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FARMERSOf, For and By the Farmer, The Cotton Growers’ Association, The Farmers’ Educational Union.THE. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ALL WHO TILL THE SOIL.81recent improvementslk products,, I haveGood fowls,Drs.can supplyA. DEAN.ilPPI COLLEGEi Poplarvillesiness Collegesent burning of our we have removed isburg where larger ) now being erected, Accomodations for students to a room, fhte, Sanitary toil-s, Artesian water, High School and Conservatory teach-sion. College and charge of literary s in all Commercialiens October 2nd. T A L O G U E.esident.President.rin. Bus. College. MISSISSIPPI.or $1.50!it Louisville, Ky., is a semi-\ issue containing 20 pages of uoment to farmers and theirarkville, Miss., is a live, up-to valuable information of pecu ement of thi3 section.published at Atlanta, Ga., is a every month a mine of good which farmers are concerned.lbscriber to, the Ledger,sr:e and Ruralistio year for......$1.50ibove one year for $1.25. bove one year for $1.00.I) us at onee:$........................for which youyear the following papers:edger.Ruralist. i Farm, cette.THEY SHOULD KNOW WHERE THEIR MONEY GOESirs truly,It takes money to keep lip an | organization of any kind. The people are so often defrauded that probably some of our C. G. A. friends are asking how their money went. It is proper that you should ask and know.There are only twp organizations in the county and the secretary of one of them ha9 never given us a list of the members of his local, therefore it may be that we cannot give the exact source from whence all money came.income. ‘J O Freeman, $1; E W Cook, SI; W W Hopkins, $1; J B Edmonds, SI; J O Herrington SI;Wafford Collins, SI; J A Buchanan, SI A B Jordan, SI; T W Collins, SI; J S Tucker, $1; B F Fridge $1; F Reeves, SI; H E Sumrall, SI; J W Pitts, SI; R Williams, SI; G W Watson, $1; M H Herrington, SI; M.O Walters, SI; C M Walters, $1; M THerrington, SI; M M Walters, SI; B F Smith, Slj'W A Vaughn SI; J W Watson SI; A G Shows, SI; A B Folks, SI; J J Collins, SI; J T Herrington, $1; H C Collins, SI; LA Busby, SI; T V j Sumrall, $1; Joe Duoksworth SI; W. S. Pettus, SI; S A Odam, SI;E H Woodham, SI; Dr S O Smith, SI; B L Rodges, $1; J F Parker, SI; J W Walters, SI; M P Jordan, SI; J H Sumrall, SI; W L Enterkin, $1; D J Herrington, SI; EF Kirkland, $1; J‘ B Praytor, SI; B J Herrington, SI;T I Burnos, SI; E B Welborn S2. 50; Bank of Ellisville, $7.50; Henry Hilbun, S9.10; J B Praytor, sec-treas., $12.60; total $78. 80.THREE CENT TAX.LeGuin and Bush, $1.30; A G Shows, 60c; A B Folks, 45c L-M Bynum, 25; W A Easterling, 10c T V Sumrall, 30c; Dr. Greseett, 10; W P Meador, 10c; A F Food, 50c; M P Jordan, 45c; W L Enterkin, 15c; D J Herrington, 26c;GB Boler, 15c; E T Kirkland, 20c; A J Runnels, 25c; J B Praytor, 27c, Total Tax 6.72. Grand Total, $84.42.EXPENDITURE.Sec. Woods, $45; W C Hinton, del, Ex., $8.75; J T Herrington, del Ex., $9.90; Stationery, Led-1 ger, $2.50; Postage, $3.07; Circulars, New South, $1.55; Records and receipt book, 3oo; Total, $71.12. On hand Aug. 30, 1906, $13.30.i # ^The books of the association show $2 more than this statement totaling up $15.40 due the association. We think this is tax money received from secretaries Wofford Collins and J. W. Praytor. Anyone seeing this state- { ment, that paid either one of us the three cent tax. please notify us that we can properly credit these two dollars.We have paid secretary Woods two dollars and seventy cents more than half the county fundtf. We did this thinking that we would collect more from the gin-ners.LeGuin and Bush are the only ginners that have paid us anything. They collected tax on 43 bales.Respeotfully submitted,Orance Howington,the Union had at Ellisville last Saturday. Forty-five delegatesmeans about 450 members of the union farmers in Jones county, and we are only four months old.■ • ...we were glad to see our good friend and old neighbor Hartley Bush with a good case of unionism. we put Hartley in harness and expect to keep him there.. we had a number of good talks by the delegates, and listened t6 some wise. couneiling from old brother Sheppard, who has more good horse sense than forty mules.It seems that all are for putting : cotton on the market in better shape and in a more systematic way. No one seems satisfied with the way we are treated in the matter of grading our cotton! Few, and very few, know that there are more than 20 grades of cotton on the market, and of the seventy-five farmers present, only one was able, to tell anything about the grades of cot^* ton.Jones county farmers too, are not willing to sell their cotton seed for the usual prices and buy it back as a source of nitrogen in fertilizer at the enormous sum Of S28 per ton. No farmer denies that meal is not worth $30 per ton, but the thing they have begun to look at is that, why should the man that grows the seed still take.the price for them' that he took when meal could be bought .for $20 a ton. we have just about reached* the conclusion that meal cannot be made unless the farmer parts with his. cotton seed, and I believe that they have concluded that they cannot make the exchange for nothing.The only thing short about the Union in Mississippi is that we have no state paper but there is an effort on foot for one and then we expect to be abfe to hold Kansas a torch while she skins the bears. But. Did you all know how bad you were treating me and the cause of unionism? Probably you all think we need no paper to oarry on the work. Now if you think we don’t and if you are right please drop the. National Cooperator a note to quit at once the publication of | the Cooperator as it is. doing no good. Are you sure? Have you got that much or that little sense, to tell Bro. Pyle his paper;or National President Ducks-• .worth’s paper is doing no good ? Now if you are one of the disgruntled kind who is afraid, that the oil mill folks will find out what you want for your cotton seed, and the spinner the price you have set on your cotton you*d better get off of the soil of “the home of the free aitd the brave.*,. There is a fool-hardy idba among our folks that good common sense cannot tolerate. They, some folks, think the way to get their price for their products is to get off behind the door and set it and stay right, there until he gets it. How in the name of common sense do. r •you expect eleven cents for cotton if you never tell the price. Well I am treated no better yetabout'the naner. I hAvA no
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Laurel Ledger
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Fri, Sep 14, 1906
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