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Union Bore u o Information -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Eduea tional and Co-Operation Union. IWCommunications Intended for this departnent should be addressed to J. C Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. All local Unions that have been or glanized and have not received their charters will please write to State - Sec. Treas. B. F. Earle, Anderson, S. C., at once. He also wants 25 good organizers for different counties. Send your name and endorsement of your local union and go to work. All Farmers' Union mn know of the good signs of the times ahead when we tell them of the fact that National President Darette and Pres ident Calvin of the Texas State Un ion have gone to the big cotton meet ing in Vienna. President Jordan of tile Cotton association -and Mississip pi State President Clark, also of the cotton association, are off for the same meetik. This is the bravest move yet made by cotton growers. Wait Until You Hear From Both Sides Before You Condemn a Good Mqn's Conduct in Any Business. Wlien you throw 'a stick of stove wood among a pack of prowling curs in your back yard at night, you may know without seeing, that the hit dog is the one doing tile howling. Same about the farmers' organizer. The men that dread organized farmers most are the ones hit hardest and keep barking at our farmer organiz ers. Where will you find a man that can show up more gall to the cubit inch than the man who sneers at organ ized farmers because they have not as much money in their organizations as the gang. .This same chap helps to rob these same farmers of their hard earnings? This man of gall has helped to rob farmers of their profits in their cot ton crops and then he goes about laughing at the farmer- for not hav ing plenty of money. The best plan to stop pigs from slipping in and opt at cracks is to feed them well and they will soon get -too big for the cracks. But work grafters bhe other way; cut off their feed, let them shrink so that they may leak out at small places. a standby in a farming com unity.an-.uneducated farmer philoso ier is a better stock in trade than tan educated fool. Have you ever thought about the tct 'thht there is something else of ore importaice to your final wel re than to make money all the Il e? he man of sterling manhood is { essarily a brave mean for~ tile rea that he must fight 'back all man of tentptations of evil dollars and rmen of power and influence al t all the wvhile. As the (lay's duty e and go these temptbations rise before himn with b)rilliant glare of that calls downi the coward and nly meni. almost alwvays sometimes happens thle man thlat kicks .against sys 'and improved methods in ha.nd il}Uion buiisies -is inlterested more aq private affairs thlan the w~el ~f the Union. Some members to forgiet thieir ob)ligation to co te to the interest and welfare eother members of their local. are not a Union man if you do eithier quit obstructing co-opera .principles or join tile ranks out among the speculators where you nfg. You can 't be a union man and oyprivat'e advantages over your ~er. Pretense wvon 't excuse you. O 1 is)but one principle in the ers' Unlio.n, that is altoget.her - he good of 'all. qd Farmer is a Man of Calcula tion and Reason. - farmers don't do figuring wx hile a few~ of themi farm too with figurei's. is imp)ort.ant to know when to ap !fguring to farming, and it is ~ally important to know when to p iguring and go to work. R Eery diany farmers come out be 9 ind at the end of the year on ac bunt of not figuring thie thing out ~ roperly before beginning the crop. We have seen.a few farmers that admore figures ini their heads thantI Swork in their hands, who generally come out at the end of the year wvithi a good supply of figures in thleir pockets arid no ruoney to salt the fig ures down with... A good all-round farmer is one that diversifies and rotates his crops; raises stock and mixes in tile fabric of the farming operations the right proportion of reason and calculations and stiffens the whole fabric with the stock of good common hoiso sense. Cotton School for Farmers. Steps are now being made to organ ize a cotton school in Greenville to convend at some suitable time for farmers to .attend; probably in July, for the purpose of teaching farmers how to sample and grade cotton, the course of the cotton trade, how to store, ship and handle cotton. We wa.t at least1 100 cotton experts from the farms in South Carolina to sta tion over the state for the purpose of protecting the interest of cotton growers in the matter of placing their cotton upon the auarket. No doubt about it that there is not one cotton grower in a thousand is up-to-date in classifying the cotton he raises. Aver .age cotton growers to not know how to prepare their cotton for market to the best advantage; neither do they know what grade they hive. W. C. Moore f r Greenville, S. C., will tell you all about terms and other infor mation about this farmers' cotton school. Cotton Seed Meal Killling Cows. Complaints are coming from far and near about cows dying from the suppressed effects of feeding on cot ton seed meal. Some of these complainers claim to have the knowledge that. in order to raise the grade of nitrogen in meal that has too much hulls in meal to grade seven pIer 'ent nitrogen that nitrate of soda has, in some cases bee.n added to raise tle nitrogen to the standard, and that this nitrate of soda i.n the meal is the cause of death to the cows. But as nitrate of soda sells for over $50 per ton and cotton seed meal for $30 or less, no business man would do this kind of exchange business unless he found that lie had too much hulls in his meal to pass muster and was therefore compelled to raise the standard of nitrogen by screening the hulls out or with nitrate of soda, which no doubt will kill cows or hogs. But there is another cause in old dark musty meal that perhaps kills more cows than any other cause. Cotton seed meal that has a canary color and a lively fresh feeling about it is the only class of meal fitten to to feed. Any other is risky. Sharp practice in the cotton meal trade it seems is ripe in the land. For the last few years it is stated that something like fifty per cent more hulls has been added to the meal for the avowed purpose of opening up the mass which gives a large increase a.mount. of oil per ton ot seed, which is true, and we may add that the ad dition of hulls sells il% meal at about $30 per ton, while the hulis by them selves sells for about one-third the )riece of meal. Some of the oil mill mnen that have been interviewed on the subject claim that the South Carolina law lowering the standard from eight per cent ni trogen to seven was done in order to enable the low grade seed of the low country to come in as wecll as long staple cotton seed meal. But as thme standard for long staple cotton seed meal is only four per cent Andl this meal is generally sold to unsus'pecting buyers at about the same price as other seven per cent meal, we fail to catch at this reason as we "an the reason that hulls sell higher i+ the meal tIhan by itself. Broke Loose in Georgia. The Farmers' Union in Georgia is -nomw up against the low grade cotton seed meal of that state too. The hot stauff in the thing it seems started ab)out this way: Some members of the Farmers' Union had the grit to call on some~ of their stiff oil mill men about the superabundance of hulls in the meal, when one mill man had tihe gall to say that lhe did not care a big darn what thme Farmers' Union said. Wherefore, tVhese Farmers' Union fel lows got a little hot ill t.he collar and made a move at tile oil mills sending out adulterated meal just to see if the Farmers' Untion of Georgia was worth a little darn or. not, which fin ally te.rminated in a rigid enforce nment of the law on the sub.ject of cot ton seed meal, wvhiihl we are infCormed knocked out eighteen mills from sell ing~ meal in that state. E. SHEEHAN Augusta, Ga. Bottler of Imperial Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Cham pagne Cider, Wiseola and Domestic Lager Beer in pints, 10 dozen to the cask, '$7.50 per cask. Write for complete price list. Wholesale and retail dealer in Wines and Li quors.l A 6umme in Your Don't swelter this summer with the tem perature at 110. Get a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Stove and have a cool kitchen. The NEW PEI Wick Blue Flam produces a working flame insts concentrated heat, no soot, no dii level, ensuring a uniform flami stove warranted. 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