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Page Eight AGAINST PRIZE FARMING. Fort Worth, Texas, April 5.—The executive committee of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union at Wednesday’s session formally con demned prize-farming as carried on in this State during the past few years and in a resolution considers it damaging to the industry. Wednesday’s session was spent in carefully reviewing the organized forces now at work in the State in the interest of agriculture. The com mittee concluded that prize farm ing as now carried on in this State is damaging to agriculture. According to the estimate of the Farmers’ Union, over a quarter of a million dollars have been spent in Texas in prize farming during the past five years and the recognition which many business men have given prize farming has caused the Union to officially review its effect upon farming and to point out more prac tical lines of co-operation for the in formation of those who may desire to render effective service to agricul ture. The committee asks that market ing and rural credits be given atten tion and commends the articles given to the press by President Radford discussing the problems that con front the farmers. The committee will be in session all week. The reso lution follows: “We most heartily endorse the se ries of articles that has appeared in the press prepared by our able Presi dent, Mr. Peter Radford, concerning production and marketing and hope the public has given him a patient hearing in his discussion. We suggest that the production and marketing of farm products is the largest and most intricate busi ness problem that civilization has ever confronted and we deplore the tendency of friendly agencies to con fine their efforts to the production side of our problems which is the most easily mastered and is already overcome. Prize Fanning Condemned. We have carefully reviewed from the standpoint of practical farming the result of prize farming as carried on in the State during the past few years, and consider it in every in stance inadequate and, as a whole, damaging to the farming industry. Its educational value is too limited to be of any practical use, it turns the mind of the child from practical to fancy farming; its effect is im moral where the cost of growing a prize crop exceeds the value of prod ucts. It gives the occupation of farm ing a child-like appearance and ac knowledges the farmers as delin quent, feeble and incompetent. We consider the assembling of the best products of the farm in a community for study and comparison of educa tional value, and small prizes offer ed after the crop is grown, not so ob jectionable, but the offering of large prizes before the crop is planted, we think damaging to agriculture for the reasons above-stated. It is prices, not prizes, we want. Only one farmer can be benefited by a prize, but a half million profit by Increase in prices. What the Farmer Needs. Production is not a problem that we submit to the business interests for solution. It is caring for the surplus products that deeply con cerns us and one in which we ask the co-operation of strong men with wide experience and world vision in business. The important material assistance that business can render is in in creasing the value of our products while in the hands of the producer through a more intelligent and sys tematic method of marketing and THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER thereby making our securieties more stable. Financial paper issued upon a bale of cotton for a reasonable amount is as good security as a government bond, yet it receives little or no recognition upon the market, al though it may bear double the inter est rate. The value of our staple crops can be increased at least 20 per cent without increasing the cost to the consumer by a more business like method in marketing. We are anxious to counsel with bankers in perfecting our se curities, and in studying marketing problems with business men, but production is wholly a farmers’ prob lem and is much better understood than marketing and rural credits. We want to own and improve our homes; give our children better edu cational advantages; possess the com forts and conveniences of modern life and make the farm more attractive, but these and many other problems can be solved only after we have made the business of farming more remunerative. (Signed) J. L. McCONKEY, Chairman. J. E. PEARSON, Secretary. F. A. GRIMBERG, JOE LONGFELD, J. H. MCDANIEL. ROSS BAY LOCAL, No. 1904. Dear Editor:—If you will allow me space I will let the brothers know what we are doing. Our meetings are held every Saturday night and our membership is increasing. We have twenty-six paid up members. I am glad the farmers are waking up and are looking forward to a bright future. I think we have been driven long enough. Now, brothers, let us drive. We bought our fertilizer from the factory for the year 1913, and think we have saved a great deal by doing so. By the fall we hope to have our own cotton gin so we can do all of our ginning. Brothers, if we ever expect to do anything we must work for each other’s interest. Our county meeting will be held in the court house at Swan Quarter the first Sat urday in May. Hope there will be a large attendance. J. M. JENNETTE. sale and manufacturing corporations have refused to sell direct to us. The great money power is just now rec ognizing that their food comes from the tillers of the soil. Let the farm ers of America stop and everything else will stop. If I had time I would tell you a dream I had some time ago. But I will wait and see if this escapes the waste-basket. JOHN BIVENS. Athens, Tenn., R. 5. [Thursday, April 17, 1913. The best sanitary index to a neigh borhood or to a particular household is the number of flies found around it. If there are lots of flies, then tliere is lots of filth around for them to breed in, and vice versa. We know that filth breeds flies and that flies spread disease. So, if we tolerate flies and filth in our com munities, we may expect to have a lot of sickness and many needless deaths. ATHENS, TENNESSEE. Dear Editor:—I have not seen any letter from our Local in your paper, so I will tell you about it. A few of us Goodsprings boys are here to stay, but a good many have dropped out for fear of hurting the feelings of some of the merchants and non-union men. Brother farmer, the time has come when we must lock hands and manage our business to our interests. The other fellow has been running things for us until we are about out of business. We are buying our fer tilizer through the Union and we save from five to eight dollars per ton. We also order sugar, lard, and coffee at a great saving. We are now mak ing up an order for some Improved cottonseed. Our cotton gin cost us eleven hundred and sixty-five dollars. We have reduced the price of ginning from five and six dollars per bale down to two dollars and fifty cents. The non-union gin men said before we bought our gin that they could not gin at three dollars per bale. But after we bought our gin and set the price to three dollars, they canie down to three dollars and fifty cents. After all this, we have Union mem bers patronizing the non-union gins. I think the Union has done a great deal for the poor farming class of people. It has put down the price of ginning cotton, saved the farmer hundreds^of dollars on fertilizer, and it kept hammering on parcel post till they got it. Brethren, we must stand to those who stand to us. 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