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V ST" t EgUlTY EDITOHIAL COLUMN. AMERICAN SOCIKTY OF EQUITY OF NORTH AMERICA. National OIHcers: C. M. Haunutt. I'rcs. Indianapolis Ind. L. N. Statth, Vice-Tree. Tronton, 111. 0. I). I'aiti.ky, Sec & Trims Indianapolis. Stnto Ofliccra: J. C. C'ANTnu.u, (ioorxutown, Ky. S. H. ItOHBliTON, See. Calhoun, Ky. - Cminty Olllcan: A..F. Wot.FU, Iron Hill. Pro. V. E. 8M1TII, I Up tun, Ky., St. MARION F. P0QU1S, RdIto. " To liruKT aid their friend While the objent f theio cotamnil prhnarilv to advance the cause of tk Society of KuitT, by promulgating iU prtuciplti and recording I in woadrfal work in alale ad ualtoo, m rnJtHfed form, we shall V glad to i 'Hre eenlribntiom flim our friends everywhere relative to tfte farmer and hie interta, no metier to wlitt organiiution you may belong. All sueh should be add reeied to mo, Predonia, Ky.. U. F. 1). No. 2 Such ootuiuuuications must bo signed in full by the writer, bolides tho noni do phi mo, if an. Tnr. KniTon. HOW TOBACCO SHOULD BE HOUSED, CUKEO AND HANDLED. Mr. Kiiith Kuiity I'ahk At your requont I will give you my ideas as to bow the proHont crop of tntmeito in lhi tho Stooiming should bo housed, cured and handled for the trado to bring tho bot prices or grado the bout wbon delivered. First, be sure you lot jour tobaeco got ripe for two reason?, it will woigh more and grade hctter. And when you begin outtmg don't got in too big a hurry, bandlo every loaf broken or hole punched with Htubii or sticks daraago your crop, and don't orowd on tho sticks, night ordianary plant are enough for one .tick and if vory largo, stx r soven ii bottor, you may orowd jour tobacoo on tho stick and it will although you g'vo the tick plontj of room in the barn When you bogin putting in tho barn bo sure your tobacco hangn straight aid oloar and rogulato the plants well, placing the plants end of "ticks out against tho tier polos and kocp it porpondicular from bottom to top of barn so the boat oan pass through and dry it evenly. If it is hung this way it will cure in tho top of the barn as fast as in the bottom, if the tobacco is well wilted before you put it in tho barn. You may put from thirty-two to thirty-eight stioks to tho polo in a twenty foot barn, owing to tho site of tobaoeo. If yu oan fill a barn in ono or two dayf so it will yollow nveuly when you got your barn full put your wood in at once and he ready. My plan is to cut my wood foot, like tho old time cord wood, so it will lay eloie togeth erand from six to ten in diameter, and begin about sixteen inches from the wall and lay it solid all over the barn. Then for a barn twenty foot square havo two loada of aaw dual in a wagon that will hold sixteen or olphteen buabeU of corn and place regular over it except leaving it about twito as thick in the eenter and leaving about fliteen inohos at eaeb door not coverod n your wood will start easier, whon started it will burn evenly all the time kocping a regular heat, The oaw dubt lb loft thiekor in tho uontor so it will not get two hot whon tho firos como together. Start the firos at both doors if your barn has two doors, aud havo .1 little space undor doors for air in case your lire don't burn freo enough. If your nam is tight you can make your fires burn as you dosiro by air in case it dou't bum froo onough, and you may at any tunc it we rA don't burn as froo as desired, lay sonio extra stioks of wood on tho firo and have you Homo extra saw dust outsido in case tho Are burns too free, put some dust on it. You nood not bo afraid of spaiks from the saw dust as thoy will nevor hurt anytuing. Don't start your firo if tho woathens warm until your to-' Now reader don't think I am diotat. Imeco begin to yellow, which will be' in bow you shall handle three days in winu 'o, but I am only giving you my If weather is very cool you had bet- i idens, and if yon differ with inu 1 ter yellew I by starting very slow j would. like to hear from you so that I flrM m Boon as you 811 your btm. I aj profit thereby. I want to learn aw dual alone in good enough for ,U 1 ii I ara years of aga that, as it will make cuougn wftrtfttb to yellow to yellow the tobaeco without caring. If you can't have nw dual to use try to have wood that you oan keep burtilrfg regular, aa u regular heat U best. Don't try to onre ton ii'ck, let your hardest firing be on the last, after the leaf is cured and '.he longer you fire lite belter un til you get it thoroughly cured, stem tftnlk. The poople that buy this want it to smell of the Are, the more the better. The poople that uil this tobaeoo aro like the poople hero arc by oofleo, thoy want it strong and tho more it is firod the bottor tho keeping qualities. Then next comos tho striping season. Wlion yon bogin to strip is the timo to make it grade woll. Every tiino you handle it bear in mind that horc is the plac to make it grade woll. Kvorytimo you handlo it, straighten and lay it on vour platforth nr table straight. Put one man to taking off tho trash and the best hand you havo (if more than ono to taking oil tho lugs as that is the most important plaoo. As he can discovorand throw back any trash loaves tho trash assortor may loavo, and thon most any ono can Htrip and tio the leaf, but caution thorn to wateh for any inforior loavos and throw thorn baok, and oaoh one whon thoy tie a bundle as it wants to bo bundled straighten it and lay it down by his side and pres it down occasionally and whon it gets in his way carry it to a place fixod to bulk it down and novor loave it over night in the bulk and by uo means pitch your tobacco as somo poople have dono in tho past, if you follow this plan one season you will nevor pitch it again, you may strip ono day and piioh to one cornor of tho barn and lot it lie until noxt morning and you will novcr got it straight and when it goes to the factory it looks bad and you aro apt to not got as good a grado as you ought have had and you saved no timo oitbor. And in assorting ovory doubtful loaf put it in the lower grade if you have any doubt whothor a loaf should go in the leaf or lugs, put it in with the litirs every time, it will bo money to you, it will make your lugs and leaf urn ie highor. The men that got tho best prneslasl yoar and thoir crops not them the most around wcro the onos that wide twenty to per cent, trash and the hiuo lugs, their leaf and lugs graded high "Um'1 the trnah also, and when you go to stripping, dou't lei it got too high, you dou't get I'tit very little more weight aud makof it look bad and don't vive natiefaelion and some-limos the reemver a great deal of trouble, aud besides it looks like you want to mII "omething that th lord givet. you in abuudauoe. Tho people that bmitflit tho of this district last year, was well pleated with it and I believe they ill continue to bo well ploasod aud will pay good prioes for it, for tho ponplo aro getting pay for the labor it !fiko.H to raise it and can afford to handle and oaro for it woll. l'eoplo havo mado a wonderful change in this county in tho past fow years, in olassing aud handling tobacco, and thoro is room for further improve- mont, farmers can raise 1,501) pounds t per aero hero and tho more wo Krow ' cough continues system is exhausted and 4 resistance weakened. Emulsion, 1 I a itaiii nlita tralf AtVi tN;ili;iD y uui iiuiv jrow - Itcont.iinsCodL.iverOUnndHypopho.tphites$o X - to taKeana easy to digest. X cue. a.nd ji.oo afv That hacking Because your your powers of Take Scott's 14 le11 - -ft - r jl UUIlUo ul' tiiv ou nrenarcd that it is easy all narcciyisi OfiVVtfr),8&,fi,lfl,,0r4,,C,,fr,fr V I ,'V per aero tho bettor tho quality. Ono man in tho county last year averaged fourteen hundred pjtinds on eleven acres and got tho top price sot by the association which was ton, ten and four, and it averaged him nine dollars and twenty-six cts. around and ho uude nearly twuuty. live oi trnsji. afld, have worked in tobnooo since I waa six, au f learn something every year. Wishing you all success. I am sincerely. .1. Frank Conukr. DO YOU KNOW? Some Tilings tanners Should know, Iiul Oo ilicy? Some Things II Farmers Oo Know They What To do About Them. PKOF. S.B. DOUDNA, CAMBRIDGE, 0. Do you know: That farmers are hard -up because thoy soil to low? Do you know: They dou't get over sovon nr eight cents per hour for labor, above in.CHtinent, while other laborors avorago two or throe times as uiuoh? Do you know: That a farmor ought to have as much for an hours labor as any other man gets for similar crviccs, and that no body could fairly object if thoy did? Dn you know: That for thn loaf of broad that foods the worlds the farmer gets approximately ono cont and the miller and bakor four, and that ho contributes moro value to the finished product than both of them and that most other products are in similar proportionb Do You Know: That it is almost an industrial crime to thus take the. fruits of his service and that all will repent of it in sackcloth and ashos soonor or later? Do You know that agriculture is tho Divinely ordained occupation of man and that it carries most blessings if given a fair chanc? Do You Know: That low prices and discrimination is causing the boys and girls and hired hoi p to leave tho farm for tho city, and that while a few olnnb up there the majority go down to vice and ruin and thorcby bringing un(iionchablc ovil to tho race. Do you know: That you oan stop this tatal drift if you coiumonco in timo and that to do this you muM make the farm more profitable and attractive? Do you know: That the best way to do this is to get more for what 3011 sell thru systematic pnee making aud marketing, which oan only be accomplished by oonoorted action an organization.? Do you know: That all other producers do this, thoy fix their owo prices and make the supply enuforui tliorcto'and that you could do this same thing with moro or no aud than any ol thorn if you would try? Do you kuow: That tho saying that "farmors oan't stipk togethor" is a fabrication and a eraecrow mostly by speculators to keep you from trying to unionize? Do you know: That great newspapers and eouimorcial magnates and syndicates will discoungc all your oiforts to because they know it will spoil thoir tramo and kocP t,,Ct,n fro,n l)ilinK UP 1C Ion the dilfcrouocs between what you got and what you ought to have. Do you know: That you are sinning away your day of grace selling your birthright for a mess of pottage by thus allowing thom to dominate and kcop you down? Do you know: That tho od law of and demand nu inn mi supply niiu uuiuauu no ,onKer rceuUtoa vor prices, but ,that u 'T8. bccu trDK,cd, to ihr bv p"o,ultors at tho other end of tho lino, and if there was such a law il wou,d' do yu litt!o good so long as you follow tho falso practice of putting a whole year's supply on a one month s demand instead oi it iut as tho world ncods it? Do you know: That with about half the votors of tho Htato you haven't a 'inale legislator oointnittood primarily to your interest, And that therefore per cant, of the farmers nevor know tha' a la browing till it hits thorn".' 1 'u kn .'v That on. 1 ! t aaeh per year wuulu umka an organization and put a lobby at the gates of 1 . sl.ition that would kaop tab n tho i dieator and get quiuk action and : .icroby do you more real good in i horl time than a whoic genera tiuii of kicking and cursing and growling at long rango after the thing has pasnod ovtj you? ho you know. Thot farmers' have mostly failed to full resulti) because they hae hitched to tho wrong cud of tho load uiuioly they have triad to pull other pooplc's pricos down instead of lifting theirs ups, while successful organization have adopted the opposite course? Do you know: That -societies in many parts arc now starting on the right courc and are winning out, and that the American Society of pquity of Indianapolis, Indiana is on the right track and is leading all of them in tho movement for national organization and that the principles it is voicing will soon make a new life for the farmer of America if he will give it a little push right now? Do you know: That some ablo men have htartcd this movement along and aro willing to sacrifice time and money for it? propor promotion to the glorious end that all pcoplo may finally rojoico in greater prosperity and moro gonoral equity, and tint they are uot going to let it dio unloss the farmers starve it out by failure to oxtond a holping hand. Pink l'ain Shoop's-stop Hoadacho, womanly pains, any pain, auywhoro, in 20 minutes sure. Formula on tho 25c. box. Ask your druirgist or doctor about this formula -it's fine. J. H. Ormc. "' The country branch of the Kentucky Society of Equity has sent out a call for its members to assemble In Louisville nt tho SUite Fair Grounds on Friday, September IS. No formal meeting will be held by them, but in the morning of tho day which has been named in their honor as Equity and Grange Day. they will form n mammoth parade through the streets of Louisville, which President J. Campbell Cantrlll says will be the greatest eight ever seen in the metropolis of Kentucky. A feature of their parade will be an escort of honor provided for Miss Alice Lloyd, tho brilliant young school teacher whose notable defense of "the man In brown jeans" won for ber Instant fame. Nearly every business house will also be represented by somo member of the Arm. marching In the parade with the tobaeco people. Following the parade the members of the Society of Equity will assemble at tho grounds and enjoy themselves as they desire. THE AMERICAN" SOCIETY OF Et.HTI'V A KimSSI) OF ALL. I'nllke Any Other FarinorV Society. Whon farmers, smarting iitnlor wrongs they could not entirely understand, realized that they must organize so rs to meet organization with organisation, they very naturally looked no further than to tho 1 business men thor know for tho source of their trouble. Th Idea did not occur to them that the prices of their own products might be too low? and unfairly and improperly mado. ,Tuey had been tnisht all thoir lives I as they yet are t might by many I whose reason for sueh teaching is that the pricey of farm product are mado at the fountain head of trade In accordance I with some law. and th , fore, thoy must be right at least that tltey were irrevocable, ltonre if there was a lack of equity, an 1111-, fairness in prices the farmers it that timo concluded It must bo In the 1 prices they rore required to pay Their" efforts were therefore, ill-' icctod to u lodtiction of retailors ' pricos. Whoie merclnnts were stub born or could see no place for a reduction of prices, the organized farmers formed companies and establish-1 ed stores of thoir n.wn iu opposition 1 to tho local trado Somo of those r mndo credible success, but most of J them were miserable failures. ; Tho theory and notion on tho part of tho farmers Inovltably created antagonism between organized farmers and business men So bitter became ' the antagonism that business Inter-! cats still hold to It, and whenever farm organization ls suggested to local merchants, or oven to the I wholesale trado. It Is at once concluded that nu onotny to them Is being built up, nnd thoy vigorously oppose It. But this Is not true of tho American, Socloty of Equity. This zatloji Is unlllto many other. (..cm o. ganfeatlonK. In that It Is built on au entirely different foundation,, erected upon a different theory and nlniB nt an entirely different accomplishment equity In oil tho business relations of lift- This nork' holds Unit tho prices of farm products hto tho ones that nro nrhitrarlly and unfairly made, that while supply .nd demand each hiivo a limit and their relationship vane. U10 adjustment or tin propor tlmi between the (wo constitute the is worthy of his liire. and we arc law of supply and demand, but that glad indeed to know that the world In unking the prices in the ordinary 1 Is being tannin this lesson to-day Him illative way. as published in the I as novr lufor" n; lei uH m . how niaikt ropoits. theae principles nrothls union Libel Imis.s . - will work v iiolh imirotl nnd price aro made I nm a farmei nnd teolui" Hie.1', liit will beet sne the purpose and "' of pe ulators. who buy ohonp , i I !lIi Tut In- i i 1 lew of the business hII'ih' ion it Is eminently th proline of tl c. Kixi'tj of Equltv to wregt .rom th I. jrtinl li.md. of Mieruln - tfcB and l',' ml. ling and giv thoinitured h re -ill the artu . in prico and more adjustment. This price ma ! Mjtrtor "nd it may bo lower than x. made bv the speculative tones, but It will al - v ivs bo r limner to 1 be iix'iiiM the proiitH revert to them ii'stend of flowing into th- coffers of ihiiM' ini toll not, neither do tlie -Vin." and vet be no more costly to nmtomers. Thli can be done, the hoiiety flaiiriH. aud hns proven It n ' by withholding needed supplies, but by keeping the market supplied only .18 actual demand cnllB for it. stringing It along throughout tho season Instead of pouring whole crops upon the market at timosof maturity to become the playtlilngs of tho bulls and b ars of speculation and the means of extorting unfair prices from customers. This theory of farm organization nnd accomplishment places, or should plnce. the Society of Equity in the most friendly relations with tho legitimate business interests of tho country, nnd they with It. Indeed the society has fully proven Its friendliness by opening its doors to business men, Inviting them to membership, welcoming thom to Its councils, and working hand In hand with them In building up home interests. The Society of Equity haB no secrets from the woild, its propositions aro plain business ones. Its success makes farmers better off flnanaclally, Increases their ambitions, refines their tnstes. multiplies their wants, gives them the ability to satisfy them and this makes them moro abundant purchasers. The merchant, therefore, or professional man. or anybody who is unfriendly to the society is too narrow in his views and selfish In his actions, and he Is blocking the path to his own best interests In many local'-ties tho business and professional men understand this and have become members of the society and are helping to load It on to maturity and success. Iu others they give it every assistance by counsel and good words. In such localities it takes eminently tho proper form that of pure mutuality of lntorosts. loading to "equity in all business relations of life." And so it may be in every locality. .., S. H. ROBERTSON TALKS. In the discussion of this Important matter, which is a part of all great labor organizations, we believe that we do not attach as much Importance to the use of the label as we should. In the first place, why should any labor organization find need for a label at all? Well, two reasons present themselves nt once for this use; one is for the protection of the members 'of the organization, and the other Is fpr the protection of tho consumers who want a pure article, and tho union label Is guarantee of that. Then you ask why protect the la boring man or woman? Well, go with us into the crowded sections of the great manufacturing centers and up the rickety stairways Into the cheerless rooms and se f'o there. Ask the cause, and the will fir."'" "We work hard and .;en t..Ive to fourteen hours a clay and tho company for which Wi .abor pay us wages oven at 'H to keep u from Miffeilng " , hsk v.,iy. ,.nu mey 1 .1 us mtui iin n-e vurfciUK 111 n tiirji in.u te pt.idr.dng nme piticlo that ls being inn do In tho san. town by con vie labor that is aiitlng a rich corporation oil a few cent per day and that the product of their toll comes In (ompetitlon with the product that com s from this cheap labor. What 1 Ij rnindrtv tnv Ihl..'' Tlile a nil . V, , , - " , , - , 10 rtf nrffnnleatini nnil If memhers .:: :;" 7i" .; r.;: -" Kederatlon Labor the great of h. v ' seme means of knowing that1 .if thlnff iq minnmrt u red tir pro- duced at a cost less thon that which wiuild afford the producer a good profit wo will not make uw of an J such article. We say chance the conditions by putting a union label 1 on the products. Tins win tell your! was produced conditions that aro perfecth satisfactory and th.it nothing has gone Into the makeup but honeM material and superior IZSHBESSI LittelFs Liquid Sulphur Stops Itching Instantly and will absolutely cure any skin disease, slight or severe, A Sample Bottle sent postpaid to uti? address on receipt of lfc. in stamps. The very first application will pro7e its raluc in any case of Eczema, Prickly Heat, Hives, Cuts, Burns, Scald. -any skin or scalp trouble. Rhuma-Sulphur Company 36 North 2nd Street St. Lonls, Mo. fin Sid by Jas. H. Orme workmanship, and what .will bo tho rosult? Evn though tho goods bearing the label nre higher In prlco than the other, they are sought for today, and tho cheap goods poods will be left. This is aa it should be for the time has fully come that labor must have her lust rewnrd Wo nre told b the bible thit the laborer corn. ?ef. pork, im' ; i i sir tho city and do outlaid r.iin 1 1 n t i''v In it i 'i " i f to? -. i'i shllt ' ' Hid Tho I li'i. t 1 ml ,lo tne I n .1 or tlie wm.m n k'i , ami ih. ! ' i;g Jt'Tj md 1: fo 1 the ii'i. ' H -1 i-" ' 1 I wnni to ) lp tin or it, . d I "inr In Mi. cit nd so we :n t'. i'i "We f 1 run on' h t zanizod ftlll II U efjjib Alll I MO t 10 l'ino ifi ' lj( the liTll'ili lab'l oil i iiU(i, ' of tout :,u 1 we !"ma''d sour 11 'In i'i t 1 hereby wo wll 1 a g:..it del,, .nd lor that im'duet," and tbei va to us now "We want you to supply our families with good fresb niHK and butter each morning that i may know that It Is your product Just put the label on It " Th same thing will work for overy product of the farm, nnd if this matter of label 1b looked after as It should be the producer would get good prices and find ready market; in turn the laborers In the cities would havo created .1 demand for the manufactured goods of good, quality guaranteed by the label S. B. ROBERTSON, State Secy. A S. of E., Kentucky. i.t SELF FHEDER FOR WHOLE GRAIN One Whioh WTU Eneeurmee the FoWto 10 WRoTdcoea Exerolt, Jt evl jei slbipto mK feeder and exorcisor for wfoole grain Is shown In tho cut. This ts merely a bom hung up two and to three foci above the floor. The lower board on each side is removed and the space covered with mesh. wire nottlng, This will keep the i-rain from running out, but the fowls will have no difficulty in getting what thoy not-d. Tho feeder should be hung high onough so that the fowls will onve to jump six to twelve Inches to gst their grain. It Is not advisable to take their entire foed through this feeder, because H would generally moan more than Is needed. To promote no tietter dovlce has keen far vented, declares Farm and Home. A. eonremleat s&re of a feeder Is eight Inches wide, two foot lone and oas foot bish. A triangular strip may b fcnvertod and nailed iu the bottom to throw the grain to tho outsido. "I POULTRY POINTS, jt Nolect of the poultry brood disasters. K Tne mot prolific pullota do not always lay tho earliest. Both chicks and fowls should have access to grit and charcoal. Forced pullets produce egga oX larger slae than retarded ones. In feeding either sweet or soar milk be sure the troughs are cleant Turkeys should not be allowed to-roost In the poultry house with chickens. Plenty of sunlight is essential la poultry quarters. .Darkness is conducive to disease. Growing chicks should not be yard- ed with fowls, but should have clean cras3 nins 0f their own. ,, ls nn impossibility to grow the best fowls without sufficient ehnde to protect thom from tho hot summer sun. . One Poultryman's Methods. Our young chicks get meal, table scraps, curdled milk, then cracked . . ...i ...1.1. ..i.... .corn uuu wuuui nun iiiumy ui wmur . . ..,. . ....... mh sKID rauK lo uno yenr U,ey ,rot Baros' and the ncxt year we "dded a few drops of carbolic acid to Their drinking water, also to tho water used in mixing Uieir meal, and they got along nicely. , Gas House Lime. Do not use gas house llmo fresh f" the a8 cautions tnoRurul Kew orkor It contains poisons for the soil Lot It "weather" In shallow piles and then use like other llmo. SCRATCHING!! Your f."ger na.ls are ful nnd cot or'y irrlti'e and inf1..me your skin, but ait i ilne to poison you nd give you Lock Jaw, Erys;pc".is or Lciema. Don't trke chances wi h an- form of skin rcsh or tou,h"c ', u 1... t.crwhat tcyLi? the trouble no nutter how nm h it it' lies yuu don't hne to jou don't have to scratch, Ur and Hayncs & Taylor.