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Page Pour THE OAEOLINA UNION FARMER ] Thursday, February 13, 1913 Local Notes. BUCIvEYE LOCAL. Perhaps some reader will like to know what Buckeye Local is doing. We are moving along very nicely. We have thirty-six members, and two applicants for our next meeting, and several more are expected real soon. We now have an oil tank with a ca pacity of 110 gallons, and we order our oil in two barrel lots. Within the last two weeks we have ordered to the amount of a little more than $300 worth. We have our distribut ing house located at the home of our Secretary and Treasurer—a center point for all. We anticipate keeping everything that the farmers use in every-day life. Our progress far ex ceeds our expectations. The more we read and see the more enthusiastic we become, and we are looking for ward for greater things in the near future. We wish to say to other Lo cals that nothing has stimulated our Union so much as this move for buy ing and keeping our goods at home. JOE F. BAXTER. not upon their location but upon themselves; not upon their dreams, but upon what they actually do; not upon luck but upon pluck; teach them to believe in “work while you work and play while you play,” and in giving and demanding a square I deal in every act of life, and before you have accomplished your task, make them three-play Union men in order that they may be able to bat tle through life successfully. Let us make this year the banner year of the Union’s history. Attend our meet ings, read and learn the co-operative plan, and let us place the banner on the peak of success. Let us all read the Carolina Union Parmer and school ourselves to a higher plane. Wishing all the brethren and espe cially the Union Farmer much suc cess, I beg to remain, Yours truly, W. L. BARNETT, C. B. A. Pamlico County Division. I NEW LIFE IN PITT. RED HILL LOCAL, No. 1334. Mr. Editor:—As I have not seen anything in the Carolina Union Far mer from Red Hill Local, I have de cided to write to let the brethren know what our Local has been do ing. We were organized in 1910, and we now have fourteen members in good standing. In 1912 we ordered groceries to the amount of $238.18 through our State Business Agent. The Cabarrus County Union will meet in Concord on the first Satur day of each month. ■»- JOHN A. BARRIER, Mt. Pleasant, N. C. PAMLICO COUNTY. Mr. Editor:—Please allow me space in your valuable paper for a few re marks in behalf of the grand old cause of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of America. I am proud to say that we are in the front rank and marching straight ahead, regardless of the storm of op position in Pamlico County. I must say the storm is pretty severe, but I feel that there has been some oil poured on the “raging billows” by the Farmers’ Union of this county, as we are fast educating ourselves by the school of co-operation. We will buy our fertilizers through the co-operative plan this coming season and already we have learned the lesson that the less hands we can have for our groceries and supplies to come through the better for us, as we do much buying by wholesale. Brethren, a word to you about the boys. Encourage them to stay on the farm, when you can make noble and useful men of them, where they can enjoy nature in all its manifold bless ings, where they will not be shut up in smoke and dust, but where they can enjoy God’s glorious sunshine and showers. Where nothing but a true, genuine country-raised lad can teach them to walk*in the good old way of the tiller of the soil. Teach them to believe that the country which God made is more beautiful than the city which man made; that life out-of-doors and in touch with the earth is the natural life of man; teach theni to believe that work is work wherever they find it, but that work with nature is more inspiring than work with the most intricate machinery. Teach them to believe that the dignity of labor depends not on “what they do,” but on “how they do it.” That opportunity comes to a boy on the farm as often as to a boy in the city; that life is larger and freer and happier on the farm than in the town; that their success depends Dear Editor:—Inasmuch as I never see anything in the Carolina Union Farmer from our Local; will write a few lines in regard to our Local which was organized in February, 1912. We have had strong opposition but nevertheless our membership is increasing. Ours is the only Local on the north side of Greenville, but we are to have several Locals on this side of the county line. We have five organizers now. On the first day of February we met at our regular hour, and the following brethren were elected as officers for the year: S. A. Sayler, President; J. A. Wil- ioughby, Vice-President; G. R. Kite, Secretary-Treasurer. The following were-re-elected: J. L. Sayler, Door keeper; T. B. Saylor, Conductor; J. W. Brown, Chaplain. At our last meeting in December we made up an order for wire fenc ing. We hope to have a store soon. Our next county meeting will be in Greenville on the 16th of February. We want every Local to be repre seated. G. R. KITE, Secretary. Grow IV2 Bales Cotton Where Only 1 Grew Before One to one-ancl-a-half and even two bales of cotton, or 60 to 90 bushels of corn per acre, require little more labor than smaller yields. Simply use liberally the right fertilizer or plant food to the acreage you plant, and cultivate the crop more thoroughly and oftener. You cannot be too careful in selecting fertilizers and seeds. Your soil deserves the best plant foods which are V irginia-Carolina ffigh-Grade Fertilizers They are made to give Available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia or Nitrogen, and Potash in the right combination for greatest yields. These fertilizers produce big crops of COTTON, CORN, RICE, TOBACCO, FRUITS, PEANUTS and TRUCK. /irginia-C^folina. Xhiin^Q Co. ' I Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND lA VIRGINIA THIS ONE THING WE DO! Make And for Over Twenty Years we Have Been Doing THIS ONE THING. NOTICE TO^LOCAL SECRETARIES OF BERTIE COUNTY. You are hereby notified that the next regular meeting of Bertie County will be held with Aulan- der Local, Thursday, March 6, 1913, at 10 o’clock. We want every Local to be represented. Business of im portance is to be transacted. Please send me a list of delegates, and the number of your Local and members so there will be no delay in preparing the minutes. Do not fail to send up a good list of subscribers to the Caro lina Union Farmer. I will be glad to send in a good list by that time. JAMES M. PERRY, Sec’y. Colerain, N. C., Feb. 3, 1913. CRANDALL, TENNESSEE. Dear Editor:—I will give you a few items from Upper Shady Local, No. 1403. Our Local is in a thriving condition; we have sixty-three mem bers and all attend well. We have also a Union store which is doing a good work for the members. We started with a capital of $400, and four months’ sales amount to $2,- 394.22. I think this good for a coun try store. We hope to do a good work this year. Our business man ager, E. A. Blevins, is a wide-awake hustler, and he hopes to be able to do a good business for the organization. We must co-operate and advance progressive ideas in our Order. Each member has a work to perform and should work with a determination. We are organizing cabbage and pota to clubs in our Local and give prizes to the one who raises the best pota toes or best cabbage, each member Oup facilities for furnistiing fertilizers of file riolit kind to tlie farmers of Norm Carolina are TkOt surpassed by any oth er Home Company. We ship from Raleigh, N. C. We ship from Wilson, N. C. We ship from Norfolk, Va. Make your arrangements NOW Mr. Farmer to get CARALEIGH FERTILIZERS for the coming season, and you will GET THE BEST. If your dealer is not prepared to furnish you Caraleigh Brands write us at once and we will see about it right away. Drop us a line anyway and get a nice calendar. Caraleigh Phosphate & Fertilizer Works, RALEIGH, N. C. joining the club to plant one-half acre; and the best part of all, we ex pect to co-operate in selling these products in car lots, shipping same to best market, and thereby save the useless expenses. I hope every Local in Johnson County will stir up their members and work together in organizing these clubs. The Farmers’ Union is an organization for the farmer and the farmer and consumer should both reap great benefit from same. Our next county-meeting will be held in the court-house in Mountain City, Tenn., February 15, 1913. I am just in receipt of a letter from Hon. L. M. Rhodes, our State President, saying that he would try to be with us then. I consider him the back bone of the Union, and all who have met him appreciate the fact. He is in the Union for the good of the Order. I appeal to every Local in the county to have a good attendance. We have a movement on foot to or ganize a wholesale supply house in co-operation with Ashe and Watauga Counties in North Carolina. If the officers of the three counties get busy and talk this matter up, and assist each other in buying and selling, much good will result. Each county will have a committee at our meet ing, and they will take up this work at once. I desire to urge all mem bers to subscribe for the Carolina Union Farmer and keep in touch with the work. Let us hear from more Johnson County Locals. Give us your ideas of working together. WILEY BALDWIN. Crandall, Tenn,, Feb. 3, 1913.
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