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THE OAEOLIKA UNION FAEMER
[Thursday, January 16, 1913.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ITIN
ERARY.
The following letter which Is ex
planatory was sent out by the Execu
tive Committee to all business agents
last week:
“Statesville, N. C., Jan. 7, 1913.
“Dear Brother:—Your State Ex
ecutive Committee, in session in Sal
isbury, N. C., last night, has made
arrangements to meet all of our
County Union Agents at one of the
following places, to make contracts
for fertilizer this spring. It will be
to your interest to meet us at one of
these points. We have our own
brands, and will give you the chance
to help us to build up the Farmers’
Union in North Carolina. We know
we have made the right deal. Do not
make any deal until you have seen
us.
“The State Executive Committee
and our assistant, Mr. H. P. Brown,
will be at the following places as
named below:
“Greenville, N. C., January 14 and
15, 1913.
“Raleigh, N. C., January 16 and
17, 1913.
“Winston-Salem, N. C., January 18
and 20, 1913.
“Charlotte, N. C., January 21 and
22, 1913.
“Asheville, N. C., January 23 and
24, 1913.
“We earnestly hope you will meet
us at one of these places, and that
you will make no other deal outside.
Now is our best opportunity of doing
the biggest work that the State Union
has ever done, and we must have
your co-operation to do this.
“Please come prepared to make
contract, and do not make any until
you have seen us, and you will al
ways be glad that you have done this.
“Yours fraternally,
“W. B. GIBSON, Chairman.”
cultivation, this being the first crop
grown on the new land. The soil is
of the black sandy loam type, and
the land has an elevation of about
sixteen feet above sea level. The
tract was first broken up in March,
turned with a breaking plow and
then cut twice with a disk harrow and
fitted for planting. About May 5 a
prolific variety of seed corn was
planted, in rows about three feet
apart, and afterwards thinned to
ten and twelve inches in the row.
About ten dollars worth of potash
fertilizer was used on the plat, but
experimental work with other corn
showed this proved of no value, as
the soil already contained sufficient
fertility of all kinds. The corn was
cultivated four times with shallow
cultivation.
The crop matured in September,
I but was not gathered until about the
middle of October. Prof. J. M. John
son, of the United States Department
of Agriculture, reports that the yield
from this demonstration tract show
ed 82% per cent of shelled corn.
This extremely high percentage is
one of the causes for the high bushel
yield per acre. The entire crop was
grown and cribbed at a cost of only
twelve cents per bushel. This cost
was easily computed, as all labor,
both men and teams, used in caring
for the crop was hired and paid for
by the day.
I mands and North Carodina should
by all means do so.—Greensboro
Daily News.
TEMPERANCE REFORM.
CUTTING THE GARMENT.
DURHAM COUNTY MEETING.
On December 28, 1912, our Coun
ty Union met in the court house in
Durham and the following officers
were elected for 1913: President, A.
M. Carpenter; Vice President, W. H.
Fleming; Secretary-Treasurer, S. M.
Smith; Chaplain, Obe Tingen; Door
keeper, D. T. Gooch; Conductor, J.
F. Elliott. The president appointed
the following Executive Committee:
J. T. Hicks, Prof. C. W. Massey, J. R.
S. Atkins, I. H. Terry, and W. S.
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For our County President we have
one of the best farmers in Durham
County, one full of unionism, one
who believes that the success of
the Farmers’ Union is in systematic
marketing; one who buys his mate
rials and does his own mixing for
fertilizer and one who raises his
home supplies and lives at home.
We are planning for great things
this year. We hope to have by the
time for marketing our next crop a
dry prlzery for our farmers.
We hope to have the next State
meeting to meet in Durham and if
the Union does meet with us, we
hope each county in North Carolina
will send a full delegation, for we
promise them a good time.
Our County Union meets on Satur
day before the fourth Sunday In
each month at 11 o’clock. We hope
you may hear great things from Dur
ham County in 1913.
Yours fraternally,
S. M. SMITH,
County Secretary-Treasurer.
A LARGE YIELD OF CORN AT EX
CEPTIONALLY LOW COST.
The North Carolina State Depart
ment of Agriculture recently had a
representative verify a large yield of
corn, grown on the Norfolk Southern
Demonstration Farm, located at Wen-
ona, in Beaufort County, N. C.
A two-acre tract has been under
“Cutting the garment to fit the
cloth” is a very nice sounding slogan,
but the Legislature will not measure
up to its real duty if this cutting is
done at the expense of the public
schools and the colleges whose sup
port depends upon the State. It would
be poor economy to impoverish long
er our splendid educational institu
tions. These institutions are doing a
great service for the State and statis
tics show that North Carolina is right
at the foot of the list in educational
matters. This State cannot stay at
the foot and claim to be progressive.
The State cannot afford even to
mark time, to say nothing of taking
a backward step in the matter of al
lowing support to its institutions.
This State has already been Impover-
I ished, educationally, by the drafting
system of wealthier States, whose of
fers many of our educators could not,
with justice to themselves and fam
ilies, wtlhstand, great as is their pa
triotism.
Nor is it in educational matters
alone that the Legislature can afford
to economize. There is the question
of good roads, highway development,
drainage matters, public health, and
many other matters of great public
moment that should not be made to
suffer longer through exercise of a
policy that years after we will regret.
The aim of the Legislature should be
to do everything possible to develop
the children of the State and at the
same time to develop the agricultural
industries, the business enterprises,
drain the swamp lands, protect the
forests, foster public health, encour
age rural life in every respect, and
then the State will be fostering Its
assets. For its assets are its men and
women, the products of its soil and
forests, and its business life.
oD this, but let your aim be not ex
travagance, and the future genera
tions will rise up to call you blessed.
But you Inquire how can this be
done? We would say for the mem
bers of the Legislature to Investigate
carefully the conditions In this State,
compare them with those In other
States, study the tax laws of some of
the more advanced States, and arrive
at a system of taxation that will pro
duce the necessary revenue without
Increasing the rate—maybe the rate
could be lowered. Other States have
been able to meet these public de-
The work of temperance reform is
moving on. The Anti-Saloon League
has raised twice as much money and
done twice as much work this year
as last. The Executive Committee at
their annual meeting on November 20
stood for a search and seizure law
for the better enforcement of the
State-wide prohibition law, and a
convention to meet in Raleigh Janu
ary 30, 1913, to endorse this action.
This seems to be the true Interpre-
I tatlon of the sentiment. The Baptist
State Convention, the North Caro
lina Conference, the Western North
Carolina Conference, the Methodist
Protestant Conference, the Christian
Church (Disciples), and the Chris
tian Church (O’Kellyite), in their
annual meetings since November 20,
have memoralized the General As
sembly to pass this measure. We
I copy this language from one of the
reports:
“Afetr a study of the temperance
situation in our State and Nation,
your committee believes that the
Legislature ought to enact a law giv
ing authority to police officers to
search places suspected of selling li
quor and to seize such liquor when
found. That the Congress of the
United States ought to pass a law
that will restore to each State the
right to protect itself against liquor
[ shipped from other States; there
fore, we recommend:
“That this Conference memorialize
the General Assembly that convenes
in January, 1913, to enact a search
and seizure law as a means to the
enforcement of our prohibition law.”
The judgment of the police officers
and temperance workers is that this '
legislation is necessary and the law- '
makers ought not to delay in passing
it at once. The passage of the Webb-
Shepard-Kenyon Bill, which every
body now predicts, will make such
legislation necessary in order that the
officers may seize this liquor when It
is in the possession of the railroad
and express companies to try the
liquor and show Its intent.
The churches in their reports ad
vise laymen and pastors to attend
the temperance gathering in Raleigh,
January 30th, and Superintendent
Davis is looking for a large, repre
sentative and enthusiastic gathering.
The need of this legislation is pa
tent to every man who has noted the
shipment of liquor Into his own ter
ritory in the past thirty days.
Instructor in Public Speaking:
“What is the matter with you, Mr.
Brown? Can’t you speak any loud
er? Be more enthuiastic. Open your
mouth and throw yourself into it!”
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