The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-06

much cotton With our present systel'
Of marketing, bGt We not
prove that. 'tner"lSe W
,cachcd our limit
Dr Alexander acclaimed rishteous-
!. ag.inst rhc moneyed land own
uho ar, making it more and more d
tenant system and are compncallhS
the situation greatly. He was lol-
lowed by organizer j. L. Green.
That gentleman begarSby warning
the rcportorial world. He shook hls
singer good ~naturedly at the neWspa-
pers. They must not fan 10 nave
the ]arners harmonious.
They we're. perfectly. He is q wise
man. When he told how MIS-. Green
had been selling Jersey butter at M
teen cents and was asked a questlon
or two about it, he refused TO be inter-
viewed. But he made a. cracklng
good speech. That man Green
speak. He uses too good English TO
make one think he eve lived on terms
Of perfect social equality with a
mule. But what he did really say was
that the dividing line betWeen too NJ
tie and too much OF n error was
very hard to figure out. But living
at home is fundamental" he SAID.
There can be no dissent from that
| proposition. l do not think We are
suffering from over-production, act
! ually, but Of course with our unin-
tlligent system Of marketing, We are.
We must correct that. We are the
faVorites Of the most circuitous and
e~xtraVagant system of selling n buy
ing. We pay tribute at al the toll
gates on both roads. We must get
out Of tina We cannot compete
with the great markets in our limit
| cd market We = 70 uOin~ tn sion this
street competition and have our cot
ton marketed i~ntelligently before we
start to town with our products.
This thing will right itself. There
viii he a reaction. While cotton has
gone so low that it may not pay for
the paris green to kin the worms, we
have seer no corresponding reduc-
ton in labor. When we have to pay
the amc price for abOr with cotton
at 8 cents as we do When it goes tc
Is cents we will stop SO much cot
ton"
In concluding this portion OF The
meeting, Colonel Watson said that he
had received encouragement from
500 Of the continental spinner 0.
Europe. Who declared that they IA.
vor dealing directly with the cotto1
growers. thus cutting out the New
York, Liverpool, Bremen ant
totleI 1IlUuit H1dTkttS. lie DclieNci
that the way is now clear.
The North Carolina Plan
The afternoon meeting at the offic'
Of Commissioner w. A. Graham. re
suited in the North Carolina plan
adoption.
This is simple. It co~mits tn
! people to a reduction but not to
specific one - will aim at Is pc
cent 50 far as the big farmers ar
! concerned, but Will not insist upo1
J the smaller farmers coming to sue,
| a drastic curtailment. And they or
dered h organization perfected
canvassers appointed and the wor.
pushed TO the most rapid compile
ton possible.
G A plan which the North Carolin
Farmers Union thinks wise is tn
planting Of a. acre OF some othe
h crop for every one put down in cot
ton. Although the committee ha
g made arrangements for putting a can
e vasser to work, 1t has not been mad
public yet AL experienced man wi
G take charge OF the campaign an
q push the work rapidly to it's hnisf
c The reduction OF acreage will be sui
stantially h same as other States.