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HOW TO BUY FARM SUPPLIES ECONOMICALLY-Pago 5 ' 7JJI;. j 3 J Rl I?-1 '- J 1 'T -: Illb KUAVlltlUiJi Til . ."WW!1 A Farm aai! Home Weekly for FOUNDED 18 Vol. XXX. No. 3. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915. SI a Year ; 5c. a Copy ." ' "" ' " : ...... ....I . . : ' , : .. - - . ..... -. .. .' - . - ' ' " " ',.-". '.: m 1 " . - ., . ., ', . L ... . , .... , " 1 . ' " ", "" " ' " - '" 1 I ' . - , I: . V . ' : - ' - W - . ' ' -V" ' . ' ' ' 1 " '"r--, s- . . ," . .. . .-...- - -.. - '..'..'.,. -. . , '. . v. .. r , J i i ..as: ;;. iH ?"i I ' PSSSSK: i ;-t 'vi,;.J::-y:.:? .P:: ' .,: ' ;'-V.'"-'i ::tesffi' f... - . . ; -.,.. -t-. ,.iV THE CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C., COOPERATIVE CREAMERY IS A FINE ILLUSTRATION OF THE BENEFITS THAT COME FROM COOPERAHVE EFFORT THIS week we are publishing a symposium on How I Got Out of Debt," and we are trying as well to emphasize in this issue of The PrTr-ssivc Farmer the need generally for better business methods on the -hettr bayLig and selling, more economy, and the need for a wisei sysiem of financing our farm operations. 1 An adequate system of rural credits is today one of the most impera tive needs of the American farmer, and we deeply regret the decision of. President Wilson not to push the subject at the present session of Con gress. Until we do get such a system until the farmer gets money at a fair rate of interest wherewith to make needed improvements--it is in evitable that much of the advice to follow better methods must neces- sdmy go unneeded. ; v We venture the assertion that not one South ern farmer in ten gets money at 6 per cent or less ; that not one in five pays 8 per cent or less ; and that the vast maioritv nav anvwhpr from 10. to 50 per cent for the use of money for a single year. These statements will be borne out by an biased investigation of the actual situation. I his can only mean o4 thing : our farms must go unimproved ; stumps must - remain in our iields; fences, barns, and nice homes must re mam unbuilt; better breedsof Uvestock cannot be purchased, nor labor saving, money-making tarn machinery installed. Why ? Becausehdw: : rr-dnW to betterfarming and better hvmg these improvements may bt . ne average farmer's, business sijnpiy cannot af wm to pay such ruinous interest ratesonmoney borrowed to makp the y . sgrjcanfarmers possess an aggregate wealth DON'T FAIL TO READ- , f An Appeal to White Townsmen! and Legislators . . . V . 13 A Ringing Indictment of the Crop lien System . 20 Catawba County Makes Coopera tion Pay ... . . 17 Corn Silage at a Supplement to Pastures . .;... ... 10 Growing Feed for Dairy Cows . 3 How I Got Out of Debt . . r . . 6 Make the Improvements Pay Their ::,;Way.:,;..-:-fvt' ;f.,' j?;. -12 Put Your Boy in the Corn Club and ' Your Girl in the Canning Club . Work ... . . . . . . M2 Suggestions From Sunny Home Farm . . . ; r ; 8 Try Stoves and Furnaces , . . 14 What One Club Did ... . .15 of forty billion dollars, against a total value of all the railroads of the United States of only about fifteen billion dollars. Yet the latter, with less capital invested and a surely no sounder, safer security are able to borrow vast sums at 5 and 6 per cent, while the average farmer has to pay from 8 to 50 per cent. This is a condition that should not be, and it is simply up to the farmers of the country to demand a changfe., At the outset, we doubt if prevailing conditions are due to any one, man or set of men. Rather, they are due to a bad system, and it is this that must be changed if we are to get permanent relief. V What is necessary? 1. Legislation in every State to put the Torrens law into operation, so that titles to lands may be made absolutely sound and safe. : " 2. Money for the farmer on long timenot less than 20 years with interest at not more than 6 per cent, a small part of the principal being repayable each year. ' . 3. -The issuance of debentures or bonds against mortgages on farm lands, in order to make liquid these t assets and facilitate pur chases. " V' 'I. '-".- 1 J T ' J'. ' I,'' ; 4. ; Absolute security, od the part of the lender, this of course being, the purcliaser of the bonds, by the most rigid governmental supervision of all operations. - r. A National Rural Credits law embodying these few fundamental principles will, we believe, mean cheap money on long time for the farmer. Will you sit still and let the present bad situa tion continue, or will you demand that some thing be done? . ' ' . : 1 - , it - ... 1 . - - 1 1
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