Thursday,-September 26, 1907.
THE PROGRESSIVE" FARMER.
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GOVERNMENT WHITEWASH.
Recipe for a Fine Standard White
wash for Use on the Farm
Premises.
About every year we have publish
ed the recipe for what is known as
Government whitewash, or the white
wash recommended by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
For the benefit of our readers who
wish to use whitewash freely and
they cannot use it too freely- about
their barns, stables, and hog-pens, as
well as their houses and fences, we
publish it again, as follows:
"Slake half a bushel of lime in boil
ing water, covering to keep in the
steam: Strain the liquid, and add a
peck of salt previously dissolved in
warm water, three pounds ground
rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred
in while hot, one-half pound Spanish
whiting, and 1 pound clean glue dis
solved by soaking in cold water and
then hung over a slow fire in a glue
pot. To this mixture add five gal
lons of hot water, stir well and let
stand for several days covered from
dust. It is better applied hot."
The quantity of water necessary to
slake a half bushel of lime will vary
with the strength of the lime. It is
a good rule to use about five times
the amount of water, in bulk, as
lime; and then after the " lime is
slaked, add water, if necessary, to se
cure the proper consistency for white
wash. The mixture given above
should make about seven gallons; if
it does not make quite so much, hot
water may be added till the quantity
of seven gallons is reached.
To give the whitewash some other
color than white, add the color de
sired instead of the Spanish whiting.
The Implement Situation.
We are requested by manufactur
ers of farm machinery to print the
following explanation of advancing
prices:
Dealers in agricultural implements,
wagons, manure spreaders and other
kindred lines will soon be called upon
to inform their customers of an ad
vance in price. In fact, many manu
facturers have already made an ad
vance and the consumer may as well
prepare for it, for it is inevitable.
Implement manufacturers ; have
purchased for their work over 100,
000 tons of iron and steel bars and
shapes. The price paid for next year's
deliveries is about 1ft-per cent higher
than the contracts that were made a
year ago. Pig iron, cold rolled shaft
ing, bolts,' nuts, washers, screws, and
in fact, almost every item going into
the manufacture of the implement
line have advanced from 10 to 15
per cent for 1908 deliveries. Lum-
have advanced steadily in price for
the past few years. The average ad
vance for 1908 over 1907 will not
be far from $10 per thousand feet.
Wagon rims and spokes have ad
vanced for 1908 from 10 to 20 per
cent.' -
Manufacturers in general feel that
they are entitled to better prices; in
fact, it is impossible for the manu
facturers to continue selling their
product at anything like the present
prices. Implements have not kept
pace with the advance in raw ma
terials. The high prices of raw ma
terial and the low prices that imple
ments have been sold for have put
the manufacturer where he has not
enjoyed any part of the general pros
perity of the country. The raw ma
terial man and the consumer have
reaped the full benefit.
The farmer has enjoyed the high
est figure he has ever secured for his
stock in trade. In these times of
prosperity when all of the farm pro
ducts are selling at high prices, it is
quite necessary that the farmer
should have up-to-date machinery so
he may reduce the cost of production
to a minimum and raise the largest
crops possible. The farmer who buys
an implement in the latter part of
1907 and during 1908 at an advance
of 10 to 15 per cent may rest assured
that the advance is legitimate.
There appears to be no prospect of
any slump in the market on raw
materials. The situation is rather
peculiar along this line. The great
production has made it necessary for
the manufacturer to buy his raw ma
terial from six months to a year in
advance, in order to have them at
the time they are required. There
fore, the manufacturer has been
obliged to place his orders for 1908
Consumption, and having bought it
has put the matter in position where
it looks as if the advance in price
must hold for at least eighteen
months, and when considering everything-it
is nothing but justice that
the farmer should pay. the slight ad
vance which he is asked to pay, as
the - prices of implements are only
slightly above the prices asked when
corn was selling from 25 to 30 cents
per bushel.
Cotton Bags for Flour.
The good suggestion comes from
several sources that Southern flour
manufacturers should pack their
flour in bags altogether. There are
several good reasons why this sug
gestion should be heeded and put
into practice. In the first place, bar
rels cost more than sacks, which
would cheapen the cost of flour some
to the consumers. And as many
farmers in the South do not raise
wheat, but buy flour, they would
realize quite an advantage in the re
duced cost, although it might be
small in each case. But the greatest
and most important reason why
Southern manufacturers should pack
flour in cotton bags, is the additional
demand, it would make for cotton.
The supply of wood with which to
make flour barrels is all the while
reducing and it would be economy to
substitute cotton bags for barrels;
and the use of the bags would great
ly increase the demand for cotton.
All this would work directly to the
interest of the farmers and we be
lieve the Southern Cotton Association
may render the Southern farmers a
great service by taking up the matter
and pushing it into practice. It
should appeal to Southern farmers
especially, as the larger the demand
for cotton the better will be the price.
And it should not raise any opposi
tion with those who furnish the tim
ber from which flour barrels are
made, for the demand for timber is
also increasing all the time. It is a
question of importance and should
be taken up at once. Scotland Neck
Commonwealth.
A Scotch Sentiment.
To illustrate the trials of those
who die rich, Andrew Carnegie told
at a dinner in New York a Scotch
story:
"George Gordon, a rich old, Scot,"
he said, "was taken seriously ill,
and decided that he had better draw
up his will at once.
"Accordingly, the testament was
then and there written out at his die
tation, read to him, and placed in
his lap for his signature.
"The old man took the pen, wrote
'Georee Gor- .' and then sank
back exhausted.
"The V heir hastily raised him
again.
" 'D, uncle, d,' he prompted.
" 'Dee?' growled the old man. Fll
dee when I'm ready ye avareecious
wretch!' "Charlotte News.
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Distributor, $8.50
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Gole Oat Sower and Guano
Many of the biggest and! best farmersjuse and endorse this Oat
Sower. It pays them and it will pay you. j Read this letter from one
of the foremost farmers in North Carolina?
Qiggsbek, N. C, July 26, 1907.
The Cole Manufacturing Co., Charlotte, N. Ci
Gentlemen In reply to yours of recent date as to how I am pleased with
your Oat Drill, bought of your agents W. L. London fe Son laBt fall, would say I
am more than pleased with it. I have been trying , to raise oats on our sand bills
for the laBt thirty j ears by sowing the old way (broadcast), also with one of the
Western Drills, and have made failure after failure until I had almost quit trying
to raise any oats at all. But seeing so much Bald In praise of your drill I concluded
to try one last fall. I have jnst thrashed mv oats and got eighty-three bushels,
weighing 36 lbs to the bus Lei, off of one and one-half acres J tee no reason why
farmers cannot raise all the oats thsy want by using your Drill, sowing in the open
furrow. Yours truly, . E. M. FEARRiNGTON.
Consider these points : The: Sower drills he oats and fertilizes
them at the same trip; it insures1 oats against winter killing-; it is safe
to sow oats any time in the fall or winter with the Open Fur
row Sower; you can sow oats in cotton or corn Without damage to the
crops; oats wiirstand dry spring- better and will yield more per acre.
The machine is a fine Guano Distributor for all purposes. It is cheap
and durable, only $8 SO. If your merchant does not have them send
us your order and will ship Freight Prepaid, pO.SO
Send your order or write for further information at once to
The Cole Mfg. Co., - - Charlotte, N. C.
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