Huntsville gazette., 1883-12-01

portation at all seasons Of the year for the

portation at all seasons Of the year for the
product of this great valley.
Judge Foote, of Macon, MISS, read an inter
esting paper on the Live Stock OF the South.
An interesting paper on Cotton Ginning
by Edward Atkinson of Boston, was read. II e
took the ground that the present alleged inn
proved gins were running the staple A reso-
luton was adopted that all papers and pro-
ceedings Of this Convention be published in
the Planters Journal, the official organ of the
Association. and that the address of Prof.
Meyers, of the A. and NJ. College, Starkvil e,
Miss, on 1.-The Value of Cotton seed for Oil
and Stock-feeding and Fertilizing," and of
Prof Hilyer OF st. Louis, on 'Jute, Its Cul-
ture and Manufacture, Its Value Compared to
Other Crops" and Prof Phare's on the
Grasses Of the South" be furnished 70 the
Commissioners of Agriculture Of all the
Southern States and to Commissioner Lorllng
at Washington. W. NJ. Stone, Of Stonevile,
Miss, delivered an address on 'Jute Growing
in the SOuth," which was very practical and
interesting.
Mr.. Prey, of Boston, representing the New
England Interests, addressed the Convention
on improved cotton growing. He is the editor
of the only technical journal of agriculture in
the world which devotes it's columns to cotton
alone. He stated that technical education is
the one important feature; that old England
had secured the world to find a field to com
pete with the South in growing cotton. 1t has
a magnificent future, as is evident in their eX-
h1bit at Atlanta. He referred especially to
the success OF two mills-the South Eagle and
Phoenix, at Columbus, Ga, and the Wesson
by adventurous patentees whose machines
had only one mcrit-that of putting money in
the owners pockets. He referred to one NeY
Highlander who a few years ago invested $9J,-
GOO and was now worth 10000. But New
England must now withdraw capital below an
efficient working capacity, as capital can do
better in the south, instancing mill in South
Carolina which has paid the incorporators
three times the amount they had invested
few years ago, and was now in full working
capacity. There must be no middlemen
fact,1rer. Il was cheaper to move
the machinery to the growing cotton
fields than to transport the cotton to them. A
barrel of flour grown in Minnesota and ship
ped 100 miles to Boston cost the consumer
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 We're miserable failures.
The fiber of cotton was stronger than iron.
DR.. Bauman, Of Halifax, Eng, asserts that
the strength of the fiber is lis pounds, where
we only get now forty-five pounds. Steel
brushes are peculiarly injurious to ginning
cotton, as shown by Mr.. Atkinson, at Hogans-
vile, Ga. OF eighty out of 400 fbers only
three were of the proper length. as proven by
subjecting them to microscopic inspection.
There is no universal cotton seed Each pc
cuiar soil and climate require seed pecuilar
to ITSELF
The following Vice-Presidents were elected
from each State: Alabama, Governor X. NJ.
Patton; Georgia; Mark v; Johnson, Af5anta'
Foote, Macon; Arkansas, s. L. Cockerill;
South Carolina, H. b. Butler, Commissioner
of Agriculture; Tennessee, A. j. New bitter,
Nashville; H. L. Lewis, of Hearne; NJ. II. Har-
ris, Commissioner of Agriculture; North Caro-
lima, Montford McGee; Florida "a. j. Knapp;
Kentucky, G. r. L. Scott Brown; Missouri,
Colonel f. F. Heeder.
resolution was offered by w I'll. Harris,
that cotton seed as stock feed and fertilizer
is worth fifteen dollars per ton on the farm,
and it should not be sold to oil mills for less.
Various interesting addresses were made.
Charleston, S. c., earnestly invited the Asso-
citation to hold the next annual Convention
there, but New Orleans was selected.
Just before the Convention adjourned
series of resolutions complimentary to Presi-
dent Morehead were adopted amid deafenirg
enthusiasm. His entire work was tndorsed,
and he was invested with plenary powers 70
conduct the Associations part in the work OF
the Worlds Exposition. Texas delegates
created much msrriment by offering resolu-
ton making Mrs. Morehead an honorary mem
Der, as Mr.. Morehead is bachelor. After
congratulations from delegations from the
twelve States represented, patriotic speech
was made by Ben j. S. Pardee, of New Haven, af-
ter which the Convention adjourned to meet IL
New Orleans at the opening of the Exposition,
December, 1884, There never was such an inn
portant Convention held in the cotton States.
OF the $50 delegates, fully 400 represented
large landed estates or important industries.