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RALEIGH. N. C., AUGUST 1, 1912
One Dollar a'Year.
The National Ware
house Company
The
By Charles S. Barrett.
hou of the Farmers’ Ware
ly Company of Mississippi, recent
into the National Ware
Company, and due entirely to
Ijj of fho Farmers’ Union
evej. Is worthy the study oi’
farmer in America. From the
ip which this splendid con-
has achieved triumph can be
er
opstrated the value to the farm
Of
eonc "^o-operation ,the necessity of
PPd the paying results
f^rm ^ffoPd the entrance of the
Ppon business methods.
Coiiml® 1® ope thing the farmer of this
ern Peeds greatly to learn—mod-
Bpect '^®iP6Ss methods. In this re
Uj}(, ’ can pattern after the scien
cegg j ®thods which have brought sue
Coujjt*^ fhe great corporations of this
Prigg and without which no enter-
Vive nature may hope to sur-
the j is common knowledge that
ihe of the South, with one of
doiii. ®Pdid annual assets in civiliza-
^s ®P®rificed a tremendous per-
f^ilur portion of his just profits by
observe the rules prevail-
Tjj^^'dinary business channels.
founders of the Farmers’
Company of Mississippi
ihree
'‘®Se '“*«« years ago recognized
„ iPciples, saw the need of sci-
the'^ offleiency in the handling
^^^i^oting of cotton and set
t ®Pte iP®Pre both of them. When
field, this company
conditions in the chaotic
this ^fpeteristic of the handling
1 staple. They have in-
if' Th ^oform, radically but sure-
^®6ii P^en they have elected have
^®t resi^f^*^ fo®t of ability to
^^ttery f^ot on soft-soaping or
a farmer has been
[®ttoii where he can store his
8 ^is graded by an expert
® borrow money on it
j)^*^bany fbe stabilitv of t
the leading bankers of the State,
which is sufficient guarantee of the
sensibility with which it has been
conducted.
The ouicers of the National Ware
house Company are: T. W. Carter,
President; N. A. Pitman, Vice-Presi
dent: W. B. Sewell, Secretary-Treas
urer. The Board of Directors is com
posed of some of the best known and
most substantial farmers in Missis
sippi and other States. The stock
holders line upon the same principle.
What I have said is simply a brief
statement of what the Warehouse
Company has done, as illustrating
what may be accomplished once the
farmer puts his shoulder to the
wheels and resolves to apply business
methods to the solution of business
problems.
CHARLES S. BARRETT.
Louisville. Ky.. July 22, 1912.
TURNING TOWN BOYS INTO
FARMERS.
the stability of the
iu ^boww marketed with ex-
- *®Pge gained of world con
ergi
Of
consumers’ or the
Consumption from the far
t’s’
is
Viewpoint.
^bat the phenome-
^1 success of this practi-
Ij^^horg t enterprise moved its
anri ^be various ware-
the parent company itself
laf ‘ Th Warehouse Com-
is 4 o Authorized capital of the
Paid
•it,
Ock
Oh ‘8 heilf’k majority of the
dlBpv,^ farmers. The func-
jilj^*'6hoiih„ by the Farmers’
farmers.
Wifi'■“UUSe n rttiuic»D
to by .^°*upany have been am
It ^^*‘sad th ^ ^'^ccessor, which plans
^ah^^^Ins ,/®Aghout the Cotton Belt.
-Allies tho. ^ traffic expert, and
era 7® the
‘ot
Upon’ ***'°‘^“ct8 of all Its mem-
tUn soh*^ basis of business and
®®ut. That’s why Its
t has the confidence of
The problem of occupying the in
terest and attention of town boys dur
ing the summer months is one that
occupies the attention of educators,
juvenile workers, and sometimes the
courts.
One form of solution recently un
dertaken by S. D. Rider, Superinten
dent of the South Bend Watch Com
pany, at South Bend, Ind., is that of
laving the boys of families who work
n the mammoth plant of that com
pany cultivate gardens during the
summer months and learn not only
how plants grow, but how to raise
vegetable crops profitably.
The company has donated enough
vacant ground to the boys to give
each a tract 10x100 feet, quite as
much as the average boy wants to
work. What he raises is given to
the boy so that he may learn the
value of labor and also how to make
his own spending money. A super
visor is provided also to help the boys
deal with the problems of vegetable
growing and after a few summers of
such work there will be quite a num
ber of South Bend boys who will
know more about peas, beans, cab
bage, corn and potatoes than they
would ever get out of school books.
Unconsciously or not, Mr. Rider
has hit upon a scheme which is of
much greater value to the community
than the mere occupying of the boy’s
time and talents or teaching them
how to grow vegetables. The big
opportunity in such a system of edu
cation Is that these boys as they grow
up will learn something of the labor
and cost of producing the simplest
products of the farm. They will have
a wider vision and understand better
the reasons why the farmers are ask
ing for a fairer division of the prices
for their products than they now re
ceive.
The Co-operator believes that if ev
ery town boy between the ages of 12
and 16 years could spend every sum
mer in trying to. raise a garden as
these boys are doing, we would soon
have our cities filled with men who
would understand more about the
difficulties of the country where far
mers do not have vacant ground giv
en them for nothing, where they have
no hydrants to turn on water from at
pleasure, and where, too, often, they
do not have even the proper tools
The other day the Co-operator editor
was talking to a city man who form
erly had no patience with the farm
er’s point of view, who declared
whenever he heard a farmer’s com
plaint of too low prices and too high
transportation charges that the farm
er was a disgruntled person and no
attention should be paid to him. But
this same city man bought a fruit
farm in East Texas and this year had
a big crop of peaches. He endeavored
to sell it by shipping to Fort Worth
and Dallas, and discovered that the
express charges were more than he
could get for the fruit. His eyes
were opened and kis point of view
changed. Now he Is ready to join
with the farmers in an organization
to market more systematically, regu-
ate express charges, and cut out the
middlemen. A little experience of this
kind is a magnificent teacher.
Not all of the lessons of putting
town boys into gardens for the sum
mer, however, are to be learned by
people who live in the cities. On
every farm there are boys and girls,
too, who, when summer comes, gen
erally go into the fields and help their
fathers. The result is that they grow
up knowing only of field crops, and
when they come to having homes of
their own, do exactly as their fathers
did, raise only corn and cotton and
live out of paper sacks. It may seem
expensive to let a boy stay out of
the fields to work in a garden a few
hours each day, but it is foolish econ
omy, for such a garden can easily
supply the family with the most of its
vegetables, and also give the boy an
appreciation of how much a good
garden is worth to every family that
will make him insist upon one of his
own some day. The smallest children
can pull weeds in a garden and can
soon learn to use a hoe properly.
Working a garden Is not play, but is
a business just like any other kind
of farming, and more of our country
boys, as well as our town boys, need
to get ■ acquainted with it.—Texas
Farm Co-operator.
NORTH CAROLINA LEADS ACRE
AGE COTTON YIELD.
Crop of 25,500,000 Bales of Cotton
Would Have Been Harvested This
Year Had North Carolina’s Record
Been General.
The Observer’s mathematical sharp
has just run across United' States
Bulletin No. 114 showing amount of
cotton actually produced in the coun
try last year. He makes some calcu
lations to show how North Carolina
leads in the matter of yield per acre,
and does some juggling with these
figures as follows:
Total number of acres of cotton
harvested in United States, 36,045,-
000.
Total number of bales cotton actu
ally grown (that is, what is known as
“gunner’s crop’ ’as distinguished
from “commercial crop”) expressed
in 500 pound bales 16,109,349. This
figures out for the whole United
States .45 bale per acre (a little less
than half a bale).t
The State of North Carolina har
vested 1,624,000 acres and ginned 1,-
156,407 bales, which figures out .71
bales per acre (nearly three-quarters
of a bale). If the whole United
States had produced .71 bale per acre
we would have made twenty-five and
a half million bales, or about 50 per
cent more than was actually made.
Looking at it in another way, if an
average yield of .71 bale per acre
could have been made, the country
could have produced its 16,109,349
bales on about 22,700,000 acres in
stead of 36,045,000 acres.
Thus the crop could have been
made by four States.
Acres.
Texas with 10,943,000
Georgia with 5,504.000 •
Mississippi with 3,340,000
Oklahoma with 3,050,000
Southey had no amusements, and
he died of softening of the brain.
The happy people are those who have
work that they love, and a hobby of a
totally different kind which they love
even better. But I doubt whether
one can make a hobby for oneself in
middle age unless one Is a very reso
lute person indeed.—From “Altar
Fire.’’
Total 22,837,000
North Carolina knows how to grow
cotton, which is to say that notwith
standing some climatic handicap in
cident to the very northernmost limit
of cotton territory she knows how to
cultivate and fertilize—Charlotte Ob
server.
FARMERS’ UNION TO SEND DELE
GATES.
The Mecklenburg Farmers’ Union
has appointed three fraternal dele
gates to attend the next meeting of
the Lincoln County Farmers’ Union,
which will meet at Iron Station on
August 1. The delegates are Mr. C.
E. Clark, County Agricultural Dem
onstrator; Mr. W. R. Alexander, of
the Sharon Local, and Mr. J. E. Wal
ker, of the Amity Local. The latter
is scheduled to make an address.
The selection of fraternal delegates
follows the action of Lincoln County
in sending two delegates to the May
meeting of the Mecklenburg Farmers’
Union at Carmel.—Charlotte News.
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