St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-12-08
portatton at all seasons of the year Tor the

portation at al seasons OF the year 1or Lno
@dee Foote's 81 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. He
took the ground that the presenS alleged i'm
proved gins were running the staple. A reso-
luton was adopted that all papers and pro-
the Planters Journal, the official organ of the
Association, and that the address of Prof.
Meyers, of the A. and NJ. College, starkville;
and stock-feeding and Fertilizing," and of
Prof. Hilyer, of ST. Louis, ON "Jute, Its Gull
ture and Manufacture It's Value Compared to
o5hsf 81 the South be furnished to the
Commissioners of Agriculture of all the
Southern States and to Commissioner Loring
at Washington W S n; ssone' 81 st oin
in the South which was very practical and
interesting
Mr.. Prey, of Boston, representing the New
England Interests addressed the Convention
on improved on-growing. He is the editor
of the only technical journal of agriculture in
the world which devotes its 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 mils-the South Eagle and
Phoenix, at Columbus, Ga, and the Wesson
mills. New England had been imposed upon
had only one merit-that Of putting money in
the owners pockets. He referred to one New
Highlander who fewyears ago invested $780,
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 a
few years ago, and was now in full working
capacity. There must be no middlemen
between the producer and the manu-
the then machinery to the growing cotton
fields than to transport the cotton to them. A
barrel OF -four 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 were miserable failures
The fiber of cotton was stronger than iron.
Dr. Bauman, Of Halifax, Eng, asserts that
the strength Of the hber 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 flbers only
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-Presdents were elected
from each State: Alabama, Governor n. M.
Patton; Georgia Mark W: johnson, Atlanta;
Dr. Bussey, Columbus; Mississippi; oa H. ~
South Carolina, H; B. Butler, Cqm1nissioner
of Agriculture; Tennessee, A. j. McWhiter,
Nashville; II. 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 T. F. Heeder.
| A resolution was offered by w. H. 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 Assoc
citation to hold the next annual Convention
there but New Orleans was selected.
just before the Convention adjourned q
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 resolu-
ton making Mrs. Morehead an honorary mem
her, as Mr.. Morehead is a bachelor. After
congratulations from delegations from the
| twelve States represented. q patriotic speech
was made by Ben ]. 8. 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 $50 delegates, fully 400 represented
large landed estates or important industries.