The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 30, 1907, Image 2
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I THE FARMERS'
UNION BUREAU.
m&U Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union
Address all communications intemlel for this
.celiac n to J. C. ^riMiiij;. Pendleton ,s. C.
tCft-operative Warehouses on the Very
Cheapest Plan.
About one Year ago our Farmers'
Union Bureau was resquested to get
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-up a siuipie piau iur runners ?><nc houses,
which was published ?n
many newspapers, and in addition
we had a double edition held in
stock in circular form for free distribution
to all applicants that
would enclose a two cent stamp for
same. But as our printed circulars
discribing this cheap plau of cooperative
warehouse has btvn exhausted
we appeal to the patriotism
of every paper in the South to
publish this cheap plin for Fanners'
Waiehouses and thus extend a
hand in perfecting a system of business
methods ef marketing the
Sonth's great money crop that is
ooand to steady prices and retain tne
profits in cotton production for the
welfare of the south. The commendable
features of this plan is
that it enables every farmer to be come
a stockholder by allowing
them to invest their labor (at a
leisure time) and material in
lieu of cash. If farmers care to do
so there are enough levelheaded business
men everywhere to pnt up
enough cash for cement and other
bought stuff which will make it
practical and easy for farmers to
get together and turn a lot ot the
idle time of themselves, teams and
material into a profitable investment
that will give cotton growers protection
against the unscrupulous
cotton bear and speculative element
that are at it all the while robbing
the South of its wealth while we are
3d; work or asleep.
We here give extracts from one of
many letters to our Bureau that gives
some idea of the widespread movement
in building these small co
operative warehouses that are doing
good in teaching farmers the value
.of concert action in actual labor as
<well as bulking their materials for
iheir mutual benefit, not ouly in
building their warehouses, but these
~?mall warehouses in turn will unite
. strength as pennies make dimes and
-.dimes make dollars.
.Really we believe that the lasting
benefits from this small warehouse
busiuess?extending as it does to the
.smallest farmer?come lessons of the
rvalue of practical co-operatiou and
ibusiness lessons that he would never
:get if he' waited for money to invest
a a larger warehouses.
Blackman, Fla., May 8, 1907.
Mr J U Striblwg: "Seeing an
article from you it) the Cultivator in
1906 about a cheap plan of ware
/house, prompts me 10 make some in.qmry.
We will organize a State
.Union here in July. We want to
vbuild a warehouse or two this sumtfner
an J will appreciate any information
we can get if you can give us a
plan that we cau do our own work j
and not pay out very much money i
outside of some materials." J
J W Brace well,
Press SaiitarosttCo. Farmers' Union.
1.1 this Farmers' Union hom.''tnade
warehouse there is room for all
to euter in. The small cotton
growers, making only a fetv bales.
<a:i go in and add his mite along
with the fellow that makes twentv
five or a hundred bales. As it takes
vmaterial, labor and money, let all
contribute to this thing a kind of
itas in kind way and put up warehouses
all along the line.
Farmers' Union Cotton Warehouse
Plans?Clay Floor, Hollow Cement
3!ock Walls
I he following is gouen up upon
tue verv simplest and cheapest plans
for the use of co-operative Unions
This plan is for one section, to
vkK'cb may be addod as many more
sec tions at times as may be lequired
to accommodate the needs of the
Union.
Walls 100 feet long; 12 feet tall
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high end, 8 feet tall at lower end;
space between walls, 50 feet. Excavations
should be dug out to firm
ground or clay (if in a clay territory,)
well ditched and drained all
round, good clay floor well beaten
down.
As the cost of material in founda.
turns varies in different places our
estimate for cement walls are taken
from about the floor line.
Parapet wall may be lequired l?v
insurance compamas v.* he re more
than one section are put up together,
: but these walls above the roof are of
no benefit in the w-iy >f protection
from fire on ? one section cotton
warehouse.
E?' mates given here are for 10:
men hollow block for foundations
and 8-inch block for walls, and all
| other material that farmers do not
! usually have on their farms.
All labor, sand for cement blocks
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and the nine 10-inch roind posts to
rest girders op through the middle
of the room, are to be supplied by
the farmers.
This style of cotton warehouse
will hold about 400 bales to each
section. Two round poles, 10 inches
in diameter, should be placed under
each row of bales to prevent capillary
attraction of moisture there at any
time.
Remember this, that if lower ends
of bales are wet or moist when stored,
than in all cases this lower end will
be damaged more or less, it matters
not what kind of floor it rests on.
MATERIAL FOR ONE SECTION.
25 barrels Portland Cement, 100
cubit yards of sand, 18girders 3xl2x
25, 208 rafters 2x5x13, 4 sills 4x6x
25?these may be round; ground
post 10 inches diameter, 4 perlines
2x4x25, 50 plank 1x12x8, 51 straps
1x4x8, 50 plank 1x12x12, 51 straps
1x4x12, 5,000 feet sheeting. Total
amouut sawed lumber 11,000 feet.
At $1.50 per 100 feet
lumber $165 10
25 barrels cement at $1.80
varies 45 00
Nails estimated 3 80
31 squares V crimp iron roofing
at $2.50 per square.. 127 50
One two-hand IJollow Block
cement machine 75 00
Estimased freight on machine 4 00
Total cost of boueht material.$420 40
This cement machine may be
sold for $50 when through
with?credit $50 00
Net cost of bought material..$320 40
Thus it is made plain to all Union
meu that by clubbing together they
may put up the cash $370.00 for the;
bought material and do all the work,
making the cement blocks and putting
up their own warehouses with
their own labor by the co-operative
plan, aud have their warehouses
ready for this crop, if they will go
at it when through working crops.
For less money than it takes to
pay for a good pair of mules, farmera
may go to work in a neighborly
way aud put up their own fortifications
now and get well entrenched
ready for the fighting that
is sure to come this fall to force
cottou farmers to turn loose their
cottou at prices that have always
made all others rich that handled
cotton excepting the men who toil
most of all to produce this cotton.
If this warehouse movement
| among cottou growers progresses in
gaining atrengtn and confidence
among cotton producers as time
passes, as it is now doing, we look
for several thonsaud of these cooperative
warehouses, to be put up
this summer.
When cotton producers get a great
chain of these warehouses linked together
in all the cotton States in
bonded form and produce their own
farm supplies, this conceit of action
in a business way will place this
who e cotton proposition upon ?
firm foundation and insure continued
prosperity, not only to cotton growers,
but it will also bring prosperity
to every industry in the South.
There is nothirg new in this art
of making artificial stcne or cement
blocks by properiv mixing sanu anu
cement. This art is about as old as
the country. But the recent improvements
iu the manufacturing
aud consequent cheapening of the
cost of cement aud the machineiy
< Convalescents need<
4? ment in easily digested
2 Scott's Emttlsi
Q ment?highly concentre
<> It makes bone, bloo
i T putting any tax on th<
^ ALL DRUGGISTS:
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for forming these hollow blocks ha
i reduced the cost of this buildinj
material to such an extent that i
now looks like we are into wha
1 might be called the cement or con
ciete age.
These small hand power machines
1 weighing from 400 pounds up am
costing from ?30.00 up, may be pu
! up at any convenient place, and b
following the in&^ructioms sent on
with these machines most any intel
j ligent man can make^ these hollov
; DI0CK3 ana put up mese waicmms
' walls.
An}' farther information ou thi
1 warehouse subject may be had V
1 Union men that will address thi
bureau and enclose stamped envelopi
: for reply.
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