The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-09
TEXAS COTTON GROWERS.
President Peters Advises the Farmc
to Live at Home"
WANTS REDUCED RATES BY RAIL
Less Complaint About had COndi-
lions of Texns Ba1cs-Fnrmcrs
should See TO Ginning.


ion of the American Cotton Growers Pro-
tective association met this morning and
was called to order by the president. Il. S.
Peters. Mr. Peters delivered the following
address:
Gentlemen Of the American Cotton Grow
ers' Association: 1t is with pleasure that
greet you, and am pleased to see the in
terest that is being taken in our deiibera-
lions. While our association was originally
organized to secure reduction in cotton
acreage which brought on the low price OF
1894, 1t has now outgrown the original plan
and now includes all subjects OF interest
and benefit to the producers of cotton.
| wish at this time to call the attention
of the farmers of Texas to the fact that
the drouth Of last year has caused us TO
buy millions OF bushels of corn from our
more fortunate neighboring States north OF
us. Now that you are pitching your crop,
be sure to plant enough corn to last at
least TWO years. So that, no matter what
the prices OF cotton may be. you Will have
your bread and meat at home. Raise every
thing on the farm that you need that can
be raised In this State, and thus keep your
money at home. II Texas could, only for
one year, Keep the iioney az Holne .ns' SIG
s.hus OUT Ior soo"s pousht III o'hot etd'eS
there would be less cry of hard times. /
am pleased to see the farmers, merchants
and manufacturers forming home industry
clubs, pledging themselves to use only
Texas manufactures as this viii bring the
people 10 oelter UNDERSTANDINGS Oh eacu
other.
Ohe or the most u not the most, lnipoi =
4.
tant matters Which mas come before us was
lhe adoption iast year III the stahdaru Size
ior cotton baies' not exceeding twenty
e'ght lnches IN Widlh by MY eight lhches
In length, and the association Is to be con-
graduated on the excellent ana hlghiy BEN
eiicial results already achieved.
President Adoue OF the Galveston MARI
time association IN his annual report to
that BODY last month states that the Texas
bale which formerly bore most unsavoly
reputation abroad and. to quote from n
wen known authority on the subject land
ed in Europe looking as though 1t had been
IN cyclone is now so much improved
,ral Complaints ana inVidlous comparisons
nave almost entirely ceased He adds mat
tne records oil Inc association show that
,io' more tn'h ohe-hall as many oaies nave
n.eil relacteu ths season for Insufficient
uthsi'Y enu 'hat fnuch iaIser proportion
u. the DATES rcoclNen are oil Tue STANDARD
,uh arriving al galveston was better com
P,'sse" anu oetter loaueu on salptoarn
.n"n Wv, pelo'e. oie VI INC largest snip
- anu eol'ipiess owners oofroporates
'"'s' ''H'''l'hts' CIV" says 'h"t III cohSc-
t wv u.van raus on cotton rom "alVes-
G., $500, 'tn ~, 70 "Netnse" ,esS 'l'h
m o,,o,,,,,,,, ,,ii ~ ~ "a,
~ nv iio"s anu ""eApe7t.i movement Oh
,,raiI,. 'u,V1su .n1 po.'' ""'vn "ouiu nut
49, ~ 800 ''''''' ~ N'NNN 'A'NS
Iiaa ,n,., ~, w one sn,p |n,ch ne
-, o, i ,a,' va ~ VI ~ D'h'.S W.
Sioo haIas ~ -, ,,oo ,.io 'a'' WIN
i. 49,. na,, -, w. va 80 u "pou'
carri,d ozoo ro,rds ~ no,," 81 u -.
net register from Caivos,on ,,,s 't r,e w..
which ,ormerlN rorrird oniy ooon ,n,,n,,n
N'hen ,,a o,',,st,a. 49,, ny -~Yu po""s'e
STAGE Instead NJ for vve,,tt as r.i,,.o,T.
do This in,nrovamen, is ho,h artn,isb biua
ana pratIfviny
Very soon aftcr M, ado,,,io,, -, ,,,, ,,,
ard bale an office forco vac organi,e1 T.,
Noco Ia Jissemirato ii,ara,,,.o aI,a 49,. !"
nation ON Inc suhiect Eror, ,.ar,o',,
sources The names and nostofsco o,1,.rs'ns
Of all the ginuers in the State-about iooo
in all-were obiaincd and no,oia,r',a,, ' ,',,
counties Comics of Tho nsnar ,, "s
bales rend before mis- sssoaiattor, ~ ~,
phis and Waco last voa,. .ern ~ -','' ~,
every postofire RAILROAD stntinr 80 ~, ~
public places in the sat-. tha~ a'', IN, H'nu'
In the hands nf tho o,ncar. an,
members nj every alIianc,
Organization IN which rar,nsrs W '''V,
were printcd from tIma ~ ~ ~. anu
| newsnaper in the South ,rha,. ~ 'se. ,
| TO every pinner Win mor,nra, w. syn Nv
make his box conform IN tho $500, =,
| a postal card oncloscd for HE ra,'t., ~ anu
From tho rnroyoira ,,o,, III
| about AS much has hean onoo,,',,'Is, 'na'
general way as can he hoped so,. ana ~ ;" .. a
want all the rest of the boxes in tho s,ate
| brought to tho stana,r I'd 'i.,N -" =" NV o'a'e
dement's of chcoper sreiohty "" 49,, ~ s't lne
lection and bettor rnn,ta, io oe''er pro-
,,S,'.9, vo,''n, !. must De Drought about by
each farmer should make il his h,s,, Ia 49, Is,
see whnt s,ye halo ,ba ,,,', ~" H., business , 10
borhood turn omt ana h S,ms W., ~ MS nelen-
| down IN tho stanaSra ny ."sih ptoush,
with being told Your halo ia Of s Sa,,a,'aa
! size. Take foot rule or to,a ,,,' u
| measure II and ~ !, y, VI ' Vhre me ana
-i"l"l W uhueIslahd mat he Will get no
| H''iN VI NbNI NOTk U0tl ne rails into limo