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Thursday, January i8, 1913. THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER. O N Making plans for another crop we should keep in mind all the time the importance of soil building. Don’t try to see how much land you can cult- but how little you can cultivate to pro- as much as you have been producing. If you have crimson clover as a home-made fer- to turn under you are in position to get Without contributing anything to the tOrtilizer trust. WTien you learn the value of 'Vinter and summer legumes as soil build- rot ^ systematic crop ^ aUon you will be getting in a fair way for fled No farmer should be satis- With less than a heavy bale of cotton or y bushels of corn from every acre cultivat- » and this yield should be secured through ygg Viatic soil building and not through the the ^^P^^sive soluble commercial fertilizers fax which comes as a heavy lasting results as a soil growT start heavier hi s'^-l ^ building crops. Investments vest^^ better dividends than in- vateT”^^ high-priced farm labor to culti- land ‘s better to let your ants cultivated by ten- i-eti, ^ore from the soil than they to it. ■"^DblK WRITER knows one farmer who B B greedy for land. He cultivates a one-horse farm himself and has two fand fonants. All of them cultivate poor acre averages less than a half bale per If about fifteen bushels of com per acre, ^^^ant ^‘'vested one-fourth what the two Hici invested in the soil iijg ^ himself cultivates he would be mak- f\vo '^^P much as he and his all make and he would have three- to ^ of his extra farms as a surplus able '^'fcrest or invest in some other profit- that butter, during a large portion of the sea son, is yellow, and yellow has become the trade mark of butter. It is unfair for manu facturers and dealers in oleomargarine to sell it as butter and at butter prices. When it is colored yellow it gives them an opportunity to do this and fool the consumer. Since the passage of the Grout law, which taxed artific ially colored oleomargarine ten cents per pound, the poor man—and the packers and manufacturers and dealers of oleo have a great sympathy for this man—has been able to pur chase oleomargarine at oleomargarine prices. When it is colored yellow in semblance of yel low butter, it is sold by the moonshiners in oleomargarine as butter and within two or three cents a pound as much as butter which grades extra and brings the highest price in market. During the last few years good oleomargarine has spld for eighteen and twenty cents a pound. The man who could not afford to eat butter has had an opportunity to purchase oleomargarine at oleomargine prices. Before this, the product was permit ted to be colored yellow, or at least' taxed no heav'ier than the uncolored, much of which sold as butter and for very near as much. Where did the saving to the poor man come in.? The manufacturers of butter and the dairy men of this country have no fear of oleomar garine as a competitive product, but when it is permitted to be sold as a counterfeit, com petition ceases. What the dairy interests ask for, is that oleomargarine stand on its own merits, sell for what it is, be what it is, and not try to wear the garments of butter.— Hoard’s Dairyman. bers have paid their annual dues for 1912, and we are hoping for much good to be accomp lished. If we are ever to succeed, we must get down to business and get tobacco off the brain and plant for a living at home. We can never fight a trust successfully until we are fortified behind a full corn cribi granary, smoke house and plenty of hay for horses and cattle, and then and not until then, will our tobacco be a money crop in the fullest sense of the word. W. T. PEARMAN. ^^^*‘piise. Poor land and the greed for many a farmer from ah independent way, and Sojj I'csult of not realizing the value of 1 If you can’t build the soil on an 'vhere some- cost of ^ absolutely the only way to reduce on the farm. It’s the capital pays dividends. ^ 0l ®°>inargarine and the Ten-Cent The Tax. le Ra editorially, well says when ^ coming fight in G^ngress this Oil to the reduction of a ten-cent ‘Al oleomargarine: magazines and newspapers are Brims Grove Local No. 1014. As I have not seen anything from this local I will write and let the other Unions know what we are doing. The most of us have paid up our dues for this year, and there are still a few that haven’t paid. We want to see if our members can’t wake up and come out again. If we will co-operate we can save money this year. There is no better way for us to do business than by co-operating. We have not pooled any tobacco yet, but we are going to pool about half of the local tobacco. I want every member of Brims Grove Local Union to meet at Brims, N. C., on Saturday, 27th day of January, 1912. Yours truly, J. L. SLAWTER, Sec.-Treas. Brims, Jan. 12th, 1912. , Special Holiday Offer. For the next few days we want to get all those who took advantage of the 10 Cent Offer on our regular list, and in order to make it easy for Agents or Local Secretaries to get up clubs, we make the special offer to send The Carolina Union Farmer to new subscribers from now until June ist, 1912, for 25 cents where they are sent in clubs of 10 or more. This offer applies to all who are not now taking the paper and to those who took advan tage of the 10 cent proposition, but does not apply to renewals. Local Secretaries, or any Union member, can send in a club of 10 or more subscribers on this Special Holiday Offer. (From now until June ist, 1912, for 25 cents). Ten weeks trial to new subscribers, 10 cents in clubs of ten or more. Will oiiu iicwapdpcis arc ^ ^^'’^^i^isements and reading notices for attention of the working men men, which tell of the high cost of t taxed oleo is unjust when “Utt ' tal " uicu is unjusc wnen ^ ^ place of butter. No mention ^ lact that un-colored oleomar- ^ must sell for what it really is, Tbg a pound.” to ^ ^^''^acturers of oleomargarine de- solfT*^ their product yellow so that it They know it is easier ^*th yellow oleomargarine than ^ white product Consumers know Mayfield Local No. 1408. Dear Editor: In spite of the fact that it was the coldest day that has been experienced in twelve or fourteen years, the attendance was unusually large at our meeting which was held January 13th. An oyster stew was served, which was greatly enjoyed by all pres ent. Our local is indebted to Mrs. R. H. Pruitt for her kindness in cooking the oysters, and furnishing dishes and other necessary articles for the table. Our President, Mr. J. R. Williams, of the Reidsville prizery, was present, and reported that his house was receiving z food share of tobacco in spite of the inclement weather since Christmas. A good number of oiu* mem* Notice to Subscribers. When you subscribe to this paper either direct or through any local secretary, organ izer or agent, look for the paper, not that week, but the next, and if it does not come, write us at once about it. Don’t wait six months or a year to make a kick and all the time feel bad about not getting the paper. We want you to have the paper promptly every issue and if you will write us a postal, setting us straight on addresses, both old and new, we are sure that your paper will come all right. Dr. Alexander and other State officials send in many subscriptiops, when they are out at tending county meetings, and gatherings of various kinds, and should you subscribe to anyone and then fail to get the paper, write us promptly, don’t wait until next year when this same officer comes to visit you again, just for the sake of telling him about not getting your paper. The Carolina Union Farmer goes to thou sands of readers in every section of the State, and it is not a very hard matter, now and then, to make some mistakes in names and address es, but if your name or address is incorrect, you can very easily have it corrected. Very often we have cards from postmasters saying that such an address is “uncalled for” or unclaimed,” and it is very often the case that SIX months afterwards we receive a let ter from that address saying that he paid a dollar SIX months ago and has not received the paper a single time. It is our pleasure to serve our readers in a business like way and f all our subscribers will notify „s promptly, when not receiving paper, we are sure that the paper will come promptly. Address all communications U the paper and not to any individual.
The Carolina Union Farmer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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