The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 20, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
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HOW A WOMAN IS IIUILD1NG *
A OA IIIV COMMUNITY. +
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(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."
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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 .
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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
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women along the road how you fix ^
up your butter," said our rural oar- .
rier last summer. "Some of them
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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.
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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
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year.
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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 ,
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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
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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.
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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
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lightly applied, a little quiet, and
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"Nothing ever helped like your
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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.
Not all the product of artificial
greeneries are so lovely as that of
the fields, the country garden, the
felicp pnua e-? . i- - 1
vt?v ?ii 01 lunt'S, 111U UlillU*
dils, the arbutus which htdes under
tlie hillside leaves, the tirst buds of
the rhododendrons and the other forma
telling Af the life blood drawn direct
from the earth, while poor mankind
has to take all second hand.
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