The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-02-15
Mr.. BarrOw'S Final Plea For Farmer
Cooperation.

Corporation.
Editor Herdid:-I Will now redeem
u my promise made in former article
to give plan by which the farmer cal
thrash his wheat without hiring extr,
labor to do it. There are two WAYS tina
he can do it, either of which is better
ana cheaper than the hiring of day
labor
One OF the plans is for enough farm.
ers living near to each other to unite
their forces and thrash each ones grain,
but there is still a better way to get
thrashlng done. have a proposition
from reliable party to thrash grain
that Will not cost the farmer by one.
third, as much as to hire day labor, and
viii relieve the farmer of the worry
with the worthless hands that he now
has to do the work with. The propo-
sition IS this, he agrees to thrash at
the same rate OF toll that the farmers
now pay. The farmers to pay him
seventy five cents each per day for five
hands and furnish board, the same as
he now furnishes The farmer to have
nothing to do with the work but to
stack his wheat 50 that il can be gotten
to the machine by setting the machine
twice, measure and take the wheat
from the machine.
The conditions upon which the par
~ agrees to thrash at the price above |
stated, is that enough farmers will |
agree to give him their wheat to thrash
to make up ten thousand bushels of
wheat. That Will enable him to get
machinery to stack the straw with and
the work will be done much better
than ii is now done, but you see that
cooperation is necessary to get our
wheat thrashed upon the terms that /
have given. In fact there can be moth
ing done for the betterment of the farm
ers condition and the Improvements of
labor without cooperation.
Cooperation is the price the farmer
has got to pay before he can compete
with other callings, that he is bound
to compete in the race Of life for his
share Of what he produces, and until
the farmer pays the price he will have
to do without the goods.
saw in the Dispatch Of a recent date
an account Of a meeting Of the promi- ;
lent educators Of the country, and sew
sral Of the speakers referred to the labor .
question and ali of them in part en-
iOrsed the principle embodied in my
plan to make labor better. DIR. Bar
niger, of the University of Virginia, ,
oOk exactly the same position on the B.
abor question as is embodied in my :,
)lan 10 make labor better. That is we
must not attempt TO elevate the infe-
Tor laborer above the superior, or in
ther words, we must not attempt to
hange what God has made by eleva- n
ing the negro above the poor white h
aborer and on that point he sounds a
tote Of warning that it will be well for h
Is to heed. He says in effect that there
re breakers ahead. v
He refers to the bad feelings that ex- o
It between the two races that must be b
pparent to every observant mind as o
n the increase. Some Of the speakers cI
aid that the white man had to make "
he negro better or get rid Of him, and II
nat is just what say and what my Sc
Ian contemplates. The white man SC
an make the negro anything that he n
ANTS him to be by uniting and band pa
X together, and it is our imperative "
uty to make the negro better or to "
irn him over to some one else that IL
i'll make him better. III
When we make up our minds to do al
lat and unite ourselves together and y,
D to work upon the best plan that we tr
IN devise, the work will be accom- en-
ished. w. A. BARROW.