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i . . o give in'bedding and'clpth w and we managed so much, better SfbSi organized. By. having this b.y -V mtle woman as a member of . tim rlub we had learned to love;her Wt more responsible, -f or, her; anlre and probably, did morgan had a house cleaning day this t !?1 and trave the school 'building general clean-up. Our next me et 4L !;c to auilt-a.beautiful patch-worl it that we pieced for , another sweet friend who was ,rearf d'.in the community and also -lost her. housed hold goods by fire. -x Of our 19 members all iiave tele- ohones except one, aiso Turai man L.Wtf. What community, can beat. run i i w i - . , . for up-to-date conveniences r Let , every community nave a-.vuH.vu for the good of all. "United we stand, ; divided we fall." rl : , MRS.J.Z. GREENSecV, . tit : ' -if r.'IkAA ri;. United Farm vv omcu ua uuuA vuur ,. munlty; T - Marshville, N. C. , THE PLEASANT VALLEY PLAN OF DIRECT MARKETING The Inspiring Story of How., a Few - Determined Farm Women r ound a Market for Their Goods ,'r, 4 . . AUR church was in. debt. ' Uur pas- V tor had persuaded "us to make an. LIGHTENING THE FARM WOMAN'S WORK '1I7E CAN.creatlv leu.n Ai wnrlr in fl, 1 J . ... . yy - "-kUu; uomg away witn the un- v necessary part of it For example, where there lences m the home, and where the water has to be brought from a well, have you ever taen the trouble to measure the distance from the weU to the kitchen. ' and multiply that by two. and that by the 'number of trips the wife probably makes in a day, and that by the number of days in the year ?You would probably be amazed at the number of Ttniles she haatraveled in the year; just - brn water t0 toue- You will then probably seriously consider whethe you had, not better put in a water system in the house, as well as for the live ;- stock. , , - ' ' Is the house so planned that she can do the work which the wife or some: , one else must do. with the minimum of steps, the minimum of stooping, and ' the minimum of lifting) As it not possible to run the washing machine by some kind of power; or is ft possible to form a cooperative laundry in connection . with your creamery If the farmer is so situated that' he can have electricity, . why not an electric 'washing aehine, an electric flat-iron, and a vacuum --,weeper? , ,'..'"'-' -r ' ' y- I know as weU as a man can how wearying iaeome women's work. I know a good deal about the care of children, for I have had a good deal to do with ' thera in my time. ' But even , drudgery is better' than ho work at all, and no home. ; No amount of care of children in sickness and in health compares with' : the desolation of the childless home. I saw one childless woman the past I summer, who, to put in her time, not only kept her house so immaculately clean that it was uncomfortable, but actually swept the street in front of her 1 house every morning in the year I Work is often wearisome, but the weariness -of it is nothing compared to the weariness of the man or woman who. has.no"th- -' ing to do, no one toywork for or to love. 'Uncle Henry in Wallace's Farmer.' effort to repair the, buildin'g,' and; our , , . . . . . ... :. it builoing committee had put on a new, uultcI lu ai"CL 111 ana tu Fa V . fTeniS' ana.snip.au roof and made' other changes;, be- - summer': ' ' ' V. . f . ?f thfe, buttf . to he "V cltY' UST fore collecting' funds' necessary to - First-we went to work' to learn how mg : the refrigerator box mentioned i.i au..4. tr niaP' rprrer nurrer. worKine1 as " wunv-nu. ; , s ; ; ; . IOr liicsc luiuiuvciuciuS) auuui ....-v: ---- ..,-.- o - half the sum. needed Was -'easily rais- individuals, neighbor talking- 'with While trying to find aefrigerator ed, but the balance theV cdtild not get.' neighbor, 'exchanging ideas, using box, weJound the .paraffined butter ' - . ' T . . ' .L'uU.Ji. .1.An ni) omiro . Carton ! atlfl the rartnn inVM ie tm "Vs. nrhof trmi xxtnnAHn ran rln " ftlior- CctCil UU1C1 s uuci .wiitu vm wvvo . ' : v ..v.. U0t-U ..j f..JMj! --..-xiit. v ; f0;iAl i milV infrnniireH butter with customers far and near; (Our and the carton linked us i up k:u:j -v.--.;. i; ta prt in mine, we introaucea Dutter 5LJIVU HX V IL U11U1 W Miti W . -v . . - 1 , - " i 1 - l' fi4 4 M r rvV Hr AtnM tnAt-fftr HAlihprainn V makinff as a SUDieCt IOr SlUUV aim -T""-; ,vu .,u uioluUau w,wv ui - ... " . j . -----a -I ThPCA 11CA 11I ' lif flA . ArtM fomao "Suppose we giye an ice cream sup-". mscussions at -society meeiings, using per, proposea one. - ; . i-imci9 uuiivtm --t o (Better organize first, so that1 it Dook.-.Jteauzing tnat no one 01 u Knew it j aiir we worKea ana stuaieu together, each : giving v and - receiving ciiororict?rnQ -pvprv' fttift a. leader and a. fnllnwpr -nil affvanr.inp- sten bv steo. ' fore the summer, of 1911 we sent but until w'creached the city fna?Jcet, with ,ter in .tin buckets altogether. . -We mir wii. and nnr neighbor's better Still use buckets for small orders, but T?;.Ti. t: "an 1.-. Knftr nnrl ps. Tt took time to work eany every pacKage we sena out xiiiouv. 1AZ.1C, VUU Will llrtVC VJ ..r00. --- . . . , , TT" take the lead," the" rest insisted-. out our 'purpose;, and not. all ot our yuuuumwy will be someone's business to ?take charge of the money we make sug1 gested another.1 ' '. '. ''',- "'If we only had a leader';' we said, with a sigh, as we had been saying and sighing for year's.- these useful little containers last year.) After realizing the possibili ties of the paraffined butter carton, we procured rectangular butter moulds, and began' to pack the but ter in the top of the egg crates. : Be pnis; aim :.- jw.vnugvuucijr, "vv ' -,.,., . . " " , It was in this wav and in this soir- shipping an average.of 100 dozen eggs w . - er, eggs, Jt tio a. T5i i ,y,4, f j" L- . a"u ?usigc. ine sausage was pacK c eTy S&nft We worked out plan, for shipping -d In. parchment-fined butter caLns. 1909. FourLeTnaWeS in the same-spirit that we had es- For orders calling for six to nine ten memberro?outSTt5S tablishe.d leadership in the beginning, dozen eggs and four . to eigh pounds dwellers in our nXhborhood - and- "I-'could pack thebutter and eggs, of butter, we use the Farmer's Friend tw :'i r j . "ciiiuornoyu, . um - 1,1 rlplivpr the rases at egg case of; twelve- dozen capacity, two city friends wbo were visiting us; 'if someone could deliver tne cases at s shinments to otir dis- So, at that first meeting" we finked the express office," I said. - r large stiipments to. our dis- rlitirt, j uicciiiig, wc niiKcu - - .i. vnrpsi' tnbutors, we use the 30-dozen gg church and community interests,'and ' I could take them to tne express. . , . ee established connections between rii- office, " if someone would keep W- crates, buying them irom local. pro- Vai 4mj 7. " . - ! uciwccii ru ';,;c:io f crnn'p " nffprpH an- duce dealers. Here are returns from ral and urban hf e-a ood beginning, baby while I was gone, ottered an shioment t0. Nashville a distance as we realized latr: We agreed to other.- f fj"1, t0 Wa8nvllIe. a dlstance meet every week, and to' pay monthly " "I will -take care of the baby ot I miles. ues of 10 cents each. 'Then we. plan- . promised her neighbor SfiflSt ::::::::: $K! fed an ice cream stipper; Two weeks -The .tenant woman who offered her . ater we turned over $25 to our' build- services to deliver the packages at cJi-j i:::::::110 2 committee. - - the express office,- two miles away, ExjreBB on paCkage as 1 c.an not in this paper give an ac- ' w'aslstrong. of Imuscle. , She owned Exprpea on empty crate ., jit i count of the various activities Hbat:. a rattle .: , T7; developed through our organized ef-. that'was idle much of, the time. When; Net proceeds Us.ss frts to serve our church and com- ,her buggy collapsed a few months 'la-;. , The 16 pounds went in the top of munity. With bur help,.lhe building, tcr, another that, had been set aside the egg package. By leaving out two commiftee finally paid the' debt in by its owner was donated to the' but- iayer 0f eggs an(j standing the prints -; uuu wnue we were discharging' ter ana egg uusuicaa. iav-ii 6 on.ena, me traic wm w uuu thls obligation, regular - collection's'' Jyof;.what: she had to offertime, eggS wlth 32 pounds of butte Were ailing behind: The - stewards talent, training, physical strength, or . The city demand for our commodi evre in straits, and our society" was 'material resources. ' C ties was an eye-opener. We sold asked to assume the " responsibility 'And so, because we had a worth-' over $2,000 worth of butter and eggs tri v wuccnuns more con- while purpose, cooperative apu it, iuc moi. . jrv... - -"" w snJl- f Work for "the iemale-;6f the' composite leadership, we worked out chickens, turkeys, ducks, dried fruits, Biecies. .: . .. i ' a -wbt jirhipve- fmifs for nreservincr hams, sausaee. . : - r v our. oujcci icsauu "V s . r- y' - . :. ,w ' aiS . 5. ?ultlvated neighborliness menft rbut a suggestive example. , cottage cheese, and cracklings too atirl wuijiuuiiiiy s neeas l nis, in . Driei, is in v u,6 -f Point . M iro"i tne woman s origin of our society, ana ine uegm- uicuuuu Mu56Jr, to lew Naturally our desire 'ning of our direct marketing. We horse. - and I" sufsted: "Better butter have never had any fixed plans, only Yes, there was rapid development markrtT the markets, and better "a fixed purpose to, serve our church at both ends of the line. , cis tor the butter mtiinftv. Later, our pur- "If I thought you women could keep to serve eictended to our custo- this tning going, x.womu uuy an Our plans have varied to meet other cow a Jersey,", said one of our f.-e of Wti ptid? of the line. farmers. And he bought a Jersey Most His neighbors bought cows. at8cent?l irUtter t0 th peddlers but until , we learned about butter One man bought a herd. Separators In hot wfu 5 ccnt8-the -year-round, cartons, we Mid not know how we refrigerators and silosare coming SoaPofSr' womn often -made-were going to sendbutter to our va- into . our valley. neZ Uttr' N6t a Wman of rious customers that first summer ELIZABETH D. ABERNATHY. ow t0 send her little pat of We were planning toeak most of Pulaski, Tenn. pn .,ur lne .".utter and eggs - 8 miles ' " " in pose n "Winter a ia ,v,"-i w wtwuis mers, uui piua uv. - in sumn,!' w 10 cents and 20 cents conditions at both ends of the line. ineir "(15)"t5 Firestone built-up'-in-center treadFirestone quality in materials Firestone con strubtion by the ' greatest organizationof tire specialists -these and a score of other reason score victory for the Firestone user in tours, daik .rvie'e and economy test. . Automobile and motorcycle tires, tubes and accessories. ..Free Offer: 'SsSsjs- Und address and the' make of tlrts you , use, and we will send you free a fine waterproof Tube Bag. It will keep yoar inner tubes In prime condition. Write today and ask, also, for Free Book on "Care and Repair ot Tlres,' No. 40 . 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It's more re liable and economical to Install a ran pit Qgi?i and be sure of a constant supply of fresh water, W without fuel or attention. The Eire nam operant , by the flow of any stream having a fall f X ft nr morn and a stiitol v of 2 eat-1 ions or more per nunuic. vv m r maintain air pressure system, i Simple to install. Over 1 1,000 l in tun. Satisfaction euaran-'i teed. - Write today for catalog and free estimate. RIFE ENGINE CO. , 8130 Trinity Building . New York V -m. iU W- OUR WO BEST suDsciiipnon offers $1 K( tr one renewa an one new f 1. JU subscription, for one year, each if sent in together; or o AA for a club of three yearly sub-! scriptions, all sent in together, saving of 33 per cent on each subscription. Address . THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER r
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