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686 (18) Here's Your Chance. (vAYAY ZjJr'''' i We have - 60 4 H.P., .50 6 H.F., bo H.P. that we are going to offer' at a price less than half . our regular price even lower than cost of production. , '.. . 4 H.P. Engine complete,. $.98.00 6 H.P. Engine complete, $130,00 8 H.P. Engine complete, $150.00 These engines are our most recent de sign, have our very latest improvements and operate On either Gasoline or Kero sene. They are not in the class with the low price, cheap engine, hut are large, powerful and built for heavy duty, dur able, long and satisfactory service. Remember only fifty of each when there are sold no more will be offered at this price. Our company has a reputation for honest construction, square dealing, re liability and perfectly designed machin ery, worth over half a million, dollars, has the largest and most complete works in the South, and has been manufactur ing high-class machinery for practically half a century. Don't Delay Act Now. Tomorrow may be too late, for these engines will not stay on hand long. Clip this ad, mail to us, and we will ship you without delay either size you desire. Simply check off the one you want, write your order and engine will be shipped without the usual cash requirements. COULD WE OFFER MORE? Remember only fifty of each. This is your chance to get t a high-grade en gine at a price lower than ever offered! before. Southern Engine & Boiler Works, JACKSON, TENN. We also make high grade steam engines, saw mills, grist mitts, feed mills and ensil age machinery. Write us your wants. ANY NORTH CAROLINA FARMER CAN GET HELP IN MARKETING Re.d Here the Nomerou. Way. in Which the Divum of Market. Offer. A..i.tnce and Then Writ. Prof. Camp for What You Want THE PROGRESSIVE FARER fin' A 1 '. f ole. and rl a coif J Oil V I I ll T Am 4 men mas ana buyers in a- :6. on izations of producers will th,K an" the needs of the iarJI ii? s fit ?nto W the product direc tfrgoemnearal ers organization hv m.a thebasis of standard lzafion of . .7.' Urrj 1. Slippage- With 8 plows, 8; with 10 plows, 20 lost in slippage. That is what a round wheel tractor con cern publicly admits. W R. Camp. Chief. Division of Markets, N. C. Experiment Station, Raleigh 1HE-bivision.ofMarltsjDfjhe can, if they choose, depress prices. North Carolina Department ot mis omce ..is uuw cuu.iu.suuyv Agriculture and Experiment ing the farmers of . Hyde County how Station helps four classes ot 'people tney are losing i.auu iucu to sell or buy farm products: (1) in- corn and soy. beans, those of Beau dividual farmers who desire to find a fort County $25,C00 a .year on their new or better market; (2) organiza- potato crop, ana tnose oi uupiin, oi- 1 the needs I of which' are coming to Pr v rati0ns cotton buyine JaJIT the turing business. ' UU manu T . tions of growers who desire informa tion in regard, to the market demand in different states; (3) merchants in ana ouioi ine siaic wuu uonv umbus and Wayne -Counties untold amounts on their strawberry crops. Even when traveling salesmen .pay all the market will stand, the costs, of out in touch with farmers or farmers' distribution are necessarily. high. Tcn organizations which have certain traveling salesmen to, a market will products'for sale; and (4) consumers, mean $25 a day each at least or $250 a eitherfarmers or townspeople, who day for; one: market for salary, and want, to know where they can buy a traveling expenses. The farmer has farm product not grown or found in to pay for all of these expenses. their neighborhood. Organization to Grade and Advertise One incident will .help to make I Community clear the situation in regard to the marketing problem of the individual nHEN the distributing houses do farmer. A farmer who had 4,000 1 not receive what they want, bushels of corn for sale wanted 85 When each farmer, follows his own cents a bushel for it. The local mar- whims in grading, there is no possi- ket was paying 65 cents a bushel. He bility of buying carload lots of a uni- had good corn; the local buyer knew form grade of one standard variety, it. .Rather than sell his corn for 65 Naturally the large .distributing cents the farmer said he would hold houses are in favor of. the farmers it. " The buyer replied that the mar- organizing to standardize their ship- ket was already ' over-supplied, a ments. This office is only in a posi- cbmmon condition of local markets, tion to push the sale of branded goods. However, he ' finally offered to pay Farmers who have a responsible or- Z2l2 cents a bushel. The farmer clos- ganization can best cooperate with us ed the contract at this price. Ihis to insure grades and to advertise the one days' bargain netted him 17 cents a bushel or $700 profit over what Jthe local market price would have brought him for his 4,000 bush els. Now the grower knew his business or he could not have made this profit. The Division of Markets had furn- isnea mm cnicago quotations ana tne products of their community. One of the chief functions of this office is, to canvass the trade to find out the particular, demands of differ ent, markets instates east of Chicago and New Orleans. This canvass has been made to inform ourselves of possible market needs for North Car olina butter, ootatoes. ancles, straw- freight rates from Chicago and from, berries, lettuce, and other fruit and his own loading point to the" leading vegetables. markets in North Carolina. Know- The first step toward organization ing the Chicago quotations for West- is t0 show the farmer the costs and efn corn- and its freight rates, as defects of the present system of dis shown. in our published reports and tribution. This work has been start circulars, any farmer can calculate to ed for corn potatoes, strawberries, a iracnon oi a cent wnat ne snouiu. receive for corn net at his own load ing point if he is; to be paid for it the same price as for. the same grade of Western ' corn delivered in North Carolina. How Farmers, and, Merchants May Use a State Division of Markets IN THIS way the Division of Mar kets can help any large' grower to get a fair price for his products. This office sends any farmer who "re quests it a copy of its weekly price report. If a farmer does not : know where to sell, we will send him the names of any dealers in any of the ten U8. tat Off Don't toy Cattrpillar nnfai you mtan Hottt But the Caterpillar can't slip. . It's aQ feet and it's got them all on the ground. It's geared to plow at 2i-miles per hour and you get 2 miles of furrow hot . An4 it stands up. One owner says: "Three years and hardly a cent for re pairs." Ten years in the field 2000 In use in 25 countries. See it at both California Expo sltions. Get Catalog ij - 262. and up. keep costs.- . The Holt Mfg. Co. (Incorporated) Peoria, HL 50 Church St, N. Stockton. Cal ENGINE BARGAINS 2 Gas Engines at a Sacrifice Doth New. 1 High Grade Foos-4 H.-P., the other a VA H.-P. Detroit. Write for description and cash price, Both graat bargains to sell them now. U JOB P. WYATT & SONS, Raleigh, R. C. apples, eggs, and cotton. We are put- ting farmers in a position to choose between the higher . costs and lower prices of the present unsystematized method of. unloading, farrri products . upon too few markets and the lower expense, and higher , prices which an organization ... for., properly , grading and distributing! farm products can . bring about. To Grade Cotton T AST summer the Division of Mar kets worked in cooperation with the Office of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, to grade cotton for tVip fa owns in which prices are reported to This has been estimateH tn ha ed the farmers of the county $20,000. A .large farmer could demand that the local buyer recognize the grades of the government, grader or say he would ship his cotton to Norfolk. We found that the small farmer could not force a recognition of grades. The only way that the small 'farmers can reap the same advantage as the large iarmers is to ..combine be highest in the weekly price circu- ar Merchants also prize our price reports for they show them where it is possible to sell and buy to best ad vantage. We furnish buyers lists of growers so -they , can communicate directly with the growers. Is this all this office, needs to do. to help farmers market their crops? No. This is only a drop in the bucket. The individual farmer is frequently too farmers so as to be able to snip in busy putting in crops to pay much at- large amounts. - a. . j. , 1 a 4 . : :. xention xo gur marKeung circulars, t q .t ... ..r f jr weekly price reports, and quarteri; ''l ?he he state w 1 . r 11 ni . J Wnicn the Division nf MorUtu Aoc lviarKet cunetms. ine merchanr .j: , . i . ------ sometimes does not like to buy of an- aZ T? er lie nature of the individual farmer W , J " rnand of our North Carolina cott'on . j . v, J1 1V.ILC1. The product may. not arrive at the time and in the amount desired. Be sides the grade of the product may not suit him when , it finally does come. "Byprovisioh onu the last Legislur ft ;0P'"ed counties to approp!'! work m cooperation with th- n- .dOf Markets to m qHR problem of credit may enter I- into all of these marketing lems. Without reasonable-pricedSed iy advantageous sales cannot take place. Soothe, organization of inexpen sive credit facilities among farm " was made a part of the marketin work of this office by the last Legisla ture. Every farmer knows he cannot' hold his cotton for better prices unless he has credit. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange could not do a business of $14,000,000 a year on a small capital unless the members could wait - for their returns until -their fruit could be advantageously sold. Farmers who have to pay 38 per cent more for their supplies bought on credit than for cash are in no position to market anything for themselves. From the following ti ties of circulars which we have pub lished will be seen the campaign of education which this office has start ed: "Credit Unions as Provided for by the Last Legislature Who May Join." "An Increase of the Supply of Credit Through Saving. The Need of Having Sources of Credit Independ ent of the Credit Facilities Outside of the State." "Developing Credit in the Country. Credit Unions Become Societies to .Promote Agriculture." The greatest and most successful business organizations have been brought into existence because some .one or group of men were in a posi tion to force the others to join in or- .der that the promoters might make .several millions of dollars from form ing the organization. Farmers will, not organize when they suspect that Mothers are going to profit by the deal and no one can make them. The business of the Division of Markets is to show farmers that the cooperative form o organization for sale of farm products and for the purchase of farm supplies, and the credit union for organizing new cred it" facilities among farmers as prov ed for by the North Carolina Legisla ture, ,is planned to protect every farmer in his rights. , ' Bulletins may be had and meetings arranged to submit plans for organi zation upon application to the writer of this . article. Whenever Jarme are in earnest and show that h mean business, steps will .be to work out the whok form of ganization with them. In the. time- let every farmer get wise v , his interest. r ' ken that Home - economics has taKen three-legged stove in ' would not draw, taught e;Vtk u, rUn it the onncipies w nun iu vivau , - flue and an it, me V"?l M fires. draughts, The Progiesslve Farmer guaranteed. advertisers are mills, we found that 106 mills were in terested in receiving "offers of cot ton from financially responsible or ganizations of producers in case ' the;, cotton was stapled, graded and class- As soon as thtr is mack of a crop fuiIhedTy The lTT grown in any section, local and tray- government." Seven mi Is indicated tLl X'ZJT tHat thCy Were "0t " "stedt Gov- methTd 'of sale hi, n?n2 ernment" grading and thirty were metnoa ot sale Jias proved very un- non-committal. All laree hnver satisfactory. Whenever the farmers; should welcome thi work as it will cupy the position of monopolists and farmers are organized tc T gradta- tlue and draugnib, M"'r' serve above all, how to buy, cook ana the, food that was to w stove. Woman has noi - . b,jt Jy hadto 4 . . . .Mve D' be taught how to use tne .h oe taugni now w , rtfl .... A t, iiat she is ""..i she has Deeniaa. . soW a new stove, with tour s save legs, that a stove -which cou her time, money and disposi worth more than a spnn0 s see mestic science has even wipe mestic science nas tt.c to it that Johnny brougiu helped clean the stove, tna helped mother cook, and t life, health and joy are ne b things on earth.-Mrs. 01af lin.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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