Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-04-03
lUIhE PLANNERS AND N .NUFAC-
1UkEkS Of LOUISIANA.

Nearly . year sgo there was a meeting
10 New York of delegates from . lstg.
humber of cotton planting end msuufac
turing States, tn. object IF which was to
bring together The producer AMI the &C
tu.l consumer, 90 that each shall know
what tho Other needs, and each receive
he full value of his product without thu
~Iossess which come frvm uncertainty ss
to demand aud supply. 1tLIsl
At the same time it was believed that
Ivy bringing the Southern planters !"
contact and association With the North
erb manufacturer, many Misrepresentation
Of each ~ 10 the feelings aud actions OF
the other might be made to disappear
more perfect union be formed, and the
welfare of each, and of the region d
each, be greatly promoted.
This meeting resulted in the formation
IF an association styled the National As
ISOLATION OF Cotton Manufacturers and
Planters, and over it the great msnufsc
,urpr, Anna A. Lawrence, Of Bosto". wat
call, d to preside, and Vice Presidents up
printed from sII the States represented
including Daniel Pratt for Alabama. ano
James NJ. Wesson for Miss ssippi. Loni
sisna was not represented. but the bo"''
has been done the undersigned. at . lat
meeting Of the government Of the sss"ci
alton, h+ld At Bsltimose, to cb"ose him Il
lie y member thereof. and to spp"int hin
Vice President for Louisiana. 1t becomes
my duty to d. two things 10 this capacity
First, to collect 9, stisticsl information
b"tb ~ to the results and the prospect.
IF production and manufacture in thi.
State, to I've monthly col'a,ed aud 'uh
United to the Nationsl Association. which
publishes tables from time to time VI tb+
results thus obtained.
o Secnnd, 10 invite and obtain the forma
ton Of such an association in this State
with suxiliaries in every parish. The
State Association formed in Mississippi
which is very active and energetic. having
quarterly general me. tings. which mr.
we'll attended, includes al planters, man
ufacturers snc mechanics ; since every
planter Of cotton should plant 0th-I
things to make bis c"t'on available t.
him Ms al unmortgsgtd product. and
since the cotton manufacturers IF tia,
state, ttr-uEh much extensive that
with Us, are still small ~ compared with
those Of the North.
In view uf the duties thus imposed up
on NE. and with The hope Of forming suci
AL association in Lpu'sisos, l ask the
newspapers throughout the State TO Civ.
AN insertion to this address,, and t., cal
upon the planters and manufacturers OF
Louisiana to meet me 10 the city Of New
Orleans during the week in which thu
annual State Fair will be held in thi,
city. beginning 9th April. proximo, thu
precise time and place Of meeting to b.
hereafter designatrd. and then aud Their.
to organize ~ auxiliary association fol
Lo~nisians.
would also respectfully ask hat where
there are parish or distric, agricultural and
manufacturing ass"cialions now existing
delegations De sent by them...and that, ~
far AS possible, every parish he represent
aud that each cotton m%anufactory com
pany he specially represented by some Of
its chief officers or managers. 81
shall be happy to afford any informa
ton which may be required or needfu'
upon application to me ia pers"n, or by lei,
let addressed 10 me ut the office Of tht
New Orleans Picoyxne. A. B. BACON,
Vice President IF the Nasionsl Aesociat
ion Of Cotton Planters and Manufacturers