The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-16
THE FARMERS FREE LIST.

Democratic vote and with a majority
OF 1S7, the vote being 500 for, and
100 against, has for its purpose the
giving of cheaper agricultural impIe-
ments to the farmers, cheaper breads
and meats to the jewellers IN the
cities. It has been passed by the
Democratic House in fulfllment of
the Democratic pledge to the people
to enact such legislation as will put
an end to the high cost of living.
In the House the Republicans
and piled on amendment after amend
ment. eighty-three Of these being
voted down before the final over
whelming vote which sent it to the
Senate without any amendment. That
the ''stand-pat" Republicans in the
Senate will fight it is out to be expect
ed, and the debate on it is necessarily
therefore to be one Of the long-drawn-
out kind.
The provisions of the bill are that
there can be imported into the United
States, exempt from duty, the follow
ing articles:
Plows, tooth and disc harrows,
headers, harvesters, agri-
cultural drills and planters, NOW
ers, horse-rakes, ~cultivators, thresh-
ing machines and cotton gins, farm
wagons and farm carts and all other
agricultural implements Of any de-
scription, whether specifically men
toned herein or not, whether in whole
or in parts, including repair parts.
Begging for cotton, gunny cloth and
all similar fabrics, materials Or cover
ings, suitable for covering and baling
cotton. composed in whole or in part
of jute, jute butts, hemp, fax. seq.
Russian seq, New Zealand tow, Nor
Wegian tow. aloe, mill waste, cotton
tares, or any other materials or fbres
suitable for covering cotton; and bur
lap n bags or sacks composed
wholly OF in part of jute or burlaps
for sacking agricultural products.
Hoop Or band iron, or hoop or band
steel, cut to lengths, punched or not
punched, or wholly Or partly manu-
featured into hoops or ties, coated or
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preparation, with or without buckles
or f~astenings, for baling cotton or any
other commodity; and wire for baling
hay, straw and other agricultural
products.
Grain, buff, split and rough sole
leather, band, bend or betting leather,
boots and shoes, made wholly or in
aL:of xoJ.o ,f 1oo+ho- poolo fro~, cot
tie hides and cattle skins Of whatever
weight Of cattle of the bovine species,
including calfskins and harness, sad
dies and saddlery in sets or in parts,
finished or unfinished, composed
wholly or in chief value of leather;
and leather cut into shoe uppers or
vamps or other forms suitable for
conversion into manufactured arti-
cleS.
Barbed fence wire, wire rods, wire
strands or wire rope, wire woven OF
manufactured for wire fencing an6
! other kinds of wire suitable for fenc,
ing, including wire staples,
! Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, an6
meats of all kinds, fresh. salted
picked, dried, smoked, dressed or IN
{ dressed, prepared or preserved in any
manner, bacon, hams. shoulders, lard
. lard compounds and lard substitutes
! n sausage and sausage meats.
Buckwheat flour, corn meal, whea
-four and semolina, rye flour. bran
middlings n other ofals Of grain
oatmeal and rolled oats and all pre-
pared cereal foods; and biscuits
. bread, waters and similar articles no
sWeetened.
Timber, hewn. sided or squared
round timber, used for spars in build
; ing wharves, shingles, laths. fenc1n'
posts. sawed boards, planks, deals am