The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-12

A FARMERS EDUCATIONAL /
] COOPERATIVE union |
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Keep your eye on the hog and thu
hen along these hot days. They viii
both do good business all through the
summer, if they have a decent chance
Keep the saddle and harness off the
horse all the time possible during this
hot weather The good man fire.
Quently washes his horse during the
summer.
The way that the Union is growing
IN Arkansas is one of the wonders OF
the order. Arkansas farmers are
coming into their own" in a way
that is most gratifying.
II the COWS do not have plenty of
water and shade these hot dry DAYS
they will fail in the pail and will also
fall off in flesh, not to mention the
fearful suffering from thirst.
1t Is often the case that the man
who works most gets the least. It is
TO remedy this that we want EDUCA-
lion and COOPERATION. The re-.
wards should go to the workers.
You are not built right if you have
tailed to prepare for the cattle to get
into the shade when they want to. In
many pastures there is no shade at
all. This is not right; in fact, it is
the height of cruelty.
See to it that the pigs have plenty
of good, clean water. Pigs. when
driven to it, will drink most ANYTHING,
but it is starvation and not prefer.
ence that takes a pig to some of the
meSSeS that he sometimes must drink.
IL you happen to look out and find
the stock water all gone, immediately
get busy preparing some for them.
and don't take a drink yourself until
you have watered all that are thirsty.
IheSe hot days are simply awful to
the thirsty.
Don't go home disguised with the
Union meeting "'cause nothin' never
happened" You are as important as
and if things are not hap
penlng get busy and start something
that it will take the whole country
TO stop, but which they don't want
to stop.
Don't take yourself too seriously"
Is a good motto for those who think
they are worked to death. As a rule
great workers never seem to be con.
'c1ous of the fact that they are at
work at all. All of us too much mag
llfy the work We do, and not the
Kind of work it is.
The number of members in vour
Union does not cut so much figure
n the final accounting as does the
quality OF men who make up the mus
er roll. At the top of this country's
'lS enterprises are only a few men.
mere are not so many top-notchers.
let the right sort of people, then the
est is easy.
Remember that the only wealth of ,
ne South, comparatively speaking, is
nat OF the farm or the results of
uccessful farming. The bulk of the I
ortunes made in the West have come ,
rom land speculation. This is ulti. S
lately at the expense of the farmer, t
no has to pay the high price of the h
md, and must work the harder and G
lie closer to make living on account
the high price of the land.
These are piping times of peace Il
wv, and 1t would be good thing for +
~ to, get in shape so that moth q
g will hurt you," if one of those n
'er recurrent hard times" should Is
t in. While it is easy to make the II
oney to pay for it, keep the boys fl
I'd the girls in the school. Maybe it NJ
III not be so easy little later on f.
do this. -
II the cotton growers are in dead
rnest about the matter of helping n,
cotton industry, they will wrap &C
3 bales in cotton. This would con. in
me the difference between too much 81
tton and not quite enough, and is
'uld cut out the low price of a sur 81