The Labor Problem In tho Carolinao.T. K. Bruncr and J. A. Hoyt.
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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolina, Virginia, Ten nessee and Georgia.
Vol. XXII; No. 18.
RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 13, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Tear.
THIS WEEK'S PAPER SOME
RANDOM COMMENTS.
Look at the array of good things
we have this week in the line oi
farm economics, or the business side
- of farming. We've had some of this
kind all along and expect to keep on
having some more, but those we have
this week are as fully worthy as any
of the others of being attended to.
Those which happen to be on a new
topic you will, of course, read; if
vou should run across a heading that
sounds familiar to you somehow, let
us enjoin upon you to read the ar
ticle under it sure, for it has some
thing worth while presented ;in a
new way. Perhaps you may find a
familiar subject with a nevf' heading.
If so, good for heading!
Take, for instance, Mr. French's
article on the Bondage of the South
ern Cow and how to throw off the
shackles. We will not 'tell you iiere
precisely what it is about, but you
read it; it is a new and strong pre
sentation of a subject that has been
mentioned frequently in the last four
or five years, but cannot receive too
much attention until there is no!
longer any need to attend to, it at
all. And Mr. French's interest :in
' the matter, remember, is no exact
ly the same as ours, since his cows
are not under the bondage he dis-
cusses. : ' "
The Labor Problem in North Car-
olina is a heading, now, that has
more or less of a familiar ring to it
But when it is presented by Secre
tary Bruner, of the State Board of
Agriculture, we see it in its broadest
and latest aspects Whether we wel
come such a condition or not the la
bor situation demands,-as Mr. Brun
er says, a new standard of wages.
Higher wages will attract more Intel
ligent laborers.who will produce more
and waste less and will therefore be
worth more. The whole problem as
it affects North Carolina is interest
ingly presented by Mr. Bruner and
the labor conditions in this State
are not radically different from those
in other States of The Progressive
Farmer's territory.
In this connection it will be well
to note Mr. Hoyt's article ; in which
he cites another South Carolina law
that goes out of commission along
with the contract labor law annulled
by Judge Brawley. This is the law
. which punished tenants . who agree
to work farms and then desert tein
And there are some cotton econo
mies we need to learn. Two of
them are presented this week. One
- deals with cottonseed, one with the
staple; and one on the exploiture of
cottonseed products will appear next
week.
(1) Send to the oil mill the seed
you do not need for planting. The
oil that could be made every year
from the wholev cottonseed which the
farmer feeds to his stock or applies
direct to his land as fertilizer would
fill . a seven-inch pipe 6,818 miles
long, and sell for $18,000,000. And
the seed in their by-products would
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" A Modern Hay-Making ; Scene,
a the ramifications of Southern agriculture, one finds nothing more discreditable than the
fact that so many thousands of Southern farmers are now working ten hours a day to kill Southern-
grown grass, while the stock they work with are Jed on Western-grown grass bought at $20 to $28 a
wn j - low a ana ivorii Carolina are me same size ana luwa $ nay crujs w ivur in unty ,iu per u,t,r& ,
wnue the average value per acre or worm Carolina nay is piz.ou. yei lutva jarmers vui jjojs
acres to hay each year, while North Carolines acreage is only 1 25, 63 j South Carolina growing only
59452 acres ' of hay, Georgia 88,034, Tennessee 539,446, while even Virginia's 440,467 v looks small
compared zmth Iowa s 3,000,000. Jbvery jarm shoutd have at least a piece oj oottom-ianaset apart
tor ?neadow, while not even this years high prices for cowpeas need deter the farmer jrom planting a
large acreage if he follows the money-saving plan suggested by Dr. Crawford on page 11 of this
week's paper. : j !
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
Another Labor Law Out of Commission, J. A. Hoyt . .........
Books for the Farm Home Library, Mrs. Walter Grimes.
Bondage of Southern Cow and How to Break It, A. L. French. .
Cities Guarding Their Milk Supply . .... . . .... . . . . ......
Cheapest Way to Grow Peavine Hay, Dr. W..B. Crawford.
Farming Outlook in Virginia . . .................. . .
How to Raise Pekin Ducks, Uncle Jo ................ .
How Blood and Training Wron the English Derby
Labor Problem in North Carolina, T. K. Bruner . .
Place of Young Wife and Mother on the Farm .........
Two Money-Laden Cotton Economies ................
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still be about as valuable as ever
for feed or fertilizer.
(2) Why should the South pay a
high price for wooden flour barrel?
when it would increase the demand
for cotton if the flour were packed
in the cheaper covering of cotton
sacks? These problems are dis
cussed on page 2 in greater detail.
But the purely commercial side of
farming is not all that we touch this
week. The interesting farming out
look reports from Virginia are on
page 4. Uncle Jo tells how to raise
Pekin Ducks, and there is a good
health talk for the young wife and
mother on the farm both of these
on page 14. -
Mrs. Grimes's article on Books for
the Farm Home Library is worth
filing away for continual reference
unless yOu will get the entire list
of books now. i 4"
And the subject of hay the third
crop in value of all that we raised in
this great country of ours- you will
find touched upon in Dr. Crawford's
suggestive article on page 11 and,
we do not need to say, right here up
on this first page also. I
"Methods of Eradicating Cattle
Tick" is the title of Bulletin 130, re
cently issued by the South Carolina
Experiment Station. Dr. Lewis A.
Klein is the author. It is a valuable
contribution to the literature of the
subject. Applications for it should
be made to the station at ' Clemson
College, S. C.
Notice to Rural Carriers.
There is a great work to be done
between now and the third of July.
Your i Secretary is overwhelmed with
work! more than he ought to have.
Now just a word to the Secretaries
for! County Associations:
You can greatly aid me in this
work! if you will kindly send in your
report, giving correct list of members
and 'officers elected for the ensuing
year and also names of delegates
to j tlie State Convention, which con
vened July 3d and 4th. The reports
should have all been on hand ere
thisso that I could complete my re
pof t As we have no active Presi
ded jthe work of planning for State
meeting rests considerably on me. It
is jvery necessary that these reports
come in so that I can mail delegates
their credentials which entitles them
to a jYote in the Convention.
The program will be published as
early as possible. There will be
some j important subjects for discus
sion! with some able addresses. A
representative of the Postofflce De
partment has been asked for and we
are looking for a profitable meeting.
I v J. McD. BALLARD, Sec.
Newton, N. C.
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