading, ever
lasting, poverty-breeding stumps are
accused and convicted of being guilty
of this offense.
The nuisance of these stumps is ad
mitted. The point on which many
need convincing is the economy of
ridding land of the acknowledged
nuisance.
The actual cost of relief depends
on the size and number of the stumps.
Dynamite and the stump-puller each
has its advantages and adaptations.
On fresh clearing, particularly where
the stumps are close together, the
puller has the advantage, and there is
no question that a good machine will
do the business.
The most important offset to the
cost is the gain in cultivatable soil
acquired by removal of stumps.
Twenty-five per cent of waste is a
moderate estimate of the toll paid for
the land occupied by stumps in many
old fields.
Think of it! One-quarter more
land, one-quarter more crop, one-
quarter more net income. That
should interest some of us and help
solve the problem of farm profits.—
Southern Ruralist.
A teacher in a New England gram
mar school found the subjoined facts
in a composition on Longfellow writ
ten by a fifteen-year-old girl:
“Henry W. Longfellow was born In
Portland, Maine, while his parents
were traveling in Europe. He had
many fast friends, among whom the
fastest were Phoebe and Alice Cary.”
Dr. Wiley tells a good story con
cerning the canners who were violat
ing the pure food law. They said he
had no experience in the canning
business, while they had been at it
for years. He said: “It reminded
me of a woman who I once saw in
my young days, feeding a babe a few
months old on bits of fried fish and
pickle. ‘Don’t do that,’ I said. ‘Don’t
do that, madam! It’s most unhealthy
to give'fish and pickle to soj^ung a
child.’ The woman frowned upon
me. ‘Huh,’ she said, ‘don’t you try
to teach me how to feed babies. Why.
young fellow, I’ve buried seven’!”
Watch the date on your label.
Saves Seed
1/2 me
Labor of
Planting
Plants
Cotton,
Peas, Beans,
Peanuts and other
seed. Applies Guano
at same time. Gives
Cotton a Quick Start—
2 Chances At a
Big Crop.
Cotton, Corn, Peas, Beans, Peanuts and other seep are accurate
ly planted with the Cole. At one trip it smooths the bed, opens
af arrow, mixes guano with the soil, covers it, opens again,
plants the seed and covers them in the most accurate and
scientific manner.
The Cole Planter No. 7
In planting it put the fertilizer below the
seed for cotton— just above the seed for
corn— the way it ought to be.
The guano being mixed with the soil around
the seed 2)revents fertilizer being too
strong and injuring their power to ^row.
Just as sKjn as the seed sprouts the young
plant is stimulated and fed.
Guano lieing applied in this way does more
good than at any other time. Your crop
grows off thrifty and vigorous, and is much
cheaper to cultivate than puny, slow-growing
stuff— gets ahead of cut-worms and boll
weevil. Stunting is prevented 1
You save the work of a man and mule
every plant!,ig day by distributing guano
while planting with the Cole.
The Cole 1 lanter is the strongest and most
durable of all planters. It is the most easily
operated. At every point you will positively
find that its work is best. It plants cheaper
and better than any pfinter ever built.
The steel Coulter breaks the crust— throw
ing the trash and dry top earth into the
middles. The long steel sword presses out a
firm V shaped furrow.
The pressure causes the earth to become
compact just beneath the seed, creating what
is known as capillary attraction, that draw
up moisture frdm the earth to the seed.
The loose earth on top is mulch, that
retains moisture around the seed.
The seed fall in plain sight The wind
cannot blow them away. Tvone are wasted
at the end of the rows. The cotton comes
•up in a s raight line without bunches. Thus
it can be chopped to a stand much faster and
plowed more accurately, making the cost of
cultivation less.
The Cole is economical on seed— gives
you a quick even stand with as few seed as
it is safe to plant.
The saving in seed and labor will more
than pay for the machine the first season.
Write Us For Catalogue
and Name of Dealer
Our catalogue tells all about the famous
Cole Planters and Labor saving distributors.
Shows how to get more good from guano.
A copy will be sent you free.
Write for it and get the name of a local
dealer who can supply you with a Cole
Planter, backed by a double guarantee. Buy
direct (freight prepaid) at price quoted in
catalogue if we have no dealer in your
locality.
The Cole Mfg. Co.
Box 9i>0
Charlotte, N. C.