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i; ij Right here in Shelby, at the Southern Cot ton Oil Company, you can buy just as good, and better fertilizer than you can purchase elsewhere, and in many brands use your own product—Cotton Seed Meal. Why not buy at home, make more per acre, help yourself, help a home industry, and at the same time hudd Cleveland county into the greatest in the South. P££D' MORE COTTON SEED MEAL AND HULLS AND RAISE THE PRICE OF COTTON SEED I Bb you know that eonsidcrin#.'. the.. Toed S Value, you pay twice as much for your 3 feed when you buy Western feeds instead l of Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls? 5 MONEY—USE YOUR OWN jj PRODUCT 1 | Why worry about the corn famine when I the farmers and cotton oil mills of the | South produce two and one half tons of | Cotton Seed Meal, which as a feed supply | IS BETTER than corn, in many respects, | and MUCH CHEAPER. By this use of the I surplus meal you raise the price of your | seed. Farmers of the South do not appre I date the feed value of Cotton Seed Meal. I The state of Connecticut consumes more | Cotton Seed Meal than Mississippi. There | must be a reason—There Is. Even just one g pound of Cotton Seed Meal fed daily to : your horses and mules adds to the working - value, and at the same time makes away ! with the surplus cotton seed meal and by so doing faises the price for seed. Kill two birds with one stone: Feed your stock bet i ter by using Cotton Seed Meal, and by so I doing get more for your seed. 4 ’ * I When You Buy Fertilizer r When You’re Looking For I the Ilv.st in Feed Visit r RECEIVERS OF III Southern Cotton (HI Company fktfhit Headquarters for tKe Farmer." aSUN at. Jenkins, Mgr. r ■: TIME TO QUIT TRADING DOLLARS ! HARTINC8 DECLARES THAT PRES lj ENT„S9tfUTHGRN FARM SYSTEM CETTE US NOWHERE ^ Atlanta, (la.—(i-Tpee'ul.)" "It's tint*) | fur ovvry t-outh rn faru.t, r v> ho clings 1 t'i th- r.ll, < r in ;.rly all; c jtton irti a to I (to a lot ( i straight thSakia.? before J be i?.25 crop. Mos. < i our ; . tiou far..-.era a"e trail.if, dollars j r.aii loslr,; at lh..: tliri a y. a tv out «•£ | four." Sait! II. <t Ila-.tti’.i.fi, li ail a; I; agricultural authority a: i Chairman of ilo' Kami ;»;.<! .Varkating U u'eau of ! tlif Atlanta Chamber of Coiam.TC’’. " 1 •'< r tlio past two years l'rovidt nco Ita • stopped in un i savi d us from tie r . .lit; of our own folly, in wo | plar.ti d thirty nine million acres . { cotton; in 1.92-i forty million acres.; l:i each of these yi ars there vva-t; aen age t ndngte to have made, with * ven • lair reason conditions, sixteen to oigh 1 tee:v million htties and a ten-cent price ! or leco with the inevitable farm smash ; that such price would bring." Provi dence cannot be depended on indefi nitely to hr in (j unfavorable seasons, end cat down yield per acre. We rtepped up u couple of million haler lit ItkM, and, by so dotr/c. the South j baa lost about throe hundred million j dollars that have come right out of j tho farm pocket. "In spite of these dancer Signals; flying in every cotton state, plans; are being made everywhere to in crease cotton acreage in 1025. This can only be done at the ,exiv us; i of cutting down food and grain acres j at a time when food and grain is high . and going higher every week. I am no aianr.iKt, but the present. ! tendency. the intent to plant the whole ! face of the earth in cotton this spring | that is so evident gives in- grave con cern. If the holl weevil or drought don't cut the 1925 crop, starvation lav prices will get the cotton grovver. Tho situation looks just as luiz.ardou: to h.e as in 1920. uniesj the craze for it emised eotton acreage can be le aded off somehow. Crowing cotton and buying bread, meat and grain it; Him ply trading dol lars, or worse, it never is profitable. Most years it's a losing game. There is only one way to safeguard 1925. Clan for and plant enough food, grain and forage acres to insure ymir family and live stock full food supply with out buying front store or feed dealer, la till-- don’t forget that a good big home garden is a wonderful food soar e. With food and live stock amply provided for. a good living is insured, regardless of cotton prices,’' EftmezxtzMioraji Weak Nervous "I was weak and nervous and run-down,” writes Mrs. Edith Sellers, of 406 N. 21st St., East St. Louis, 111. “I couldn’t sleep nights. 1 was so restless. I felt tired and not in condition to do my work. I would have such pains in my stomach that I was afraid 1 would get down ir. bed. . . My mother camo to see me and suggested that I use m Woman’s Tonis I felt better after my first bottle. I had a better appe tite. It seemed to strengthen and build me up. I am bo glad to recommend Cardui tor what it did for me. I haven’t needed any medicine since I took Cardui, and I am feeling line.” Nervousness, restlessness, sleeplessness—those symp toms so often are the result of o weak, run -down condi tion, and may develop more seriously if not treated in lime. If yen nro neivous and run-down, or suffering from some womanly weakness, take Cardui. Isold everywhere. n-tos i I I Write for a Copy A PostCavd Will Bring It ower Seeds i •nd how to get tllMis told enpage 4 of Catalog TW.Wood & Sons InilmndN! ISIS ~ ^t-* ^iobiruMvhVa. ■*»* nt-zTesa sr tbiatm m93ammmBVC*WK9: IMPORTANCE OF THE COTTON INDESTRY (Continued from first page.) sect pcst: and uPaclentifie cultural method.!. Keep production down. The incrc'ii '<• of an already dense popula tion *lc: i> >. i ids so much of the strength of ih< soil to be give n to food produc tion. Inui..’ produr'inn he. ■ increased dnr.h 1 ‘.l ' la«t ('credo ini' hn.ro con •• unpfi.in li:»« nliforl.ed '..hi,; imrer•••<'. the ■ iensor, - liiilhi may not he emeefed 1 i jnero;. her pr;duction of export < ,‘oi fi r or.v rime to come. t '' I ’ t 1 Chit1' i*. I hn r ; s f cot ton producing, eoufifey in' .the wold end it i !o fhi • c-und ry !ha the world ! • Tie m ole (,f >’.airier; i ll cot ton; Ecu ocra T’uil.c’J. iteh.f'-' produces from : ivty to -iy! v.fiv" per t ea t o' the world’ production, tin.”., it will hr seen Tin' Hi” cotton f«rr-i'e- ' f the South prai’ye y a vorv hir ; > >v reent ;•< - i ■ i f the world’” essen tial and useful coinmoditis’•... Truly, the South re olnrfrr hi ■ rendered tho world a notable service in .Win;? aide to supply the over-increasing demand for cotton, It has not been easy to perform this te.sk. Tie bus been able to rentier this service only by the toil of his hand , the sweat of his brow and’.the anplieationof scientific.-cultur al method,-. to his nail. Every crop of cotton planted ho risk- th» hazards of an .unknown season, which are nev er the same from year to year; he risks the hazards of insect depreda tion and !;, *. hut not the least, he risks the bpor raids on a speculative market. He should not have to endure he hazards of a speculative market. [1 ■ share; ih- wealth created by cot ton with thousands of unnecessary ipcht,i and speculator:’ that intervene ictv/ecn the field and factory, but lone of them share with him the haz irds of production. Hip speculative system of market-i ing cotton, as wc know it today, has! j„,;., developed < rt of a hundred and i twenty-seven years of practical ex perjr nr;p( and to the buyers of all de scriptions, ruch ns scalpers. merch-! "•'Is, exporters and peculators, it is a wry satisfactory sv.- tern. But to the profineej it is a v.<u . complex and ex pired . o c:,o that has rover yielded an adequate ■ mpensnt if: ,,r ;he toil re- ! qui’ed. *i a.tax' L r d and : crvice j rendered. Marketing. j II the '.peta dative system of mar keting cotton is satisfactory and pro-! fitablc as it has be< n to the buyers and speculator:;, who own and control the system., it stands, to season that it will-never be changed except by the growers to whom this method has never been satisfactory or profitable. Therefore, the task of establishing a bettor marketing system devolves up on the grower and many thousands of them liver the South have heartily ac cepted this task and are seriously en gaged in building up what is known as the Co-operative Marketing sys tem, which in the opinion of some of the best minds in the whole cduntry, is the most hopeful movement ever evolved for the financial protection of the grower against the hazards of speculation. These two systems, the speculative and the co-operative, are now in the throes of the greatest struggle for the control of the marketing phase of the. cotton industry that has ever been experienced. Every grower should make a serious effort to inform him- i self and lend his support to the sys '<•!« dictate' 1 by his best interest. Pep Up Vour Lodce Meeting rMKi STUNTf jp-j Stnrts lo; Spwhev fof Lo»!ui-> »nt*v .*>*, pc;ii ^. 'M's Hook of l on ljie /iiV<i.\ i<o th KnitTfainmt*rt Commit!-. iVvirit « r -j oroml hmiotM-d tn feathin' urjiahizztior.' wmmumEmssrnmK EVERY DAY— SOME, grief stricken WOMAN COMES IN OUR •GANT WITH A DRESS THAT SHE HAS USED SOME SO-CALLED SPOT REMOVER ON. EVERY TIME A STAIN OR SPOT IS TAMPERED WITH. IT MAKES IT THAT MUCH HARDER FOR THE CLEAN ER TO REMOVE. “DON’T EXPERIMENT.” EET US DO THE WORRY ING FOR YOU. < Whiteway Dry Cleaning Co., PHONE 105. N. EaFayette Street. - • ___.. . ] CO-OP MARKET OF FARM PRODUCTS FORWARD STEP (Continued from first page.) and other esscnti.il features. ft is evident that they must be ; Idnd'n;-; contracts. This ' fundamental I principle is not confined to cooperative j ---'Jlmjc association.- It anplle.r to nil modern busines.- undo;- takings. If :ne ; entering jn'o acre* nient to do or ! ao! lo co a certain partVuiar thint?, >•’ •'«11 is i !l that a contract is, were ^ t-‘) vio'Hto th.-iv sbkrn'i! y 1 1 a! will, orderly conduct ofi ordinal y business affairs would he slide. Confidence would b - b.-ok* j . i. dov.i, avul without confidence there : "'>"*> *■ t’o •‘'•trb'lity. Destroy ci n ‘! le.r. " and . r r-dlity, and you destroy .'•11 bit. h e...;. 1 'dri.c.s Leconte nere scraps of! if th v iii'1 not enforced. ( Leeks •: a bank would bo worth nothing! unless -1 tore art- funds fo meet them: '■'•'ben they are presented for pay. r,ie;it and they are accepted. In ordi ousincsS relations, checks are treated in the same way as, money, but it is because of the reasonable assure.nee that those signing them v.'iil keep their solemn obligation. Sacred ness of contract, then, is not peculiar to cooperative marketing as sociations. It holds, for all business. It i.-. to the everlasting credit of the /turners that they have given the lie o.icc for .ill to the slanderous charge that thc-y will r.ot keep their obliga . The courts of every state, wherever th validity of the contract has been! brought before a judge, have held,! without, exception, that the agree- j ;nc»ts made by growers to market! their own products are, fair, reason-* able, just and legal. It has been uni formly held that farmers have the same right to make contracts that! anybody else has, arid that it is not i special privilege to permit him to or ganise for the orderly safe of his co - ■ ton. Compliance with the contract b;, members of the cooperative assuria tinnr, however, is the nagjitiv? side n{ the proposition. There ought ue\cr :c oe any question about it. [here will :;ot b<‘ in Lb.- future. It will be take n for (.’.ranted that \vhen ;>• grower < f voiion signs a (ontrae; of merit ber "’jij>. a- i.j going to live up to that eor.tiact But that is out euoug i. /r: order to grow arid prosper, the cooperative associations must have the active, positive, loyal support of the nuir.br!... Th y must r'a more t’a. i keep their contracts. They muse put the.::- shoulder t > the wheel and make the u. aoeiaiioiirr' live, living, brenTK litU o -g mirations. They must meet v.Mh other members and ihi sli out with them the many problems that mu§t he . idvid before the cooperative associations can achieve their highest and best success. Pool pg is one of the most import ant features of the operation of co operative marketing. Pooling is on the basis. of determined periods of lime tor products of continuous pro duction type and for a year on an nuai crops. Pooling means that the cotton of each member of identical grade and class of cotton of other members is pooled or mingled for the purp.-i of rale, and payment is made n the basis of th» quantity ard qual ity delivered. Thus each producer re ceives the average price secured by the association for the grade or qual ity of cotton he delivered, his share of toe proceeds of each pool being de termined by the proportion his pro duct in that pool bears to the total amain of that pool. This system auto matically pays a premium for the production of a superior quality. Un der the old individual system toe pro ducer was unable to secure a premium tor producing a superior quality for the reason that the amount of his production was too small to com mand attention. Under the pooling system of the cooperative marketing association a. small amount of high grade products from other members, thus forming a large enough lot of the saint' quality to command atten tion and to secure it:; actual value. Cotton after being delivered to the association is stored in government licensed and bonded warehouses. Tt is then graded and classed by expert graders according to the government standard. One of the outstanding fea ture:-, of the North Carolina Associa t'on is its grading and classing de partment. There are some definite advantages of the cooperative marketing «vs tern to the producer of codon. The farm er secures fair -and accurate grading of his cotton by expert.:. Very few farmers arc a ole to grade fo them selves, and this is one of the geatest leakage; of the farm profits. His product is sold far him hy experts employed to serve him, and these ex perts know just as much about the value o; the product as the men who buy. His cot1.»1 is propertly stored and insured ta avoid damage of r.ne character in the period between pro duction and rale. 11 is income is nut on a year-round basis, ar.d last, but not least, lie: is conducting his own business in a busiiHM ,-likc manner. In the beginning of the cooperative marketing movement the question of finance way pass'd'.y the biggest problem. The associations have ho capital stock and n.oi’cy has to he se cured to make advance to farmer members. Now, after a fair trial, and with results already achieved, the problem is not no hard to solve Bankers in the north as well as bunk tectors. hach of these departments cm in the south nave given theii en dorsement to the cooperative market- i CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR SCENE BOOTH OF COTTON GROWERS ASS’N. 'r>" plan :rs all of ‘ho ccttott staffs Efficient majifitr-cme t goea f:.r to wards demonstratin'' io banki y in stitul o.is the stability of the orcranj zaticci. This, c ffiee rit manni/ewejtt i tm absolute ncctr.siiv. Hit: banks real Ize that their i.iterests arc pretectal and they are neenj'x in. tho njdvcmew an opportunity to render i _.vat apr much needed public sc-, ice They fur thcr know that the fact that all c ton handled by the e- meiatm.i i prop erly varchoused adds .to tm pnnec tion of tho crop :rr>t : ya* •n. G overn went fipvir.ee nhow ,1. t the < oufitry damage on non-war'h-rused eo'n.r amount' to .oft-tinted mohr than So a bale throughout the south. nds.'tva-ec i ; Stopped ivh n a ' farmer .id: the cotton maid-ting oeintron, and - mean." the savin'.;- < mil'ions < f dol lars. Da ine«.< iren ! -!V\ > in lire in operative inerlrcvir ■; i f intio v <ause t l? \ ■> ” k.' 01 : u vi 1 S rtsln it. Too ib'i' o.:i i," . . - Ion ci. j> v'1i .in* : r>. • ■ < »« •■o.;,. jn (•; . . , .. •;> ! i I. !• <* ;;-i..'irc < r o'! r :.,* > : i *o can . ■!! lit- fo- i the . cooperj five- ma* kclI .if". . c it.', ir. crcat;-: <r:\baying pew; ; i •<}.• part ; - farm* r, a:r l V;r. "i;y . i. • a i: ;,*. L./ at: . t.r !).')•• money ,.it . the hands of ih<* cciflo.i far tl over ~!tr-k);r•••:■ o . i-ai tht ~h:'. i ' : of more than o:\<- hr:! ' o'- *.i • r •;•< j the :■.i?t i is r.a'at'iV'd ami •. greater 'h i**:r ci vku.i created T the service and p.'.idi! tr for the refit of Ike peo ple. The North Carolina Cotton Grow er; Association maker a set advance to it ; members upon delivery of the cotton. This advance is made bv draf. and the amount depend:*; upon the market value of th** product at the t me of delivery. As*, rapidly am pos sible sales are made* «t*.d additional distributions go to the membership At4 the end of the reason when the entire crop has*, been hi a final set tlement is made, in which ail of the money remaining to the credit .of the pool in which the cot! on has been put, less the proportionate, amount necessary to pay operating e .petises and deduction for reserve. 5 - paid to the members. The first cotton growers coopera tive association was organised id Oklahoma in the spring'of Vj21. The Arizona Pimacotton Growers .organ ised a few months later, a *, did also the Texas farmers. At the present time— 1924—twelve Southern Staltr sell cotton cooperatively. These states are North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, Oklhoma, Mississippi, Missouri Tennessee nd Louisiana, The combin ed membership in these twelve assn j ciations js approximately 300,090. AH these state association.; work in I complete harmony with North Caro j linn through the American Cotton Growers Exchange, Through this means of organisation all state as sociations are placed on an equal footing ard can present a solid front to those interests that might he dis posed to play one state against an other to their disadvantage. The Am erican Cotton Growers Exchange has sales offices in all the leading' Euro pean markets and in Japan. These 300,000 American cotton farmers, through organisation, were able last reason, for the first time in history, to have a nominating place on the market The North Carolina Cotton Grow I ers Cooperative Association is < North Carolina corporation, compos cd of over 3G.000 Tar Heel cottor fai mers from 47 cotton growing counties in the state. Its purpose is t< market the cotton produced by its members in a bu3iness-like manner securing, as far as possible, a fair re turn for honest labor in the cottor fields. The Association is purely co operative, being a non-cnpital, a’ non profit organization, in which each and every member has one, and only one vote. The association dates its beginning to January. 1921, when a mass meet ing Was held and an organization-de termined upop. The proper commit tees appointed and the movement was gotten under way. One year late - the necessary number of contracts had been secured and the organization had been perfected. Not in time to handle the crop of 1921-22, but in time to begin business with the crop in the fall of 1922. The North Carolina Cot ! rU 'v. Cooperative Association • i i • • <'.v at tii. ir-ginning of its third • : actual service, and its mem* ’•"••■hip ■ passed the GC.000 mark. lA - central office of the North n.1:. : Cotton Growers Cooperative on is located at Raleigh. The direct, executive head of the associa te:’ office is the general manager ho is selected by the Board of Bi ss.' r Under his supervision comes, >f ('sir s, a!! of the business head quarter. a irl especially does he give ' his oersonsd attention to the Field | Department, the Sales De | sastmnt, Grading and Clausing De ! imi trss >t, and the Publicity Depart - j !r;is. sen 01 these departments or I die under a department head ' •'/' '• c-port - direct to the General ’A • general office, indud toe acs.,anting, shipping, financ : rd ma • >g. comes directly under " uncrviriori of .he Secretary 4 • • c * »(1 t y ; ns board or di 1 !■>'); a a Capable, efficient fi ssistarit : ocratcry is i ' charge of jj1!} accounting, ; mri! ng. The financing* ■' ;.r. ■ c‘-o;> a very important fea y" * ;'.nd ;*rr:>ng«ments for. securing n :;; e ;< y fund - mv.st be made by ■1 ■■ Ktary Treasure. i ■ Accounting Dcpalment keeps ’ e •* cords of every bale shipped by ■ re y member with the weight arid tfV-ycL'th'> vmoxUs advanced and at • :e e nf the scarot! makes a fin i'• trterr-ent cn all cotton for ech ner-.b?;-. The Field Service Depart ment aids the grower in increasing the membership, supervises the organiza tion of local and county units, looks offer the deliveries, keens the general office informed as to the needs and desire* of th grown, and in many o‘: ■ v-r.ys helps the growers to im prove i heir products arid make farm ' ' )•«>• in every way. -c-Op Association Given A Big Boost N<'\v. «?th1 Oh Server. »e;i - core county farm agents grot fir.'.: hand information about co-oper -T keting from its most promi nem exponents i l North Carolina at a, kagqeet sponsored by the North Ou nina^ Cotton Growers’ Cooperative ■ - pi non at the Raleigh cafeteria ruesdr.y evening. b. Blalock, general manager of , 0 -fPt-ton association, marched a dis tinr a.: hrd array of speakers before y •■'-rents beginning with I. O. Srh-.ub, oirertor of the agricultural oxter-•Ter) service and winding up Wit r Dr. Carl Taylor, professor of eyr rr.ir at State College and dean m it ; grammar department. It was m ; nature of an old time love feast of leaders in the co-operative mar feting movements in North Caro rpots ,n the evening were I ° speeches by President E. I ' ■ L',0<>ks, of Str..te College; Dr. Clar | enc_. Poc, . ditor of the Progressive ; ; Commissioner of agriculture Wilnam A. Graham; Dr. B. W. Kil P°’ n of the department of agri culture at State College; Mrs. Jane Mekirnmon, State home demonstra tion agent; Miss Susan London, in charge of community work for the cot ton co-operatives, and Ashley E. Ling, secretary and treasurer of the Cotton Growers’ association. Collec tively and singly, they extended the right hand of fellowship ta the co operatives and bade them Godspeed. General Manager Blalock present ed a report of the work of the asso ciation, introduced members of its board of directors, who were in Ra leigh for their monthly meeting, and also introduced members of his of ficial staff. He scored heavily with the gathering with a choice collection of the best jokes of the season. The importance of improved dis tribution and better marketing of Lairn products was emphasized by the various sneakers, all of whom praised he splendid work that is being done by the North Carolina eotton co-oper atives, who have so far led the South in the development of co-operative marketing of cotton. The develop ment of community units as a means ? ma**nS possible improved distri bution was stressed and the social benefits to be derived from such co operation pointed out. A retired British barber claims to have attended to the ex-kaiser. But it’s of no use regretting Tost opportu nities now.—Punch.
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