The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-14
MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS
SAVED.

Farmers Alliance OtlClaI Gua {
) that date amounted to 38 1921 tons
This brand of guano is manufacture,
l upon a formula adopted by the Stat
! Business Agent and under his direc
l ton. The commercial value of the In
, gradients used is about 50 per ton abov'
the standard required by the Stat
Agricultural Department.
When the State Agent adopted thi:
formula and arranged for it's manufac
ture, all other brands, rating no higher
in commercial value, were selling in
the State at prices ranging from $35 tC
$50 per ton, while the N. @. Alliance
Guano has been furnished at Dur
ham for $21.50 and at Richmond,
Va, for 500. SO per ton. The manufac-
turers are under contract with our
State Agent to supply cur demands
this a at the same prices, not
w~ithstanding 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 difference be-
tween the prices of fertilizers in North
Carolina when the agency adopted and
arranged for the manufacture of this
Alliance official brand, and the prices
ruling now, yet it is clear that this ar
rangement has had a tendency to bring
down the prices of all other brands sold
IN the State, and yet there is a differ
ence averaging more than S. per ton
between the n. @. Farmers Alliance
Official and otter brands of no higher
commercial value. While we believe
that this arrangement of our State Bust
ness Agency has worked an average
saving to the farmers of at last
$40 IN 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 Atliancemen or not, still, suppose
we say that the saving is confined to
Alliancemen and to those only who
IL w POA S41CbSCO GiiIO N. ~. AllldDC0
Guano, and that the actual saving
to them has been only S. per ton, on
the 80, 1921 tons Of N. @. Alliance guano
sold we have a nice little saving Of
1874, 1O5. Any fair-minded man will
see that this is not o~ver-drawing the |
picture. There have been, in each of
the three seasons included in this
statement, more than $50 different |
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 guanos used, and no one
Will claim that it did, yet for the sake
OF argument suppose it did, then the
above saving of 1874, 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
Agency on fertilizers alone of
81, 941 $50. These figures are startling
and yet no one can say they are exag-
gerated. And yet the agency is in it's
infancy. The $33, 900 contributed by
the true Alliancemen of North Caro-
Ina, to back this agency, has done a
grand work, and yet many of the
brethren DO not realize it. The agency
.as enemies; they are rich, powerful
INSCRIPTIONS. They will hesitate
nothing to destroy the agency and
he noble order that gave it birth, life {
power. , These enemies without .
'ur ranks are sharp enough to know l
hat a direct attack by them would be t
we'll understood, so Their resort to l
he meaner, baser method Of using the l
inside the order; they know
hem and they know the price at which |
hey a be purchased. Secretaries !
nd Presidents and Lecture rs of our '
and Sub Alliances are all tried =
nd taken to the top of some little emf L
and shown the offices of the I
and "the glory of them" Too '
1any do not say get thee behind me, L
but yield to the tempter for the l.
romised nomination for some petty a
flee at the next county convention of u
party Having yielded he is used ID
all he is worth 1t may be that now /
nd then is nominated for the leg. P
but if he is it is with the dis G.
net understanding who he shall serve 4
elected. This, brethren, is the way L
Ir enemies work. This method we &
i'll have to watch with all vigilance o.
the traitors of the Alliance and of b.
lie people will sell us into the hands of Of
If enemies, eyes will be put out VI
we will be put at the mill to grind. y
in the temple to play the clown fnr pI