The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-16
How Do You Like It?

How Do You Like It?
Well, how do you like the idea of
our Farmers union column?
IF our farmers column Is not as
good as you think it should be, sup
pose you chip in and make it better.
A good, practical farmer is sure to
know something which, if told, will
benefit his neighbor.
Usually the man that knows things
has no trouble in telling what he
knows, and then he stops talking. Men
that really know little, or nothing,
talk long, trying to tell something
: they don t know.
Farmers institutes are good
schools for both old and young farm
ers, but they don It come your way but
once year, while our Farmers union
columns visit you each week-that is
if you subscribe for your home paper.
If all your neighbors-for the want
Of better knowledge Of business-sell
their cotton crop for what it cost to
make it, or less, then you are compel
led to take the same price for yours.
You see that, in order to get profitable
prices at the beginning, you must go
cut and bring ia your neighbors with
you.
Where is the profit or sense Of max
ing three bales of cotton grow where
two grew before if that little 2 by 4
cotton speculator comes in for that
extra third bale?
Better come across, boys, and join
the Farmers union and learn to grow
the right size crop and then sell it
right. -.
The Farmers union is standing up
against this hot battle against cotton
spectators and winning some advan-
tages in every skirmish.
,If you think you have a better plan
to organize farmers and keep them or
gained than the union, why let's
hare it, it. ana we will join right into it
With m you, for we can never maintain
profitable prices to the producer with
out organization and loyal co-opera-
ton: - =: :. -, -.
IF you. can grow all the nitrogen
needed in your soil free Of. cost by
planting cowpeas, Why in the thunder
don't you do ite After the nitrogen
IS placed in the ground, then the pea
vine hay stack is a mighty good for
ti6cation for the mules to stand be-
hind when rough times and March
winds come along. Mortgage mules
are said to like town hay; best, but
good Farmers union men don't be-
lieve it.
If you think that. you are little
too good, too smart, too rich or too
insignificant to join in with your
neighbors in the Farmers union, DO
go and join the cotton association or
some other organization that is doing
good for your southern country.
Many Of US Farmers union men be-
long to the cotton association, and We
enjoy sitting in council with these
bright business men Of the South. We
learn something every time we meet
with them; and it does the farmer
good to hear these big, rich men tell
the farmer that every interest Of the
whole south is dependent upon the
prosperity of the farmer.
After rubbing up against these
shrewd business men in cotton as
sociation we feel mighty proud and
rich for a long time afterwards: but
when we are in deep trouble about
the every day affairs Of the farming
interest, and are seeking out fra
ternal friend that IS IN 1t with you IN
everything, and that should be loyal
to his own, we just naturally want to
set right along by the side Of the old
farmer and whisper the pass word
into his ear.
The cotton association is no more
farmers organization than it is
business mans organization. You can
not build a stone mansion out Of
wood. A farmers organization must
be- made of farmers.