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At the regular monthly meeting for January of the Jefferson County Farmers Association, after receiving a report from the delegates that had attended the meet ing at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 21st of January and in order that the good work then so yell begun should be continued until the valuable lessons taught by the able addresses then delivered and the res olutions there passed, the undersigned were appointed committee to issue an address to the farmers of Arkansas with a view that all may be done. as far as in our power lies, to aid in the commenGable work of reducing the acreage of cotton.
 Aetuated as we are by an earnest desire to contribute our mite. having by reason of long time residencein this vicinity, and by active participation in the growing of cotton. gained some knowledge as to the needs of our people, we, therefore, urge upon all to lay aside for the time being the well formed habit of growing cottoA ostensibly for the purpose of rapidly growing rich, and let us reason together for moment to ascertain as to what we are really doing, or are about to do.
 It is safe to assert that during 1895, had the cotton crop in the United States been good one, from eight to nine millions of bales would have been made, and that despite the heavy curtailment of acreage by reason Of the inability of some to work land heretofore in cotton, or the voun tary effort on the part of others to plant less of cotton and m0re of corn and other food products,
 The efforts put forth by the thinking men of the South at the meeting held at Jackson, Mississippi, in 1895 has brought forth good fruit; it has resulted in marked reduction of acreage heretofore planted in cotton, and has brought about the still larger and much more important meeting of The Cotton Growers Protect i've Association recently held at Memphis, Tennessee. The leading cotton growers of the South have then and there spoken in no uncertain terms like able mariners, weather beaten and bruised by long serv- ice, having grown gray in raising of the feecy staple, so fascinating, and of late years so disastrous, now come to the fore and cry aloud: There is danger aheadp They exhibit charts and reckonings, point out the shoals and quicksands, display eonspieuously the danger signals, and while they thus warn us they do not leave us without adequate remedies
 While we are told by some that we need not fear the production Of cotton in for egn lands as much as we have heretofore been led to believe, nevertheless, it is @ factor of 20 mean proportion it is at least sufficient to teach us that we are not Monarch of ali we survey.7 We are ad- yised that Russian cotton spinners boast that they will soon be in a position to dis pense with American cotton altogether that the Russian Companies packing houses at Odessa and Batoam are over stocked with cotton from the Trans-Cas- plan region awaiting transportation to Moscow and Ledz.
 Consul Penfeld, of the United States, in Egypt, wrote in 1894
 The Bgytian cotton area, which was about 863, 552 acres in 1892 now equals 1,072, 541 acres an astonishing advance that should the projected scheme, for perennial irrigation, long considered and now almost insured, be authorized and carried out, the amount of areable soil in Egypt can be doubled. With the Egyp- tan cotton crop thus augmented, South ern Russia entering the field for eompeti- tion, overproduetion in India imminent and the market ruling lower year by year, cotton economists and theorists in the United States have material for refec- ton"
 The Hon. Col Money, senator.elect from Mississippi, in speech in the House of Representatives at Washingto makes use of these words We compete with the folaheen of Egypt, the ryots of India whose wages are from four (4) to six GO cents per day, aud with the ex-slaves of Brazil, who receive for their labor a bare pittance.
 Senator George from Mississippi, in his address to cotton farmers, states: The crop of 1892 and 1893 has brought a higher price than the preceding one. This