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NEXT WEEK-COVER CROPS SPECIAL I D o 4 LJ J r i r?y J m K V1 y eaLernedition'- . , " ; -' : ' A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C iw I. Vol. XXXIII. No. 29. SATURDAY, JULYX $1 a Year; 5c a Copy Let's Dave Moo Price-fixing if I 0 - "a L N July 5, in New Orleans, at a meeting of cotton growers and bankers from every important cotton state except North Caro lina, a resolution was adopted asking President Wilson and Con- Hp Win ie War be depended upon to fix them fairly and equitably. Wheat prices have been fixed at $2.20 a bushel, against a pre-war average of 80 to 90 cents; pig iron at Birmingham is $33 a ton, against a pre-war price I J L MMMM''" ,.,ff.mnM.rrr,Mrm.,T-,.V..r I AT PRESENT PRICES FOR WOOL, SHEEP RAISING IS VERY ATTRACTIVE gress to create a United States Cotton Corporation vested with power to buy at a price fixed by the President any cotton for which there is u" UUier ouyers. A committee composed of one grower and one banker from each' cotton state is now in Washington to lay the matter before the Administration. inere can be only one answer to the question as to the advisability of cotton ce fixing: Will it help win the war? 2m jtt better serve the producer, the manufacturer, ihe consumer and the Na jon asa whole to have prices fixed? If then let us have price-fixing. iletes pnfarmers want special priv-;S- totton and cottonseed products e essential raw materials, but Southern taltv8 J daSS have no desir to cap itahze thlsfact Prices of practically all fixed I nt raw trials have been Slif-WUIbe,t the com bv far 2? 1 FaW Ctton prices' then are for mairity f COtton row' ZlSilSn and the War Indust Board, if cotton prices are fixed, may Page 3 6 DON'T FAIL TO READ How to Grow Corn Despite Drouths . . Fair Prices for Black Walnut Logs . How to Succeed With Turnips 7 Institutes for North Carolina Farmers . . 7 Feeding the Dairy Cow According to Pro duction . . . . . ... 10 Be Something Better Than an Average Farmer ............. Don't VLay By" This Year ... . . . . Save Man Power With Horse Power . . . Watch the Cultivator . . . . ..... 10 Remedying the Defects of the Primary System 11 Midsummer Bloom in the Flower Garden . 13 Try an Agricultural Excursion This Summer 14 of about $9; prices of cotton seed and cottonseed products have been fixed satisfactorily to producer and cbnsumer; and so on all down, the line. The aim in every case apparently has been to get an adequate production and at the same time do justice topro ducer, manufacturer, distributor and con sumer. In the case of cotton, we have every reason to believe a similar policy will be followed. Most of the members of The Progres sive Farmer staff are actual farmers and have a personal as well as general interest in this problem. And not only do we be lieve price stabilization will benefit the entire industryf but especially do we be lieve it will be helpful to Southern grow ers, bankers and business men generally. Cotton may go to 40 cents and it may go to 15-r-and one is equally as dangerous as the other. This is no time to gamble on cotton prices. Rather let us have a stable market, with the Certainty of fair and reasonable returns for our labor. We want no more, and we believe we can trust the Administration to give us no less. 8 10 10
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