The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-13

or co.oneratiye business development
that shall make h year 1914 marx
the greatest progress in the history OF
the organization.
keep Up the Fight"
Let not your activities cease "nen
YOU return to your various counties
and locals. Go back so full OF in
sniratinn and fired with zeal that you
become a great dynamo OF Union en-
erey that will start wheels in the
heads Of your people and some kind
Of business cooperation in your coun-
ties.
In planning and prosecuting the
work Of the new ear the State Union
should continue as in the past to
emphasize the Importance OF economic
production, This is fundamental the
foundation IN which all superstruc-
lures must be based il they are to en-
ldure.
Economic production means better
farming, scientific farming, and
| greater production at a lesSened cost
OF labor and soil fertility. This will
call for more horsepower and less
man labor. more brain exercise and
less muscular effort; more labor saw
ing farm implements and less sweat
and toll. More stock raising and
manure making and less stock and
fertilizer buying.
Soil fertility must be conserved and
increased by surface and under drain
age. terracing, deep blowing, Winter
cover crOps, the sowing Of Summer
and Winter legumes, rotation and
! diyerstficaUon of crops raising all
food crops needed for man and beast
and thus try TO make the money crops
a surplus over and above your living
crops.
), Better Farm Financing a Need
Economic production will demand
better farm financing. The agricul-
tural class will never be commercial
Ily independent a. long as the present
system Of buying OK time at extortion-
e ate prices remains the rule. It is
: true that the farmers will not need to
: buy SO much If they raise all nome
2 supplies. I believe that h crop lien
t and mortgage law should be repealed.
This Is in accord with n Of our car
: dinal principles: ITO discourage the
fcredit and mortgage system" I'm
. der this system the farmer is often re-
: Quired by the merchant to grow
money crops, either to he exclusion
OF food crops or the neglect Of them.
Economic production demands
more efficient labor and q better ten
y antry system There should be more
u corporation in communities to eStab-
e lish equitable relations between land
y lord and tenant to the betterment OF
both.
E<IoASslitAS pAO0A(AAOh q
g system Of cooperative banking
whereby all farmers and laborers can
IS borrow money for specific purpo ses
l. on any kind Of good security that they
It can offer, and at a rate Of interest not
exceeding 6 per cent. Also q system
Ia whereby they can borrow none on
"a long time, 10 to 20 years with privi-
II lege Of earlier payment without pen
atty, at not exceeding 4 per cent OF
5 per cent interest, for the purpose
OF buying homes or making perma-
l nent improvements in the home or or
the farm. All the influence Of The
- Union, State and National. should be
- exerted to secure legislation necessary
:: to establish such a system Of farmers
IL cooperative banks, independent 0.
the present commercial banking sys.
tenn.
or Marketing and Distribution.
ar Economic marketing and di6tribu
de ton will continue to be one of tn.
he most important branChe Of the worl
is Of the Farmers Union. This will cal
"a for 4 system that will lessen the ex
ut, pense OF conveyance from produce
ne to consumer, and at the same tim,
of enable h producer to regulate tn,
supply to barely meet an active de
ut mand and thus control and fix prices
on This can be done only through co
ew operative selilng direct to consumers
he 10 do thls successfully with all croD
~ there must be farmers rehouses i
=. which to store products, or properl-
grade and pack them for market.
The State Union should continue +
~ aid IN promoting warehouse compa
ne MES and marketing associations. fo
Cooperative selling and buying. :
connection with this work the Stat
Union should establish a Rurea, n
1ty Markets that will furnish all neces
Of sary lnfornation> to put .Ie farmer
'n- IN touch with good markets. instruc
lat them in grading anu packing an
to snlping ard protect them agsins
The o~ishonest commission men and ey
a t"rtioftate rate.
ext During 1914 every possible effo,
mould be put forth by State an
is county Unie1s to establish co-ope,
md alive business enterprises Of VIVA
tie. hiiIt~'T 'hafactei tifAt viii J.