Thursday, October 24
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1307.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
How the Lien Law Affects Labor.
(Continued from Page 13.)
duce the negro to produce a greater
quantity of crop, but rather I think
the tendency is to plant less, enter
. taining an idea that the merchant
will take the crop in the fall as sat
isfactory payment for supplies fur
nished in the spring and summer,
knowing that he can live during these
seasons from the supplies, and in
the fall the railroads and lumber
business will furnish work sufficient
to winter himself on, excepting what
with the lean sheep-hound and gun
he can get in the way of rabbits,
squirrels, and opossums.
Laborer and Farmer Both Losers.
The crop lien protects the negro
in virtually loafing from one to three
days during every week in the year,
while if it were not for his obtain
ing supplies in this fashion it would
be necessary to work these one to
three days in the crop of his land
lord, receiving his pay every day at
sundown, and thereby benefiting
himself and the farmer. But the
crop lien permits him to loaf, and
he and the farmer are the losers.
There is the merchant's 'result of
the . plan. If he collects his bills
he is the great gainer of the three
that are' affected by it; for he gen
erally sells to the crop lien purchaser
at an enormous profit, knowing very
well that the purchaser is almost
compelled to buy his goods. Some
times he fails to collect his dues, but
what remains unpaid for 1906 is
generally secure in the lien for 1907.
This loafing, superfluous labor is a
sore on the prosperity of the country.
The crop lien generates indolence,
procrastination, and borrowing, and
the many other effects of laziness.
I have endeavored to show that the
negro could live just as safely with-
out the lien as with it, and the
farmer could be benefited by his la
bor, and in the fall he could pocket
his crop's worth instead of its being
handed to the merchant. And what
applies to the negro in regard to
the crop lien, applies equally as Well
to the white man.
Tax Dogs and Shorten Hunting
- Season.
In regard to a tax upon dogs.
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thousands of farmers
are waking up to the fact that
there's money in saving waste.
Don't throw away any under
sized or overripe fruits or veget
ables, windfalls or culls. CAN
THEM!
Put in a little canning plant of
your own.
Put up fruits and vegetables for
your own market, for the city
market, for your neighbors and
for. stores in adjacent towns.
You can sell at high prices-
work is easy machine simple-
costs little put up in no time a
child can run it.
We supply everything you need
cans, labels, crates and adver
tising matter with your name
printed on it.
Save the waste and turn it into
wealth. We tell you how to sell
the oods.
Booklets giving complete expla
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turn mail, free. Write quicks
un .aTHE M0DER CANNER 4 HEATING CO.
JH9 Pittsburu St. Bridgeport, Al
The better class of the country peo
ple desire it earnestly. A" tax would
mean fewer dogs, and fewer dogs
would be an inducement to give
greater efforts towards sheep-raising,
would mean less time thrown away
in hunting, and instead of so many
dogs being fed more nogs could be
raised, and the ' money raised
through the levying of this tax could
easily build a high school building
in every county in the State in two
or three years. . -
Could not the hunting season be
shortened? Would not the two
months of December and January be
sufficient for any one to hunt? And
if the millionaire sportsmen ; desire
a longer season let them pay for a
special license permitting them to
hunt longer, and let this money be
devoted to educational purposes.
The price that land rents for
should be increased; everything has
increased in greater proportion than
rent;, the wages of the farm laborer
have doubled, while the rent is
nearly the same it was ten years
ago. H. C. COLEMAN.:
Warren Co., N. C.
Organize and Stick to It.
Messrs Editors: It has been talk
ed for the last few weeks, "Hold
cotton, hold cotton!" But a great
many are racing to sell before the
price goes down. Why not demand
12 cents? Accuracy and firmness
are the foundation of business. Now
let every one do what he says he'll
do and be a man. I will have to
sell my cotton if all the rest do. Or
ganize and stick. D P.
Edgecombe Co., N. C.
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