The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-07
SAND HILL FARMERS CONSIDER
QUESTION OF RURAL CREDITS
Their Association Working On Plan To Provide Deserv-
ing Farmers With Money With Which 10 Garry On
J Their Business-Realize Capital Is Necessary
by bon HI. BUTT4ER.)

Sand Hill Farmers Association. BACK
Of il were such men of hard sense as
Henry A. Page. Roger Derby, George
Leach, Leonard Tufts, and others OF
their type, and while farmers associa-
tons innumerable have been ganiZ-
ed, and the organizations have dream
ed their dreams of accomplishing
wonders most of them have quietly
subsidized after a season Of ambition.
Gut the association brought into
life down at Aberdeen conceived the
idea hat there is something practical
for a farm association to do. SeVeral
public meetings AVE been held, prom
inent men have been brought into the
territory to make addresses, q plenty
Of platitude has been offered to The
assemblages,
BUT
This association did not stop at pla-
titude.
1t looks as though a live idea has
been brought to the surface in farm
economy and advancement.
For a while those who have stooc
10y the bier and witnessed the obse-
quies over other beneficial societies
asked what the Sand Hill Farmers
Association proposed to do. Every
body was willing to lake a hold OF
the scheme if it had anything tangi-
bile to offer.
1t seems to be showing that it
has.
Several things have come to the
surface since the organization, blu,
just now a project is coming up tina,
is worth while looking at, if for moth
ing else than mere curiosity.
Not Visionary Scheme.
To start with the association is not
composed Of Missionaries. Nobody
would call Henry Page or Leonard
Tufts, or some of these other subStan-
tial business men Missionaries.
II ic NOT cnn1nncp6 of mon Whn ara
going to be satisfied with Semi-Occa-
sional conventions at which Farmer
Corntassel from the Hill townships
tells in a hating style how he sets
hens, or weeds onions. The bulletins
have brought that kind of informa-
ton to the farmer to read by the fire.
side OF a long evening.
This gang of farmers wanted some
thing that is more likely to be OF ac-
tual practical and applicable use.
At the start they blamed this
thing on Roger Derby n George
Leach. have no positive informa-
lion as to the sponsors, but it isn't
a thing TO be ashamed of.
As 1T gathered weight it has gathe>-
ed stability, n just now the assOcia-
ton gives promise of being Of a vas,
amount of use to the farmer and to
the State.
Rural Credit Plan.
One OF the most important schemes
the association is furthering is thai
of rural credit proposition It has
been putting to the front.
Undoubtedly the farmer is NOR,
Imposed IN in the matter of credI,
than any other man in business
Nearly every farmer has a certain
amount OF capital, most of it per
manent and 80 decidedly fixed tina
Il is neither flexible, or even locke,
upon III commercial circles as securi
~.
Ali banking laws are made to wor,
against the farmer and in behalf q
some utterly u~nproductive affair lik
stock speculation. for stock broke
and spectators in New York an
borrow a million dollars in a minut
easier than farmers can borrow
thousand dollars in a week.
That seems funny. but it is q fac
The farm, which should be encouraa
ed with whatever of floating none
is available for use,is stood back. an
the gambling opportunities are flood
ed will money, regardless of the
absolutely ~unbeneficial influences.
OF course the argument is that II
stock gambler is willing to borrow c
call. paying the money back the DE-
il is demanded, while the farm,
waits until his crop is harvested.
But as we'are all interested in ii
farmer and his crop, as the who'll lii
AhS VI IN III III IdSS VI
ponds on the success of the farm,
would seem that the farmer shou
be financed in some way, if an int
ligent country had to sit up nigh
hunting a way to see that Surpl
money went to the farm to help ma
crops. But an intelligent country
busy getting it's politicians up to t
pie counter, and the farmer is Il
TO fight out these problems that CO
Germ him, and incidentally if he h
To tuck a little IN the price of thin
the consumer pays the bill, so WI
is the difference?
Not the Garden Kind.
These Sand Hill association f
mers are not the garden kind tt
we hear of occasionally. They
the selected sorts. Some of tn,
come from Yale and Harvard, a
the Chapel Hill University, A. and
and they have a thorough acqua
lance with the old chaps like AID;
Smith. who is the grandfather