The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-31

Some Advice "A b out Wheat
Planting-Disposing of Cot
ton and Cotton Seed-The
Flour Mill at Pembroke.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
| wish to say through the
columns of your paper to the
farmers of Robson and adjoin-
ing counties, to all who anticl-
pate planting wheat this fall,
that l am satisfied we can make
wheat a paying crop both to
farmers and to the mill. | would
advise before planting to soak
seed wheat in a solution of blue
stone water for 26 hours in order
to kill the smut germs that grow
up in the wheat. If there is any
smut in wheat at all the flour is
damaged so far as the color is
concerned. Our mill makes per-
feet flour so far as the work is
concerned, but it can't make
white -four from smutty wheat.
am advised by growers of
wheat to use 500 pounds of bone
of potash when blowing and in
the spring to use nitrate of soda,
and your crop is assured. Now
if our PEOPLE want to use the
bone of potash and will let me
know at once | will secure car.
The mill will run Tuesdays and
Fridays for the public grinding.
On other days we may be grind
ing or may be still but will ex-
change any day flour for wheat.
| wish to say further to our
Union brethren, don't get alarm
ed at the fluctuations in the cot
ton market or the seed market.
The crop is too short to 60 down
many days at a time and all our
farmers have to do is to sit still
until the price suits them. You
may need the money but not as
badly as the world needs the cot
ton. If you are in debt and have
the cotton. store it away and
borrow the money. The banks
have the money to lend and if
they can't lend the money they
can't thrive, and we can't live
without them. So give them
liberal patronage and protect
your merchant; for the farmer
and merchant and banker go
hand in hand to make a thrifty
county, and our county is always
what we make it. If our State
and county are ever made great
these three classes will make
them so by the help of the manu-
facturer. There is something
for everybody to do in develop
ing his country. ....
Now / say keep your cotton
seed to go into fertilizing your
next crop. When the proper
time comes to handle your seed
can show you where to handle
them to advantage. Seed have
been too high this year but that
is not the case now, and they
can bear good lively rise, which
will come before the oil men will
let them go into the ground.
/ will say to all who want gooC
fresh flour from pure wheat, we
can furnish it at Pembroke
Pembroke's best ought to be il
every farm kitchen and is in /:
good many households in Robeso1
county. | hope the farmers will
all plant some wheat this year
because the success of this mil
depends on the farmers. and i
they patronize the mill it viii
save thousands of dollars 70
them in the next season. w
have ground about 1000 bushel
of wheat, which means over So,
coo saved to our farmers, an
not one out Of 20 planted seec
this year. This is $4,000 save
OF the many thousands paid OF
for flour each year.
| wish to say to all Union me
that am now visiting the loca
of our county on special bushes
and would be glad for all to a
tend these meetings.
w. K. Culbreth, Bus. Agt.
Robson County Farmers Unio