The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-20
Progressive Farmer.)

routes as PROPOSED ny kIc
General will be simply playing into
she hands Of the express
which will carry the parcels to the
Office Of departure for the rural routes,
and will benefit only the local dealers.
What we need is the privilege or send
ing parcels as heavy as are carried
by European nations at the same rates
they carry them. There is no good
reason why a large parcel coming
from Europe should be carried In our
mails while we cannot have the same
privilege at home. Now hat the
president Of one of the express COM
panies (Which are, in fact, an express
trust) is lone out Of the United States
Senate there may be a better chance
for getting h parcel post. All the
great express companies own eacn
others stock. and are really as much
in restraint of trade as any other trust.
Some years ago when one or my
daughters was married and went 10
live in Oklahoma we packed her pres
ents In a chest and paid h Adams
Express Company to carry 1t 70
Muskogee. They lost the label, and
the chest Of the Raleigh firm that
made it, they delivered it to that firm,
who opened it and found to whom
it belonged. After being notified sew
eral times to forward the chest to its
proper destination, they did SO after
- ~ VI 1I4oIS KIN SHCiA SAAo ~
eight dollars for doing SO, aid it took
me some time to get the money re-
funded. Years ago, when I was do
ing experiment work scar Southern
Pines, N. c., I a a little package
of plum trees that one could easily
carry under the arm sent from Bal
timore and directed to Manly Station,
N. c. Some time after we got a postal
from the express agent at Abingdon.
in southwest Virginia. that there was
a package OF trees there for US
Please call for it" AS Abingdon was
over 500 miles away, 1 directed them
to orwar it to the point to which it
was directed. and it came with a bill
of $3.50, or lar more than the trees
cost, n it took a good while to get
them TO acknowledge that their proper
charge vas $3.50. and that was double
what it would have cost by mail with
g real parlels post. The railroads are
so combined with the express COM
panies that we will have a powerful
opposition to 4 parcels post. but If the
people demand it. they will finally get
it. and every one should notify his
Congressman that the people do want
this parcels post. Every one can help
and every one should.
The Curse Of the Tenant System
Mr.. Grizzard is evidently some Pump
kim, as his postotfice would indicate
iOI ne is IlSII DIS IbSdIOS TIC CIOpPcL
system Of the south Land owners
had better turn their surplus acres
into pasture, or let them grow up in
pine trees rather than be continually
unnin the land down and putting
weak cotton and other products on
the markets in competition with what
they grow themselves. and carrying
tenants who should be working for
cash wages instead OF scratching over
the land with a single mule. The
tenant cropping system is responsible
for the increasing scarcity of labor.
and the tenants are worse Off than IF
working for wages. AS Mr.. GrizZarC
says, a man with no capital will al
ways be better off hiring his labor
and saving his money than trying to
farm carried on by others at an enor-
nous cost, and in the long run the
land owner who carries the tenants
loses more than the cropping makes
him in bal debts and the depreciation
OF his land.
Tie Boil Weevil.-The boil weevil is
coming, say the entomologist, and the
ma who will suffer most when he
comes will be the man who sticks at
all cotton and imagines that it will not
pay to farm instead of plant cotton.
The mar who will prosper after the
weevil gets on his land is the man
who goes into real rotafive farming.
grows forage and feeds cattle. makes
manure and breeds the earliest cotton
he can make, the man who will have
oats to sell. corn to sell. pork n
beef TO sell and manure to help hin,
get ahead of the weevil. The weevil
is whipping the Southern farmers into
farming, and all will have to take him
into consideration hereafter. And we
are going to owe the corn belt Soutl,
where the largest crops made in this
country have been produced and where
August frosts never come to damage
the crop as is one often in the So
called corn belt. And we are going
to make pork and beef as cheaply,
or cheaper, than the Central West.
and, In fact, are going to march right
on to agricultural independence in
spite Of the boil weevil. or perhaps
by reason Of it.