The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

Flour is advancing rapidly.
wanted-Thoroughbred pigs.
Good mixed Cuba molasses, 13c.
e.t in stock of queen of Carolina
peas.
Dr,s QUEEN OF CAROLINA The
--latest Pea ever discovered. Yields
99o0 to /. OF. 25c.
uooIen prices are deferred till next
uook IF YOU want us to be responsible
20 vou. YOU must ship by our direction,
Will you notice Jul prices on harness
and saddlesG They are North Carolina
made goods. Factory in Raleigh.
ANYTHING wanted in this line will have
our PERSONAL attention.
Please don't ask us to ship goods
O. D. or sight draft bill lading at
tached. That class of shipments gen.
srsllv causes trouble all round. Better
send the money or file a bond.
In packing goods for market be sure
IN nut them up in nice attractive style,
and of uniform conditions all the way
through. The former will catch the
eve and the latter betokens honesty.
Eggs for Matching from pure 8. @.
White Leghorns, 81 per Is.
sc. Brown Leghorns, 81 per Is.
Pekin Ducks, 81 per ID.
Carefully packed and delivered to
express office here.
BAsKETs.-Bsrry baskets and crates,
gifts and standards, bean crates ana
baskets: crates and baskets for all
kinds of fruits. Send for catalogue.
State what you want and get urprlces
before buying elsewhere.
A brother writes: Send me a price
list of everything that a farmer uses
and a list of what he has to SELL" A
pretty hard thing to do, but we sent
him a copy of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER with request to subscribe.
ALI bonds sent in to this Office should
be frst-class. 1t is our duty to make
some Investigation before shipping out
goods on bonds. If the bonds are not
found to be sufficient we have to return
them and that causes delay. Be sure
that your bonds are good.
I'VE can buy such goods as we buy
from you through the Agency namely
sugar, coffee, molasses and such like
just as cheap by retail from our mer-
chants as we can get them from you
by adding on the freights and a little
for DOSAGE" writes e brother.
lam glad that he is thus frank. This
may be true, and for several reasons.
His local merchant may be a man who
buys in carload lots, and if so he can
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height than we can. He may be
shreWd enough to see that if he can
control the trade of a few leading ALI
ancemen he can get the influence of
thecommunity, and thereby materially
increase his trade. Or he may be one
who hates the Alliance so much that
heB willing to cut his own throat in
order to kill the Alliance. For any of
nese reasons he may sell goods at a
loss to a few persons and for a short
ume. 1t is a simple business transac-
aon with the merchant to offer induce
aents to catch you. When you are in
DIS strap then he has it all his own way,
and you pay what he tells you. Sup
pose all Alliancemen over the State
mould be caught in this way, so that
Ne Agency would have to close its
Uoofs and distribute its fund, do you
Wlnk it would be 80 days before the
merchants percentages would begin to
aaVanceG How long before we would
uaVe nothing to guide us and couldnot
~l now much too much we were pay
Igi If the Agency does nothing else,
y keeps prices down to a minimum. |
ouE 1t cannot do that unless you keep
It up.
regret if we cannot buy through
ne Agency as good goods as cheap as
V'ners buy. We try to be On the alert
Snd deal only with honorable, reliable
houses. If the brethren will condense
aeF orders and instead, for instance,
VI ordering one barrel of -four at a
"ne, will order 10, 30, or so, the Agency
an buy to much better advantage.