The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-04
TO REDUCE THE OUTPUT.
The Southern Fertilizer Association
and It's Objects.

and Its Objects.
The Savannah fertilizer men who attend
sd the meeting Of the Southern Fertilizer
Association at Asheville last weeks have
returned to the city with the exception
6f Mr.. r. F. Sans of the Baldwin Fer
tiszer Company. The Savannah represen-
tatives were Mr.. Joseph Hull OF Conner,
Hull * Co., Dir. John W. Huger of the
Commercial Guano Company Mr.. c. H.
Wilcox of the Savannah Guano Company,
and Mr.. Sans.
The meeting was held for the purpose of
organizing an association of the southern
fertilizer manufacturers, in which object
il was successful The new association is
an entirely different organization from the
Southern Fertilizer Company. which is a
corporation, controlling Savannah and At
lanta properties, except that the company
named is a member of the association.
The association itself is not a corpora
ZION. being merely an organization of man
ufacturers to advance their interests by
acting in harmony. Mr.. w. A. Clark of
Columbia was elected president, Mr.. Jo-
seph Hull of Savannah. vice president.
ana Mr.. H. NJ. Tucker, Jr., of Charleston,
secretary and treasurer. The association
includes practically all the fertilizer man
ufacturers of the south, including the fac
tories of Virginia, North Carolina. South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
The prime object of the association is
TO regulate the production of fertilizers
to meet the consumption; in other words
10 see that the production does not eN-
coed the demand, which has been the case
during the last two seasons. Steps were
taken looking to a decrease in the output
for the coming season, and an agreement
was entered into between the manufac-
turers to accomplish this by limiting the
product of each mill. A representative
of the Morning News was informed OF
this fact by one of the gentlemen who
attended the convention. He was asked
if it was the object of the association to
bring about an increase in prices by de-
creasing the output, ana repled that
such was not the case.
TT is not the idea of the association
TO advance prices" he said. ION the 9TH
er hand, every means of reducing the cost
of fertilizers win be studied by the asso-
citation. We could not afford to attempt
to increase prices by limiting the product
for the simple reason that this plan would
hiring the northern manufacturers into
the field to compete with us. Neither is
our idea based on a less demand for fer
tilizers during the coming season, but
rather on an increased demand. Ihe
simple fact is that there were more goods
manufactured during the depression than
were needed and that brought about the
present movement. If all the mills were
TO produce to their fullest capacity, the
market would be greatly overstocked.
There are forty to fifty manufacturers
in the association and the combined capi-
tai of all the mills interested is up in the
millions. On account of the low price
of cotton last year and the small amount
of fertilizers used in making the pres
ent crop many of the manufacturers had
already decided to reduce their output for
the coming season. A prominent manu-
facturer informed a Morning News re-
porter some time ago before the meet
ing of the association was announced that
his company would decrease its produc-
ton considerably, and that he understood
that others would do likewise.