The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-29
0BION III. BUTLER.)


Jackson Springs. June 26.-If
Clarence Poe and Roger Derby do not
succeed in establishing North Caro-
lima on a broader basis of co-opera-
ton something has gone wrong in
the effectiveness of human effort. L
have just been reading Poe's recent
book on what cooperation has been
doing for the farmer in some sections
OF North Carolina and in other states,
and have just been discussing with
Derby the schemes that they have on
foot here at the Drowning Creek
uaHfa.sc / say they, Tor Derby
SAYS DO not forget that IN all this
Wa,E ROSS is the fellow who bears
& big sh2re of the burden, e-3d . res
golsh'e fora a big prcn ortion OF the
that comes lrot9 the work
-a suppose l might as we'll get
.-.4 "a and form a trio, for Ross
stands for member who is just as
important as Derby and Poe, the
member that is putting into effect
the theories that the others are ad-
vocating and backing. Ross is an A.
and NJ. boy. L was interested in his
method Of placing himself after he
left \. and NJ. I sat in the barn
while Derby had gone out with Leach
from Aberdeen to look over some
hogs. Ross and Boone. another A.
class mates, and figuring on what this
one and that one was doing, and tell
ing how they came to choose their
particular occupations and how they
had passed up other things until
they reached the location that they
thought suited. and while they talked
I visited with the colt in the stall
alongside and listened.
They had not intended to include
the third man in their college talk
but 1 gathered that both of them had
declined things that did not suit
them, until the thing that appealed
came along. and then they Jumped
in. Ross landed with Derby, and
from what Derby says of him he 1!
destined for q long voyage in some
what curious seas. And as Derb!
adds, "a large part Of the credit o.
what we do here depends on Ross
who is the fellow that puts the idea!
acroSS.r
At any rate there we have them
Poe, the man who is spreading tn
gospel Of cooperation, Derby wh'
with his farm and his means is pro
viding a practical example, and Ross
who is putting the ideas across.
Outlining and Illustrating.
| wish fifty men in each county Il
North Carolina could read Poe's ney
DOCK on cooperation, and then com
over here into Richmond county an
see what the folks in this neighbOr
hood are doing in cooperating.
would be worth to North Carolina IA
more than the cost of the expeditiO
and the books, 1t would mean shor
,fircuiting a Journey that is ahead 9
the State, for to that cooperate
which Is outlined in the one place an
illustrated in the other is what W
must come. and what we are comm
70 But it might be hurried if tn
Facts were more widely known.
The man who undertakes to dig OF
the cooperation movements that hay
his hands a Chinese puzzle. A fe
days ago the Drowning Creek con
munity was organized with w.
ferguson as it's president. Ira Stua
treasurer and Roger L. Derby SCI
retary. 1t has already applied Il
membership in the Sandhills Board
Trade. The community organizatiC
is strictly a farm organization as Il
as the occupation Of the members
concerned, for none but farmers Al
In the district. 1t includes q woman
auxiliary, and it is associated wit
nobody knows how many movemen
mat are almost identical.
one of the associated interests
the Drowning Creek Sire Owning A
sociation. This is the farmers org
hization that bought at the Ashevil
sale two pure bred ShorthOrn bull
These two bulls belong to the ass
cation bought by the farmers for Il
purpose Of improving the stock
soe Drowning Creek section, and t