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Local Correspondence.
FROM INDEPENDENCE.
The Changers after the Cotton buyers.
INDEPENDENCE, TEXAS,


INDEPENDENCE, TEXAS,
| December 9TH, Isis. !
Editors Banner:
As crops are ahou. gathered and farmers
| have little leisure time have concluded to
use part of mine in writing occasionally on
matters of interest Ia the agricultliri>ts OF our
| county. wish, first, 10 say something in re-
| gard to the action OF some cotton buyers and
cotton weishers in 5Brenhan, about which
there is great complaint among the producers,
who have it in their power 10 remedy all such
evils. Cooperation is the remedy Tor tar
meis; it is the strong lever by which all other
business men carry on their business; and,
until agTiculturists get hold Of they may eN-
pect to be imposed upon and ruled If iiir1n-
ers will unite and get hold OF this principle Of
success, and hold on to II, they can control
their own a.f;iirs, and not be dictated 10 by a
few men.
1t is understood in the country tia! some
cotton buyers haze combined in Brenham
with certain warehousemen, and that buyers
refuse to purchase cotton nom the producer
or owner, unless the cotton is weighed at the
warehause that has combined with them. and
the weights of the cotton guaranteed for thirty
days-no matter how much is stolen out of the
cotton by Sampling and in other ways We
don't believe a rotton wegher can give this
guarantee and deal honestly with his customs
ers; a few pounds los on each bale would take
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him iiie Ii.ls j. Inake ne
Owzr6. be lsss,
stesS nPfshis
n mef
oftils
cattofS
ing fer
starch. BARRELS Of -, at the< q
those who I(nt the articles mp, well eHsWing
we get shoyf we;shts-loosing from thirty %
sixty pounds or a box of bacon. We have
the same rigi1t to demand that our cotton be
Iaken atem CIR weights, as men have to make
US take these articles at their weights; yet we
hive never done it.
The Grangers have selected J. a wilkins
as their cotton wGi:,her, warehouseman, &c.
He is an old, reliable business man; has n
good fire-prOof brick warehouse; his scales
have been tested by the County Judge and
pronounced to be absolutely correct. -
Through Mr.. wilkins the farmers have reduc-
ed the price of handling cotton from 10 to 30
cents. We AK farmers will they allow few
men TO drive them from q reliable man who
mas refused to combine against them. earn
eStiy call upon farmers to continue to cary
their cotton to our Grange aad Farmers ware
house and We guarantee that buyers will be
found who Will purchase their cotton ana take
II AZ the face and honest weight Ifyou can't
sell in BrenhaSl unsatisfactory prices, ship
your cotton TO j. ID. Rogers, Galveston, who
has been selected by the State Grange Co
operative Society rs Grange agent. Do this
iather than bow to the demands of n few men |
who have comoined against you
The Washington County District Pomona |
tifanSe Will meet in BrenhaIn, at the Opera |
House, on the 3rl Saturday in this month, the
2ist instant, at 10 clock, A. " l hope all |
members afthe ortlerofPairons of Husbandry, |
whether members of Pomona Grange or not, |
and all asricultruists of this, and adjoining |
counties, will meet with the Pomona Grange |
We Will hold an omen meeting and consider |
matters Of vital importance TO agriculmists
In unity there is strength.
i. NJ WILLIAMS,
Master of Pomona Grange.