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COOPERATION SPECIAL r v- a smyu AKB SQOTHERW FARM GAZETTE A Farm ud Home Weekly for-"-' The Carolinas. Virginia. Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXIX. No. 46 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914 $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy STATE FARMERS' UNION MEETS NMT WEEK COOPERATE don't just talk about cooperating! Get started on something ! That is the big message The Progressive Farmer would like to lend to every reader this week, and especially to the members of every Farmers' Union or other farmers' club. Link yourself up with the life of your neighbors. Have a real neighborhood, a real com munity. Brotherhood, fellowship, comradeship, overflowing neighborli ness that's what your whole neighborhood is hungry for, if the peo ple only realized it, but 'this neighborliness must be something more than a benevolent sentiment lying idle in the hearts of the folks. It must be put to work. It must do things. And that is what coopera tion is neighborliness at work, brotherhood at work. ' And there are all kinds of opportunities for cooperation, Brother Reader, all around you. The woods are full of them, literally. j Read Prof. Eaker's story this week, and see if you don't warm up at the thought of how his neighbors worked together to get a better school building, more teachers, and better opportunities all round for their boys and girls. This is everywhere one of the first opportunities for cooperation. There's little hope for any people who are not will ing to cooperate as tax payers and fellow-workers to give a better chance to their own young, aspiring flesh and blood. Then comes cooperation to get better roads, and a telephone sys tem, and a farmers' club and a club for the farm women, libraries, local fairs, rallies, picnic days, and everything that makes for a richer social and intellectual life. And then all around you, all the time, Mr. Farmer, there are op portunities for the sort of cooperation that will pay directly in cash dollars and cents. The letters in this issue prove that beyond ques tion. Some opportunities that exist in nearly every neighborhood and are waiting for nearly every farmer in the South are as follows: 1. Almost every month and every week you buy some kind of farm supplies it would pay you to buy in cooperation with your neighbor. 2. You ought right now to be selling or storing cotton, to bacco, peanuts or apples in cooperation with your neighbors. 3. Having before us not only the golden opportunity but the im perative necessity for raising more livestock in the South, .you should right now join with your neighbors to get royal blooded breeding sires and to join in marketing animals or meats. ' DR. H. Q. ALEXANDER, President MR. J. Z. GREEN State Organizer and Lecturer 4. Read in this issue how neigh bors in other sections are cooperat ing in the purchase and use of im proved implements and machinery, and figure out the money -making, labor-saving opportunities you are missing here. 5. For marketing poultry, eggs, butter, fruit, vegetables, meats, etc., every farmer should be a member of some cooperative produce exchange, like that we are reporting from Syl vester, Ga. The North Carolina State Union meets in Greenville Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Read the magnificent reports from the various counties in this issue. The full list of state officers follows: H. Q. Alex ander, President, Mecklenburg County; J. M. Templeton, Vice-President, Wake County; E. C. Faires, Secretary-Treasurer, Lee County; J. Z. Green, State Organizer, Union County. The Executive Committeemen are: W. B. Gibson, Chairman, Iredell; W. H. Moore, Pitt; C. C. Wright, Wilkes; S. H. Hobbs, Sampson; and Clarence Poe, Wake. 6. Every farmer should have his house and stock insured in some mutual insurance company. 7. In every neighborhood there should be a farmers' credit so ciety for pooling farmers' savings and lending to one another in a sift manner. DONT FAIL TO READ Page A Legislative Program for the-North Carolina Farmers' UnionSome Measures that Demand Early Legislative Consideration 17 Building a School How a Neighborhood Cooper ated and Got a School It Is Proud of 7 Bulletins on Cooperation A Few Publications That Will Be Helpful to the Community That Would Cooperate 10 Cooperation in Buying Farm Machinery A Splendid Field for Cooperative Effort' 10 Four Fields for Cooperation Production, Use' of Machinery, Standardization of Products, Cooperative Selling 5 Halifax County's Clover Agents What They Are Doing to Better the County Agriculturally. . 6 North Carolina Farmers' Union and Its Work for Cooperation Reports of County Secretaries . 6 Opportunities for Cooperation Five Ways in Which Southern Farmers May Work Together . . 11 8. Whenever a new cotton gin, saw mill, grain mill, creamery, to bacco prizery, threshing machine, or cottonseed oil mill is needed in a neighborhood, it should be owned by the farmers and run on the co operative, patronage -dividend plan, so that profits will go back to the farmers. Think on these, things, Brother Reader. Talk them over with your neighbors. Decide which of the eight lines offers the best opportunity for work; see that you lay thoroughly safe and businesslike plans and then go to it. Once again, don't just talk about cooperation! Cooperate! Get some thing started in your neighborhood ! !
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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