The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-26
THE COTTON STATES
ASSOCIATION BORN
Permanent Organization IF
fected Yesterday.
OBJtCT OF ASSOCIATION
TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURAL IN
TERESTS OF COTTON STATES.
PAPER BY HON. S. L. PATTERSON READ
Essentials of Education for the Farmer, by
Or. Stubbs of louisiana Most Favor
ably Received. Strong Paper by
Com. Jefferson Johnson.
Com. Jefferson Johnson.

No'it JCiiCi oO't JViliioOIb
Atlanta, Ga, October 2J.-The Cotton
States Association of the Commissions
ers of Agriculture effected a permanent
organization this morning ut the second
days session of its maiden convention,
now being held in this city. The cleo
tion of officers as follows:
President. Q. h. Stevens, Commission
er of Agriculture of Georgia.
First Vice President, Frank Hill, Com
missioner of Agriculture of Arkansas.
Second Nice-President, S. L. Patter-
son. commissioner of Agriculture of
North Carolina.
Secretary, Royal Daniel, of Georgia.
Assistant Secretary, Frank Fleming,
of Georgia.
Treasurer r. II. Wright, Assistant
Commissioner of Agriculture of Geor-
ga.
The Committee on Permanent Organ
ization and Bylaws reported as fol-
lows:
First-This organization shall be per-
manent and known as the Cotton States.
Association OF Commissioners of Agri-
culture.
Second-Its object shall be to improve
and promote the agricultural interests
of the cotton States of the United States
of America.
Third-The membership of the assoc
ciation shall consist of the Gpnnissiotss
ers Of Agriculture and Assistant COM
missioners, in their respective States.
Where there is no officer
known as Commissioner of Agriculture,
the head and his assistant of the De
partment of Agriculture of each State
shall be members of this organization.
Fifth-If there shall be any State
without a Department of Agriculture OF
farming organization. the Governor OF
said State may appoint some person TO
represent said State who is identified
and in sympathy with the agricultural
interests of his State.
A paper was read by Hon. S. l.. Pat
terson, of North Carolina, on Cotton
Factories-An Aid to Cotton Fields
A paper was also read by Hon. |. F.
Culver, Commissioner of Agriculture or
Alabama, in which he discussed ar
length the proper handling of the crop
At the afternoon session Colonel Chas.
Schuler, who was sent to appear before
the convention as Il delegate from the
Cotton Growers Association of Shreve-
port, La, addressed the commissioners
He made an appeal for the association
to undertake some plan by which i'm
proved methods could be introduced on
every farm.
Following him came DIR. William
Carter Stubbs, Director OF the Louis
lana Experiment Station He spoke on
the essentials Of Education for the
Farmer" His address was so favorably
received that the Georgia members OF
the convention asked that he go before
the general assembly Of this State and
deliver an address on the same subject,
in an effort to secure an appropriation
for better agricultural schools and col
leges in Georgia.
The paper prepared by Commissioner
Jefferson Johnson, Of Texas, was read
by Assistant Commissioner Wright. Of
Georgia, the former being unable TO at
tend the convention. Mr.. Johnson's sub
ject was THE Cattle Industry VS.. The
All Cotton Plan"
This paper in part follows:
.Ihe recent advance in cotton, while
it is very gratifying to all, is fraught
with great danger to the cotton planting
interest. Many will be deceived by it,
not realizing that this advance has been
caused by an act of Providence by caus-
ing d great drought to overspread the
whole cotton-growing region, and not by
the increased demand for cotton.
"At this time, Notwithstanding the ad-
vance IN the price of cotton, a pound
Of fat beef on foot. at the markets, is
worth as much as a pound Of cotton,
so that steer weighing thousand
pounds is worth as much as two bales
of middling cotton, and is just as easily
converted into money.
Remembering the fact that cattle are
annually decreasing and the population
increasing, the demand for beef increas-
ing in the same ratio of increase of pop
ulation, we must reasonably conclude
that at least for the present and near
future, the cattle industry will prosper
Il regard the All Cotton Plan as one
in which a man plants in the same way
for years, selling the eotton-seed for
from $500 to $500 per ton. and return
ing to the soil. The result is inevitable
impoverished lands.
Il find that cotton-seed products,
either raw seed, pasture and hay, or
cotton seed meal and hulls. makes a
good food for cattle; it is equal to corn
and hay; and that beef so fed brings the
same price in market as that fed with
different food.
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