Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-11-24
As They Ruin the Fiber and Shorten
the Staple-The Outlook for the
South from
Manufacturing StandpOint-The YaIue
OF COttOn-Seed Oh the Farm
0flice Elected.
Dr. MOrehead Unanimously Chosen Pres
ident for the Sixth Term and
Presented With Il
handsome silver serrlrr--The Isirer
Commission Indorsed-Import-
ant Resolutions.
The Convention the Most Important
Gathering Of the Kind Ever
Held I'm the South.
Spoeial 10 the AnneaI.l


Held i'm the South.
Special to the Appeal
VIcKsBURG, November 23.-The con-
vention reassembled at $3.50 o'clock pm.
The Committee on Resolutions adopted
a memorial urging Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress to use their best ef-
forts to make liberal appropriations to carry
out the great work of the Mississippi River
Commission and Capt. Eads as the true
plan to be adopted, until this great artery
OF trade and travel shall answer the pur-
pose designed by our commercial interests
and by nature, and become the great high
way of commerce from the lakes 70 the sea,
affording safe transportation at all seasons
for the products of this great valley.
Judge Foote, of Macon, Miss, read an
interesting paper on the Give Stock of the
South"
An interesting paper on cotton-ginning.
by Edward Atkinson, of Boston, was read.
He took the ground that the present al
legged improved gins were running the
staple.
A resolution was adopted that all papers
and proceedings of the convention be pub
lished in the Planters Journal, the official
organ OF the association, and that the
splendid address OF Prof. Meyers, of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College, at
StarlSville, Miss, on the value q cotton-seed
for meal and stock-feeding and fertilizing,
and of Prof. Hitler, of st. Louis, on 'Jute,
its Culture and Manufacture, its Value
Compared to Other Crops" and OF Prof.
Phares on the Grasses of the South" be
furnished the Commissioners OF Agricul-
ture of all the Southern States and to Com
missioner Loring at Washington.
The Hon j. Floyd King, Congressman
from the Fifth Louisiana District, stated
that he would vote for no candidate for
Speaker unless he favored the improve
ments recomm ended by the Mississippi
River Convention.
A resolution commencing women to
membership on the same basis as men was
adopted. This is the most important step
in this connection ever taken in the cotton
States.
The City Council of New Orlaabg and
| management of tle W-orld's Exposition
and Cotton Centennial, extended formal
invitation for the association to hold the
next convention at the opening OF the Ex-
| position in New Orleans.
Resolutions were adopted asking Con-
| gress and State Legislatures for appropria-
tions in aid of agricultural and mechanical
colleges and the establishment of expert
mental. stations in the South; also con.
demnatory of specuations in futures, and
inviting communications on this evil fol
publication in the of al organ of the as
sociation.
Resolutions were adot dvising that
more attention be paid to Jute culture and
the establishment of factories, indorsinl
the recently organizedsSouthern Immigra-
ton Association, asking Congress to give
the South fair legislation in tariff matters
but disclaiming any desire for special ad-
vantages over other sections, thanking the
chief signal officer for his excellent re
ports, and asking Congress to make appro
| priations to enable tire service to increase
its efficiency.
w. w. Stone, of Stoneville, Miss, de
liveied an address on "Jute-Growing in
the South" which was very practical and
| interesting.
Mr.. Pray, of Boston, representing New
| England interests, addressed the conven'
ton on Improved Cotton-Ginning." He
is the editor of the only technical journal
| OF agriculture in the world who devotes
4 its columns to cotton alone. lie states
that technical education is the one impor'
tant ieatufe that Old England had secured
the world to find Geld to compete with
the South in growing cotton. 1t is q
magnificent feature, as evidenced in
their exhibit at Atlanta. He referred
especially to the success oi two mills IL
the South, the Eagle and Phoenix, at
Columbus, Ga, and the Wesson mills, New
England had been imposed upon by adj.
| venturous patentees, whose machines had
one merit, that OF putting money in their
owners pockets. He referred to the New
England mill which a few years ago in.
vested 100000, which was now worth
S3,5O0,O00. But New England must now
Withdraw capital below an efficient work
ing capacity, as capital can do better in
| the South, instancing mill in South
Carolina which has paid the incorpor-
ators tbree times the amount they had
invested few years ago, and was now
in full working capacity. There must be
no middleman between the producer and
the manufacturer. 1t was cheaper to
move the machinery to the growing
] cotton-fields than to transport the cotton
TO them. 4 barrel of -four grown n
Minnesota and shipped HOO miles
to Boston cost the eopsumer more by
passing through different hands than the
production and freight both. We are not
making to-day as strong thread from the
fiber as we did ten years ago. The gins in
use in the South to-day are miserable fail
ures DIR. Bowman, of Halifax, as
serts that the strength of the fiber
is ll5 pounds, whereas we only get
now forty-tive pounds. Steel brushes are
peculiarly injurious TO ginning cotton, as
shown by Mr.. Atkinson, at Hogansyille,
Ga. Eighty ont OF 400 fibres only contain
their proper length, as proven by subject.
ing them TO microscopic inspection,
There is no universal cotton-seed. Each
peculiar soil and climate requires a seed
peculiar to itself.
The following vice-presidents were
elected from each State: Alabama, Gov.
r. NJ. Patton; Georgia, Mark w. Johnson,
Atlanta; DIR. Bussey, Columbus; Missis-
sippi, II. w. Foote, Macon; Arkansas, S.
l.. Cockrill; South Carolina, ii. b. Butler,
Commissioner of Agriculture; Tennessee,
a. J. McWhirter, Nashville; Texas, Ii. L.
Lewis, of Hearne, W. ii. Harris, Commits
sioner OF Agriculture; Louisiana, -";
North Carolina, Montford McGhee; Flor.
ida, A. ]. Knapp; Kentucky, Gen, Scott
Brewn; Missouri, Col. f. F. Herder.
A resolution. by ", II. Harris, was
adopted, that cotton-see3, % q stock-feed
and fertilizer, Is worth SIS per tor on the
farm, and it should not he sold to oil-nills
for less.
Various interesting addresses were made
Charleston, S. C., earnestly invited the
association TO hold its next annual con
vention there, but New Orleans was Sc
lected.
Prof. Charles Mohr OF Mobile, rcad
paper on Forestry in the soGth.s q
A vote OF thanks was rendered Presi
dent Morehead.
Just before the convention adjourned
series OF resolutions complimentary 4