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[Thursday, February 20, 1913.
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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 900,
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, Surries, 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, Loulsvile, 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. Cosby, 423 West Broad
Street, Richmond, Va.
Fruit Trees and Nursery Stock:
Piedmont Nurseries, Hartshorn,
N. C.
Stump PuUei's:
Mercules Manufacturing Company,
1926 Twenty-first St., Center
ville, Iowa.
Clothing 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.
SOUTHERN’S lMPKOVE»IENT
WORK.
Atlanta, Ga., February 16.—An av-
erage'^yield of 46.6 bushels of corn
per acre was secured by 498 farmers
in Alabama and Mississippi, who cul
tivated 6,352.5 acres in 1912, follow
ing the methods advocated by the
field agents of the Department of
Farm Improvement Work, maintain
ed by the companies that make up
the Southern Railway System. On
neighboring farms where the ordi
nary methods were followed, the av
erage yield was 17.5 bushels per acre.
In the same States 674 farmers who
grew cotton under the methods ad
vocated by this department had an
average production of 1,205.5 pounds
of seed cotton per acre on 14,389
acres, while on neighboring farms
where ordinary methods were follow
ed, the average yield was 531.5
pounds of seed cotton per acre. C.
A. Lawrence, of Plantersville, Ala.,
averaged 109.25 bushels of corn per
acre on thirty-five acres, A Hender
son, of Greenwood, Miss., averaged
100 bushels per acre on twenty-five
acres, B. Killian, of Collinsville, Ala.,
averaged 2,732 pounds of seed cotton
per acre on six acres. Dr. C. N. Par
nell, of Maplesville, Ala., averaged
2,313 pounds on twenty acres, and a
long list of other farmers who made
splendid yields of both corn and cot
ton by following the methods advo
cated by the department could be
given.
These figures from the annual re
port of Mr. T. O. Plunkett, manager
of the department, show what is be
ing accomplished by farmers living
along the lines of the Southern Rail-
qSnojqi soiuuduioo pa^uiiuju puu Xbav
the aid of the agricultural experts,
the farmers in all cases cultivating
their own land with the resources at
their command. The work of this de
partment has been extended to all
States served by the Southern Rail
way and affiliated lines, field agents
having been placed in Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Ken
tucky, and Tennessee in September,
1912. They have been cordially re
ceived and it is expected that their
work will prove as successful as that
of the agents in -Alabama and Mis
sissippi.
The Department of Farm Improve
ment Work grew out of the move
ment inaugurated by President Fin
ley to aid the farmers in the terri
tory threatened by the Mexican boll
weevil to learn how to grow cotton
in spite of the weevil. For this pur
pose practical farmers who had
grown cotton in Texas under boll
weevil conditions were employed and
their work proved so successful in not
only aiding farmers to successfully
combat the weevil, but also in teach
ing them how to get larger yields per
acre by the adoption of proper meth
ods of culture, rotation of crops, and
greater attention to live stock rais
ing, that President Finley determined
to extend the benefits of this work to
the entire territory along the South
ern and affiliated lines. The field
agents in the service of the depart
ment are agricultural experts whose
services are given without any cost
to the farmers and who work in full
co-operation with the State and fed
eral departments of agriculture and
the various State agricultural col
leges.
It has long been the impression
that our rural districts are healthful,
and that our people in the country
live longer than the people in our
cities. Many other people, familiar
with both country and city life claim
that the number of deaths from such
preventable diseases as typhoid fever
and consumption is far higher in the
country than in the city. The truth
is that no one really knows the health
conditions of any county, section or
part of our State. Why? Simply be
cause w.e have no adequate vital sta
tistics law in this State, and therefore
no one has any real basis for an opin
ion. If the present Legislature passes
the Vital Statistics Bill now before it,
we will soon know our health condi
tions, and when a community knows
that it is more unhealthy than a
neighboring community it will set
about to reduce its death rate in
earnest. This has been the experi
ence elsewhere, and it will be the ex
perience here.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Farmers’ Union of Washing
ton County meets at Mackey’s Ferry
at 11 o’clock on the first Saturday in
each month.
Brethren, let us have your co-oper
ation in our work and make it more
interesting to the Union, also to oth
ers. Fraternally,
J. L. NORMAN, Sec.
Freedom means that the will
should be governed by the conscience,
and it means that the conscience
should be governed- by God.—Alexan
der Maclaren.
Pull the stumps from your fields and replace them with big '
crops. Don’t pay taxes on idle land.
The Hercules Trfp'le^potJer Stump Puller;
pulls an acre of stumps a day. Pulls biggest stump In 6 minutes.
i_ -iii-T-v .Guaranteed against breakage for 3 years. 30 days free trial. Send
name for book, free—and si>ecial low-price offer. Address
llereales Mfg. I'ompsny, ipogSlstSU, Centerrille, Iowa. C. 8.
/S^ ¥ Fishing,
XvCXVC# Lanterns camping,
and Hard
. Use Under All
otrong and Lhirable Conditions.
Give steady, bright light. Easy to Light.
Easy to clean and re wick. Don’t Smoke.
Don’t blow out in the wind. Don’t Leak.
AT DEALERS
EVERYWHERE
Newark, N. J.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(Incorporated in New Jersey)
Baltimore, Md.
Saves Y2 the Labor of Planting
Saves Seed and secures a
fine even stand.
Cheaper
to culti
vate.
Gives Cotton a Quick
Start—2 chances at
a Big Crop.
Cotton, Corn,
Beans, Peas, Pea
nuts and other seed are accurately
planted with the Cole. At one trip it
smoothes the bed, opens a furrow, 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
In planting it puts the fertilizer below the seed
for cotton—just above the seed for corn— the
w^ itoiitrhttobe.
The guano being mixed with the soil around
the seed prevents the fertilizer being loo strong
and iujurii'g their power to grow. Just as soon
as the seed sprouts the young plant is fed.
Your crop grows off thrifty and vigorous, and
is much cheaper to cultivate than puny, slow-
growingstuff-— gets ahead of cut-worms and boll
weevil. Stunting Is prevented !
You saveXheworkot&vtan and ww/tf by dis
tributing guano while planting with the Cole.
The Cole Planter 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 n'nnts cheaper and
better tlian any planter ever built.
Thesteel Coulter breaks the crust—throwing
the trash and dry top earth into the middles.
The long steel sword presses out a firm V shapM
furrow.
The pressure causes the earth to become com
pact Just beneath the seed, creating, what is
No. 7
known as capillary attraction, that draws up
moisture from the earth to the seed.
The loose earth on top is a mulch, that retains
moisture around the seed.
Seed fall in plain sight. The wind c.annoi
blow them away. None are wasted at the end of
the rows. The cotton comes up in a straiglit line
without bunches. Thus it can be choppel to a
stand mueh faster and plowtd more accurately,
rediicing the cost of cultivation.
The Cole gives you a quick even stand with a.s
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 ns for Catalogue
Our Free catalogue tells all about the famous
Cole Pl.-inters and Lal>or saving distributors.
Shows how to get more pood from guano.
Write for it. Buy dir ct (freight prepaid) or
if you prefer, a local merchant will supply the
Genuine Cole and guarantee you satisfaction.
Box 900
The Cole Mfg. Co.
Charlotte, North Carolina