The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-17
THE FARMERS
CONVENTION.


by his thought and study, electricity
has become Indispensable today.
The legal profession has its or
aanizatfon for uplifting the profession
and tucu condemn trIcESi"rS ana Sht--
tars i'm their ranks. 50 With all pro-
LESSONS ana trades. Tn" Iab"feI" arc
Organized for the uplifting Of their
people. We have . splendid o~rGaniz@-
zion Of tho cotton growers Of t.c SoCin
for the purpose Of uplifting our p@"-
PIE. for tho purpose of dig1IfEIHg ~
calling. not fD become stuck mp, or
cold and reserved a. the word 'dIgnl-
f. il sometimes treated, but IN Its
Ineaning-to invest with honor, to
make fIluztrioEs. to cXalt ina rank, 20
give distinction to.
"ean YOU estimate the value of q
hrst class honorable man IN Il com
munity:2 ! man whose word IS the
truth, q man of character. ability and
good sense and energy? His character
gives tone to the community, his ahIl-
itv leads. his good sense tcmpcrS ana
mis- energy stimulates.
TOO many farmers are farmers be
cause they cannot do anything else
They should earn to love the farm and
mako it more attractive. 40 bust
ness yields a better income to the in
vcstmcnt than the farm. We should
make il attractive so that the children
viii love if. Make it attractive by a
variety Of crops, by Investigation.
MHke the home comfortable and there
by make the children happy. Farmers
do not give the children a fair deal.
They are considered only children.
When was q boy the children had
to wait until the grown folks were
through eating and then the children
were given a chance at what was left.
Children should sit at the table and
eat with GroWn people and there they
,ln,,lJ ha t11rcht nn1itonpc- ana their
mouths should not be scaled up. The
boys are packed off in the worst room
in the house. If there is q broken
pitcher in the house it finds It's way
10 the boys room. Any old thing viii
do for the boys. The boy should
nave as good as you can afford. \
picture on his vail helps to refine him.
Flowers around the house show re
tinamcnt and such things make the
boys ana girls happier and make
them love their home. / was riding
with a gentleman . few days ago. We
came to a farm house-a tenants
homeland | never saw so many pretty
l0Wcrs. | asked who lived there. The
gentleman said: job Lucas lives
here About that time the noise Of
tho buggy was heard in the house and
negro ChiIdrCn'S heads began to pop
out at the windows. Hello said j,
'Wls2t are all these negroes doing
acre. rte SttII. JoIlil 1JiCdS - Il It-
Gro. onQuirCd about the family and
found that the negro m had been
q house servant for some educated and
cultivated white people. This refine
IMcnt is handed down. | was passing
by one of my own negro tenant hOuses
last year and it was Sunday with them.
q general airing day, and | counted
40 jars of fruit in the piazza. The
most of it was bIac<bcu@ies but they
make Il good pie. Give the children
CrS who go to town two or three times
q week with butter and eggs and their
children hardly know the taste of but
ter or eggs. | know q family who
sold a great deal of butter. one of the
promising boys was a butter seller.
one morning at breakfast he started
to cut some butter at the table. He
drew his knife back aud said You
look good but you bring money
FARMERS are as q class no better
than other people but they are as good
and they should feel so. They should
fix themselves up the best they can
afford chem they go to church and to
town and there is no cause for the
tIIler of the soil, the producer of the
world, 20 go with a doWn-caSt head.
Go with high, not naughty. heads.
Encourage your boys. Tell them that
they can be SOmebody-that they can
be what other great men have been"