The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15

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large corporations pay.
DR.. Knapp expressed the beIleI tnat
conditions will not be reme0led tilil
agriculture does away with
all short term tenancy and the estaD-
lishment Of an ownership agriculture
or small farmers living on the lana
that they own. He gave the trouble
vith agriculture in North Carolina
and other States as too low an aver
age income for the farmers, a failure
TO practice universally the best meth
DDS Of agriculture, an alarming lack
Of the appreciation of the value or
soil fertility and failure to conserve
il. a vasteful and Improbable mar
keting system, ar injudicious and I'M
wise economic system. initiating
against good farming and a lack OF
rural credit which will carry and de-
velop the farmers instrumentalities
for production TO the highest point.
4 Need in North Carolina.
The speaker declared h a North
Carolina needs to disseminate knoWl-
edge Of better farming and secure it,
adoption. to institute a system OF
farming which will maintain soil fer
tility and render crop p~roductlonS
more certain and uniform, to institute
such a farm system as Will enable
the farmers to produce on the farm
az much as possible of the food and
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farming conditions here, to feed more
of the grain and other feed crops
produced on the farm, to eStaDlSh
an economic system that Will enable
the farmers to farm on a cash basis
instead of a credit basis, TO do away
with the short term tenancy and 70
establish a better business system
which will enable the farmers to get
cash for their products.
For Better Roads.
The speaker pleaded for a better
system of improved highways and a
system Of college training that will
not educate the young men OF the
State in such a manner that they VIII
desire to leave the farm.
He declared that North Carolina
should cooperate with the State AG-
riculural Department. especially as IT
pertains to farm demonstration work.
DR.. Knapp declared hat the banker
Loans pursue the best methods OF
farming, and should advise the farm
ers against unwise and improbable
adventures.
He declared that it is not wise t6
loan a farmer money with which e
undertake a thing that cannot be &C
cOmplished and >the banker needs Il
study the questions Of rural fnanct
and cooperative marketing. III
needs to understand that they ar
constructive and not destructive pro
blemS.
! James j. Britt Speaks.
y Following the address Of DR.. Knapp
James j. Britt, of this city, fOrme.
third assistant postmaster general
spoke to the bankers on "One-cen
: Letter Postage-Is 1t Feasible and De
: sirable?" Mr.. Britt declared that tn
: Postal Department Of h Unite
States is the largest, the most Widel
distributed, and the most beneficia
single government agency IN tn
world, requiring an army or NOR
# than 80, 900 employees, a yearly *
= penditure Of more than a quarter Of
o billion dollars, and an annual trave
It for the carriage Of the mails, by tn
Is various modes of conveyance, Of NOR
l. than 965, 10000 miles. 1t is pre-
6 eminentiy one arm Of the GovernmeK
that reaches every nook and corne
Of the Republic, n touches tn
le hearthstone of every American HON
Mr.. Britt quoted statistics whic
$ show the great volume Of busine.
= done by the Postal Department an
the enormous expense of carrying tt
l. mails. He reviewed h rules of tf
" Department affecting the carrying
20 the various classes Of the mails an
gave his hearers an excellent idea
e, the great volume of business which
"a done by the P~ostofice Department
e, Continuing. he said:
III while it is true that most of II
o. nations Of the world are deriving
- surplus revenue from their postal e
u ia blishment', making them a sour
Of general income, particularly
:! Continental European countries, it
~ nevertheless the concenSus of the be
~ American opinion that for us the or
> safe n sound policy is that our Pc
n tai institutions shall be entirely Sc
" sustaining: that it's credits and debi
~ shall at all times re either N actu
~ - or approximate balance, WITH Meth
!. a dercit nor a surplus"
"a For One-Cent Postage.
80 Touching on the manner in viii,
:, the revenue is derived, MIR. Br
said:
When we come to t
~ revenue derived from first-class ma
ter. chiefly letters, at a rate of t,
cents per ounce. and that Of secon
al class matter. newspapers and mas
nS zines, at a rate of One cent per pour
Ter we are met with the startling res,