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Our Farmers
Devoted ta Education, Organization; Cooperation and Marketings
X Z. GREEN, E. W. DABBS, C. C WRIGHT Contributia Editorf
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TJOR YEARS Peruvian Guano has been the world's richest fertilizer
BH for tobacco: No other fertilizer compares with it. For this .
A. guano is the excrement of the fish-eating pelicans that throng
the rainless coast of Peru, and adjacent islands, and contains ele-;
ments utterly lacking in man-made fertilizer. Never could cnemists.
imitate it! -
' Peruvian Guano, when balanced with other high-grade materi
als makes the ideal fertilizer for in this way we can suit it to all ,
-soils and crops. Yet, it costs no more than good commercial fer
tilizer of like analysis. We have; joined Nature's skill in making to .;.
We Want to send you a book about Peruvian
Guano and Peruvian Mixtures. Write for a. copy
today. Get prices and full information before we
are entirely sold out of the fertilizer thatcan sup
ply Potash. v . 1 : .
Peruvian Guano Corporation
CHARLESTON, - - SOUTH CAROLINA;
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION IN
.LOCAL UNIONS 1 "
MARCn (1) Adrantajof Cooperative
- Purchase of Fertilizers and Value
" ot Homemlxinjr ,
(2) now Can We Best Avoid "Time
Prices" Usury This Year? . '
COOPERATIVE-ADVERTISING
SOLD 10,000 POUNDS OF; BUTTER
how much, you have . to sell you'll
istand a"poor chance to; find the best
markets unless you let it be known,
and" there's; no .quicker or cheaper
-way than-to use advertising columns
to make your cooperative sales, just
. asjheimorerprogressiveifarmers fre
quently do tomake: individual sales.
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Township Spelling, Contest
DID , you ever Hear of-a township
soelliher & contest ?-.Thesf 1X7 A A
, 'f rf, " r ' - I
" -ut -
npHE large clover plant '
J- in this cut was inocu
. lated with the proper
kind of- legume bacteria;
the smaller one was not
inoculated. The wisdom of
using legume cultures for
clover,-peas,;beansan-d so
onris therefore apparent.
r The Commissioner of
Agriculture for North Car
olina is distributing inocu
lating material for all the
legume crops at 40c an acre
andcanmakeprompthip.
ment. ' Address W A.
GRAHAM, Commission
er of Agriculture, Raleigh,'
N. C. when ordering; this
material. rr-M
MR. GREEN
AM
0jgt 32c for Fctoruary
PrlceiheDcst AfC YCU GcltiRff It?
Our plant runs day and . night.
' "We never sleep? ' ; .
TeU your neighbors about us or
send us their names. '
Experts in charge of each depart-
- :. ment - - -j ' ' ;-.:. '
Special prices on sweet cream.
Wanted, "a man in each locality
;-' to 8 tart cream routes. 1. ,-
WHY TAKE LIS money for your crtam when It
has SPOT ASH VALUE at this high price? You
are MILKING FOR MONEY nd want the best re
sults you can Ret. We offer you best WEIGHT,
HIGHEST TEST. LOWEST EXPRESS AND BAG
OAQB AND PROMPT RETURNS.- -Figure
out your next cream check en the basis of
our price, and we are 'sure you will find you are
losing money If you are not shipping ns. -Your
express agent can tell 70a the express or baggage
rate on can of cream from your town to nearest
creamery. ; . - " ;. .. . -
SHIPPINtt CANS We will furnish cans free tor
thirty day s. will sell them to you at cost
CAROLINA CREAMERY COMPANY
' HICKQRY-HEVILLE-GREENSBORO, N C . ;
E200E SOME - CDEWEG 'TOBACCO
Juicy and "sweeter than chicken? " That mellow flavor v
you want; If your dealer does not sell RXOON S1IIND - .
ask him ta get it -for youJ Manufactured by; - i ; V-
Not in the Trust WINSTONSALEM', N. C
LUs pd Quick frem Uichmoad"
RUBBER ROOFING:
Direct to" uiser only one small profit added
to factory cost. Spotless Rubber Koollnj first
quality, not seconds nor mm ends 108 square
feet to roll, with nails and cement 1-dItv 85
lbs. 83c: 2-ply, 45 lbs. 11.15; 3-ply. 55 lbs, $U3
per roll - Free samples and Catalog. -
THE SPOTLESS C0,Tae South'sMallOrderCoust
J75Shockoelane. WCK'.OM), VA.
I ffMnU - I
J flicn ivrttlngjo advertisers say i "I am writing you as
pd advertiser in The Progressive Farmer, which guarantees
ir.c rc::-l:hty of all the advertising it carries' .S::.
If Farmers Are to Make Profits Busi
ness Men Make, They Must Adve- very -successfully conducted in thi5
n. Use a Business ; Meni -DoAndi county last year: and were productive
Farmers Can Cooperate in'-AdVer-1 of ; much good. Realizihg the im por
: tising a$ Well aa and with a
TN 'DISCUSSING ' the '-commercial? Ito greasing interest in this too
1 fertilizer1 situati6n in your"-Local . much neglected branch;of study the
Unions, with a .view to cooperative ;
purchases, wouldn't it be a good time 6V7 7" 1tuiyn
P fn trv ,n,it. cnmP sPeller f the county. "Each school
experiments " with wafs f.sked Jo hold' a -contest for the
, Japan clover veK " seIectl.n of . two contestants to the
vet beans - soy township contest, and in like manner
beans, etc., as fer- :hi township-spelling bee was to.se
7 1 i l i z i n g crops ? . Uc two champions . - to the county
Now is the time .-contest.' Contests were held m each
" to buy seeds" at" the "townships,, -and in most of
' best prWandby;esVth!.occasio a
-cooperating in the dW or. the cause of education. The
purchase you:can of; the community took a day
ci off. earned dinner out to the place
sion in price, for large quantities. 'of meeting, spears-mostly local--
t OTr,vere secured, and the entire day was
phasize the importance of using bus- 'gve? ovter t0 the ask f. stimulatinS
iness methods in both buying and; iW"wul IU
seDing., In the eastern. part of the ; .
state members of the Farmers Un- If you have" never undertaken a
ion have soy beans for sale. In oth- movement 4ike this you will be de-
er sections farmers do not raise their, lighted at the results..; ine renewed
seed soy beans and are in the mar-- interest in the subject of spelling, the
ket for them. ' - increased interest of the patrons in
'the school work, and the impetus
The most practical and economical give the cause, in many ways will
way of bringing buyer, and seller, to- ' amPT repay you jor the extra work
gether is to adopt.modern methods of ?ntai.-ed - V '.".
giving your business publicity in the . Why not see the other teachers of
advertising column-'of publications your township and endeavor to inter
that" reach - prospective buyers;, A est them in this matter? A success
small advertisement 'placed tin- the ful township spelling, bee may be con
classified, advertising columns of ducted "whether -a county contest is
agriculturar papers -is the best way held or not. - C C. W.
for a Local Union to find purchasers - - ' '.,
if the product is to be consumed by A Graduated Land Tax Needed
other ..tanners. - . , , , ,
, Our-members living in .the moun- 'A3? alle alCre ftS
tain section. could profitably adopt A that have been introduced in Con
the same method of getting in touch gre.ss,; thei plan, to;; help the landUss
with rfarmers in other sections who toget land seems to be consp c-,
would ; buy apples. Last "fall I had V0"? lackln-?here ca b n J I
frequent, inquiries from memberV of SIying ruraiine except
Local Unions, in the middle and east- homerowning .population. Any sys-
ern section of the. state as to where tem.of tural credits that does not,
they could buy apples , direct from through; government am, pruv
growers, and' yet no" advertismelits l for thrifty tenants to acquire
appeared from any LocaPUnion in ds jnder;Jong-time contract , say
the mountain section that had apples 10 years ai l wflc; re
or salet, The secretary of a Local Un- .csvwiut noprpcuv
ion can place an advertisement of the ao . kr r. -
things all the. members have for sale vare made, wiUbet inadequate.
at practically the same price it would - : Absentee" landlordisni anil-tenantry
cost a single member to advertise., are already "undermining our rural
.This cooperative advertising is civilizationProyiding Jiqtiid capiw
money-saving proposition.- . . tor; the man who already na&.
a V:':v X -;-; :y i ic capital in form of land assets,. mercjr.
'ArfrtUin ; to enable him tol make more farm
er' economical way of reaching city products; 4S a . salve .treatment and f
corisumers.;:,By usinV the advertising -;
columns1 of city dailies a few Local he disease. Something must Decion
Unions in my county' have establish- tr. -the- tenant; farmer and tor jn
cd, a: parcel. post butter trade which oor young, mau ui . B -----
bkyear-amountetortenhdusand -I
pounds-and this quantity wilt prob-" ever;. become homeowners, and u
abirbe increased 100 per cent in this uie .to t
year's :shipmentsv 7 not providelGovef nment ,aid, to tnc
. The same method can. be used for l value of the lands purchased, in
selling ; eggs,- sausage, early Vegeta'd
bles,'etc. Jhc secret of establishing this problem for it can :be. nanu
direct trade: - relationship between through, no other ; agency. '
producer and " consumer :fs Jtt?usfngy'Tv. Closely rassociated with this absent
advertising column? of papers: that . tee landlord and tenant 'menace is
reach the, prospective buyers,' - and larid-hog and his ."holdings. ThrJ.
just an occasional advertisement wilt; no way ;to reach ' these specuiati
usually be "sufficient to bring the de " paras it es 'except - through, drastic leg
sired' results Jf. the publication used;-islation, b
has a. large' Circulation and reaches 'Large land-holdings-should be tax
the class you want to reach; - ? 'at an increasing ratio so . tbat it. w
D6nrt forget 'that it matters not- make it unprofitabre -to. continue