Have you done anything lately to
add to the membership of your lo
cal ?
There isn’t go'rg to be any cotton
on the Texas market at less than 11
cents.
The more they come to “know” the
more the mortgage grows smaller iu
amount and in number.
The small gray mule who said a
year ago and two years ago that the
“Union won’t last” has disappeared.
The day of "peddling cotton” on the
streets ha-s about gone, and after one
more season, it will have becorne^a
relic of the past.
The Farmers Union is glowing
faster today than it ever grew before,
and ;ts purposes and usefulness were
never so clearly understood as now.
Just at this time of writing the
Fanners Union is mighty busy attend
ing to its own business, of which it
has a whole Ford’s plenty.
While there was never half the use
to plant trees that now exists, it is
gratifying to state that the planting
this year will nearly double that of
any year of previous record.
T? u*non 11 q nnlionHnno
fnr tnn wn’ri.
houses came in in one day to the
Texas headquaretrs, and it is no un
usual thing to have half a dozen ap
plications in a day.
There is no sense in the farmers
■uniting with other organizations in
their fights. The farmer is a creator
of raw material, and the other fellows
are the manufacturers; you see the
point, don’t you?
The merchant is a necessity of the
present conditions of things, but it.
does look like there are an awful lot
of them for the amount of real work
each one has to do.
Don’t make war on the railroads;
they are a necessity to this day and to
the existing conditions. This does
mean that they should not pay taxes
and be subject to reasonable regula
tion. These should be reasonable. If
a railway should grow valuable, just
as a piece of land through which it
passes grows valuable, there is no
sense in getting scared and becoming
panic stricken.
There seems to be a lameness about
taking care of the cotton seed. We
need some sort of arrangement for
holding them for a good price, and
an insistence on that price being paid.
Last fall many seed were sold as low
as twenty cents a bushel, and some
lower than that. even. This spring
as high as seventy cents was paid for
the same seed for planting. That does
not look like common sense had been
used in handling those seed.
In making Ihe department of Agri
culture a separate branch of the Stale
Government, Texas has done the
wise thing. Heretofore this depart
ment was the pack-horse of the State
government. It had none of the real
nature of an agricultural department,
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for all the things that others did not
want to do or could not do. Now, it
la a living, sentient thing, and will do
wonders tor this great Southwestern
Empire.
How about the cotton school? Those,
held last jear d'd good and profitable
work. The conditions are better this
year than last for doing effective and
intelligent work. There is no time to
lose.
In every town in the cotton sections
there were formerly three or four
smart fellows who sat around all sum
mer anrl in the fall “bought” cotton
for some cotton factor in a far away
city, and he made enough money out
of getting the stuff at a “fine” price to
live on all the balance of the year.
He is gone, too
The strength of the Union depends
equally upon a large membership and
widespread intelligence. One without
(Ip Scott's Emtilsion strengthens enfeebled
nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and
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It provides baby with the necessary fat
| and mineral food for healthy growth.
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gfood* from your koine merchant and maud br
aer business men. You can always find the
atuiowin:«nionf» of representative bttfiint-s* men
in these columns—men who will stand back of
every statement and price they make.
the other is of little use. Are you do
ing your duty to help at both ends
of this matter?
Stay with your local. It is the work
of the local that ought to be of more
real worth to you than the work of
the National organization. The local
is in touch with the everyday needs
of the individual.
■Cut out the mortgage and the booze.
Neither of these are made for the
real man. The booze is for the weak
moralist and the mortgage is for the
weak financier—both are for those
who are not. of the stuff that men are
made of. Are you a man?
Law, in the very nature of things,
cannot be of real benefit toward up
uunumg. il is mt; nature or aw co
repress—repress evils—but is not and
can never be constructive. Don't look
to law for prosperity.
Farming is a business, and the
more business sense you put into it,
the easier it is to succeed. Don’t he
fool enougt to think that you can suc
ceed by main strength and awkward
ness; that would be the beasfial way.
Succeed^ by energy, work, discretion
and judgment; that is the manly way.
Care in Feeding.
If the hogs are in a dry pen. start
in by feeding them a little green
clover at once. As soon as the corn
is hip high, give them a little of it to
eat. It may not add a single ounce of
flesh to their carcasses, but it will
accustom them to eating it so they
can be fed a great deal of green corn
when it becomes large enough. The
: one great mistake in feeding green
corn is that the change from dry feed
to it is made too quickly. Bv start
ing in gradually now with corn and
green clover, this rapid change can be
avoided.
HEADS OF APPLE TREES.
Locality Has Much to Do with Style
of Growth.
Whether the heads of apple trees
should he compact or sparsel} formed
depends to some extent on the local
ity in which the trees are grown.
There are lands of sunshine and
there are lands of cloudy skies. In
the states where much cloudy weather
, exists during the growing season it is
necessary for the trees to catch as
much sunshine as possible, foi' the
ripening of the fruit and especially for
its coloring. In some of the states it
i is advisable to prune severely and
thin out the branches to make it pos
sible for the sun to get at the fruit.
That, condition is true of parts of New
England and parts of the Pacific
states toward the northwest. Even
in the eastern part of the United
States it pays to keep the heads of
apple trees fairly well thinned out.
As we go west toward the Rocky
mountains the conditions change in
j favor of the dense and compact heads,
i The sun shines eternally during the
I day time in several of the states west
I of the Missouri. The heat injures
the fruit where it pours upon it unob
! structed, and the sunlight is so abund
ant that it colors up the fruit with
little or no trimming of the limbs.
. The question of high and low heads
is generally settled in favor of low
heads, especially in the western
states where the wind blows with
great force. The low heads protect
the fruit from being switched off and
where the trees are close together the
wind that blows upon an orchard is
deflected upward by the thick, low
heads, while if the heads are high it
passes under the trees and through
them to a great extent. This greatly
increases the danger of the trees be
There was a time when the whole
sentiment was in favor of high headed
trees, says Farmers' Review. The
farmers wanted enough roon under
the trees so they could plow about
them and drive about them easily
with the farm team and with the farm
implements. For several generations,
therefore, the farmers planted their
trees so they could use the ground for
gardening. Those that remember the
old New England orchards remember
the tall-trunked trees, some of them
so long that a good sized ladder was
required to reach the first limbs.
There was no danger of the horses
hitting their heads when they plowed
about them.
But few of those orchards are seen
now. They passed away with the com
ing of a more intensive agriculture.
Science pronounced them too expen
sive in the way of time required for
harvesting their fruit. The High-Top
Sweeting that bore apples at a long
distance from the ground no longer
has to he climbed and shaken to get
the fruit. It is no more, but in its
place stands a tree with head close to
the ground and with a trunk so short
that there is not room enough be
tween it and the ground to do any
climbing.
The modern mathematician has fig
ured out that the low-headed tree
costs far less to care for and gives as
good general results, though its fruit
may not be so highly colored. It is
easy to trim, for the trimmer can
reach about all the limbs from the
ground. It is easy to spray, and iess
spraying material is thrown away
than in the case of the taller tree. It
costs little to gather its fruit, and the
fruit is less bruised when gathered.
GOOD VEGETABLE BOX.
The Sieve Eottom Aids In Getting Rid
of Dirt From Reels.
Make an opening in the bottom of a
grocery box. writes a subscriber to
Farm Journal, and cover it with the
stout wire screening used for cellar
windows, having about j. half-inch
mesh. Nail on two handles made
from old hoops, that will swing down
out of the way at the ends, Use this
i box when gathering vegetables from
thell garden and wash these by im
mersing in a tul) of water or by pour
i ing water over them.
Spray.
Po not forget to attend religiously
to the spraying. The air and soil are
filled with all kinds of insects and
fruit disease germs and the only way
the grower can combat these diseases
ift by the use of the spray pump.
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