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Farmers9 Organizations
SAVING MONEY IN FERTILIZER
PURCHASES
If Fanner. )VHI Come Together and
Arrange for Financing Themselves,
They Can Buy Many Supplies, at
Wholesale Prices
THE Chemical Alliance, composed of
the principal fertilizer manufac
turers and wholesalers, has passed a
ruling of supreme importance to
farmers. It gives
farmers the same
right as mer
chants in purchas
ing fertilizer in
carload lots at
wholesale prices.
This policy is in
accord with the
economic neces
sity of the times
to reduce the
costs of farming and to increase its
profits in order to encourage suffi
cient production to win the war. This
ruling, which was obtained from the
fertilizer companies by the Secre
tary of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, is as follows :
"We will in future charge the same
price in wholesale lots of not less
than thirty ton carloads, or such car
load unit as may be fixed by the Car
Service Section of the United States
Railroad Administration, of the same
PROF. CAMP
grade and quality, to individuals or
associations, for cash or bankable se
curity, as we do to merchants or
. dealers in the same locality or f., o. b.
ractory. y
According to this ruling farmers
will be able to buy their fertilizer at
wholesale prices the same as any
manufacturer does his supplies, pro
vided they; purchase in wholesale
quantities. This economic equality
in the purchase of one of the supplies
in crop production is one ofjhe nec
essary conditions which favors and
will force the organization of farm
ers in keeping with the general
movement toward organization of
the times. Europe, and particularly
Germany, is organized far beyond the
United States in cooperative pur
chase of supplies, cooperative credit,,
ancL. cooperative marketing. Only
through the organization of Ameri
can farmers can that efficiency be
achieved which is necessary for the
winning of the war.
If some of the farmers of a com
munity do not have the "cash " they
will need to make arrangements for
financing their purchasing in order
that all may avail themselves of this
offer. If they will organize a credit
union, as authorized by the North
Carolina state laws, they will be able
to borrow the necessary funds at 6
per cent with which to make fertiliz
er purchases.
Extension circulars, which explain
the plan of organizing and operating
credit unions, may be had upon appli
cation to the undersigned. Whenev
er desirable an organizer will go.
from Raleigh to hold meetings and
explain the advantages which credit
unions are bringing to the Communis
ties of .North Carolina. Through or-'ganrzatioriforco6perativepurchase
and for cooperative credit the farm
ers in any community should be able .
to' buy fertilizer at wholesale prices,' ,
obtain the discount on cash payment,
and avofd the .high rate of credit
which is usually charged when fertil
izer is bought on time. '
. If fertilizer and other farm supplies
were . bought for cash, it would mean'
an annual saving of nearly $5,000,000
to North Carolina, cotton farmers
alone, according to the estimates in
1914 of the bankers in the 54 leading
cotton-producing counties in the
state. The credit extended by supply
merchants for financing each cotton
crop annually has amounted to ap
proximately $29,150,000. The average;
time price, as estimated by the North
Carolina bankers in the investiga
tions of 1914, is 192 per cent above
cash prices. If these accounts .run six
months on an average,, the rate of
credit for the whole year would be
38.4 per cent. Until farmers free
themselves from such high cost for
credit they are not in a position to
produce maximum crops.
WM. R. CAMP,
Superintendent of Credit
Unions, West Raleigh, N: C "
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the progressive farm
NcighborhbodXooperation inCori
mamtr Fairs, Seed and
Fertilizer Purchases
gEMBERS' York Local Union, ift
'"Union County, are maki
rangements for . a communis TJ
next fall.. Each mlmbcr wiTcontrfb!
utc one collar for
Pes, and busi
ness men . in the1
- near-by town wilj
aso contribute
premiums either
in cash or mer
chandise. This is the Lo
cal Union that
made a nntahu
im. GREEN' group exhibit at
the county fair in 1916, and their com
munity fair next fall is an event
that is looked, forward to with inter
est by all the surrounding commun
ity. Community fairs not only de
velop a spirit of rivalry in better
farming but they tend to develop '
community consciousness and a more
active community spirit; It's a good
field for service by 'Local and county
Unions.
la Union County, and also in sev
eral other counties, there has been
close coooeration between thp "TamI
Unions and the demonstration agent,
and the tangible achievements of the
agent have been much greater than
would, have been possible. without thei
local organizations. Advocating a
more extensive use of limestone with
out a cooperative .organization to
distribute pooled' orders for limestone
could not have been followed by a
practical application of the lesson.
Likewise, the standardization of
crops and livestock would have re
mained theories if organized farmers
had not applied the principle of coop
eration in the purchase of seeds and
livestock for breeding purposes. The
demonstration agent has much better
opportunity to get notable results in
actively organized communities than
in unorganized territory.
Last spring a group of Local Un
ions in one section ordered a carload
of one variety of cotton seed for
planting with a view to community
standardization. This example might
be profitably followed up with other
crops. Wherever there is standard
ized production the community gets a
deserved reputation for excelling in
both quantity and quality of product
and. the buyers seek that community
when they want its standardized pro
duct. . J. z- Gt
Cooperation bt Using Horses and
Tractors
PERHAPS the busiest time on the
farm is grain harvesting time,
when not only is grain to be saved,
but crops: that have already been
planted need cultivation and still, oth
ers ..need to be planted. Anything,
therefore, that will add to a farmers
working force is valuable. In com
munities where there are plow trac
tors, such tractors can be made to
serve a number of farmers, if they
will properly cooperate. The owner
of the tractor 'can rent it to ms
neighbors, or his - neighbor can hire
him with the tractor to work stubbie
land, or other lands that have to je
broken. Their rate of returns can M
worked out according to the nunioer
of acres-plowed and the gasoline ana
oil consumed.
In; communities, and especially
villages and larger towns, there arc
idle horses that might be presseo
into service for a short while and w
worth a great deal that W-f
ers who happen to be especially
during any one week, probably nav
neighbors who are not very busy tna
same week. An exchange of 1 bo
under such conditions would be vai
able for both, because the secu
farmer wilt! have-his' Busy week.
R: Hudson.