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HHA' '2 II I I I I I I I'111. *+++'11 I H I lit ^ HOW A WOMAN IS IIUILD1NG * A OA IIIV COMMUNITY. + . .1 . . + (By Elizabeth Denty Abernathy. t; Tennessee.) o "Just what is going to be neces- e sary to interest tlie average farmer ii in dairying is pretty hard to tell. One thing is certain, he cannot be driven into it. It also seem* that he j, cannot be persuaded Into it. The cj person who could succeed in getting jt up some scheme of interesting the j, average faraie in the dairy business t j would be entitled to have his name enrolled among the benefactors of j, his race."?Nashville Banner. Like other knotty problems, the s) solution o? the problem outlined in 0 the above extract from the Nashville Banner is easy when once you get V( hold of the right string. Our Pleasant Valley Ladies' Aid Society solved this problem accidentally, or incidentally, while trying to raise money J" for church support. How? Why. by finding a v ay to market farm butter profitably. Organization, cooperation, farmers bulletins, Uncle ( Sam, refrigerator boxes, butter car- ^ tons, city friends, parcel post, lowered express rates?these were the strings we palled. The story in all its details suggests "The House that 1 Jack Built." When our creamery 5:1 ni11 orisi 1 T fn n ivri?? ?->f s House That Betty's Butter Built." c Here come the cows. 'It' I though' you women could keep this th<ng j going. I would buy another vow." said one of the farmers. And l?e . t< bought a cow. His neighbors bought . rows. One man bought a herd. Separators and silos are coming into our valley. Do they not always ? follow in the wake of bulletins and ' butter cartons? "I wish you would lot me have one j* of your little boxes to show the e women along the road how you fix ^ up your butter," said our rural oar- . rier last summer. "Some of them a puts theirs in buckets just so, and by the time it gets to town, I can hear it sloshing in the bucket." I gave him simples for each of the . carriers that go out from Pulaski. si Every farm woman needs to know about the paraffined butter carton? a collapsible cardboard box which exactly fits a parchment-wrapped, rectangular-pound print of butter. " We used and distributed 15.000 of u these useful little containers last B w year. in Three years ago we sold our but- t[ ter at 10c to 15c per pound through ^ the summer, just because we had u uctci iicam ui i lie-: wuiiri eauuii auu Its possibilities. Now we get 30c j per pound in hot weather and 35c ^ the rest of the year, and can deliver , hi our butter in good shape whenever it is wanted. Ice and refrigerator ^ boxes? Yes, we use refrigerator . boxes in summer for some large . tc shipments of butter; but, as a rule, m the butter carton and the egg crate ( solve our container problems. Near- -z ly every crate of eggs we send out si carries butter in the top layer. A t) crate of 30 dozen capacity will hold () 24 dozen eggs and 16 pounds of but- j ter, or when two layers of eggs are left out and the prints stand on end, ,p 1R rtfw.pn pcirn anrt 3'> nnunils nf butter. The butter carton makes fa such packing possible. In winter we ship eggs, butter, and sausage together. "No. the sausage does not flavor the butter," our customers say. We pack the sausage in parchment lined butter cartons. UNCLE SAM'S TRIPLE ALLIANCE J* The New York Globe says: "The parcel post which it was believed would develop into an important far- *1 tor in reducing the cost of living as tar as farm produce is concerned, has proved to be a miserable disap- st pointment." 111 A disappointment to many, perhaps, who expected immediate re- - ( suits, forgetting that it takes a tri- m pie alliance of Uncle Sam. producer, and consumer to make parcel post c service effective. 111 llncle Sam lias nrovided wavs of (,l transportation and weans to do more. l'] but he can help us only as we make T an effort to help ourselves. It is er time for producer and consumer to get busy. st Farmer folk have much to learn st before they /an begin to ship their commodities to city consumers. Then (< they have been told of their ignoranee and shiftlessness until they rr have almost lost faith in their powers of initiative. (< The New York Globe says further* "The failure of the parcel post to come up to expectations is due en- 01 tirely to the greed of the farmer, ic An Ea*y. PlMMIIt I ;?\ative. ' jl( One or two I)r. King's New Life j Pills with a tumbler of water at night. No bad, nauseating taste; no belching gas. Cio right to bed. Wake J Pi up in the morning, enjoy a free, easy a bowel movement, and feel fine all day. Dr. King's New Life Pills are ' sold by oil druggists, 36 in an orlgi/ial package, for 25c. Get a bottle today?enjoy this easy, pleasant " lavatlve. 2 I J.', ho cannot resist the temptation to sk prospective customers prices for is produce far above those current 1 his ow n locality and higher even an those exacted by the fancy retil stores of the cities for produce f the same grade." Poor old farntr! He catches it going and comtg. doesn't he? The enterprising farmer who can ut his staples upon the city market 1 good shape, expects and deserves ity prices. The parcel post and jwered express rates will, eventual>*, reduce city retail prices; but, un1 large numbers of country people re engaged in direct marketing, it t useless to expect radical changes. Don't browbeat us for greed and upidity. Give us time to work out ur problems of standard and couliuers. Work with us. We need our help. To my mind the parcel post heralds ic dawn of a new day in which city eople and country people will work >gether and understand each other 5 they have never done in the past. is the privilege of organized bornelakers to play the leading part in elping Uncle Sam to establish the itelligent. sympathetic co-operation f city women and farm women. In her isolated home on the farm is no easy task for one woman to andardize her commodities, procure 11 it able containers, learn the best ays of packing, and find reliable ity customers. That all of these itliculties of a country neighbor ood come together to work out lese problems, has been demonstra.*d by a little band of farm women i Giles county, Tennessee. Let me tell you briefly the story f our Pleasant Valley Ladies' Aid ociety. Because farm women are jo busy to attend clubs of various inds. and because we feel that the hurch should take the lead in evrv movement for community bettertent, our organization is developed tto a club of diversified interests, nd activities. We have a domestic epartment through which, aided by ncle Sam and city friends who anted our butter and eggs, we have uilt ui) trade with frnnna nf jmers in various cities. The tirst ear (1913) our sales amounted to lore than $2,000. Fortunately for us. one member f our society had learned, in some ay, to apply to Uncle Sam for uidance in business matters. As e were organized every other wolau heard of farmers' bulletins and teir posisibilties. Some of our memera made good butter. As we were orking together every woman tnong us had a chance to taste this utter and to learn how it was made, he bulletins helped us all to make etter butter. Uncle Sam told us here we could get creamery suplies. Catalogs from these dealers i creamery supplies introduced us > the best butter moulds, parchent paper, butter cartons, shipping )xes. etc. Because we were organ ed. it was possible to order our lpplies co-operatively, thus saving le expense of individual orders, ne member, who had sold eggs for itching, taught the rest how to -ade and pack aggs for shipment, he women who had friends in this ty made engagements that called >r all the butter and eggs of stand a requirements our community ?uld furnish. An organization worth while? ur customers think so. They rite: "Your butter spoils us for le kind we can get in the city." rhe eggs are so fresh that it is a >y to break them." "When can you snd us more of your good country iusage?" Worth while? We have found it i. A tenant woman of our cornunity sold over $ - oo worth of itter and eggs the first year. Last 'ar one member of our society sold er $1,500 worth of butter and eggs. Worth while? Uncle Sam thinks >. He says: "You have done I arvelous work. It is just such cojeration that makes it possible for le department to do its best work he idea that the skillful buttermak of the neighborhood might teach le other women through a club is, it >ems to me, one of the most conructive ideas I have seen lately." Organized producers, organized >nsumers, and Uncse Sam the medl:or?here is a triple alliance that in wage war successfully against id eggs, bitter butter, and the high >st of living?a triple entente. A CONSUMERS' CLUB. The following is the story of how IT count r V nraflncn una intr/wlnoAW > the city consumers, as told by rs. H. T. Campbell, who gave the sip so much needed In the beginIng: Butter in cartons is easy iu handle, arties who had autos would come number of blocks for butter and ires o:? 3ores, Other Remedies Won t Cute. le worst cases, no matter of tiow long standing e cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. f irter'a Aatiseptie Healing Oil. It relievei . iu aud **? '-?t'.lie ?ame time. ;Sc. SOc. ! THE LANCASTER NEWS. eggs, and take back supplies for themselves and their neighbors. I do not know to what proportions the business might have grown if I had had a private telephone; but I could not allow too many calls for butter and eggs over a physician's telephone. The president of the Pleasant Valley club, who packed the butter, put on each carton a certain letter or figure which indicated to her the party who made the butter. When there was any complaint I reported to her, giving the symbol upon the carton. She knew at once whose ' butter had not come up to the stand ard. The president assumed ail responsibility for bud butter, and bad and broken eggs, and always made the loss good. The cases came to me on Tuesday, and I devoted that day to receiving them and distributing their contents. In fifteen months I sent the society checks to the amount of $<561.89. That was the amount of sales with expressage and a commission of 10 per cent deducted for the enterprise which started in a missionary spirit was soon establish<><1 n n o hnoinooo hooiu Last spring I moved to a distant part of the city, and as the club still wanted Pleasant Valley butter and ours the engament passed Into the hands of one of my neighbors.?Reprinted from Hoard's Dairyman, Fort Atkinson, Wis. ++++v+++++++++++-m-+++++++-t * * + STATU HIGHWAY SYSTEM. + I* + J. . t. .t. .f. t. t- -t. .f, ? -t- ,T_ TTTTTTTTTTtT.TTTTTVV TTVTv Greenville Piedmont. One of the notable addresses at the recent meeting of the South Carolina i'ress Association was that delivered by Reid Whitford, who was for many years in tlie service of the United States government and is now secretary and engineer of the sanitary and drainage commission for Charleston county and makes a specialty of good roads construction. It was the address of a practical man who was a master of the subject he " as discussing. His especial theme wis the need of a state system of highway construction. He, so presented this subject that the editors and master printers unanimously adopted a resolution recommending | to the legislature that it provide for , such a system. Good roads, of course, are good I roads wherever constructed, but the county that at heavy expense to itself j nprovides them poses no small part of the benefit it should derive from them if adjoining counties make no I improvement of their roads or make them without reference to a comprehensive system of co-ordinating road improvements in various counties so that Rood roads when constructed in j-iuch various counties will constitute parts of a well-planned state system. In short, good roads connecting various parts of a county should be so planned that they will connect with similar good roads in other j counties and constitute highways j connecting not only the various parts of the State but fit with the good road 1 of other counties ?nto a system of | national highways. The wisdom of such a coraprehen- ' sive nlan of road imnrovement is al most self-evident and no room was , left for doubt after presentation of the subject by such an expert as Capt. Whitford. State supervision is an essential, j Without it there will never be co- | ordination of the work of road im- | jirovement carried on by the various j counties. South Carolina should | have a State highway commission charged with direction of road work and seeking to obtain such co-or- ; dination. When such work is undertaken it will be found that the State as a whole will have to help some of the weaker counties with their road work, just as the State now as a whole helps some of the weaker coun 1 ties with their schools. One point made by Capt. Whitford particularly impressed the writer of this article. He said the governing thought in the minds of all charged wirth road construction should be that the primary purpose of roads is to provide for and facilitate commercial intercourse and that this pur pose should always be given greatest j consideration. It is mighty pleasant for owners of automobiles to have Arm. smooth, well-graded and well-drained highways over which to take pleasure trips, but the people generally will not rally to the cause of good roads Tinvl, Aching Muscles Relieved. Hard work, over exertion, mean ! stiff, sore muscles. Sloan's Liniment lightly applied, a little quiet, and your soreness disappears like magic. , "Nothing ever helped like your Sloan's Liniment. I can never thank , you enough," writes one grateful j user. Stops suffering, aches and I pains. An excellent counter-irritant, better and cleaner than mustard. All j druggists. 25c. Get a bottle today Penetrates without rubbing. 2 ' / JULY 20, 1915. if those charge of their construction give cause for the suspicion that th"lr main purpose is to provide high ways for automobiiis.s They should be kept in mind by those constructing road, but the main emphasis should always be laid upon the value of good roads to those who have to use the highways for the transportation of farm products and supplies and other commercial purposes. They ar the bulk of the taxpayers, and their interests should be firftt pnnoiHnro/1 If roads are constructed that are adequate for commercial transportation they will be satisfactory to those who use them for pleasure trips in automobiles. In this connection it might be well to tell the stpry of the conversation of a citizen of Greenville, who is a Rreat believer in good roads, with two farmers of this county. Last fall every farmer in this county recognized the value of holding his cotton off the market and most of them did so, if they could find a way. One farmer who lives near the Franklin road, which was passable all last winter, said he was enabled to hold ills cotton by the fact that he hauled into Greenville nmt tiro worth of wood. The other farmer was asked how much wood he sold, and said he had not sold a dollar's worth, though he lived but a short distance from the first farmer, because the road between his place and the Franklin road was so deep in mud he could not haul a load over it and found it hard to travel over it with an empty vehicle. That was a practical lesson as to the value of good roads. Nature Supreme. 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