The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-10-30
TO COTTON GROWERS.
A q for q Meeting Next Month e
Discuss the Causes o Depressed
Prices.

"A Call for q Meeting Next Month to
Discuss the Causes for Depressed
Prices.
Hector d.. Lane, commissioners of ag-
riculture of Alabama, has issued a call
for q meeting OF Southern cotton grow
ers, 10 convene at Montgomery, Ala,
November 18th, to discuss the causes
leading to the present depressed con-
dition of the cotton market. The call
begins as follows:
ITO the Cotton Growers 1t Is q mat
ter OF the utmost Importance to the
farmers of the South that the reports
now being sent out by cotton manipu-
lators should be refuted. That the
present low prices are based upon ficti-
tious reports nointelligent man doubts;
that the private estimate tent out
from New Orleans to the effect that
the present cotton crop would exceed
G, OOO,O 900 bales has had a depressing
tendency Is generally admitted, al
though not supported by any previous
statistics or predicate to go upon, but
an unprecedented delivery up to date,
which argument q be answered with
the undeniable fact that we have the
most propitious season ever known for
gathering the staple throughout the
entire cotton belt. l vouchsafe the
prediction that if the same weathec
continues two weeks longer that every
bale of cotton grown in Alabama can
be gathered.
My calculations are based upon per-
sonal observations, having travelled
through North Alabama by private
conveyance for the last ten DAYS, and
its value is enhanced by the well-known
fact that cotton raised in that section
is about the last to mature"
He then urges the farmers to hold as
much OF their cotton as possible with
out detrlment to their CT editors, and
holds that it will be advantageous to
all concerned ultimately. He comedies
that resolutions without action are
valueless, but cites the farmers con-
gress held at Memphis, January, 1892,
which decreased the acreage that year,
n consequently gave the farmers
; good prices for their cotton. His prin.
cipal tight will be upon false estimates
sent out by the cotton exchanges and
cities and, the 10, 900, OO0.bale estimate
recently sent from New Orleans, mark
ed private" The cotton interests
OF the South, he holds, can only be
protected by concerted action.
The call closed with 5he following
pointed remarks:
Now, in view of the meeting named
civ Cho iAiFSfS1i3e uemanQ upon the
southern farmer to undertake protec-
tive measures along these lines, 1 in
woke the assistance of tho press of the
South in calling a meeting Of the cot
ton raisers at Montgomery, Ala, Tues
day, November ID, 1894. BY that time
will have gathered the official statis-
tics through the agricultural bureaus
that they may be presented publicly,
no privately, for the benefit of those
interested. | hope all farmers who are
able to do so without doing an injus-
tice to creditors will hold their cotton
until after the meeting, where we can
deliberate over the situation and de-
wise some means to give "a fight to the
hnlsh,' inviting the he rty co-opera-
ton of the press and asking that the
farmers will give this important mat
ter q consideration and send intelli-
gent representatives at the time and
place named"