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THE CABOLINA UNION FARMER
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RESULTS OF CO-OPERATION.
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General Manager may prescribe. Lo
cal Agents shall receive the produce
from its members and mark same
with initials of grower on each pack
age after the same have been in
spected and branded, and notify the
General Manager of the number and
kind of packages which he has for
disposition. The Local Agent shall,
if the General Manager direct the
produce to be consigned, mail to the
consignee an invoice of the number of
barrels, or packages consigned, to
gether with the names of the persons
who have furnished the produce,
their respective postoffice address and
the number of packages each person
has in the consignment, and the con
signee shall make separate returns to
each of such persons, after deducting
the customary commission of 10 per
cent for selling. From this 10 per
cent the consignee shall allow the Ex
change 3 per cent, which he shall
send to the Treasurer of the Ex
change with a full statement of the
source from which it arises. Said
Local Agent shall keep an accurate
record of all produce received by him,
the date on which it was received by
him, the disposition made of same,
whether sold or consigned. Said rec
ords be kept in such manner as the
General Manager may require, and
such record shall be open at all times
to inspection to the shipper, or ex
amination and verification by any in
dividual sent out from the General
Office. No Local Agent shall be per
mitted to buy on his own account for
shipment or sale, and satisfactory
proof of said Agent’s buying for ship
ment or sale shall be deemed suffi
cient cause for suspension or re-
“II.—^Brond.
“Section 1. One or more regular
brands shall be adopted by the Ex
change for the marking of produce
handled by it.
“Sec. 2. All packages for shipment
through the Exchange after being
inspected and graded shall be label
ed ‘Monmouth County Farmers’ Ex
change,’ and if No. 1 grade, or better,
shall be further labeled with the Tri
angle Brand, but in no case is the
Triangle Brand to be used unless
grade is No. 1, or better. The grad
ing, filling and condition of packages
shall be considered by the Inspector
in determining the proper grade, but
in no event shall any package receive
the Triangle Brand unless it be of
standard size and well filled. After
produce has been delivered to the Ex
change, inspected and branded, under
no circumstances shall it be with
drawn from the control of the Ex
change. If an agent shall report to
the General office, for sale or consign
ment, any produce without its having
first been duly inspected and branded
with the Triangle Brand, if entitled
thereto, then such act upon the part
of said Agent shall be deemed suffi
cient cause for suspension and re
moval of said Agent. No produce
shall be received, inspected, branded
or reported to the General Office of
the Exchange for sale, or consign
ment, except it be grown or owned
by a stockholder of the Exchange in
good standing unless authorized by
the General Manager, and the viola
tion of this provision shall be good
and sufficient ground for the suspen
sion and removal of said Inspector or
Agent.
“III.—-Amendments.
“Section 1. These By-Laws may be
amended by a two-thirds vote of the
Board of Directors.’’
Horses should never be made to
eat moldy hay as nothing is worse
in leading t^ worrying, whistling and
otblefr deil’hngymeritB of the wind.
ACROSS CONTINENT FOR PEAS.
Guilford County Farmers Will Sow
Peas GroAvn in California—Cost is
$4.50 a Bushel.
Cowpeas, or as many know them,
the cornfield peas, are selling on the
Greensboro market to-day for slight
ly more than $4.50 a bushel, where
as a decade ago they brought from
50 to 75 cents. Inquiry by a report
er of the Daily News yesterday as to
the cause for what appeared a tre
mendously high price for peas de
veloped the startling fact that Guil
ford County, where hundreds of acres
each year is sown in peas, is forced
to go to California for the seed. A
local produce company, the Patter
son Company, has within the past few
days received a car-load shipment of
cowpeas from Stockton, California,
on which the freight alone was $452-
.28. The invoice for the peas was
$1,468.83. The freight rate reduced
to bushels was 66 cents a bushel,
which incidentally is one of the low
est rates North Carolina enjoys from
the Pacific Coast.
And yet in Guilford as in every
other county of North Carolina there
are thousands of acres of uncultivat
ed lands which could not only be en
riched but made to yield a vast prof
it with peas selling for as much as
$3 a bushel, much less $4.50. It is
stated that Guilford is only one of
practically every Southern county
which goes to the Pacific Coast for
peas for sowing purposes. The Pat
terson Company ordered the car from
California simply because they could
not get peas any nearer home. And
after the cross continent haul they
are forced to sell at more than $4.00
a bushel to make any profit at all. It
is said that farmers of North Caro
lina alone will this spring sow more
than 100,000 bushels of peas which
were shipped here from California
or some other equally distant State.
Explaining the lack of home seed,
a prominent farmer of Guilford said
that it was simply another instance
of where the home farmer had over
looked a good bet. He said that not
withstanding thousands of acres were
sown in peas in this county every
year, there were few farmers who
took the trouble to save the peas,
even for planting purposes. In prac
tically all cases the vines are cut and
used in feeding stock or else turned
back into the ground as fertilizer.
Peavines are invaluable in bringing
up worn or poor land, and as a feed,
they are also highly rated.
But why should Guilford and other
farmers of North Carolina not save a
l^ore than a
bale per acre
That was the rate of yield from Alabama land, top
dressed at the rate of 100 pounds per acre with
Nitrate of Soda
It matures cotton before the boll weevil affects it. In drought
it keeps the plant from shedding its bolls.
Free Book on the Cultivation of Cotton
which I have prepared, bearing especially on fertilization of cotton and con
trol of the boU weevil j tells how to grow big crops at little cost.
Dr. Wm.S. Myers
Nitrate
Propafandai
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Avenne
New Toilt
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Offict*
few seed and stop sending to the Pa
cific Coast—saving 66 cents a bushel
in freight, if not more? That is a
question which every farmer of Guil
ford should ask himself.—Greens
boro Daily News.
A WORD TO THE WISE.
At the meeting of the hotel and
restaurant proprietors of New York,
in January, the president of the or
ganization said: “We’re paying the
middlemen too much, when it’s plain
we shouldn’t be paying them a cent.
I have a proposition: Let us form a
corporation of restaurant proprietors,
each paying a share of $5,000. As a
corporation we could purchase our
own supplies at wholesale prices, sell
them at a nominal profit and thus al
low each member to realize a return
from his investment. We can obtain
prices 50 per cent below those we are
paying now.’’
It is maintained that a thousand
members can be enlisted in this or
ganization, which would mean the
largest body of food-buyers in the
world.
We have been saying much about
co-operation among farmers. Here is
co-operation at the other end of the
line. We are assured there is much
enthusiasm among the men commit
ted to the new proposition. Its im
portance is in showing the really
marvelous advance we are making in
connecting the producing and con
suming interests. This will not be
done all at once. It must be through
processes of experience—and there
will be many failures; but in the final
showing we shall have the farms and
the hotels and all the other food con
sumers in direct negotiation and oper
ation. The- point is that the hotel men
have begun to move, and they are
past masters in system and organiza
tion. Wise farmers will watch their
work and do something to meet it-—
that is, the farmers of a neighbor
hood will see the wisdom of consult
ing together and seeking to find a
working basis for co-operative sell
ing, so that when the hotel men come
with their proposals there will be an
agency to meet their representative.
We like the hotel men and we like
the hospitality of their palaces, hut
they are not philanthropists, and if
they organize for the direct buying of
their food supplies it is as certain as
taxes that they are going to get every
cent they can out of the farmer. Now
if the farmer tries to get every cent
he can out of them it will be a fair
contest and we don’t want the farm
ers to be unprepared when the battle
begins.
The niiddleniaii’s faults are largely
sins of commission, or, when he fails
to send a check, of omission.—The
Country Gentleman.
GETS ABOUT SIXTEEN FOR ONE.
“I shouldn’t think you could love
a young man who stutters so!’’
“Why not?’’
“It is such a distressing affliction.
It must take him an hour to tell you
good-night.’’
“It does. He not only stutters in
his talk, but in his kissing.”
Are you a Union man? Then
aret the benefit of Union prices.
Buy what you need for farm
and home at cut prices Send
for our special price list—get
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The Spotless Co. Is reommendrd by you' State Busin* ss Agent
the Union proposition—we
saved Union men several thous
and doll ars last year—was any
of it yours—Here is the way
we do \t
RUBBER ROOFING
Thousands of rolls of our rubber
roofing were laid last year on union
roofs in North Carolina Every i oof
a good one every purchaser satis
fied Every man invariaoly comes
back for more. Carried in two
grades. Spotless is a splendid roof
ing but we do not guarantee it for
any particular length of service.
Spotless Special the best rubber
roofing made and is guaranteed for
6, 12 and 18 years I-ply Spotless.
7 c; 2-ply Spot-ess, $1.03; 3-plv
Spotless, $1 28; 1-ply Spotless Spe
cial 94c; 2-piy Sp >tleas .Special,
$1 29; 3-oly Spotless Si ecial. $1 62.
Guarantee provides a new roof free
if first one wears out inside guaran
tee period.
HOG FENCE
16ic*,S'26&|g
■nd gates. Get
No. 18 for cotnd^ Una
and spMial Union prieee.
The 300 rods hog fence is as
good a fence as our merchants
want 10c. more a rad for.
J. L. Bricoi Woodwaird, S, C.
MnaaHBMMBassBnnMMMiiasav
Spotless Stalk Cutters, $23.
All steel except
tongue. Frame is
heavy bar steel se-
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Wheels turn on dust
proof ax es. Has
seven knives. 36-
inch steel wheels,
2-inch flat face tire.
Large clearance-will not clog Will cut
any kind of stalks. Guaranteed to do perfect
work and prove satisfactory. Cuts stalks
10 inches long Shipped quickly from
Richmond stock.
OUVER PATTERN PLOWS
Oliver Pat
tern Plows
have been on
the market
for years and
are known
every w here
as good, reliable easy running plows. Built
for hard service. Repairs always carried
for every plow we sell. Our repair parts
will also fit other Oliver plows. Union
prices save from 81 60 to $8.00 a plow, de
pending on size. Note these low prices.
Write for Union price list No, 13 giving you
our full line of implements and other farm
machinery
SPOTLESS
SEWING MACHINES
Easy running, noisless, drop
head —makes as pe rfect
a stitch as eny machine
made. Guaranteed for 10
years. Don’t think of pay
ing 850.00 or $80 00 for a ma
chine without first sending for
our special sewing m .chine
folder and getting our low
Union prices. 3J days free
trial. Money back if not sat
isfied.
BLUE RIBBON ENGINES
Will deliver more
horse power per
hour per gallon of
gasoline than most
of the trust made
engines which sell
for twice the price.
There are no complicated parts. Does not
require an expert to keep In running order.
Five year guarantee, 30 day free demonstra
tion test. Write or special engine catalog
and special Union proposition.
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THE SOUTH’S MAIL ORDER BOUSE
30 Stiookoe Slip Rlclimond, Va.
The Spotless Special Blue
Ribbon Engine is a dandy.
J A- Hoskins.
Summerfleld, N. C.