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L . Saturday, September teresting and "encouraging :; I' bave another in caseof -sickness or dis-t ment calling for one-third down and , time to hold cotton. I think t!y heard It was. shown -how tbe5buij- tress. How many of - these things is ; balance ta one and two years, Also have been injured often by advice; to ness enterprises bad been-started on jour Local doing? f f . ;vrthe one to' five -ear: renewals are hold when the logic of the sitcatica a small scale and worked : np.that . :'- ."..," ' :p ::' henceforth tabooed.' ' .did, not call for -higher; prices but; our members are learning to live and Xfcree importint AdTJaiCC5 in the - W While the Government is go-: -when the mills are making money and prow through team work, ft to. . , -. ... ; ni rTtAU Am r ing to do precious little, still it com- when the crop is known tobe smaller : Ly to see from the reports of Ar- ivurai LJeuns aci , ;mits itself to some measure of re- than the consumption .of the year, kansas succew.h no excuse for. a decline." : : tioe lav. We had tried to. begin at... V its enterprising public soirit in will doubtless be more fully aoore- ' ' ::" xu too. to start big, and we naturally going after one of the Federal Land dated and assumed as new needs sometimes wsi wu; ww, t panics .is to oe commenced. in my Now we are - Banks is to be commended. starting at the bottom, our growth is opinion it will prove a more helpful rraflual but sure, anu wc -dfc urcic w institution man tne -Federal reserve stay, arise. W. . JJUArv. Clifton Station, Va. ' v C. S. -BARRETT. WHAT OUR LOCAL IS DOING Hold Cotton, Says David It.Cokcr MR. DAVID R. Coker, the famous South Carolina cotton planter Bank. Whatever section most fully appreciates and appropriates its ad vantages will be developed in a way: quite beyond our present range of M'dway Member Help One "Another .vision or belief. The . trimming of and breeder, writes Mr. E. W. Dabbs Sickness,' Buy v' Machinery 7Tb-: r Wall Street, even :. the -: least bit, byj as follows . concerning the cotton sit J Pool Cottonseed lina the Federal Reserve system, was a nation: Tobacco Sales ' -.. VfirX desirable matter and will help. "Every mill is making good profits bushels or 1,200 pounds there will be: Plant Food fa Twenty Busidj d ; A READER asks : -"How much fer tility will 20 bushels of cornfield peas plowed under add to ah acre of land?-. . - According to Henry, in 100 pounds i of cowpeas there are 3.8 pounds of, nitrogen, 1 'pound of phosphoric, acid, and 1.5 pounds of potash, and in 20 Qtnail hncinpcc pvptMrurhrA' i i nti. 1 n!teii nn IS pnto rnttnn hro ic nn: jrr f.ix 11 J- AM a member oi Midway Local raj way, thoueh no marked results excuse for the recent decline except ww ' and 1R tvMmrU of T . 'MM . I Mn 2648. This local is m a com niunity of one-horse, small home owning farmers ; and The -Progressive Farmer goes to every one of our members. We have jointly bought a '"What's wrong' -wld " It?" ' aiikefi Casaldy, who had hold of it with Casey. rpon't yon know," Teplled the stevedore, "that some of that same powder exploded last month an' Wowed up ten men?" -"Sure that couldn't happen now." replied Cassidy, "far there's only two V i here." Boston Transcript. Editorial Commeni: This letter is awarded second prlieflollars-; in. our contest for the. best letters on How Our Ica1--&K9Helpid; Its' Members and the C6mAnhj The nrst prize was awarded: for one big single important? SdeacoSperative cottbn ginningreported from an Arkansas Local tJnion. This prize to viuiner layior on the otKer band, is awarded for a varietv M k awarded because the membersliip of nis Local seems to be doing thor oughgoing, general, "all-round work. iftey are buying cooperatively. They selling cooperatively, notably jneir tobacco and cotton eed. They are buvinp- and machineryCcooperatively. They v juming together in the , use Z theJr teams. They are buying im- X vestocl on cooperative Plan. ThpV fa M.tf.i.; -x.-f- a. ra.uu warehouse by cooperative sell- IS THERE ANYTHING THE MATTER WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? will be seen. Un the other hand, that cotton is ottered taster than there ofi rfiliTinw niiiv?i1nf when any considerable ; number of are buyers for it. This decline may go 0f about 700 pounds of cottonseed these farm loan associations are. or- further possibly one or two cents meal, 100; pounds of acid phosphate ; ganized under the- Land Bank Act if the farmers do not hold back some. " and ISO pounds of kainit. . " : and the whole country fully and ad- I should not be surprised to see cot- However.' the, price of cowpeas for cane mm, with sxaiit- cuuer auu vtuci vantageously financed, we shall see a r ton considerably over 15 cents next seed js .usually too high to justify things we used. If one needs an ex-: new face on farm w spring, but that will be too late to their use as a fertilizer, "and until tra mule to put with his Io a do double While . the law is not all we had benefit the cropper and small farmer they get a great deal cheaper we team work, just toot the bugle, and k0ped for, it concedes several points unless he arranges to hold his crop, would not recommend them.' he can get him before breakfast. which are notable advances: With the present organizations state We buy our fertilisers at wholesale (i) The mere mattBr of legislation or other bonded warehouses, banks u etevedore they were factory prices, and tor. the beneht ot on a iand .bank establishes the right which will readily loan at reasonable -: loading explosives for the allies, "handle that those wno care w yy mc man, wc nf farm land to rnsidprHnn Tiiflnr- rnpxs rm rnttnn. tli ft Federal Reserve careraiiy.- give a joint note and those fellows t0 religiously ignore . Banks standing ready to discount cot don't even know they ale buying on (2) It will put long-time amortiza- ton paper at 3lA per cent for banks time there is such a saving nvit. tion tables into eirculation and for- there is no excuse for the market to We meet on Saturday, nights ; and cver condemn the false theory ob- be demoralized by over receipts. I do make out the order for such things taining among local lenders that pay- not believe in advising farmers all the as we will nave to ouy soon ina; one member will go to the wholesale bouse for the load and pay cash for iL The next time another member goes, and so on. ' - We are using an improved" male hog the very best we could get for community. This means a whole lot for the future of the hog Industry-- - We, all of us, sell our tobacco at the same " warehottsei''.;e-Tames, Union bought stock in the warehouse and we are paying for same with our patronage. We made 25 per cent last season. We had just a small pool of cotton seed last fall, but received 2,200 pounds of cottonseed meal to the-ton for them. S:'t:r::--:J-One other thing now. Midway Xo cal is a brotherhood. If a member gets in distress be gets belp. . This summer my wife was sick and my cotton looked like it had about sur rendered. I couldn't touch it or rbire it done, but right soon one morning .1 saw more horses m my cotton patch than I had ever seen before and, the job just . lasted till 9 odock that morning, when it was all done. The poor and little fellow is the one who needs help, and by buying jointly as we do, the one who Tvants ust one bag of "fertilizer br one pound of sugar buys it iust as cheap Jy as the independent fellow ! who Duys m carload lots, and bv the wholesale. There is work in this wav of doing business, but we get a big f-yor.it. J, C TAYLOR. Nashville, N. 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