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thai has to be ' removed
'bodily" from the well
every time it is necessary to
fix a leaky valve or any
other little trouble, and that
requires a mechanic and a
: kit of tools for the operation i
3 If so you'll appreciate
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is the only tool needed.
They save money by
savingtime andtrouble;
We've been building
pumps for 40 years and
when we build one for
you it ir right Send
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Implement!, fences, etc.. at 28c a gal t barn and roof
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TheSpotleaaCo, 275 Shockoe Lane, Wchmoad,Va,
Cotton Seed Meal
Owl Brand ill tnd 8Am .
Dove Brand &dnan4
Good for beef cattle, dairy cows, oxen,
horses, mules, sheep, hogs, poultry All
need PROTEIN! Feed a BALANCED ra
tion. Our booklet "M" Science of Feed
ing FREE on request Cotton Seed Meal
fine fertilizer for tobacco and truck
F..W.DRODE&CO
9 Established 1878, .
40 South Front St, Memphis, Term.
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UmUtmat Fanaere' Ualea
THE PRQGItESSIVE FARMeH
vture surv bring -disappointment,
- and .sometimes calamity. Under tl
present"-, abnormal condition attempt6
, to get . immediate "profits" are sure t
..bring unsatisfactory results,
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SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR DIS
CUSSION AT LOCAL UNIONS
MARCH
(1)
(1)
(2)
What Can We Do In CoBperatlye
Purchase of Supplies and Fertilizer
Thig Year?
Should We Not Arrange NotrFor
District and County School Com
mencement!? APRIL
How Can We Develop Better Flans
for Marketing Poultry, Vegetables
? and Fruit This Year?. How Will
Parcel Post Help?
Cannot We Join Together More as
KniirhhAm With Teams. Hands, and
Machinery . in Doing xms
Farm Work?
18. BDU
Year's
em counties of North Carolina I no
tice that thousands of acres are being
fc"V.,. , .i. . . ...... . AT
' Nash County Meeting
tice that thpusanas oi acre are yci8 TfjE Nash County Farmers' T
prepared for cottori;by these Negro wiu meet with the mST'
tenants, just as they have been doing czl near Taylor's Cross Roads 0n i:
heretofore, every spring. , , first Saturday, in April, at ll'o'cbd
' " V . a.m. We expect to have a live meet
During the months of March and ing, and hope to have a full dele?a.
April organized iarmers suuum iiac- uui num uu iuud.
GOOD TIME TO BUILD BETTER
FOUNDATION
Organized Resident Farmers Must
Get Out of Competition With Crop
lien Pauper Labor
to the occasion ana enmrace me op
portunity, by stocking half their cot
ton land to clovers and grasses for
: permanent pastures." V When we ar
range to reduce our "overhead" ex-
. penses by letting cows and hogs and
" colts ' gather their-, own crops we are
laying the . f oudation for profitable
agriculture,' and by "profitable ' agri-
; culture" I mean the kind that .furn
ishes a better living on the farm. In
the meetings of your local Unions
that you are calling now for the pur-.
; pose of .discussing the cooperative
purchase of commercial . fertilizers,
wouldn't it be putting into practice a
happy idea if we should decide to ap-
oi tne lertmzer
a PT?AnTTP TIip Progressive
Tf - u B tuxrincr propriate. a part
ias the, got outof de says he
stated in any of etc., and thereby begin to, grow into
these get-out-of-. tne livestock industry? You 11 find
debt stories that advertisements running in The Pro
cotton -has played gressive Farmer quoting prices of all
. ... IrlnAe r( cpoHc hnf if vnii fail In make
an important part: - ay. " i
Some years ago a
farmer in Union
County who was
planting a little
bigger cotton crop
every year in the
- - MR. GREEN
attempt to get out of debt, found that
instead oi getting out
of debt his
connection direct with tne grower,
you can club your orders for seeds
and send to wholesale seed mer
chants. The most practical and
profitable .way to reduce your cotton
acrt ige is to prepare a . part of your
cotton land for pastures or ' for f or
aee croos so, that you can feed more
indebtedness was gradually becomings livestock next winter. Discuss these
t-r . . .. . . . . it! 1 1 TT: Tt- -
things in your local unions, it s a
good time to put into practice some
very profitable ' cooperation in the '
purchase of seeds for permanent pas
tures and for forage crops.
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Regardless of the duration of the
war the resident farmer will make no
mistake when he gradually substit
utes livestock ot cotton. He will in
that way get out of competition with
ignorant pauper Negro labor which
goes to the support of absentee land
lords and time merchants. And as
the live-at-home policy we grow int0 the livestock industry
farmer out of debt, this w- wi'iiv; rrr,e k
same economic policy will keep him nd gathered with horse power and
out of debt . "farm machinery, while our hogs and
cows and colts will still fnrttir caIvo
"The resident farmer, who-is-de--the-hired labor problenvby gathering
pendent upon his own labor and the their own crops in pastures nine
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larger. He finally decided to plant
for -a living at home, :as far as . soil
and climatic conditions would permit,
and that included about all the food
products that went on his table ex
cept sugar and coffee. He knew this
fundamental economic change of
methods could not put him in I any
worse condition even if it didn't help
him. Within three year's time he was
out of debt.
I dont know hardly how I got out
of debt," he remarked to one of his
friends, "but I know I'm out all
right." If
will lift a
labor ot his tamily, can t afford to
speculate oncotton or tobacco with
the hope of "gaining enough profits
to buy his living. When he does that
he puts himself in direct competition
with
ENTIRELY a niw WV m
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4mDATtial anmrMtlnna fnr
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m wng moat pr0 IMX ptnt
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Bnd for jh-w book; ItbUu all
today.
Grapefruit and OranQes lor Sale
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6tT thftproflt ind eommkalon of mlddl mea by
tuTlng four fruit direct from th rrowtr,
' W ar srowert nd pcken ol fancy trait. AS
tnitt ruarnUtd to b of Una quality.
IHcaa ll.U par box for grape fruit or onngef. A
hot packad H grapefruit ao4 H orangti i.7i. Cast)
with order
Oak Ecs3 Grtpdrdt & Orssge Conptay,
months out of the year. In order, to
grow into the livestock industry,"
we must cooperate in the purchase of
pure-bred sires and in the purchase
croplien pauper, labor, which, nrtivitv ovrrv TT:rt :., u 4
in i s last analyse, means that -he is ton and tobacco sections shduld get
work.ng for pauper wages m the pro- sy. Tw0 or more memberJ
duct.on of a crop that s produced by iocal Union shonId ,
...w t"u"u'' "v6' auw. one TUre-hrPd Cir thie enrln T
, c mg dllll, All"
' "" vestments of this kind will ultimately
Never before in the history of pay the biggest dividends that it is
Southern agriculture has there been possible to obtain py any investment
picaciucu.iL inicr opporiunuy ior.tne iua, uc mauc uy a group oi or-
resident farmer to gradually break ganized farmers in the cotton sec
away from the one-crop system and ion. It is true, there will" be no im
substitute' for it the kind of farming mediate results, but the best results
that requires superior intelligence arc always the cumulative kind. At
and personal supervision, and there- tempts to get quick profits in agricul
yjr wui tumpeiuion witn the
pauper Negro labor upon which the
absentee landlord must depend. If the
European war continues there will
probably be no market at all for cot-
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ton next tall, or if there is a market
the price will be perhaps the lowest
on record in the hist
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growing. Notwithstanding this cle
ment of extreme uncertainty the ah.
sentce landlord in the Cotton Belt
will have his Negro tenants to plant
cotton, for they do not have the in
intclligcnce and training to handle any
other kinds of crops. They will plant
cotton if they know it .will not bring
over five cents a pound. In the east-
J. X. TAYLOR, Secretary.
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? all irritations of the skin, use
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Re?. U. S. Pat, Off.
Keeps wounds clean; loothea and healj.
Specially raluable la the nursery. , -
Pat up in bandy metal capped elasi bot
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where. - Illustrated booklet describinc ill
the "Vaseline" preparations mailed free
on request. . ,
CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO.
(Consolidated)
59 State Street. .x New York City
EnnAonni:!AnY offer fiiT,
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