The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-16
MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLAR RS
SAVED.
Progressive Farmer.l

Progressive Farlner.l
AS per report of the State Business
Agent at the meeting of the State
Alliance at Greensboro. the sales OF
| N. C. Farmers Alliance Official
Guano to that date amounted to 49,
S21 tons. This brand of guano i:
manufactured upon a formula adopt
ed by the State Business Agent and
under his direction. The CONNER
cial value of the ingredients used is
about So per ton above the standard
required by the State Agricultural
Department.
When the State Agent adopted thi:
formula and arranged for its manu-
facture, all other brands rating nc
higher in commercial value, were
selling in the State at prices ranging
from S35 to $50 per ton, while the
n. G.. Alliance Guano has been furn-
ished at Durham for $3.50 and at
Richmond, Va, for $1,000 per tou
The manufacturers are under con-
tract with our State Agent to sup
ply our demands this season at the
same prices, Notwithstanding the fact
that there has been an advance of
several dollars per ton on some of
the ingredients used therein.
While it is not claimed that the
State Agency has saved all the differ
ence between the prices of fertilizers
in North Carolina when the agency
adopted and arranged for the manu-.
facture of this Alliance official
brand, and the prices ruling now,
yet it is clear that this arrangement
has had a tendency to bring down
the prices of all other brands sold in
the State, and yet there is difference
averaging more than S. per ton be-
tween the n. G. Farmers, Alliance
Offie ial and other brands of no high
CT commercial value. While we be-
lieve that this arrangement of our
State Business Agency has worked
al average saving to the farmers of
at last $40 on every ton of guano
sold in the State for the past three
seasons, whether Alliance brand or
not; whether purchased through the
agency or not; or whether purchased
by Alliancemen or not, still, suppose
we say that the saving is confined to
Alliancemen and to those only who
have purchased this n. G. Alliance
Guano, and that the actual saving to
them has been only S. per ton, on the
3S,S21 ton of n. G. Alliance guano
sold we have nice little saving of
SlO4, 105. Any fair minded man
will see that this is not over drawing
the picture. There have been, in
each Of the three seasons included in
this statement, more than $50 differ
ent brands of fertilizers offered in
North Carolina. Now suppose there
was an average saving of S. per ton
to the purchaser of every ton of their
sales, and that the Alliance Agency
sold one-tenth of all guano used. and
no one will claim that ii did, vet for
the sake of argument suppose it did,
then the above saving of $194,1O5
should be multiplied by ten to get at
the saving to the State in the past
three years by the North Carolina
Farmers Alliance Business Agency
ON fertilizers alone of SI,941 O50.
These figures are startling and vet
no one can say they are exaggerated.
And yet the agency is in its infancy.
Inc $4,000 contributed by the true
Alliancemen of North Carolina. to
to back this agency, has done a grand
work, and yet many of the brethren
do not realize it. The agency has
enemies; they are rich, powerful and
unscrupulous. They will hesitate at
nothing to destroy the agency and
the noble order that gave it birth.
life and power. These enemies with
ont our ranks ar sharp enough to
know that direct attack by them
would be. too well understood, SO their
resort to the n-eaner, baser method
OF using the traitors inside the order:
they know them and they know the
price at which they can be purchas-
ed. Secretaries and Presidents and
Lectures of our County and Sub-
Alliances are all tried and taken To
the top OF some little eminence and
and shown the Offices of the county
and s'the glory of them" Too
many do not say ..get thee behind
me, Satap," but yield to the tempter
Tor the promised nomination for
some pretty office at the next county
convention of theparty, Having Weld
ed ne Is used for all heis worth. 1t NAV
be that now and then one isnominated
Tor the legislature. but if he is il with
the distinct understanding who he
shall serve if elected. This, brethren
Is the way our enemies work. This
method we will have to watch with
all vigilance Or the traitors of the
Alliance and of the people will sell
us into the hands Of our enemies onr
eyes will be put out and we will he
put at the mill to grind, or in the
temple to play the clown for the
amusement of the Philistines.