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FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE UNION ._. OF AMERICA ■» [earning business methods. ? Farmer is Taking His Cue from H18 the Business Men. Varners’ Union is the only ’Tfarmers’ organization that does delegate its law making power * JLwntative bodies, but adopts * Referendum system. In this it dif te * anv other farmers’ organiza tfS ha?has ever existed. Kindred or *>" Sn? s««’h as the Farmers’ A1 CJand the Grange, delegated their S making power to representative Sies and this gave wily politician* Tsoread-eagle orators a chance to JLJce’’ the body and inject into *£eme? in which were hidden self V ,„d designing purposes—to gratP ' the personal ambition of the said Lucians Other kindred organiza were also wrecked upon the dan SL rocks of partisan politics. With JJge bold facts standing out promt «ntlv as danger signals, is it any Lder that those who conceived the Mea of the Farmers’ Co-Operative and Educational Union wisely enacted in jy the constitution a clause that pro mts even a discussion in a Union oT “thing of a partisan or religious na tsre and that any member guilty of neb offense shall be expended from the Union after a second ofTense. The referendum system is the safe ty valve that protects the Union from the swaying influence of “stump speech’’ oratory that creeps into and tontrols representative bodies clothed with final power delegated to them by their constituents. It is true that the Farmers Union has its state and na tional meetings. but these bodies must aubmit to referendum vote all impor tant matters to be passed upon by Lo cal Unions before they can bo called a law of the Farmers’ Union. Th tanners are learning business methods from business men. They have learne ' that when bushier • men co-operate lot the protection or promotion of their interests, they don’t i t political senti meats enter into their deliberation . Two or three t ■ od cotton wart-hot:-, in each com ■ in the south, owned *nd controlled by Farmers’ Union men, will be of more benefit and value to the fanners than anything they lave ever received or ever will re reive through an. political source Even one good warehouse In your eounty will be w th more to you than » dozen of your host politicians could be worth to you in the legislature. Ii It were our privilege to select the best investment of the people's money In the south for the next six years we'4 put all the expense money of the legislator! hpo cotton warehouses anS let the politicians stay at home.—Our , Horn*1, Nashville, N. C. Little Bannerettes. A body that is sound enough to work ten hours a day ought to con tain a mind sound enough to think about attending :lie Union at least once a month. Let the good work go on, educate, diversify, and then tell us how you did it, and what you thing of the new plan of farming. Slaves are always freed by revolu tions. Why then should we not revolu tionize the old systems that have made •laves out of the cotton producers. Yes, we exclaim in ortr sadness, what a lot of funny tilings we woolen hats miss by not being permitted to mix with tlm "iii'st society.” The build ig of capital has its tooth locked in the bosom of the laboring man's pant.-, and petitions and reso lutions will not Induce him to let go. Oh! the fun we darned fools do miss bv not being permitted to wallow •found in the tall grass with the elite •ociety of tioth America and Europe. How About Cutting Cotton? Brother, what are you going To do about that cotton crop this Year' You must decide now. Our •dvice to you would be to put most *f it in corn, potatoes, peanuts, and peas Then plant about ten acres in •hoats to fe 'i] all the waste you have •bout your place and when you do I “Is you win not have to study so J ®uch about your big cotton crop, for j h) carrying out the above you will i ®ot have time to fool with much cot- 1 ton nor will you need much cotton or ®°np>' either for you will have all you | “eed at home.—Winnfleld, La.. Union Banner. I Show your colors by being the best Union man in your community. Prove to your neighbor that the nion is a good thing by showing him JV ’’ has made a better man of you, | a happier family of yours. (losor relation between the busi «SS man and the farmer will destroy 1 °f 'it® prejudice now existing. . understood there will he fewer arn*’s of an unpleasant character. # ^ T'a^°a left standing in the sun ' 11 hi is not the property of a good lTndon man; it is the imple n a,|d vehicle man’s friend and Is " k for the dealer day and night thus exposed. J;u l,on * have much troublo get ynu 111 fn ,0 tako ii°id of good things, T>!i»o0? y nee<* t0 show them; this ap to v ° tlie ^n*on- ^ it is of benefit 1#"u’ ,,le ^'oHd will soon know it, Get |S n0t’ ** is likely your own fault, union 1S1 Rettlng some good out of ’ education and harmony 1 A FINE INVESTMENT FOR A SMALL AMOUNT. The Dallas News, after, speaLtn* of the things that have been done by some towns to draw trade and show appreciation of the farmers' patron age, adds: There is one thing, however, that seems to have been overlooked to a great extent by the enterprising citl zns of the places which have been looking after such matters, and tho only reason The News can assign for the oversight is ihe apparent insignifi cance of the thing, and the fact that the cost of maintaining it would be so small. This is the provision for the care of the farmer’s vehicles and stock during his stay in town. While this item may appear upon first thought to lie of secondary import ance, it is nevertheless a very impor tant one to the man who drives his team to town, and particularly to the one who has to remain over all day, as is sometimes the case. It is found that in many places there are not oven onougrt hitch racks where horses may he tied, not taking into account the fact that they should be protected from the weather also. It is a regret able fact that too many men, some times owners of the stock, do not take the care of their animals they should, hot only as to looking after tho money involved in the purchase of the stock, but as a matter of kindness and mercy to tho dumb beasts. Facilities for the proper care of the former s horses and mules would ap peal to him and he would appreciate it in a substantial way. These facilities should consist of good shelter, good water and plenty of shade and hitch racks. In many places horses may be seen in winter during the worst weath er standing all day in the cold and rain, tied to a fence post, with abso lutely no protection, and in summer they are found in the same way, ex cept that at that time they are forced to stand in the blistering sun, without any shade and probably without any thing to eat or water to drink. It costs very little to prepare such facil ities as here suggested and it is quite certain that tho money invested on them by any city or town will be found to tie a splendid investment on the part of tire men making it. About Reading the Papers. Ti. ■ editor of this department has for many y. ars advocated the wider reading of the agricultural papers by the farmers, and also the contribu tion to these papers more of their personal experiences. The following letter from E. C. Miller. Flora. Miss., taken from the Southern Farm Ga zette, Starkville, Miss., is an example of what farm papers may do for a man who has some sense to start with: Mi ssrs. Editors: While I have been a farmer now about seventeen years, ( was raised in i dity and did not know what a furrow was. I do not want to flatter myself; but I know more about farming than some people who have been at it all their lives, and I got it all by taking farm papers and magazines. I raised a bale of cotton on a half acre of red clay hill land that used to he a sweet potato patch, and it would not make any |M>tatoes. l have raised two hales ot cotton to the acre, and hope to run it up to three next time. I have raised over 200 bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre. People's cattle were dying here with the scours from eating froz en cotton. Mine were sick. I asked all around what was good for the trouble. Nobody knew. I saw in a farm paper that carbonate of iron was a good remedy. I gave them a tablespoonful three times a day and cured them in a few days, saving myself more dol lars than all my papers come to. I never use any commercial ferti lizer. I use barnyard and henhouse manure and muck from the swamp; take my scraper and dig all the mud from the ditches in the pasture and haul it on the land. The ditches will hold water better and cattle like it better than pond water. I also plant plenty of peas. 1 do not care what anybody says—nothing boats peas. It should he taken Into considera tion wlnui discussing the immigra tion question that there are good and there are undesirable Immigrants. Throughout the South and West there is plenty of good land that ought to be in the hands of good husbandmen; there are mines and forests, and there are the thousand and one things that people must have from the mills and factories. So long as this condition continues, we want all soits of good Immigrants, and we should seek them in the best parts of Europe and in England, Ireland and Scotland. The South and the Southwest will plant more corn this year than for many years past. Corn is a crop that does not depend upon the cotton gam bler. nor the whims of the English spinner. You have many ways to mai het it, and many forms into which It may he converted. Corn Is a line crop any and every way you look at It. Plant good seed and give it full cul tuir so that you will make enough to make it profitable to cultivate it. and justify devoting the land to its use. Now Is the season In which the whitewash brush pays such enormous dividends in the way of health and cleanliness around the place. Get you a barrel of lime and a brush or two, and tell the boys to “lay It on thick and a plenty." Plenty of lime will have a good deal to do with keeping the hen house clear of mites, and many a fruit crop owes its arrival at maturity to the coat of whitewash that the tree got. As a deodorizer aud dis infectant, lime stands wav no In the list. j DO YOU KNOW WHAT WHITE LEAD IS? Its Chief Use and a Method of Deter mining Good from Bad Explained. • White Lead is the standard paint material all over the world. It is made by corroding metallic lead into a white powder, through exposing it to the tumes of weak acetic acid and carbonic acid gas; this powder is then ground and mixed with linseed oil, making a thick paste, in which form it is packed and sold for painting purposes. The painter thins it down to the proper consistency for application by the ad dition of more linseed oil. The above refers, of course, to pure, genuine White Lead only. Adulterated I and fake "White Lead,” of which there are many brands on the market, is generally some sort of composition containing only a percentage of white lead; sometimes no White Lead at all; in such stuff, barytes or ground rock, chalk, and similar cheap substances are used to make bulk and imitate the appearance of pure White Lead. There is, however, a positive test by which the purity or impurity of White Lead may be proved or exposed, be fore painting with it. The blow pipe flame will reduce pure white lead to metallic lead. If a supposed white lead he thus tested | and rt only partially reduces to lead, leaving a residue, it i3 proof that something else was there besides white lead. The National Lead Company guar antee all White Lead sold in packages bearing its ‘‘Dutch Boy Painter” trade mark to prove absolutely pure tinder this blow pipe test, and that you may make the test yourself in your own home, they will send free upon re quest a blow pipe and everything else necessary to make the test, together with a valuable booklet on paint. Ad dress, National Lead Company, Wood bridge Building, New York. GLAD TO HAVE HIM GO. Toll-Gate Keeper Thought He Mad Visit from His Satanic Majesty. This is not the only age in which j motor cars have created excitement and disturbance. In 1SI‘J such appari- 1 tions were few and far between; a» present they are too frequent to at tract attention. Mr. Joseph Hatton, in "Old Lamps and New,” tells of the fright caused by one of Trevithick’s 9team locomotives, made to run on unrailed roads in the early part of the last century. Now and then one of these extraor dinary vehicles would be encountered, snorting and putting on the highway. The countrymen regarded them as the evil one in disguise. One of tlie cars, coming to a toll gate, stopped for the gate to be opened. The toll man came hurrying out. He flung the gate open with trembling hands, and teeth which chattered audibly. The driver asked him how much toll there was to pay. ”0, nothing, dear Mr. Satan, noth ing!” hastily assured the man. “Go on as fast as you like; there’s nothing to pay.”—Youth’s Companion. DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA Could Lay Slate-Pencil in One—Hands in Dreadful State—Permanent Cure in Cuticura. “I had eczema on my hands for about seven years and during that time I had used several so-called rem edies, together with physicians' and druggists' prescriptions. The disease was so bad on my hands that I could lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks and a rule placed across the hand would not touch the pencil. I kept using remedy after remedy, and while some gave partial relief, none relieved as much as did the first box of Cuti cura Ointment. 1 made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my hands were perfectly cured after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and 'ne cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W. H. Dean, Newark. Del., Mar. 28, 1007.’’ The Telephone Girl’* Amendment. Said the business man with a grouch against the telephone central: “One day I was calling a number and said, ‘Get me on-four-hundred so and-so.’ The girl said, 'Fourteen-hun dred so-and-so?’ So the next time I called the number 1 thought I’d be forehanded. “I said, ‘Get me fourteen-hundred so-and so.’ Anti the girl asked, ‘One four-oh-oh so-and-so.’ ” Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOHIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In TTse For Over .‘iO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Tennyson’s Yearly Income. Tennyson received for his poetry be tween $25,000 and $:>5,000 a year. WESTERN CANADA DROPS CANNOT BE CHECKED. OATS YIELDED 90 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. The following letter written the Do- 1 minion Government Commissioner of Emigration speaks for itself. It proves the story of the Agents of the Gov ernment that on the free homesteads offered by the Government it is pos sible to become comfortably well off In a few years: Regina, Sask., 23rd Nov., 1907. Commissioner of Immigration, Winnipeg. Dear Sir: It is with pleasure that I reply to your request. Some years ago 1 took up a homestead for myself and also one for my son. The half section which we own is situated between Rouleau and Drinkwater, adjoining the Moose Jaw creek, is a low level and heavy land. We put in 70 acres of wheat in stubble, which went 20 bush els to the acre, and 30 acres of sum mer fallow, which went 25 bushels to the acre. All the wheat we harvested this year is No. 1 hard. That means the best wheat that can be raised on theearth. Wedid not sell any wheat yet as we intend to keep one part for our own seed, and sell the other part to people who want first-class seed, for there is no doubt if you sow good wheat you will harvest good wheat. We also threshed 9.000 bushels of first-class oats out of 160 acres. 80 acres has been fall plowing which yielded 90 bushels per acre, and 80 acres stubble, w’hich went 30 bushels to the acre. These oats are the best kind that can be raised. We have shipped three car loads of them, and got 53 cents per bushel clear. All our grain was cut in the last week of the month of August before any frost could touch It. Notwithstanding the fact that we have had a late spring, and that the weather conditions this year were very adverse and unfavorable, we will make more money out of our crop this year than last. For myseit T feel compelled to say that Western Canada crops cannot be checked, even by unusual conditions. I am. dear sir, Yours truly, (Signed) A. Kaltenbrunner. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE. Schoolmaster—Do you wish your son to learn the dead languages? Mr. Koffln—Certainly, as I shall re quire him to asist In my business as an undertaker. Giving It the Acid Test. The clairvoyant was swaying back and forth under the severe strain of her mental connection with the realm of spirits. "Now,” she chanted, "call upon any soul you will and 1 will make it speak to you—yes. even visible to you.” For she was up to date in the biz. “Bring me,” asked the masculine skeptic, “Brevity, the soul of Wit.” Right here the seance ended.—Cin cinnati Enquirer. How’s This? W« offer On* Hundred D«llare Reward for any caae of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. .T. CnENEV * CO., Toledo, O. We. the underetgned. have known F. J. Cheney for the Iasi n rear*, and hallere him perfectly hon orable In all bualnets trantactlou* and financially able to carry out auy obligation* made by bla firm. Walmno. Kinnax A Marvin, Wholesale Drugs lets, Toledo. O. nail's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface# or tha system. Testimonials sent free. Price 73 cents pal bottle. Sold by all Drugglata. Take Hall's Family Pill* .'or constipation. A Diplomat. "So you gave your husband % box of cigars?" "Yes," answered young Mrs. Tor kins. "Did he appreciate them?" "Indeed he did. He values them so highly that he is smeking a pipe so as not to use them up too fast.” Druggist’s Generous Offer. "I am sorry to disappoint you," said the old time druggist to the suitor for his daughter's hand. "I can’t let you have Amy because I’ve promised her to the son of my partner. But I havo live other daughters and give you something just as good ” WHAT CA USflai HTCADACH*. From October to Hay, Cold* are the most fre quent cause of Headache. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE remove* cause. 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