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PAGE SIX EARNERS’ UNION DEPARTMENT FARM NOTES. An early crop of peas puts soil in fine condition for late potatoes. Locality has much to do with the success of any crop. Planting seed is the beginning of raising a crop, not the end. Thorough tillage loosens the soil, admits air and destroys weeds and grass—three very important things. Grindstones should not stand in the sun, nor in a trough partly filled with water. The county may do much on the road, but there is always work left for the private individual. However large the corn crop, a pas ture is indispensable to every farm that has stock. Late seasons do not argue that there will be no harvest. Nature takes care of herself. Work done at the best time and in the best way is worth twice as much as work done at other times and in a poor way. Probably the best method of keep ing sweet potatoes is in dry sand. Put into barrels a layer of sand and a layer of potatoes. They will not sprout until they become damp. The advantage or disadvantage of planting at a certain time of the moon is largely a thing of the past. Intel ligent farmers plant when the season is right, moon or no moon. A man has only so much real knowledge as he can command in times of emergency. The knowledge we have which will not come when needed, is only an aggravation, like a horse which can not be caught when wanted. The best results occur when fields are given the same culture as a gar den, with the use of plenty of ma nure, keeping down the weeds and grass and making every foot do its utmost in producing whatever is planted in it. Texas Fruits, Nuts, Berries and Flowers is the attractive name of a new journal being published at San Antonio. J. W. Canada is editor and proprietor. Judging from its con tents, it will have its work and will soon find a place among many who are up-to-date horticulturists. A new comer need not expect to go to a new country and sit around and whittle, nor ride into town and spend the day at the store, and make a living like some of the old settlers do. He will have to hustle like they did when they were new comers. The sitting around comes at the end, not at the beginning, of a residence in a place.—Texas Farmer. SHALL WE SURRENDER? Never! The farmer will never sur render. It is not just, and nothing demands it except greed and specu lation. Our cotton is worth 15 cents ; demand for cotton goods justifies that i price, and the cotton goods based on 15-cent cotton. Brother Fanners, the eotton exchange and the Cotton Buy ers’ Union have combined with the banks to burst the Union. Some of them have said to plainly, and every thing goes to prove it, because our WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. State treasurer says that our State banks never were in better condition. The land is prosperous, except the cotton business (that is, the produc tion of cotton). The government is standing behind the banks with mil lions pouring in from Europe, and in spite of this our merchants pretend to be very sorry for the farmer. All this is, of course, all “bosh,” and a scheme to deceive and beat us out of what justly belongs to us. We have the right to fix the price on our products, as well as the merchant has to put a price on his goods, and 50 to 100 per cent profit doesn’t seem to be too much for him to ask on his investment. Two of my neighbor merchants say that 10 cents is enough for cotton. Still each of these men left the plow and took up the yardstick. The plan of this class of men is to keep the farmer poor and embarrassed. Farmers, do not submit to such a system as is being forced on you. Hold your cotton until this time next year. You have bread, meat, pota toes, peas, milk and butter and hay to make more. Put your cotton under shed and don’t let your condition scare you into selling. If the worst comes to the worst, fight for your rights, for a man never did a better thing than to fight for home and the little ones. Brothers, this is a fight to the end. Let us get all the non union men we possibly can to stand with us, for the prosperity of the Southern farmer, as well as all legiti mate business, depends upon the price of cotton. Brothers, 10 cents per pound for your cotton will leave you in debt, the other fellow with a big bank account. It will leave your children in the cotton field as ever, and the other fellow’s children in college. It will leave you with a heavy mortgage outstanding and the other fellow with a large bank ac count and a mortgage to collect. It will leave you in rags, the other fel low in fine clothes. You know these are facts, so stick together, show your grit and backbone, stand to your guns, and we will win the fight. If the other fellow can burst the Union, he thinks it will never be able to ral ly again. When the cotton factors see that they can no longer depend on Wall street and the cotton gamb lers for their supply, they will hunt us up and pay our price. Again I say do not surrender. You owe a duty to your country, to your fellow men, to your wife, to the little rag ged children that stood by you these long summer days and helped you to work and make the crop so that they might have a few pennies for Christ mas. You can not afford to sacrifice your rights and your liberties, the labor of your little ones and all you ever expect to have on the altar of greed and corruption. J. L. WALKER. Holly Pond, Ala., Route 1. ' —News Scimitar. Greenville, S. C., May 1,1907. Resolved, That we, the state offi cers of South Carolina Union, cor- dially invite Hon. Thos. E. Watson * to address the South Carolina State Union, to be held at Greenwood, b. C., on 24th and 25th of July, he to name which day will suit him best. Hour, 11 o’clock a. m. Signed: O. P. GOODWIN, Pres. T. T. WAKEFIELD, V.-Pres. B. F. EARLE, Secy. M. A. MEHAFFIE, Organizer. J. B. PICKETT, JNO. T. BOGGS, DR. W. C. BROWN, W. L. KENNEDY, W. L. ANDERSON,. Secy. Executive Committee. A man buying cotton on a salary for a firm of cotton speculators, said to a prominent farmer in a North Texas county a few days ago: “Yon farmers are right for holding on to your cotton. The cotton speculators are making the prices in their own interests, and all these reports and stories you read calculated to induce you to rush your cotton to market are manufactured falsehoods sent out bv these speculators to stampede the farmers. Hold on to your cotton and you’ll get your price, and then, in another year, we will be independent of Wall street and its gamblers. I am offering to buy cotton, but I am glad I am getting but very little. Just hold on and you are safe.” — National Co-Operator. THE KEY IS 15 CENTS. Editor Farmers’ News Scimitar: Dear Editor. Here I am again, ask ing you for space in your valuable paper. Wake up, farmers, and come to the front. If we ever need to stand together as a class, farmers, now is the time. Don’t let this gold en opportunity pass; let us all be up and ready to do our part, trust ing in the Supreme Power to help us to stand firm for our Union and its cause. Brothers, stick to the minimum price of 15-cent cotton, and don’t sell it for less. It will not be long until we will get our price. The gamblers are the ones that get the profits now. Why can’t the “old hayseeds,” as they call us farmers, keep that profit for themselves? The day will come when the farmer prices his own stuff, and does not have to go all over town to see who will bid him the best price. If you are in distress, borrow money on your cotton; set tle your accounts. The increased price you get for the cotton will more than pay the interest on the mone> you borrow. Do not mortgage your farm, for a mortgage makes you a slave. A man giving a mortgage sells hi§ rights. There are many things we can do without if we have to. Buy only what you need, and don’t go into debt. We all must use mor? economy; we must be very saving; wo need education in economizing, espe cially the Southern eotton growers. Cotton speculators are doing every thing in their power to keep the price of cotton down, and I appeal to my brother farmers to stand by the Uii ien. The spinner* have to have the cotton, and their spindles will not be idle because they have to pay the minimum price of 15 cents, especially as the crop is short. We must remember that all organi zations accomplish a purpose through co-operation, and if our 2,000,000 members stick together in this great fight we are bound to win a victory. Our little band up here is doing fine. We have two warehouses, one at Pon totoc, Miss., and one at Verona, Miss. The key to these warehouses is 15- cents per pound. With best wishes to the Farmers’ News Scimitar and brother farmers, J. E. M’LAIN. Tupelo, Miss., R. F. D. No. 3. —News Scimitar. SCIENCE AND FARMING. One of the many important facts in modern farm science most worthy the attention of farmers who think, is the new system of feeding live stock. Present ideas which have grown from and out of old-time methods within comparatively recent years, put the whole feeding question on a truly scientific basis. The proportion anJ composition of foods is fully explain ed by agricultural science and wis n breeders and feeders pay sufficient attention to the subject to reap great benefit from it. Facts upon which the entire struc ture of the cattle feeding business rests are so well attested that there is no gainsaying them, and first and foremost in actual importance is the tonic idea. It teaches one common sense prin ciple—no animal under the continued strain of heavy feeding can make sat isfactory growth or production un less the digestive apparatus is strengthened to meet such strain. To attempt to bring a fine bunch of thrifty steers up to the proper sell ing weight, or to get a large average production of milk from a herd of cows, leaving nature to settle alone the constant over drafts made on ani mal digestion by big, daily rations of rich foods, is simply to upset the very end in view. If fatting cattle and cows in milk were always at liberty to select what instinct tells them is best or neces sary, there would of course be no need of the tonic. But here is where the difficulty arises. Cattle can not choose or select for themselves, but must eat what the feeder furnishes, and besides endure a stuffing process for weeks and months. Is it any won der that their overtaxed and unassist ed organism breaks under the strain? Give your cattle a tonic —something to strengthen digestion—and growth will be continuous because then there can be no interruption caused by in digestion, loss of appetite, or compli cations of a more serious nature. Another great advantage in the tonic idea is its economy. Cattle re ceiving it, because of greater appe tite, eat more rough fodder and thus reduce feed bill*. Betide*, it is a well attested fact that there is great saving of nutri ment where the tonic is given, which