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FARM BUILDING SPECIAL NEXT WEEK. - t; Reg'd U. S. Pat Office. A Farm and Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. FOUNDED, 1836, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXVIII. No. 23. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 19 1 To Help Fix Cotton (i Hay and Meat IN The Progressive Farmer office the other day Prof. D. N. Barrow made a state ment about the control of cot ton prices that is worth passing "on. This is what he said : 'The farmer will be able 6 fix the price of his cotton when he owns it and not before. The farm er is hot an exception to the general rule that a man cannot control the price of a thing which does not be- a long to him.' All the argument in the world cannot get away from this simple proposition; - The cotton crop of the South when made does not belong to the: men who made it! but , to the landlord, the storekeeper, the banker, who ' furnished them the money to make it with. These men want their money, the cotton grower has to raise it for them, and has just one way to get it that is to sell his cotton. Of course, under such con ditions, someone else fixes the price of cotton ; and not until the conditions are changed will rust-proof oats, hairy vetch and crimson clover. th farmprhiivp much "wv" Mr. J. D. Carmichael, Sunny South, Ala., sends us this picture. He sowed the field last .October, putting in three bushels oats, 15 pounds vetch seed tne iarmer nave mUCn say -. . , . w pounds crimson clover seed to the acre. The combination is certainly a splendid one. in the matter. Hough ..... K'WW v'lrfflil ,h. - -- - i,.n .,ni - -llUit-li-- 5-? - "' It is good to know that the conditions are being changed, that more and more farmers are coming really to own the crops they make ; but there is yet much progress to be made before any sort of organization or financing plan can enable the farmers, as a class, to hold for a fair price. The first thing in the fight for better cotton prices is to do away with the old practice of letting cotton growers live all summer long on the expectation of a crop yet to be made. The share cropper, with everything furnished him and a mortgage laid on the cotton he is going to make must be converted into a wage hand, or given a chance to do real farming and release himself from the economic slavery of his pres ent condition. The land-owning farmer who buys fertilizers and work stock and machinery and corn and hay and groceries and clothes, all to be paid for when cotton is sold, must be changed into a self-supporting farmer who grows more of what he needs and owns more of what he produces. . Here is where the work of fixing cotton prices must begin ; and any such work is necessarily slow. It is gratifying to know, however, that every farmer can do something at it this very year. He can at least make sure that he will have home-grown hay an feed and home-raised meat to eat next winter; and these two things will put him far along ih mad tn pmnomic freedom. It must be remembered, too, that every man who puts his farming on a self-sustaining basis, not only helps himself, but also adds to the strength of the farmers who already own their, cotton and hastens the day when there will be enough such farm ers to take cafe of the crops produced by the dependent class. 8 14 5 6 FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE: A Party for the Young Folka-rMrs. Hutt Tells How to Conduct It Farmers' Union Notes Progress and Problems of Various Sections . Farm Work for June Practical Suggestions by Mr. Parker : . . How to " Enualize " Bees-Making Strong Colonies Out of Weak Ones How to Organize an Egg-Marketing Association-A Chance for Effective Local Co-operation . 17 June in the Rose Garden-Good Varieties for Outdoor Blooming . 9 Let Us Have a White Rural South-Why the Whites and Blacks Should Live in Different Neighborhoods H Make Your Own Hay This Year-How to Handle Peas and Why to Plant Them 5 Share Cropping Means Poor Farming-Why This Must Be So 3 Six Crops a Year How One Garden is Kept Busy . . . . . .18 Suckering Corn-Work of Very Doubtful Profit . . . . . . . 6 Real vs. Promoted Co-operation-Let tne" Co-operative' Promoter AU. 10 Weeklv: $1 a Year. I
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