The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-01-07
THE CROP.
Cotton Growers Will Compare Not g,
About the Reduction of Acreage.

COtton Growers VIII Compare Notes
About the Reduction Of Acreage.
Hon. Hector D. Lane, OF Alabama,
the president of the American Cotton
Growers Protective Association, has
issued the following call to the cotton
growers for a convention to assemble
at Memphis on Tuesday, January 2lst,
in order to formulate some rule and
plan of action by which the problem OF
cotton acreage next season might be
solved benefcially to the planters. Mr..
Lane reviews the tactics of the clears"
to depress the values of cotton to the
detriment of the producers and con.
cludes with the offer OF a plan which,
II worked out, will result in favor Of
the cotton farmers
"To the American Cotton Growers
Protective Association-Tke timG las
arrived when next years acreage in
cotton Y receive most serious con-
ueratDn Our enemies, the cotton
bears are anticipating matters by
industriously circulating reports that
1T is the intention Of the cotton grow.
ers to enormously increase the cotton
acreage, and double the use of COM
merciai fertilizers the coming season,
which will result in the production OF
q crop OF from ter to twelve million
bales.
Information comes from Texas that.
New Orleans bears are reporting that
Texas vii plant for four million bales.
These reports are circulated to induce
b Southern people to sell the balance
OF this small crop at present low prices.
" According to the official data
America has exported to Europe one
million three hundred and twenty
three thousand bales less tnan last
year.
Tho Northern mills have taken
four hundred and fifty Thousand bales
less than last year.
"Stocks Of cotton at Americ In ports
and interior towns are about me same
at last year, but as the n pro-
crosses the stocks at the .p6 rts will
daily grow less as compared with last
year.
son the other hand the mills OF
England, America and the continent
are running full time and If they keep
up The present consumption until next
September, they will need all of your
cotton; they cannot wait for the next
crop. What then prevents your
obtaining remunerative prices for the
remaining portion of this crop? This
is easily answered. The speculative
bears of Q Orleans, New York and
Liverpool are thoroughly Indifferent to
your condition and reck little of vour
welfare. They would be glad to see
cotton selling at 4 cents and would
contribute their aid in pressing it
down to the lowest regardless OF the
d~estltution and sorrow that would en-
conditions.
The Southern planter has the power
to depose these reckless despots and
Wholesale despoilers of our prosperity.
destroy the annual surplus, their able
coadjutor, by %judiCious decrease OF
acreage. and these gentlemen will be
cut out OF q job. Plant only O moder.
ate crop and you will be better off with
q seven to a eve and @ bali million
crop, selling at 10 to III cents, than
q ten million bale crop, selling at 5 to
6 cents.
do not be led into the error that
you can deceive the great firme that
agents In evory town and village ;
they are ever scrutinizing your actions.
and know more In regard to the general
acreage than you can possibly find out
yourselves.
"~Concetving this to be q matter of
Importance to the material
Interests of the South and being i'm
pressed that this question In its most
comprehensive form should be con-
gravely,I therefore deem it adj
gisable bthat; the cotton growers must
meet In convention, that we formulate
sud adopt some intelligent rule of ac-
lion through which we may be enabled
20 combat these agencies, whose PERM
methods are SO destructive to our
prosperity.
On account of It's general acoessi-
,ility hereby narne Memphis as the !
and Tuesdp ,nuarv Z"
he time ofmeef'
:" | earnestly
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