T082 (10) THE PROGRESSIVE iie property v m I n -TTT!!??-' h Yii2-rtU i y v' ,we 'believe : if is;.-sourid. mprals'and ..statesmanship ;-vWay : to'home-owricrShip. a; year aeo w - -V'. . - Y - w -w - - . . ... - l , . f . . ' .- r. . ..- y, i,aiir i h - r -If-f with tne absentee landowner. ; - - utt Ux - tv v "c eveu c 51 : ii .-1 T! 1 i I rfi i,;y mi it I 15 ll It h. 3? Mr a; I!; "S '1 I r i M T THE meeting of the Farmers' Convention J nera 8W : jSfti?Mi5iiM . Aiaissi n&ttiiFm rl Inst week we took-soecial oains to inquire as ' K'V garaen.- .,; : -.'. x ' w. . , -. . . -v a rMnTinn rnp ruin mi l i ii i i iii iiailji lji j. ljuili v rw-wv-wx-" J. . ' --..W7.. HT Mwmm. . AV AVB III I lir I llllllll Hill III LliV. W 1. b W . W WW w w . - J " .- s-1 icn can ieu7 mans iarranucuM"v , ., -, out the reports already made as to tne low condi tion of the crop. The same, thing is true as to the reports we get from South Carolina. In a private" letter just received from Mr. E. W, Dabbs, ex-j President of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, he says: "Every week it has Seen so I could see . from twenty to eighty miles of the cotton crop, and there is not one redeeming feature, but rather we are g0. The Progressive Farmer Company - (Incorporated under the laws of North Carolina.) 119 W. Hargett St., Raleigh, N. C. CLARENCE POE. TATT BUTLER, E L. MOSS, . V . President and Editor Vice-President and Editor vt Managing Editor ' Contributing Editor 4. Cows, x - - 5. Horses. '."" . Tools and; Machinery, 7, Land. ' ;: V : :'ypur,firsf great home so as tn kppri nut "fimo:, . W. F. MASEY, v , - Contributing Editor and there is not one redeeming teature,' out ratner-. - ' T ana crop. JOHN S. PEARSON, . . . , Secretary-Treasurer it becomes more and more disappointing as. to : lien slavery; and the first four items mentioned j. a. AiAui in, . . . . , .: , Aaverusms mauiMtw yield ..We picked yesterday J.u pounas 01 seea wiiiive you yourytreedom in "this-respect v. u. wvx cotton irom twenty-two acres 01 our uesi truy, , should be your first concern Thpn ana we. nave nan. l weuiy uuics wuum nays utw. ar normal crop." - THE South Carolina Plant Breeders' Association held an interesting meeting at Hartsville last week and a report will appear in our next issue. Every state should have such an organization. . SAMPSON County won the silver cup offered as prize for the best attendance at the. Farmers' Convention and Edgecombe the cup for the largest' attendance of farm women. Stanly county, send ing 123 youngsters to the corn club meeting, took that prize. . v,i . ; and bank vnnr money till you can buy your horses, tools ana ma chinery, and then you are ready to buy land with a good chance to pay out. Alljexperience is useful to the man of sense, and the experience " of renting may be exactly what . - " v you need. You can study and learn improved na iNortn Carolina ranners vonveniion mm 7- e n.v. juuiscu sucn a The North Carolina Farmers' and Farm Women's Conventions I Farm Women's "Convention in Raleigh last -good farmer that you can't help but win when you ' week broke all records for attendance and go onajarm of your own. -On the other hand, if enthusiasm. Not only-were superb addresses de- .yu naa D9usm or inneritea land without having - . . , .. ? i .1 1. . . i. a 1- it. 1 J ii . fiarl till ft., nrp virtue vnp"r?no' in m1-!M TS A55TT.Y twir. wKaiit' was last vear." h the ffen." uve"Q,- oui tne exmuus aiiuuiuuiuauuuvwcrc -7 . -Tr -vmg, " as useful as the speeches. ' ' ana studying; you might have lost the place and President Roger A. Derby, who is one of North walked the; down-road from home-ownership to Carolina's foremost rural leaders, is succeeded for v renting instead of the up-road from renting to next year by Mr. "J. P. Lucas, of Mecklenburg . home-ownership. - County, the Vice-Presidents being Messrs A. J. Let whiskey alone. Let traveling agents alone. Moye, of Pitt County, and C C. Wright, J of Keep . an all-the-year-round garden, with pigs, VV nrintin, n M M ,Mffc arti Wilkes, and the new Secretary, Mr. A. K. Robert- wckcus u tuwb, ana so iet time prices alone. changes as are needed to. suit your conditions, son, of West Raleigh. The Farm Women's Con- Then resolve to make yourself a good farmer by dpes not concern us. But one thing we do wish to vention elected Mrs. Charles McKimmon President ' reading: farm papers, consulting the demonstration and Miss Mabel Howell Secretary. ; - &nt often, t and get yourself noted as the best The resolutions adoptedcrowded out of this renter in your neighborhood. And when you have issue by articles on the tenant question-outline a - done these s!mPle thinSs yu wiu not be ve,7 far well considered program of education in agricul- from the kingdom of home-ownership, ture and home-making as the supreme. need of the , T " state, and urge farmers everywhere to take advan- Let Our Cotton Farmers Comer the Market tage of five important new opportunities now of-? :-X t-l'-.'y1 : ;' ' - fered them. . , ' These five, new opportunities are. for forming credit unions, getting the. county cotton grading service, forming National farm loan associations, - Li eral reoort we eret as to tobacco prices. And cotton' is also going to most satisfactory figures. It's a great year for Mr. Renter to put some mon ey in theSjank and make a start toward home ownership. '..''. . . , .,. . . , 17"HETHER or not you use the rental contract insist on, and that is that you have a written con tract. That is far better both for landowner and renter. . !-'. ;;:.:;:' THE North Carolina A. & M. College opens this . week, and as we go to press the prospects are for the biggest enrollment the College has ever had. Teachers all over the: state should also take notice that the A. & M. . will have a sum mer school next year offering all the usual summer school courses and giving in addition especial at tention to agricultural and country-life features. ; 0 UR readers know how valiantly The Progres sive Farmer has fought in every battle to compel a' fair; price for cotton. We are not so much concerned ordinarily about forcing prices organizing, community leagues, and forming couiity away up beyond fourteen or 'fifteen cents because boards of agriculture. - r OUR tobacco farmers have been letting Congress hear from them as to the British embargo on tobacco shipments to Germany and Austria, and have evidently made an impression. A bill has , , - passed both houses providing that clearance papers Accumulating Personal Property the Rent ma' be denied any ship; "refusing to take Arrieri-, , r f 1 v can merchandise on other grounds than lack of. ; er S Way UUt space. ' utner legislation intended to relieve tne situation is also in progress. - : IF YOU are either a tenant or a landlord you should request the United States Department of Agriculture to send you the' following bulletins re lating to the subject of tenantry: - . : ; " , No. 280 A Successful Tenant Dairy Farm. No. 472 A Successful New Jersey Tenant Farm. - No. 437 A System of Tenant Farming and Its : Results. ' : "v- ,' -.:v No. 299 The Tenant Credit System: vlta'InjuN ious Effects. ' : ' 'r''Ji- 0 N PAGE 1 we have offered some suggestions to piir landowners; and on the next page we are discussing the" legislation needed to rem . edy the worst phases of our tenant problem Here on this page we. wish to say a few things to our friends who are renters. 1 1. Think" of tenancy as an apprenticeship for home-ownership Only a small minority of young menjn towns either own their homes' or have any of our fear that this will mean a quick collapse the next year to the. one-crop system, crop liens, over-production and low prices. . Here, however, is the situation as we now see it : The "crop is short, alarmingly short, and before another c;op comes in there is going to be a virtual cotton famine, forcing" prices perhaps beyond any figures yet reached. And if anybody's going to corner the market and; force prices sky-high, we want farmers and not speculators to do the corner ing and rake in the money.. . Two years ago. we .had to sell a crop at five or six cents a pound too little. Now if we can get five or six cents a pound too much, it's only a fair share in' the businesses that employ them until ' ft! : . . orices.--We aeain1 commend the slogan "DEATURE articles, in next week's Progressive - The majority of vthose-who. attain such independ i Farmer will be "A Success Talk for Boys'' by . ence first work for wages1 for a number of years. Herbert Quick , member of the new Federal Farm But they' pu their Savings in the bank; they prob Loan Board; "Weeds, Their Control or Destruc- . - . . , ' 9 ?" tion," by Dr. Butler; "Every - Farmer Future home, on the .gradual-payment, build- Largely Depends on His Own Efforts," the cbnclud- ing-and-loan plan ; and; slowly but surely and ing article an tne ij5UU More.a Year" series, by - steadily they work their way toward, business in evenine uo. vi here seems to us tnereioic u l . sion for rushing cotton to market, even at present prices.-' we again; commenu itic stua, idlv. sell slowlv. na know vbur grades." If .'any-. body is to Vorner -theimarket; let' the farmers do the cornering.. At the same time let every farmer ar range nowtf or record-breaking acreages in clover, vetch, oats, wheat and rye, for feedstufTs are high and if cotton goes much higher, nothing can pre- ::"if';-'.:z-':zTi var. And , vent ;a , rctoru-urcaKuigj aticaKv- j " Prpfessor .Massey; andFirst Aid to the Injured,",, dependence. 'Similarly we woufd haVe every capa- auu, uun. xii auuiUUil, WE CAUCtL, IU rUU a. 1. 1 - ,1 : . - . . - . - ., . - number of articles and letters on the landlord ami 0 Twn8 tnmicot home-owner- . y-,; ;. m;s.cotto.i:razy, the wise In addition, we expect , to run a tenant problem that were unavoidably crowded - shlp and landrownership as an ideal to strive to- out oi mis issue. ; . . wara, put realize at. the same timethat business independence and home - ownership cannot come man prepares to live at home 'Be wise in time. lAHILE insisting .'on the advantages of home- much, more ..quickly to the. farm worker than the ownership, we realize, of course, that some- town worker. Think of tenancy as an apprentice- iuui musi uc iciiitiiis ueiore xnev Decome nome- u: .. T 4 owners and that other will k! rS" ship for home-ownership. If you are 25 or under, their lives. There therefore for the A Thought for the Week Dther men will be renters all . - v- - u c ur uuuer, is always going to be a place aim at home-ownership by the -time you are. 35. progressive, wide-awake land- yu aie already too old to realize this ambition, A v lord-farmer, living on his farm and looking after - plan for home-ownership ten years from , vjvi v a Li v 11 ui ma . Mm, xne weiiare. oi nis now.- tenants, an and country 7 T I : i :ST" WC1 aul 1 hl! ' 2- Accumulating personal property' is the rent- d the betterment of his; neighborhood , UWA1i T - ; ; ' f . V-; v. And such a man de, nil 1, erJ owtJust as the town workingman finds It is the absentee landlorjd letting soil- fertility -the, sayings banlt and the building and loan ' asso? ;waste, ignorant of the condition of his tenants, ciation his surest route to independence? so the " lu Progress ot tne community- average tenant will find the accumulation of -per- ;, PROSPERdUS;- intelligent, and contented wrrai population is essenuai.-i-v .rnprnAfiiJtv- . TlnP world's" experience nas n. shown that thebest way to secure this is to c ' :Vl 11 ftrAv' lands into sman farms, each owned and operated by one tamiiy Dr. Seaman A. Knapp. " v . . . . . ' ' A-f . hut vfVien ' Jesus didrun around with a very common sri!"v were He left them they were not quite o' common . re. before He met. them, and that la the acid test oi y . llglon.-Bllly Sunday-. '