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Farmers* Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
. Matters sf Especial Moment to
L the Progressive Agriculturist
The short road to wealth
turns out to be the roughest.
An empty wagon always makes
great deal more noise than a full one.
You would never know some men
were Christians unless they told you
SO.
Here is to the man who speaks the
best and thinks the least ill of his
neighbor.
The kind of farmer who occupies a
tarm can most always be told by the
■class of poultry he keeps.
Many a man who is fooling away
his time In the literary field might
"be useful in a potato field.
Some men use so much energy
blowing tlitir own horns that they
cannot accomplish anything else.
Men who are always yelling for a
square deal sometimes forget to whis¬
per when the other fellow gets the
worst of It.
“Four flushing" may win for a lit¬
tle while but no man can win by It
in the long run against honesty and
square dealing.
Almost anyone will give the other
fellow a chance, hut it won’t do much
good unless the other fellow gives
himself a chance.
The shovels, sweeps, bull-tongues
and plow points should be sharpened.
5.®ok forward and have everything in
readiness for the busy season.
Just about the time a man gets It
firmly fixed in his head that the farm
cannot get along without him, the
"boss makes up his mind to fire him.
There Is always one man'at a barn
•raising who runs around, spits on his
hand, yells Instructions to everybody,
cats more and does less work than
any other man on the Job. Know him?
Many a man shakes hands with
himself and believes he Is successful
•when he has become rich and yet he
may be farther away from real suc¬
cess than any other man In his
county.
CREDIT i
SYSTEM IN GERMANY
Farmers Form Landschaften Associa¬
tions for Purpose of Securing
Loans on Their Land.
Responding to Inquiry, Counsel Gen
-oral Robert P. Skinner of Hamburg
furnishes the following Information
concerning the I.andschaften associa¬
tions tn Germany;
A number of farmers’ credit institu¬
tions exists in Germany, of which the
most interesting, aB being most appli¬
cable to American conditions, are the
Landschaften associations, which have
perforate duseful work in Prussia
since 1769. These co-operative organ¬
izations resemble, to some extent, the
American building and loan associa¬
tions, with this distinctive difference,
that whereas the American societies
are composed of persons who deposit
money for the purpose of obtaining a
reasonable interest thereon and others
who borrow such deposits, the German
Lanscliaften associations are com¬
posed exclusively of borrowers, whose
combined credit is made available
practically to each constituent mem¬
ber.
The I.andschaften organizations are
societies of farmers, usually farmers
of considerable Importance, whose
mortgage bonds guaranteed by all
■members of the society, and which
"being so guaranteed are readily salable
upon favorable terms. The bonds are
payable to bearer, and thus consti¬
tutes a form of collateral which can
•command the money market as readi¬
ly as the great business corporations
of the country.
Members joining these associations
are required to submit to an appraisal
of their estates, and thereupon are en¬
titled to make mortgage loans for the
ultimate repayment of which the so¬
ciety assumes responsibility up to one
"half or two-thirds of the appraised
value of the land. The association It¬
self pays interest as it comes due, and
eventually pays the principal, reim¬
bursing itself from the borrowing
member, together with such additional
amounts as may be necessary^to meet
the cost of administration and amorti
xation.
A description of the actual organlza
tlon of the Landschafticher Kreditver
band fur Provinz Schleswig-Holstein,
with headquarters at Kiel, will Ulus
trate the mechanism of these associa¬
tions as a class. It is empowered to
acquire real property and issue mort
gage bonds payable to the holder
thereof. Only persons who own agri
cultural or wooded lands can become
members, and then only when their
estates represent a certain earning
power or a determined value. As no
body Jqins the association unless In
need of capital, the initiation fee Is
calculated at a rate of one-tenth of
one per cent of the amount to be bor
rowed. Persons who acquire property
encumbered with mortgages guaran
teed by the association must become
members thereof, and must assume all
liabilities arising under the mortgage
contract. Refusal to do so is followed
by the cancellation of the mortgage it¬
self. Members who enter the associa
Cion by reason of the acquisition of
■encumbered lands pay no Initiation
fee. MAlbers who have discharged
all their obligations to the association
may resign.
FARMERS ARE BUSINESS
80 Declares President Barrett In
vention at Charlotte, N. C .— To
Secure Legislation.
The national convention of
Farmers’ Educational and
tive Union of America was held
Charlotte, N. C., the other day with
thousand delegates, representing
most every state In the Union, in
tendance.
Addresses by different members
the union on subjects interesting
the statesmen of agriculture followed
the opening preliminaries.
In his annual address, President C.
S. Barrett spoke first of the farmer as
a business man. Here and there, he
declared, the Individual fanner has
much to learn concerning
and business usages. But the impor¬
tant point Is that the leaven is at
work and the man who tills the soil
and the country Is absorbing with
miraculous rapidity the lesson that
business principles must be foremost
In the management of his affairs. The
change Is epochal in a revolutionary
sense.
"In every state I have invaded,” he
continued, “the farmer debates today,
not so much the everlasting round of
politics or the cruelly selfish ambi¬
tions of politicians, but how to make
his acres return the maximum of dol¬
lars; how to make his best own op¬
portunities; how to furnish the best
opportunities to his sons and daugh¬
ters; how best to lighten his wife's
toil; how best to make attractive,
clean, healthful and permanent the
home that shall shelter them all.
“We have organized state unions in
three states during the past year—
California, Indiana and Virginia,” he
continued. “Catch the significance’ of
the national scope shown by .these
three organizations.
“As an evidence of the determina¬
tion of the organized farmer to punish
Indifferent public servants and reward
those who have shown their true col¬
ors and abided by them, it ia a well
known fact that the Farmers’ union
defeated several congressional candi¬
dates and a few senators in a few
southern and western states. That is,
moreover, merely the beginning of the
organization’s fight to secure atten¬
tion to its demands from men in pub¬
lic life.
“In a number of states where the
Farmers' union has made Itself plain
in asking proper legislation from legis¬
latures, it has gotten practically all it
demanded. In other states, for In¬
stance, Arkansas and Alabama, It has
never been turned down on a single
one of its requests.”
TO FINANCE COTTON CROP
Galveston Bankers and Texas Farm¬
ers’ Union Agree on Plan for
Moving Staple.
Ry the terms of a new agreement
which is being worked out between
Galveston bankers and officials of
Texas Farmers' union It is proposed
for the bankers of Galveston to
finance the entire crop of the coming
year in both Texas and Oklahoma.
Details of the new plan have not
yet been made public, but It is learned
that the matter has been under con¬
sideration for some time. By the new
agreement Galveston bankers stand
ready to take cotton from the farmers
at the market price in consideration
of which the farmers, it is understood,
agree to ship direct to this city.
As the cotton controlled by the
union represents a large percentage
of the output of the state, this would
give Galveston control and domination
of the state and Oklahoma cotton mar¬
kets.
The plan In general is an enlarge¬
ment on a wider scope of the one en¬
tered Into between Galveston bankers
and President D. J. Neil of the union
two years ago, and which has proven
to be very satisfactory to all parties.
It is understood Galveston bankers
stand ready with over $30,000,000 to
back up the agreement.
PURPOSES OF FARMERS’ UNION
To secure equity, establish justice
and apply the Golden Rule.
To discourage the credit and mort¬
gage system.
To assist our members In buying
and selling.
To educate the agricultural classes
in scientific farming.
To teach farmers the classification
of crops, domestic economy, and the
process of marketing.
To systematize methods of pro
duction and distribution.
To eliminate gambling In farm
products by boards of trade, cotton
exchanges and other speculators.
To bring farming up to the stand
ard of other industrial and business
enterprises,
To secure and maintain profitable
and uniform prices for cotton, grain,
live stock, and other products of the
farm,
To strive for harmony and good
will among all mankind, and brother
ly love among ourselves,
To garner the tears of the dis
tressed, the blood of martyrs, the
laugh of innocent childhood, the
sweat of honest labor, and the virtue
of a happy home as the brightest
jewels known.
Cauliflower.
It is difficult to mature cauliflower
in hot weather and it is usually a
mistake to attempt It on a commer
dal scale. Dry and hot weather gen
erally causes the plants to break or
to produce “buttons" instead of solid
heads.
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W. N. U„ ATLANTA, NO. 41-1910.
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ATCHISON’S ORDER OF SPINS
Unmarried, and Contented Withal,
They Have Mapped Out for
Themselves a Pious City.
There was called a meeting of the
Ancient Order of Spins last evening,
and papers were read on every sub¬
ject, from removing grease from car¬
pets to the sad memories that attach
to a bunch of old letters. The Spins
were having a hilarious time when a
visiting Spin got up to make a few re¬
marks. She said that, while they are
happy now, there was a sad time com¬
ing. "Think of the day,” she said,
“when, having no husbands or chil¬
dren, you will be all alone.” There
was a sniff and then a snort as Spin
after Spin recalled wives and mothers
who are alone from daylight till dark,
except when some member of the fam¬
ily wants waiting on. The sniffing
and snorting increased In volume as
Spin after Spin told of her freedom
from worry, her independence In
financial matters.and the joy of doing
as she pleased. “But we must not
take offense at what our sister has
said,” one Spin remarked. “Let us
show our good inten.ions by calling
on every lonesome wife and mother
we know.” This was six weeks ago,
and though the Spins have devoted
every afternoon and evening since to
this missionary work, they haven't
made half the rounds yet.—Atchison
Globe.
Illiterate Immigrants.
Ellis Island records show that of
62,727 immigrants who arrived here In
July 12,895, or about 25 per cent., are
Illiterates. Illiteracy is no bar to an
Immigrant so long as he appears phys¬
ically able to care for himself. Only
1,127 persons who sought to enter the
country were barred at this port last
month.—New York Press.
Anticipated.
Margaret—Did you tell the girls at
the tea that secret I confided to you
and Josephine?
Katherine—No, truly I didn’t. Jo¬
sephine got there first.—Harper's
Bazar.
A FOOD DRINK.
Which Brings Dally Enjoyment.
A lady doctor writes ;
“Though busy hourly with my own
affairs, I will not deny myself the
pleasure of taking a few minutes to
tell of my enjoyment daily obtained
from my morning cup of Postum. It
is a food beverage, not a poison like
coffee. t
“1 began to use Postum eight years
ago, not because I wanted to, but be¬
cause coffee, which 1 dearly loved,
made my nights long weary periods to
be dreaded and unfitting me for busi¬
ness during the day.
“On the advice of a friend, I first
tried Postum, making it carefully as
directed on the package. As I had
always used ‘cream and no sugar,’ I
mixed my Postum so. It looked good,
was clear and fragrant, and it was a
pleasure to see the cream color it as
my Kentucky friend always wanted
her coffee to look—‘like a new sad¬
dle.’
“Then I tasted it critically, for I had
tried many ‘substitutes’ for coffee. I
was pleased, yes, satisfied, with my
Postum in taste and effect, and am
yet, being a constant user of it all
these years.
“I continually assure my friends and
acquaintances that they will like it in
place of coffee, and receive benefit
from Its use. I have gained weight,
can sleep sound and am not nervous.”
“There’s a Reason.”
Read “The Road to Wellville” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Ever rend the above letter! A new
one appears from time to time. They
■ re genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
[FEVER CATTLE
Pest in Southern States Costs
Government Much Money.
Reason Why It Is Necessary to Keep
All Animals Off Pasture Where
Attempt Is Being Made to
Eradicate Little Pest.
(By PROF. E. C. COTTON, Tennessee.)
The presence of the fever tick In
the states south of the federal quar¬
antine line costs the agriculture of
that region the enormous sum of
$100,000,000 per year. In this day of
modern agriculture and Increased in¬
telligence among the farmers this is
too high a tax, even if It Is a volun¬
tary one, to pay for the privilege of
harboring a nuisance.
The fever tick and nearly all other
ticks In their development pass
through four states: Egg, seed tick,
nymph and adult.
The eggs are laid by the engorged
adult tick.
By seed tick is meant the little tick
from hatching up to the first moult.
By nymph Is meant the young tick
between the first moult and the sec¬
ond moult.
The term adult Is applied to the
tick alter the second moult and in¬
cludes the so-called “yearling tick”
and the fully engorged tick. The en¬
gorged tick lays from 1,500 to 4,000
eggs in from 9 to 55 days, depending
upon the season of the year, requiring
the longer period in cold weather and
the shorter in summer.
The six-legged seed ticks hatch
from the eggs in from 26 to 29 days,
again depending upon the tempera¬
ture.
The seed ticks crawl upon grass,
weeds and shrubs and await the com¬
ing of animals, from one day to sev¬
eral weeks.
After getting on an animal the seed
ticks feed seven to twelve days, when
they shed their skin, emerging as
eight-legged nymphs.
The nymphs feed upon the host ani¬
mal five to ten days, then moult,
emerging as adults.
The adults mate and feed four to
fourteen days, when they drop to the
ground and lay eggs.
The fever tick completes this cycle
twice and in favorable seasons three
times a year In Tennessee. They have
been doing this as long as we have
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known anything of them and will con¬
tinue to do so indefinitely unless man
steps In to break the cycle.
In the Illustration is shown the
length of the various stages in the life
cycle of the seed ticks hatching from
eggs laid by engorged ticks dropping
from the host animal on April 15.
After the ticks drop to the ground ten
days will elapse before egg laying be¬
gins.
The ticks will continue laying until
May 28, or 33 days, the eggs will be¬
gin hatching on June 15, an Incuba¬
tion period of 60 days, and the seed
ticks will not all be dead until Novem¬
ber 13, a period of four monthd and
19 days (141 days). This tells us why
It is absolutely necessary to keep all
horses, mules and cattle off a pasture
in which an attempt is being made to
starve out the ticks.
Pastures from which live stock is
removed for a sufficient time become
free of ticks by a process of starva¬
tion, as the ticks cannot live to ma¬
turity if they are unable to get upon
animals. The 'time required for all
ticks to die after the stock has been
removed from infested fields and pos¬
tures varies considerably, depending
on climate, season and weather con¬
ditions. Experience has shown, how¬
ever, that the period from September
1 to July 1 is sufficient, and this ap¬
pears to be the most convenient time.
Rules for Alfalfa.
Dr. Beal, of the Michigan Experi¬
ment station, In an address not long
ago, laid down the following ten rules
as necessary to make a growth of
alfalfa for a period of ten years or
more: 1. Select land that is deeply
drained. Swampy land or soils in
which the hard pan comes very close
to the surface will not make a proper
place for alfalfa. 2. Prepare the land
as for a crop of wheat. 3. If the soil
Is not alkaline, apply air-slaked lime.
4. Sow about four pounds of good,
clean seed to the acre at the time of
corn planting, or else early in August,
if the soil is moist then. 5. With
alfalfa seed sow orchard grass or tall
oat grass, about a peck each to the
acre. Excellent results may also be
obtained by adding two pounds of
timothy seed. 6. Under no circum¬
stances should a so-called nurse crop
he sown. 7. If nodules are not pro¬
duced on the roots, innoculate with
soil containing them. 8. Clip young
growth from one to three times. 9.
Cut when few plants of alfalfa are
first in bloom. 10. Leave a moder¬
ate growth In the fall as a mulch.
Fighting Weeds.
Fight the weeds in the strawberry
fields. Conquering them this year
means larger profits next year.
GOOD PORTABLE HOGHOUSE
Wisconsin Station Designs and Recom¬
mends A-Shaped Pen—Floor Is
Suggested as Best.
The Wisconsin station has designed
and recommends an A-shaped hog
house, a picture which is shown here¬
with. It is important to have the
rafters cut the right length so that
boards ten feet long cut in the middle
will exactly fit for roof boards.
The station recommneds that this
house have a floor, as, without a floor
the hogs Toot holes Into the dirt which
fill with water even though the house
be located on high, well drained la^.d.
In dry times a dirt floor works up
Into a dust bed.
The following lumber Is necessary
for the house just described: Nine
pieces one Inch by twelve Inches six¬
teen feet long and 11 O. G. battens
16" feet long for roof; five pieces one
Inch by 12 to 14 feet long for ends;
Portable Hoghouse.
one piece two inches by four Inches,
ten feet long for ridge; two pieces two
Inches by eight inches ten feet long
for plates; seven pieces two inches by
four inches 16 feet long for rafters and
braces in frame; three pieces two
Inches by six inches, eight feet long
for runners; four pieces one Inch by
twelve inches 16 feet long, rough, for
flooring.
MAKES GOOD WINTER FORAGE
Stubble Grasses and Weeds Will Be
Found Very Economical for All
Kinds of Live Stock.
Fox tall and ray weed and the
grasses and clovers growing on this
year’s wheat and rye stubbles if cut
before the stems become hard and
woody will make a very good winter
forage for mules, young cattle and
sheep. Cut when free from dew.
When well wilted rake Into small win¬
drows the following morning and as
soon as well cured haul under cover.
Double the windrows, use the two
horse sweep to haul the barracks,
sprinkle every two-foot layer with a
little salt. If ricked keep the middle
full and well tramped, beat the sides
down and top off with hay or straw.
After rick settles, which will take sev¬
eral days, add a little more straw to
the top, then wire down.
The rick may smoke for a few
days, but if the weeds were free from
moisture when put in and it was well
salted It will cure out nicely and
make a very acceptable winter forage
for all stock. Whether It is best to
cut the second crop clover for hay or
to let It grow for seed will depend
upon the condition of the clover. If
there is a thick stand of clover and
the heads well filled out, let it stand
for seed. On the other hand, if there
is much grass growing among the
clover It Is best to cut It for hay.
Hay and grain of all kinds will be
high this winter and It will be the
part of wisdom to cut and cure all
that is worth cutting so as to have an
abundant supply to carry the stock
through the winter. The wheat and
oat stock should be put in the barn or
securely ricked.
^General m M.
Farm Notes
Fly time adds no joys to dafry work.
The production of swine requires
little capital.
It’s a mistake to put off dairy work
for something else.
There, is no animal on the farm
that will add to it like sheep.
Sheep are subject to few diseases
and readily respond to treatment
Live stock on the farm will turn
unmarketable feeds Into money.
Scrub stock Is more unprofitable
when prices are high than when they
are low.
The pure-bred that does not meas¬
ure up to good breed standard Is to be
shunned.
Chickens are early risers and will
thrive best if an early feed Is pro¬
vided for them.
Confinement in a warm, dry house
is much preferred to freedom on a
stormy or wet day.
Milk, sweet or sour, is good for all
kinds of poultry. They can hardly
have too much of it.
Never was there a time at this sea¬
son when prospects pointed so strong¬
ly toward the necessity of the silo.
Cow peas are about equal to clover
as a dairy ration and are easily grown
in the warmer parts of the country.
Worms destroy a lot of young pigs.
They render a lot of others unthrifty
and unprofitable, and rob them of the
growth they should make.
Fat on the steer comes higher than
growth, so we should know how to get
the fat on his ribs while he is grow¬
ing at the smallest cost.
If the male birds are so gallant at
feeding tb a hens as to cheat them¬
selves, feed them by themselves—the
vigor and health of the chicks depend
largely on the condition of the male
heading the flocks.
IGNORANT OF ART.
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The Kid—Mister, Johnnie says that
purple thing in front of the picture’s
a windmill an’ I say it’s a tree; which
is right?
The Impressionist—That's a cow.
Points to Good Future.
Seven poor children, four girls and
three boys, all about ten years old,
went to a nearby seashore resort, in
charge of two women, for a day’s out¬
ing. The funds for the picnic were
provided by two boys who sell papers
and who live in one of the two houses
from which the excursion party was
recruited. One of the women in
charge of the children said that the
boys had arranged the outing "of their
own accord, and ther remarkable thing
is this: They are not good boys by
any means and one of them is prob¬
ably the naughtiest boy in the neigh¬
borhood. But we think that when boys
do little things like this they will come
out all right.”—New York Tribune.
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she looks to a man.
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