The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-08

member selling has been paid in
supplies at wholesale cash price.
The suggestion has been made
that every one should look through
his accounts, note what he has saved
by buying through the club and pay
that amount in cash towards next
years supplies, thus bringing him
so much nearer cash payments. Let
all farmers consider these figures
and think whether they have not
the means in reach by which they
can throw off the burden which has
been keeping them in the dust SO
long. The management ofour farms
has claimed some Of our time, we
have encouraged each other to spend
more time on our farms, take more
pains and use more home made
manure, to be more saving and make
our supplies 60 as far as they would,
all this as a means towards the end
of being Independent of asking
favors and giving liens and mort
cages.
The premiums on crops have not
been a great They were
started too late, but we hope with a
larger and more varied list of prem
iums for 1887 to provoke the MEM
bers to a friendly rivalry.
A southern Cultivator" club was
arranged with IL members early in
the year. We would say in connec-
ton with farm papers, that whatever
farming may have been in the past,
nor, in the present time with cotton
at the price it is, farming demands
the exercise of the highest intelli-
gence and this can only be arrived
at by reading papers published for
the farmer.
Much has been said at our meet
ings about each producing at home
our own corn, bacon, wheat and
oats. Farmers in the South are
scarcely so far ahead of the times
that it pays to have a railroad to
their corn crib and smoke houses
and those important farm buildings
at Chicago, Baltimore or Whining
ton. =
We try to take an interest in all
that takes place around U.s., more
especially in those matters affecting
the interests Of the farmers of the
South. When we read that in the
tariff bill before Congress it was
proposed to increase the tariff or
tax on cotton ties from 35 to 20 per
cent, the effect of which would be
to take an additional $65O,OOO from
Southern planters, making $780,
600, which sum would be transferred
from II pockets and our brethren
in the South to the Millionaire Iron
Manufacturers, we feel our indiy-
nation aroused against such attempts
at protection, grinding the toiling
millions that the few who are rich
may grow richer and the poor poorer.
Has not the time come when the
Farmers should be represented in
the Halls of our Legislature and not
by those whose time is wholly spent
in looking to their own interests?
We have to regret the decease of
+. ID. Ingram, one Of the earliest
members as we'll as one Of the
truest and staunchest and best.
A farmer by birth and inclination,
he was most devoted to his profess
sion, delighting to take hold Of the
toughest piece of land on his
plantation and by skill and labor
make it produce good crops. He
was one of the first to feel the i'm
portance of Farmers cooperating
together for their common good;
generous, kindhearted, unselfish,
full of information and experience
all of which he vas ready and will
ing to give in the way of advice.
All will remember his kindly smile
and cordial manners. He will be
truly missed by very many of those
amongst whom he moved.
Let us hope that his love of the
farm, his kindness and unselishness
may be inherited by many Of our
young farmers.