The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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THE NATIONAL CO-OPERATOR AND FARM JOURNAL.
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FARM JOURNAL
a&rag
GEO. B. LATHAM
General Manacer.
Published weekly, every Wednesday,
by The Farmers' Bdueatlonal and
Co-Operatlve Union Publish-
ing Company.
ICS and 1(7 Commerce Bt, Dallas, Texas.
Terms of subscription, one dollar a
year, In advance.
"Entered as second-class matter No-
vember 18, 1 0«, at the postofllce at
Dallas. Texas, under the Act of
Congress of March I. 1879.
Advertising rate. win be turnisnea on
replication.
Why is it we did not sell our cot-
ton last fall, and do not sell it now
for 5 or G cents a pound ? It is sim-
ply because wc will not do it. The
cotton producers will never submit
to such a foolish thing again.
Illinois now has a State organiza-
tion. Kansas will be next, and then
Florida. What a great National or-
ganization it is to be! What a great
combination it is going to be when
all the producers combine!
A farmers' protective combine is
what it must be. Other callings and
professions combine. The farmers
must go and do likewise. What oth-
er people have done so successfully,
we can do also.
A FREIGHT DEPARTMENT.
A letter from Secretary K. J. Cook
informs us that the work in Alabama
was never more successful. Hro.
Cook has done a great work in Ala-
bama and we are glad to know he
ia appreciated.
The Co-Operator has established a freight department and has
employed the best posted freight man and one of the very best law-
yers in the State to have charge of this department.
There are violations of the law committed every dav bv railroad
officials.
When you ship products of the farm of any kind and have cause
to believe that you have been overcharged, report it to The Co-
Operator, giving full details, and the matter will be looked into,
and, if you have been overcharged, we will see that the excess is
returned to you, and, if the offense justifies, prosecution will I e insti-
tuted either liefore the State Commission or the Interstate Commis-
sion, as the case may lie. This applies to ail the States wjiere the
Farmers' Union is organized.
Co-Operator has been told of many cases of overcharges. There
is no way of knowing how many millions of dollars are thus stolen
from the people each year. We will put a stop to it if you will
help us.
We have established this department at a considerable cost and
hope that our friends will take advantage of it. If you will help
us, and help yourselves, we will make the railroads obey the law,
or know the reason wliv.
tend ?
Would the farmer boys and girls
Co-Operator Ft V. Evans of Tar- the younger generation, will be able
rant County, is doing most effectual to properly classify their cotton.
field work now. He is one of the .
Tbe Home Is the hope of the Nation.
When every family owns a bom*
from mortgage, then Indeed will we
bave a proeperous country. To own
• borne Is a duty every man owes him-
self, bis family and his country.
rAJUf products pricks.
Established for 1008 and 1*07 by lbs
National F«mm' Valoa.
This schedule of prices was agreed
upon at the National Convention of
the Farmers' Union held at Texarkana,
September 6, 1S06, and ell members
are expected to maintain them during
the year l 06-7. The key to success
In this organisation Is Controlled Mar-
keting. Don't dump your crop on the
market the month you harvest It. Hold
back, you who are able, and let those
In debt sell flrst. Help to make these
I trices standard by refusing to sell for
ess. Organise and stay organised:
Cotton, middling, per lb I .11
Wheat, no. N. red. per bu 1.00
Corn, No. S, per bu 50
Oats, No. S, per bu >5
Potatoes, sweet or Irish 76
Hay, No. 1, per ton 10.00
Hay, No. 1, alfalfa, per ton 16.00
Broom corn, per ton, |85 to 100.00
- - 16.00
«.00
(.0*
Barrett and Calvin. What great
good will be accomplished by them
in this canvaFH of Texas, and what
a pleasure it will be to the member-
ship to meet with them and hear
their burning words of eloquence in
behalf of this great organization.
AI MO PAYING NATIONAL
DUES.
Our industrial prosperity will not
be brought about and maintained by
political parties, but by industrial
co-operation. We must build a new
system, a just and equitable system.
This system will come when we have
that perfect understanding.
most forceful speakers in the entire
movement. It has been said that no
other man has yet been able to pre-
sent the warehouse proposition as It is gratifying to know that the
well as he. He is a tower of strength membership in all the States arc fall-
to the movement. itig into line and are paying the na-
• tional dues cheerfully,.fully realiz-
Tho Constitutional Convention of ing that it takes money to keep the
Oklahoma adopted the most pro- machinery of this great organization
The National dues are on
j) mated that there will be no less than dred dollars left over each year. tbe girls, who even teach them how
: [ 25,000 in attendance. It is expect- It will be interesting reading to to make up a bed, to sweep a floor,
II ed to fie the largest meeting of farm- your children's children in the years to hem a towel, to cook, to keep
; I ers every held. • The farmers of to come to look over the records of house—all those things our dear
| Texas have many caus s to be proud your Local -Unions and therefrom old fashion mothers aud simple, an-
| I of the great achievements of this learn what you were doing in this tequated grandmothers taught their
I miglitv yoitfig giant during the four good year of 1!H)7, when your fight daughters. And there are teachers
years of its existence. with the hosts of greed and graft for the boys t6 lead them through
^ was at j(s thickest and hottest. If the intricacies of carpentry and otli-
A FAUMEKS' SOCIETY. you are true and faithful, winning er branches of the artisan's work.
the battle, leaving your descendants The farmer's taxes help to supoprt
The oldest organization of farm- fJvedom and ,,rwsperitv' thc* wil1 the citv sclloo,'i' then wh* sUould
ers, known as "The Farmers' So- r'S° Up a"d ca" V0U b,0SSe<1; bnt lf there objt,etion to leacl,inS
cjetv " iw «t Pendleton S C This V"" down, if you fail fn the su- children the fundamental principle*
society was organized 'in 1780 and 'f™0 T™"* that " "°W Up0" °f a*,iculture and in thc
has existed continuously since then. ' J g'°"" in their hearts and grades, too, in the schools they at-
The president of this society is J. C. TEACH -FARMING IN SCHOOLS
Stribling, one of the most prom-
inent Farmers' Union men in South The agitation of the question of be ProflUHl bv what the P>uld lcarn
Carolina, and in charge of the Farm- teaching agriculture in the schools, of the auvanced method, of farming,
ers' Union Bureau, conducted by especially in thc rural public free "> the public free schools? Why not?
the Farmers' Union of South Caro- schools is both wise and timely. The *be °'*-v bo-s •alld ®'r'8 aud
lina. bulk of the taxation needful for the Countr>' boys and ir!s> too-profU
This old-time Farmers' Society support of the State and the differ- b-v the "'formation they gain from
held a meeting a short time since f,,,t co nty governments comes from t,ic teachers in domestic science, the
and added thirty new members to the farmers in every State in the teachers of carpentry, etc., the teach-
its roTI of thirty-eight membership. U nited States, and especially in Tex- ers in biology, in psychology, in* his*
An old history of the society was *1S' where thcie are, as yet, no very tory, in English literature, in Latin.
ordered re,,rioted, to ,, cm,, largo cito to help to any great «. .„ ^nlt(!lllrtic, ? We kn„„ ltat Uiev
plete history of the society up to tent 1,1 hearing the burden, and ,
date, and the M. of oil L mom- thero are hot far ,nam,fac *0 tnd why .l uM thi* not be pwdt-.
bers from organization to date. It turing enterprises and other sources ed by studies in agricultural science?
will be interesting to read that old ^or taxable increment. This being Agriculture is more and more each
history and to look through its list true it is wisdom and a judicious pol- year becoming a science and intens-
of names. South Carolina is rich to fostor the farming interests ive farining a8 jt js called is rapidly
In hiatorle na„u , fan,- « •' way, possible, by the ^ nccossi fj
/ ilies extending from the days of the fetate government, in the improve- ® *
not far distant when thc farmer must
gressive constitution for lhat new going.
State ever yet adopted by any State. 8 eeol, a year, besidei the Id ee.,1, very „• moot ot tunning methods and the en
I he convention was controlled by the m, s,o„ary assess l,«c Na- ^ ^ ^ amo„g"t|Me ^ enhaneement of agrienltnral kno,vl- porforee make ono aere of land pro-
1-arniers nion, Iwwng a 'aimers ion.i ,h,e, o.ir, bepaid e, I her In II,e o{ ]ncn m]f,0 am„ng alt jtB cjtize„s, if you dncc what two or three produce now,
Unon man for its president. I bo membership or paid out ol thc treas- ,, ,
the annals-of
our country are farm- I)leaso> an(i certainly among those
men who elected II,-,e members will „ry of the .State. As it is not practic- ^ ' classes engaged in farming pursuits.
see to it that the const,tut,on able lor tins ney to lie paul from „ Barnwell Itbett Memmintrer Furthermore, as the farming claes.
adopted by the people. tl.o oaniwen nneir, memnunger, > ^
PICTURE OF THE FOUNDER.
pruuill VUIII, | c kw« 1
Cotton aeed, per ton
Hoca. per cwt. allva, IB.50 to...
Cattle, per cwt., alive. IB ta
Doa't aell tow Icaa.
Is yonr Local as lively as you
would like it? If not, perhaps all
your members do not read The Co-
Operator. See that they read it.
Take the matter up at the meeting
of your next Local. Send iu a largo
club for your Local.
the State treasuries, the States have
Pickens and scores of others were 08 bcar tlie grater burden of taxa-
a xc( ie members to pay this extra farrnors rp)ie Qj([ ]u-sj-orv tjiaf to tion and therefore contribute most
Stat, committeeman, J. E. Bond, amount for National purposes, ,jo ^ ^ ^ to the 9upport of the pubIic free
schools they are entitled to specific
Union, Strength.
We are builders every dav.
Have you noticed the Co-Operator
freight, department ? He sure to take
advantage of it. It is for you. Use
it.
Are you depending on sonic one
else to titfht the battles for you? If
so, your battles are lost before the
fight begins. We must depend upon
ohi'selvcs. If the'other fellow at-
tends to his business and ours, too.
lie will get the profits from both.
was with the committee here last which the membership is doing.
week, but is still suffering very much Each State should have a pride in 4 ^
from the serious accident he sustain- gutting as large a represenattion in „
ii i> 11* j* II • II J J- , .. . c. , , °f Presidi
ed. by hilling from a street car in the National meeting in September
Dallas lust Novemlier. lie has not as possible. This will be the most
been able to do any work since the important meeting ever held by the
date was published in 1820 aud con-
tains 11^ pages, being tbe property anc' technical branches of education
cut Stribliii"-. This 01J f°r their children conducive to their
history records thc fact that there that is what the public free schools
was frost on J fay 22, 1815. It also are intended for. Why then should
contains an essav on the excellence no^ t'10 farmer boys and girls be
Let every member do his full duty
this year and thus help to make
permanent the temporary success we
have won. Let's build warehouses.
Diversification of crops is a very
essential feature of farming. The
one-crop methods have never been a
success and never can be.
From .all the States comes the
cheering news that, where the Co-
Operator is read, the Locals are alive
and at work. If it could be placed
into the hands of all our people the
work would be easy. We want you
to feel that it is your paper, it is.
Use it.
accident, and it now seems that he farmers of this nation. At this meet- . • given the groimd work of education
may never be able to do manual labor ,ng a Kale of price, will be adopted (|o #f , Ma ,/„cti„n 'in upon which to build the greater and
again. I he Co-Operator deeply sym- for the next year, kvery Southern .. , moro finished superstructure to be
pathizea with him in his affliction. State and many of the Northern bljc frJ schools, Tn° country and obtained at the Agricultural and Me-
rnon vrt\^ ^ 'K- 'r"C' 1,1 c'ty> the children are prepared to c'ianical College?
senM. l.,ke all other organ,,at,on, cntcr thc ],js1tcr o( lcarn- Most of the States haro what they
ol iIms kind, the representation will . ,h(, C()]| oml Hm ,rniversil term "Industrial Schools" for young
t'o-Operator iias good news for be based upon the membership in ^ tflke up ther0 th(Jse courgeg women and young men where they
the Texas membership. A series good standing. jn ]c&mi intended to fit them for are taught along the highest and best
of dates arc to be arranged in the 1 he membership in all thc States j.^ worj. ajon evcry jjne cx. perfected lines those things suited
near future for many portions of should pay their dues because it is cep(. agrieultl1re—for the' law,' for for w0,nen .
Texas at which National President, r'ght Jo pay them, fhey are badly Inedicine> fop cngineering-civil and have to cnter t,ie lists as workers foT. toTavl alarg"'
mining—for teaching for literary t'ic support of self and those who engraved picture made on appropriate
, „ So many of our people hare written
to engage in when they for portraits of the late Newt Gresh-
Chas. S. Barrett, and State Presi- needed that the work may not suf-
Make it a warehouse wherever one
is needed. We are not able to not
build them. We must hare. them.
We will get them, this year. Wake
tip.
National Director W. S. Miller
was in Dallas one day last week look-
ing hale anil hearty. He is rejoic-
ing over the tine work now being
done in all the States. lie is an effi-
cient, hard-working official who tries,
at all times, to do his full duty.
other State.
Both of these eminent gentlemen city of Little lloek, Ark.
are consecrated to thc fanners'
will be held in September in the •^gr'c,I'tural Depart , , , , , . .. d foun(jer Who gave his life that
, ' , metit Jiave discovered and are ex- l UJ tl IU Ll11- "-B tuI„
are ex- f; •> this great organization might live,
ploiting at much expense to thc «*ov- tablishment and maintenance of such Every member of the Order should
1 ° - *- The name of the founder
We have seen quite a number of
self-binders and other valuable farm
machinery standing out in thc weath-
er of late. They need warehousing
also.
Thc producers must learn never to
come into competition with each oth-
er. Competition is the death of trade
for the producer. Let's make it a
perfect understanding.
A letter from Secretary B. F.
Earle, of the South Carolina State
Union, tells us that the work is pro-
gressing there in a most satisfactory
way. South Carolina has always,
and under all circumstances, done
her full duty. She will continue to
do so in this great work.
crnment. institutions. In this day of more Jftbis^reat^reamMtton iill techer-
— • *"'« 'W' *"* TBXAS COMMITTEE MEETS. TW> b cstondt.d „ig,10r rf. fahSWa'Sor"! the tamer, of
enls and their great energy to thc —. , . r , .... , ..... this country as long as time shall
, . , ; souls and deplore vour weakness. ucation, if you please, pupils in city last. The great good he did for hu-
ndvanccinent of our gnat cause. The Texas State Committee was , ., . .. .. ... . . , ,. , , manity while giving hi9 own life to
What a triumphant campaign it will in scsaion three davs in Dallas last ^ h°,dS 'tS mcetin&s 0,1 the free schools are taught not only the the cause, can never be estimated. He
be! It will attract people from week, it being thc regular quarterly 8econd floor' and rcnt8 out thrce ru,,iments- but t,,e advanced princi- JJJ ™ t^a8ceanth^ th^ X Hi
manv counties around at each ap- nieetinir accordimr tn tlm ronstitu- rooms below for money enough for pies of these lines of learning, there to follow might be industrially free.
, ,, ... . 1 according to xue cousiuu j s i . ' Send all orders to O. P. Pyle. Dallas,
poiutmcnt. It wilt givo tlie mein- tion. The books of the officials wcro all expenses aud with several bun- being teachers of domestic science for Texas.
bcrship of Texas a chance to meet checked up and found to lie in ex- • . ■
That mortgage will remain on the
premises a few years longer, where
nil the work stock is poor and poorly
cared for. Some way such stock
breed mortgages.
The Co-Operator is growing very
fast and we feel sure its iuHuencc
for good growa from week to week.
It is certainly our ambition to make
the paper better from week to week.
Will you help us to extend its cir-
culation? Help us to double thc
list.
Co-operator Homer L. Higgs is
making a good paper of thc Progres-
sive Farmer, of Greenfield, Tenn.
Homer is a live wire and a hard
worker for thc great cause.
Enough cotton is wasted nearly
every year by country damage to
build all the warehouses we need.
Bo you think wc can afford to not
build them ? Lei's put thc millions
of waste into millions of property.
This Crop of cotton is going to lie
a very-large one, without doubt. Bet-
ter get ready to handle it. By agita-
tion our temporary success has been
wonderful. Let's now get down to
business. W« must now make it a
permanent success. That extra blade
must be taken care of.
P Again we wish to say that no one
can be the free, independent Amer-
" jean citizen he should be and give a
mortgage oa his crop from year to
Tear." The mortgage means financial
I death. It is a terrible, awful thing.
The selling of chalk marks will
not be a very profitable business
when the producers learn not to de-
liver the goods.. It is ccrtainTy not
very complimentary to us for people
to gamble on our intelligence. Let
them sell their chalk marks if they
wish, but let us never deliver the
goods.
with and learn to love their Nation- eel lent shape and thc work found to
al President as they now do their i)0 progressing in a most satisfactory
State President. manner. It was especially gratify-
ing to find that there have been
THE COTTON SCHOOL many more Iiocal Unions organized
Texas is to have a cotton school sinw last AuS st than there were
again this year. It is to be hoped for tlie entire )'oar a,s0 80V'-
that all the States will have a cotton oral n,oro Co,,nty T]"nion9- Th's 18
school, or will patronize the Texas edifying, not only to the officials,
school. We do not know just yet, but to the ontiro membership. It is
who will teach this school, or in what Cf'rtainly most encouraging.
city in Texas it will be taught. It The committee issued a very able
will Ihj taught by competent men. address to the membership wlijch
however, and should be attended bv he found in this issue of the
many hundreds. There are but a Co-Operator. It shows much thought
very few cotton producers who can on the part of these able, consecrated
properly grade the cotton they pro- nien, who deserve the thanks of the
duce. For all these many years wo entire membership of Texas for their
have been content to take our cotton untiring work for the cause, and the
to market and sell it to thc highest very able manner they are perform-
bidder and on tho other fellow's this work.
grading. No, wo have not been con- The committee dccidcd to hold the
tent. We knew that something was annual State meoting in Fort Worth
wrong but, until recently, it never beginning Aug. 6th. The city of
occurred to us that thc fault was all Fort Worth sent a strong delegation
our own. to ask for thc State meeting. It
Well, tho fault is all our own, and will be held at Como Park in the
has always been. If we let the other western part of the city, where we
fellow attend to onr business, he will are to have free access to 1000 acres
get the profits which should be ours, of land. The mectiug is to be held
If these schools are held from year under an immense tent Every con-
to year, and thev will be held, the vcnicnce will be provided for the
time is not. far distant when all cot- comfort of tin1 delegates and visitors
tou producers, ar at least, those of to this great meeting. It is csti-
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