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12 THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER Thursday, January i8, 191^' SOME GOOD ADVISE I would like to say a few words to the farmers as we are entering a new year, and now is the time to decide what we will plant. Let us make no mistake this year. We find as we pass some of the cotton fields that there yet remains from one-half to one-fifth of the cotton unpicked and no prospect of getting it out. Quite a number of these same farmers actually have to buy horse feed for the year, and meat, 'including other provisions for their families. Now farmer friends, if we had planted a smaller crop of cotton, just enough that we might have housed it easily, and the remainder of our land in corn, peas, peanuts, potatoes and chufas, we could have housed these things more easily, and besides, we would have had something for hog feed. I think our cotton would have been out ere this and our hogs killed and in smoke-houses. I greatly fear that some of us are going wild over to bacco, and just as sure as we do, the market will be over stocked and tobacco will be very low. Brother farmer let’s use good judgment and not plant all our land in cotton and tobacco. I select my corn land on the same place I sow peas. In my very stiff land I plant sweet pota toes and Japan peas. In my sand land I plant peanuts and chufas. It’s a mistake to try to feed hogs entirely on corn. One acre in chu fas will feed as far as five or six acres of corn, and the chufa will grow on land that will not produce much of anything else. Last year I planted four acres in chufas, saved 150 bushels of seed for sale and had enough of them remaining in the ground to fatten twelve hun dred pounds of meat. I am in favor of planting things that can be con sumed at home. I am tired of working for the merchants, and I want to make my own home supplies so I will not have to buy so much. I had only twenty-four acres in cotton the past year, and I got it picked without any trouble, and I haven’t sold a bale yet. I still have my chufas for sale. If I had planted everything in cotton, I would have been obliged to have sold it. As it is, I can hold it as long as I think best. Lets rest our muscles and use our brain a while and think what is best to plant, and ^where to plant it. I think it will be best for our health, mind and pocket books. Written for the Union Farmer by W. H. Phillips Ayden. 9th day of December and a nice lot of business was transacted. The officers for 1912 are as follows: President, R. L. Lovelace; Vice President, JJ. W. Hemric; Secre tary and Treasurer, J. R. Holcomb; Chaplain, Rev. W. A. Holleman; Doorkeeper, C. W. Adams; Con ductor, F. G. Mann; Executive Committee, C. N. Bryant, D. S. Adams and D. E. Kiner. Consid ering the strong competition, we did a good Jansiness last year. On December 23rd, 1911, we had a nice treat, consisting of oranges, bananas, apples, peanuts and candy. Being so soon after dinner, no one was hungry enough to eat just then, so about two hours was consumed in speech making, which was en joyed by all. With best wishes to the Union, Yours fraternally, J. W. Hemric, Vice-Pres. Jonesville. ' January last it has sold at $6.00 a share, and the stock is now held at $7.00 and is limited to one share each to new members only. Twenty-five loading stations are now operated by the exchange, with all of which the main office is in di rect telephonic communication. It also has fertilizer manufacturing plants at Freehold, Heightstown, and Marlboro, with a capacity of from 4,500 to 5,000 tons. JONES LOCAL NO. 1280 Dear Editor: Will you please oblige me with space in your ex cellent paper for a few short re marks ? Our meeting was held the SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATION Reference has been made in these columns heretofore to the success that has been achieved by the Monmouth County, New Jer sey, Farmers’ Exchange in the co operative marketing of farm pro duce. The year 1911 was another successful period in the history of the exchange and its total business v.'^as $1,499,500. The principal crop grown in Monmouth County is Potatoes The exchange sold for its members during the year a total of 422,518 barrels, or 2,308 carloads, and the average price paid to the farmer was $2.44^4. This, despite the fact that the crop of last year was esti mated at only 80 per cent of the crop in 1910. The exchange handles all sorts of produce, however. The manager’s report of shipments showed 6,498 barrels and 32,775 baskets of Ap ples, 783 barrels and sacks, and 2,314 baskets of Pears, i3>337 crates, or 320,093 bunches of As paragus, 466 crates of berries, 465 cratfes of Tomatoes, 8 crates and baskets of Cherries, 1,784 barrels and sacks and 67 baskets and crates of pickles, 1,147 barrels and sacks of Corn, 947 barrels, crates and baskets of Melons, 217 barrels and sacks of Turnips, 108 barrels of Cabbage, 109 barrels of Squash, 243 packages of miscellaneous pro duce, 784 bales of hay and straw, and 2,710 bags of grain—a total of 487,280 packages of produce sold for the farmers through their own organization. Besides the sales to the outside markets, the exchange sold about 27,000 barrels of seed Potatoes and 32,330 bags of fertilizer. The exchange has a paid in cap ital stock of $74,285, and 1,049 members. The capital stock has^a par value of $5.00 a shara. Since It is the Farmers and the Sel lers, Not the Buyers, Who Grow Rich and Achieve Their Independence. To the Officers and Members of the Farmers’ Union: No nation or people that were nations and peoples of buyers ever grew rich and prosperous. It is the sellers that rule the marts of this world and that defy adversity. That ought to furnish a lesson to tb“ farmers and people generally of the South, for the coming year. As a first and paramount proposition, we ought to feed ourselves and stop the leak at that source. There is no State in the South hat need send a penny outside its borders for the necessities of life. The majority of them are annually sending forth huge sums and giving n return a mortgage on the cotton rop, already taxed in a dozen dif ferent directions. There is hardly a food-crop, or a fruit, that we cannot produce in this section in volumn not only sufficient to supply our own tables, but as well to leave a margin to sell to other people. The year 1912 (■mght to see this principle in uni- ersal observance. Let me illustrate by pointing to Ungland. She is one of the richest :n the world, and yet has much poverty and staggers under debt. Why? Because she is a sort of lybrid between a buying and sell ing nation. She buys most of her food stuffs She sells the world iiuge quantities of manufactured goods. If she could produce on her ;cil enough food to supply her peo ple, she would keep at home the in- ■alculable sums now drained by other nations for the job of feed ing her, and she would dominate the world in a sense even mightier than that now apparent. The South is in a position where^ she can become both self-feeding and a selling section. The man with something to sell is always a hundred yards superior to the man who must buy. The putting into practice of this system means diver- sification, and diversification is m the hands of the Southern farmers. CHARLES S. BARRETT. Union City, Ga., Jan’y. 4th, 1912. Better Bank Facilities. Dear Editor: While we are talk ing and writing co-operation in buy ing and selling, I think there ought to be something said about co operation in borrowing money when needed. Our banks do not show the farmers the favors they ought to. The moneyed farmer de posits his money in the bank and gets 4% on it. Those moneyed farmers generally do not belong to the Farmers’ Union, and there is one place w^e are loosing by not get ting those men of means in our locals. The bankers will loan their mon ey to business men and help them skin the farmer by selling him sup plies on time. I know a poor farm er who went to a local bank and of fered to give some of the stockhold ers as surety for a loan of fifty dol lars. The banker told him that they did not have the money to loan. In less than ten minutes a man came in and deposited seventy five dollars and the banker loane to a business man at the same time, three hundred dollars. We as farrners must help each other more and not lend money to tilt business man to help him do tie poor farmer. Why not talk co operation in establishing a bank 0 farmers, unless our local ban agree to give us better accommo a tions. A MEMBER. New London, N. C. 3SC eet« the hottest Democratic S. one jrear. The Hornet, Bo* I5» ^ N. C The Union National Bank Charlotte, N. C. CAPITAL $100,000 ( T. W. WADE, .. F. B. McDowell, H. M. Victor, ... President Vice-President Cashier ) We cordially invite business and offer every cour tesy and accommodation consistent with safe bankinff* We particularly invite the accounts of Fanners. Respectfully, H. M. VICTOR, Ca«hier
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