The Newark journal., 1908-07-24
Vol. s. No. 3l
HEAVY DRAIN ON COUNTRY
Farmers Spend Big Sums for Things
 They Should Raise at Home

uo du 1tGtli OI CO1lIifSfCt WHICH iS ol 1ii- terest to the farmers throughout the country, as well as our immediate vicinity. Newark is small town com pared to many other places and the territory from which it draws trade is limited, yet it is place of consider able business and Is surrounded on tic south and east by the rich farming lands of both White and Black river bottoms, and good hill country on the north and west. An ordinary year the cotton handled here amounts to about five thousand bales.
 But the condition of our country is based upon the independence and wealth of our people. We presume that what holds good here will cor respond with other towns with equal advantages. We find from an exami- nation the following condition which will indicate the condition of our people.
 Since January l. 1908. there has been shipped into Newark about twen- lA bushels each, or fourteen thousand bushels of corn The average retail price of this corn has been about eigh- ty-five cents per bushel OF a total of $11. 900.
 In the same period there has been shipped here eleven cars of chops, or total of twenty-two hundred sacks, which sold at an average of s1.5o per sack, making total of s ,30o In the same time there has been shipped here five carloads of meal or about eight hundred barrels of meal that retailed at an average of s3.25 per barrel or a total of 2,6oo Thus in these three items alone it will be seen that the total ammount of ST 800 has been spent here this year to date for corn, chops and meal.
 Now this does not mention the fact that several thousand bales of hay have been shipped in here, and at the same time several carloads of meat. We cannot give the exact figures at
 
 stuff, but we have information definite enough to convince us that not less than fifteen or twenty thousand dol- lars have been spent for flour, meat, hay, etc, which will run the figures up to forty or fifty thousand dollars that has been spent for grain shipped in and other feed stuff bought by our farmers during the first six months of the present year. If such condition as prevails in Newark hold good throughout the state. we will ask the question, "Who is it that stands in the way of the success of the farmer, and who will or can redeem him from such condition?
 With the rich and fertile lands to produce the corn, wheat and hay suf- 1 ficient not only for home consumption but to have surplus to sell to the producer, the producer in this case has become the slave to high prices and dependent on other markets for his living. This condition will not do to practice or undertake to defend 1t. We have organized as a business organization for the purpose of better ing the condition of each other and the country at large and therefore we think the first lesson to be learned. is the one that will teach us to quit be- 1 ing the purchaser, and learn to be the seller of all this tremendous amount | of feed stuff. Our land will produce the corn and hay, and corn and hay will produce the meat With this con- dition existing we could be an inde- pendent and happy people. But the above figures plainly show our de- pendence upon other sections for d 1 living. And even under this state of affairs 1t is hard matter to get our people to reduce the acreage planted 1 to cotton.
 ] These are facts and it does seem to me that the figures are enough to put us all to thinking and should be sufficient to convince every farmer that organization will not benefit you un- less you practice what you preach.
 To reason along these lines, our farmers this year instead of selling to the outside world, will be the purchas- CTS of not less than three or four mill lion dollars worth of the necessities of Continued on page 4)