The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-22

The Ideal>Farm is q small or me
dunn size farm, owned ana cullLFdto"
NV the man who lives on It, ana cur,
tivated by the soil building me'ioo
which leaves it better ever! 49,
purc bred stock and plenty OF lapoi
s4ving tools and implements shouId De
in evidence. The farm should pc
we'll watnred and the home Shoulo
he convenient TO mail dehNeTJ ahu
good school and should have rural
telephone service. But how IS me
ideal farmer .the small arne VINO
farms on the intensive plan) to pro-
vide himself with these modern con-
y~auiences at reasonable cost, YOU ASK !:
He must have the cooperation OF MS
neiyhbors, and here is where the OPP
D%orfunitv OIL local unions comes IN.
For instance, q small farmer nceoS a
potato digger. a manure SpfcadcI' d
reaper and binder, etc. He can not
nroduc stuff at lowest cost W1thoUt
these Iabor-Saving essentials. He can
have them by neighborhood co-opefa-
tion through the local union one
member can buy u potato digger, an
other Il SDreadef. another q
reaper and binder, another q tWo-foW
corn PLANTER, etc, then win
each other under written bylaws re-
curing each member to meet ex-
penSeS OF any breakage that occurs
while he is using the Implement rms
system OF cooperation WJuld give the
small farmer b same conNei1lenceS
that are enjoyed by the fifteen or
twenty-horSe fafmer.
With 3 we1l-drilling ma
chine you can get a well at "a cost or
about seven cents q foot. but n far
rner can't afford to buy q OF
this kind to sink one or two wells on
his farm, but two or three local
unions could buy q Wcll-drilinS ma
chine on the cooperative plan and
thus get q pure and abundan water
supply on the farm at nominal cost
stock should be bred to thorough
bred sires but II good sire IS enough
for a neighborhood and by Copper
alton in your local Union the cost or
buying and keeping q. Thoroughbred
pull or boar may be reduced TO Donli-
nal figures. BY cooperation 1t is
possible for small farmers to get the
benefit of the best that is to be had.
but acting aIon and single-handed he
is powerless to avail himself OF the
conVeniences that are his when he
recognizes and puts into practice the
great principle Of cooperation that IS
bringing such wonderful development
III all lines Of human endeaEor.
The telephone should be in every
country home, For Man years this
wonderful invention for the transmits
sion of intelligence was of but little
service 10 humanity. Only a few
people in the large cities had tele- ,
phone communication and it came at
high COS ecause r had the
monopoly. When the time of h
patent expired the government wisely
to renew the patent n now
anybody can buy a good telephone at
from nina 10 ntaN-an in1lnr C c11H u{Fa
be ereced at a cost OF four or tive
dollars u mile. One farmer i'm a
can buy u switchboard.
but he does not want to install a
exchange wjthout patrons.
Here again ONE the splendid oppor-
tunity for cooperation in your local
unions. IL q number Of farmers de-
to provide telephone service al
the same time and will buy THEN
telephones and erect their lines and
Onnec with the "Central' ii Will in
sure success from the beginning.
ifrom time 10 time The Caroline
Farmer viii upon this
very important convenience for h
country home and it will go into de-
tail and tell You just how to install
the service in every rural community
in North Carolina. 1t is the purpose
Of this paper to bring about d closer
between Farmers re-
IatlO}lShlp that VIII Dfl1lS greater ma
terial development on the farm, and
with it better educational aud social
advantages. The editors of The Car
olina onion Farmer were raised on
the farm, live on the farm now, and
they know by actual experience the
environments and needs of ountr
life. ,
With the requirement of Il better
knowledge of the business of farming
the demand for better seed for plant
ing purposes increases. Each local
could with profit have a spc-
tial meeting for talks on seed selcc-
ton and seed Improvement and II de-
sired let each member carry along his
seed corn for cooperative seed Selec-
ton. Then let each member plant
special seed corn patches. At
ter u good strain Of seed is produced
The local organization could form a
cooperative selling conn and