The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-27

The Wilson correspondent of the
Morning Post furnishes that organ
of the trusts an item found in it's
issue of 23rd inst, which shows
thatto him, the trust seems to
have appeared in a new light as it
comes nearer home to him. He says
"The omniverous fingers of the
greedy and g trust have
closed around one of Wilson's most
fourishing enterprises, and in a day
or so the news will go out to the
world that the money making and
admirably managed Wilson oil mills
had been sold out to the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company, a rich
and powerful organization which is
buying up all the mills in the
try. Yes, indeed the march of the
trust is imperialistic and resistless,
and no agency a stoy or stop it's
cyclonic sweep and power. Like that
rushing storm, when forests are torn
into shattered splinters and ships go
down in watery graves with foam
capped waves for burial shrouds, the
trust is sweeping over the country
like a wild hesom of destruction, and
small enterprises are ravenously
swallowed in it's greedy and Unsuitable
nav"
Those who have kept at all apace
with the progress of events through
the last score of months cannot have
failed TO see the Unsuitable appetite
of the omniverous trust which are
fast filling our land, and gulping in
everything on top of, and in the
bowels of, Gods green earth.
The Virginia. Carolina Chemical
Co., as branch of the American To-
bacco Co., has succeeded in gulping
in every fertilizer factory of any
consequence in the South. Not only
this, it has also gobbled up all the
phosphate beds worth working in
this whole country. 1t has a corner
on all the other chemical ingredients
used in the manufacture Of fertilizer,
except ammonia Ammonia they
fnd IN most available condition in
cotton seed meal. To get control of
this Ingredient, thew must control
the mills, this in q straightforward
manner or otherwise, they propose
to do by purchasing outright, and
the Wilson mill is one Of the last IN
the whole South to fall under its
power. All of any consequence any
where between the Potomac and the
Rio Grnnde have surrendered TO this
giant octopus, Unsuitable sucker Of
the substance of the Southern
farmer.
They corner the fertilizers com
panies; you can purchase not ex
cept of them as their price. They
corner the oil mills you can sell not
your seed except to them at their
price. If you decide you will pur.
chase chemicals and mix your ma
nure al home, the phosphate is priced
to you by them. If you want kainit,
you will find tine Virginia. Carolina
Chemical Co. standing guard at the
dock ready TO forbid. These are ter
rible facts these are real condition.,
by no means theories that now con
front us. What is to be done ahnu
it? Yea, What are we t. do aborr :
We produce in North Cr llua
500, 900 bales of cotton. Wl5n each
bale about 800 pound IT seed, or
200, 900 tons. About 10, 900 tons of
these T surplus. Counting ID tons
to the car load we nave a surplus of
10, 900 car loads of seed. These mile
can't run without these seeds. The
fertilizer company can't make fer
filters without ammonia. They
get that from cotton seed meal,
which is bound to come from the
seed. He must have, is just bound
TO have, the seed or his game is
blocked. Now turn about is fair
play. Let us get oar price for the