The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-29

Mr.. Prey, of Boston, representing the New
England interests addressed the Convention
on improved cotten-growing. He is the editor
o. the only technical journal or agriculture In
the world which devotes its columns to cotton
alone. He stated that technical education Ia
the one important feature; that old England
had secured the world to find field to COM
pete with the South in growing cotton. 1t has
a magnificent future, as is evident in their ex-
hlbft at Atlanta. He referred especially to
the success of two niills-the South Eagle and
Phoenix, at Columbus. Ga. and the Wesson
mills. New England had been imposed upon
Dy adventurous p8tentees whose machines
had only one merit-that of putting money in
the owners pockets. He referred to one New
highlander who few years ago invested $780,.
100 and was now worth $3500,0o0. But New
England must now withdraw capital below al
efhc1ent working capacity, as capital can do
better in the South, instancing a mill in Sout.
Carolina which has paid the incorporators
three times the amount they had invested q
few years ago, and was now in full working
capacity. There must be no middlemen
between the producer and the manu-
facturer. 1t was cheaper to move
fields than to transport the cotton to them. a
barrel of -four grown in Minnesota and ship
ped l, 100 miles to Boston cost the consumer
more by passing through different hands than
making to-day as strong a thread from the
fiber as we did ten years ago. The gins In use
in the South to-day were miserable failures.
The hber of cotton was stronger than iron,
DR.. Bauman, of Halifax. Eng, asserts that
the strength of the fiber is 1i5 pounds where
we only get now forty-hve pounds. Steel
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
culiar soil and climate require seed peculiar
to itself,
The following Vice-Presidents were elected
from each State: Alabama, Governor R. N.
Patton; Georgia. Mark w. Johnson, Atlanta;
DIR. Bussey Columbus; Mississippi; II. ".
South Carolina, II. B. Butler, Commissioner
of Agriculture; Tennessee, A. j. McWhiter,
Nashville; H. L. Lewis, of Hearne: NJ. H. Har.
ris, Commissioner of Agriculture; North Caro-
lima, Montford Niece; Florida, A. j. Knapp;
Kentucky, g. r. L. Scott Brown; Missouri,
Colonel F. F. Heeder
resolutions was offered by W. H. Harris, |
that cotton seed as stock feed and fertilizer
is worth fifteen dollars per ton on the farm,
and il 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 a |
series of resolutions complimentary to Presi- |
dent Morehead were adopted amid deafening |
enthusiasm. His entire work was Endorsed, |!
and he was invested with plenary powers to |
conduct the Associations part in the work of |
the Worlds Exposition. Texas delegates |
created much merriment by Offering a resolu- |
ton making Mrs. Morehead an honorary men, |
Der, as Mr.. MOrehead is a bachelor. After |
from delegations from the |
twelve States represented a patriotic speech |
was made by Benz. S. Pardee, of New Haven. af- !
ter which the Convention adjourned to meet in |
New Orleans at the opening of the Exposition,
December, 1884. There never was such an i'm
portant Convention held in the cotton States. |
OF the 500 delegates, fully 400 represented !
large landed estates or important Industries.