The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
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operative Union of America:
Dear friends and neighbors-fou our
letter asking me to make an ADDRESS
on the 21st of the month was received,
but I was prevented.
/ TAX this method of addressing all.
And Their l know this request came
from my neighbors, AMI is very com
pfimentary to me, yet l feel l am not
equal to the task. But you are too
good not to make allowance for me,
and when l remember the fact that
you are of that class that feed the
world, l only feel the more honored,
and that the organization first named
is scattered almost throughout the ag-
r~icultural sections of this great coun-
try, especially in the South.
We will first notice the fact that all
industries are dependent upon each
other. Just in the sense that the mem
bers of our bodies are to each other.
If one member is injured, all suffer to
some extent. In this government of
ours when one idustry is weakened by
any cause it affects others. If rail
roads are paralyzed, then all others
are hurt If manufacturers, mer-
chants. <echanics or any industry is
weakened, others feel it. If the
farmers that feed all, were stopped,
all others would have to stop. If the
armer are weakened from any cause,
all are hurt Gao may diminish
their ability for good by not using all
right means in their reach or by i'm
proper management. 1t surely is
right for those ngage In any one in
dustry to cooperate together for their
benefit But always wrong when a
cooperation is for the oppression of
others to enrich themselves.
We are not ~ng a hundred years
ago. Many things our fathers did not
need in their day, we can not get on
without IN our day. And doubtless
many things we need now our children
will not need. And things We have
no use for they cannot get or without.
SO We must start about where our
fathers left off. IT we do not, then
We are not advancing. So we must
pr1ng INTO action our mental powers
and watch for every opportunity In the
advancement in order to make our line
OF industry a success. It is the duty
OF every one engaged in any industry
frst, to provide for all necessary ex-
pense OF living. 1t is only what we
make over that that we can consider
an income. Many industries turn
out their products in exchange for the
necessaries Of their families and those
dependent on them. But whatever
article he may need that is in his line
he surely would manufacture it at
home. and not pay others for it. Then
1t Is our duty to educate ourselves in
our line OF industry hat we may be
more benefit to ourselves and
If We do not do this the results are
ours. and we will be the ones that
ca, flow ~
have started in some industry with but
Little knowledge Of their work, and
Just as they advance in educating
themselves in that industry their bus
HESS advances.
Farming should be profitable as
Wen as other industries and doubtless
tor us to be successful, it is necessary
Tor US to cooperate together for our
mutual benefit and be a blessing to our
country. For US to accomplish this we
must educate ourselves to the best
methods of farming and remember to
Keep learning from year to year. l
cannot think of any one industry that
requires more thought and study to be
the best than farming. And it is al
ways the best. in any line of industry
that gets the greatest profit. 1t is not
to say II / were there / would boom.
You must boom to get there. The
m work is like the woman's
1CS hAdk1N
things to study, as we'll as to do. He
should study the fertility of each
held, each year, and the qualities lack
ing and supply them, and the kind OF
cultivation necessary to each and the
more thorough the work is done. the
greater will be the profit.
1t is not the greatest amount of
Ianj he gets over that brings him the
profit. 1t is the thorough cultivation
Of the soil.
thousands can work, while but few
Know now to work as they should. So
it is necessary for US to stand in touch
with each other in order that we may
1mpart to each other more knowledge
and receive greater benefits from each
other, thereby advancing in our line
OF industry. We are brother farmers
and should stand like brothers in our
work, and ppose every artificial and
system that governs prices.
If We will first produce all hat is in