The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09

and most united Cooperation. Tbx
law of supply and demand shoulf
control, but it does not always do So
Last year a big crop Of cotton was
made. and the market opened .,
eight cents, while this year it onenaf
with twelve cents, being a short cron
But tobacco is different; for il has
been pointed out that the cron Ia q
year was larger than this year. an6
vet the price this year is still less
than last year, due it is thought te
the influence Of the trust. Neithe,
crop should be marketed in a rush
but month by month as there is q
demand, so as to command better
prices. The should be re.
sorted to for these and other crops
if cash is needed to pay debt: and
with ~perishable crops, the cold stor-
age. But above all cooperation
should be the slogan. 1t is already an
accomplished fact, in many districts
and promising to expand into a pow
erful national movement. This new
impulse offers to restore the real
producer, the ~husbandman to his
rightful position of supremacy in the
nation. For cooperation has taken
root in the soil. It has come to stay
for the very soil has been inoculated
with it. And it is destined to grow
and to spread, in spite of the farmers
natural temperament Of independence,
Denmark first saw the need of it, and
determined to max a distinct place
and name for her poultry and dairy
products on the great London mar
ket. Her agents there ave az
elaborate system of inspection which
has given these Danish products q
reputation of being standard. Thus
the grain growers Of the West and
the cotton of the South,
have caught the idea. Then the
cattleman and the stOckman did so,
and now the truck rover Of the
Virginias and the Carolinas, the peach
and melon growers of Georgia, the
citrus rover of Florida and Cali
fornia: the Gulf coast growers Of
early vegetables; the apple growers
of washington and Oregon, Idaho
and Colorado, Virginia and North
Carolina and New York have fol-
lowed.
When cooperation among farmers
becomes general and is solidly estab-
lished in the various farming. fruit
and truck-growing sections, it will add
millions to the actual harvest of pro-
fits, realized by the patient army Of
And along these lines
Prof. Spillman, of the Department Of
Agriculture. whom 1 invited to address
you on this subject without avail,
however, says: 1T is clear to me,
since the shipments Of these are usu-
ally interstate commerce, that it Is
the duty Of the National Government
to legislate upon this subject. and to
provide inspectors who shall be re-
sponsible for enforcing the law. This
law should require a consignee to
keep an accurate record of all inter
state consignments, showing the date
received, the shipper, and the amount
received from the consignment, so
that when a farmer is defrauded, the
inspector will ascertain from the
books of the ~consignee, and from the
books of the merchant, to whom the
goods were sold, the actual amount
received from he shipment, and if
there is a discrepancy between the
shipper and the actual facts, he can
institute proceedings against the con
signee.
Transportation.
The rapid development of this
country makes it necessary to relieve
the congestion asst increasing in
railroad transportation, which is best
done by inland waterways, which
this Congress has bee untiring in
It's efforts to secure, and which efforts
will continue without abatement, I'M
til a wise and, economic general sys-
tenn is established by the Federal
Government.
Public Roads.
The same is true of public roads.
especially those used for the Rural
Free Delivery Of the Mails. For the
Federal Government is, by the con-
stitution, charged with the building
of post roads. Hence we must have
aid of the Government as we'll as Of
the State, in the building and main
tanning these roads, so that for every
$1,000 expended by a township, the
State shall cover with a $1,000, and
the government with a $1,000, making
$4,000 to be expended in the town
ship and in the county, with good
roads thrown in. The government
should build from capital to capital,