The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1906 Page: 3 of 16
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THE NATIONAL CO-OPERATOR AND FARM JOURNAL
a
FARMERS' UNION BUREAU.
South Carolina Union’s Mouthpiece
Sends Forth the Following Items
of Interest and Value.
Steps are now being taken to start
the most important enterprise in the
interest of cotton growers in
the
South yet known.
W. C. Moore, one of the best in-
formed cotton experts; T. T. Wake-
field, president of the Anderson Coun-
ty Farmers’ Union and Hon. J. B.
Watson, a large cotton planter, all of
the South Carolina branch of the
Farmers’ Union, have obtained a com-
mission from the State to organize a
“Farmers’ Cotton Union” for the pur-
pose of selling the farmers’ cotton di-
rect to spinners.
The initial capital of the first com-
pany will be $10,000, privileged to
increase capital to any amount re-
quired to support the business. In
order to popularize the enterprise
among the growers of cotton as much
as possible it is thought advisable to
place the shares at $1.00. Now the
cotton growers of the South produce
and place upon the market each year
from six to seven hundred million dol-
lars’ worth of cotton. Between the
producer and spinner, as the trade
now goes, are a vast and expensive
army of men whose chief occupation
has its support in demoralizing the
cotton market and getting the crop
out of the producers’ hands as cheap-
ly as possible and selling the spinners
as high as possible.
As we look upon this new proposi-
tion we can see no reason why grow-
ers of cotton cannot, with proper man-
agement, place their cotton directly
into the hands of the spinners as read
ily as they now place it into the hands
of the speculative element that stand
between the two. It appears to us
that the growers of the staple would
naturally have more confidence in
themselves than they should have in
men who make vast fortunes by stand-
ing between the producer and spin-
ners of cotton.
Cotton growers must trust some one
and must place confidence in some
one to price and take his cotton to the
spinner. Farmers, you are square up
against the proposition—will you con-
tinue to trust and confide the busi-
ness of pricing and handling your cot-
ton crops to the grand wolfish pack
that rob you, year in and year out, of
your hard-earned profits? or will you
take hold of your own affairs by join-
ing hands with the “Farmers’ Cotton
Union” and have something to say
about the pricing of your own pro-
ducts? 1
Will you continue to trust the gang
that you know have been robbing you,
and then take your profits out in cuss-
ing and calamity howling? Or will you
side up with the “Farmers’ Cotton
Union,” and pocket the profits for
yourselves?
Lest those that are real friends to
the farmer through ignorance oppose
the plans and movement, it may be
best to say a word as to what the
“Farmers’ Cotton Union” is and what
it will do, and what it proposes to do
for the individual cotton grower. It
is not necessary to reveal the work-
ings or details, as these are available
to all that have a right to know
through regular channels. It is first
and always only a working “arm” of
the Farmers’ Educational and Co-Op-
erative Union, and under such control
and direction, and proposes to be the
medium through which the individual
farmer can sell his cotton direct to the
spinner, anywhere located and through
which the spinner anywhere in the
world can in confidence make known
to the farmer his wants and what he
will pay for it at first hands, and in
any quantity he may need, any day in
the year. It proposes to perform this
service at actual cost to each specific
bale handled, thereby obliterating all
manner of profit and speculation be-
tween planter and the mill.
It proposes to receive all cotton,
whether grown by Union farmers or
not, on exactly the same terms. It
will receive lots of cotton at any ware-
house or platform that is served by a
railroad connection, and have same
sampled by an official sworn to do his
duty honestly and under bond. These
samples will then pass before a board
of experts, whose duty shall be to
place exact and specific grade classifi-
cation on each particular bale, and to
do so without knowing any other par-
ticulars than what they see in the
sample before them, and in that also
individually, so that their judgment
will be beyond any outside influence
or judgment of others; the object be-
ing to fix grades to an exact standard
and unchangeable, fixing once for all
the value per pound for such cotton.
Upon this the District Grade office
will issue a ticket to the farmer con-
taining full and exact details of these
facts, together with weights and loca-
tion of the particular bale, with an
assignment clause on back of same
so that it becomes a warrant for the
proceeds of sale, and can be placed
as collateral security or used to pay
a debt or sold for its face value at any
time, that being easily determined by
the weight and grade price for that
day at the station or warehouse in
which cotton is held. When sale is
ordered or a bid accepted, the F. C.
U. will ship this particular bale to
the mill purchasing with others in the
cheapest and most direct manner and
route, and make money draft for the
net amount of net returns of sale, and
take up the grade ticket from any
bank or source it may reach the Dis-
trict Grade office of the F. C. U. for
full value received.
It proposes to concentrate all han-
dling and all cost to an exact cent per
bale, and that the least possible. What
this may mean in saving and relief,
we will leave for others to say. We
know that the plan will be ridiculed,
be hooted by all speculators and gam-
blers and their minions and “pimps,”
but that will make but little difference
to the farmer or the manufacturer so
long as they two can agree and do
business to suit their own welfare.
Royally Robed Now.
King Cotton has been in its mourn-
ing dress long enough. It is now in
order for his subjects—the cotton
growers of the South—to see to it
that their king (cotton) wear a robe
in keeping with the position held by
this, the greatest commodity of all the
products of the United States, the
richest nation on earth. This cover-
ing or robe should not be made of
royal purple or fine linen made of
grass grown on foreign lands, but our
home interest and self-protection de-
mands that the South make her own
wrapping to cover her great staple
products out of her own fleecy staple
grown in her own fields.
To say that the South has not been
able to meet competition for cheap
covering for her great staple, makes
a new argument why this condition
should be overcome in the future.
Special Seeds
======= for -
Market Gardeners
I have special, strains of Seed of Proved and
Tested Value for MARKET GARDENERS and
TRUCKERS all illustrated and described in my
Market Gardeners’ Wholesale Catalogue
Sent free on request. .
I was the introducer of SPARKS’ EARLIANA
and JUNE PINK TOMATOES and have special
strains of them. Also a New Winning Cucumber. -
STOKES SEED STORE
WALTER P. STOKES of the late firm of Johnson & Stokes
219 Market St.,
Long
Stap
Cotton Seed
Plant the Cotton that brings fron 16c to 23c per pound. My stock is limited. Write
for my special Cotton Seed Circular. C. W. ROBERTSON, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas.
SOIL FOOD.
The thorough disintegration of the
soil particles by plowing, disking, har-
rowing and after-crop cultivation will
serve to secure the porosity afforded
by humus, but the mechanical condi-
tion will not be maintained unless
humus be added or some other agent, : on his product. But the producer of
such as slaked lime, be used to break
up the texture and make it light
Where wornout farms are round. It
will almost invariably be noted unat
for years the products of the fields
have been sold in the market, and
no adequate return made to the soil
for the fertilizing elements removed,
to say nothing of the constant eating
up of the supply of humus, leaving
the soil hard and impervious to water
and air, so that nature was no longer
able to act upon the latent and insol-
uble plant food stored in the soil.
- The virgin fields of the West were
looked upon as inexhaustible store-
houses of plant food by the pioneer,
but he has long since been disillu-
sioned, learning a very costly lesson,
that now, all but too late, he is begin-
ning to profit by, but not as fully as
he should. Not many years ago—and
even now—the Western farmer burn-
ed his great lines of straw stacks after
the threshing, left his cornstalks in
the fields to be burned in the spring,
shipped his corn and wheat, and
again plowed the land and planted,
looking forward to innumerable har-
vests yet to come. To-day he is sell-
ing much of his grain on the hoof,
at better prices, and returning much
of the fertilizing value of his crops
to the fields in animal excreta and
rough stuff rotted or saturated with
liquids. Millions of tons of valuable
manurial substances, including un-
cared for animal manure, still goes to
waste in the prodigal West, but ne-
cessity together with an education to
the value of their use, is gradually
making for a greater conservation of
all fertilizing material.
The return to the soil of the waste
product of the farm, and intelligent
cultivation, are not the only factois
in maintaining' soil productiveness.
The use of legumes plays one of the
most important parts in the mainte-
nance of fertility.
Philadelphia.
No, Jessica; because a man is hen-
pecked doesn’t necessarily signify that
he is in the poultry business.
USE OUR OWN BRAND.
There is not a creditable manufac-
turer in any line but what takes pride
in placing his own label or brand up-
cotton, the “greatest of all the pro-
ducts of land or sea, whether from
fields or forest, mines or workshope-
as the Yorkville Enquirer says—there
is no commodity that is more continu-
ously or universally in demand than
cotton.” And yet the producers of
this great product have never thought
it profitable to place their own brand
upon their packages or even require
their packages to be put up in decent
form and handled in an unmistakable
way that would carry with each bale
the exact weight and grade with prop-
er guarantee behind it.
SEEDS THAT GROW
Bert quality Garden. Flower Tfo
and Farm Seeds, Alfalfa,WARE
Clover, Seed Potatoes. We s. . to
will send free with cat- 840,1 have fun
alogue a pkt. of newo 0 and Or Nunsery
lettuce seed "May Ros piant
King” the bestX^^O*><ndB^lb&
head lettuceSand out +e
ever intro-aWav- GERMAN NURSERIES,
Acea co or non no. 2 FATHER.
THE IMPROVED ROWDENS
COTTON SEED
First premium at Texas State Fair,
Dallas, 1906, and first premium at Ab-
ilene Fair, 1906. Five-lock, large boll
and easy picked; 1400 pounds seed cot-
ton will gin a 550 pound bale. Refer-
ence: Any bank or business house in
% Wills Point, Texas; $1.00 per bushel to
individuals, f. o. b. Wills Point; 100
bushels or more to clubs or local, at
80 cents per bushel, f. o. b. Wills Point.
Order to-day.
G. H. Winfrey, - Wills Point, Texas
Alfalfa
SEED
and HAY
For Rale in Any Quanity-
R. E. Smith,
Sherman, Texas,
HAVE FOR prompt shipment choice al-
falfa North Texas prairie hay; corn,
even weight sacks, ear and bulk, stain-
ed and bright oats, chops and bran. W.
G. Thomas, Wholesale Commission, 436
w. on Building. McKinney, Texas.
SEEDS In stock: Mexican June
corn, amber, orange, red top and
seeded ribbon cane, large German
millet, true Turkestan, Colorado
and Texas alfalfa. Bermuda and
other grasses. Full line fresh gar-
don seeda Fruit baskets and box
material. Write for catalogue.
DAVID HARDIE SEED CO.,
Dallas* Texas.
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Pyle, O. P. The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1906, newspaper, December 19, 1906; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636850/m1/3/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .