The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-11-03
So Declared Commission
ers of Agriculture.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
Adopted At Atlanta Meetings. Standard
Weights and Classification Of Cotton
Is Most EmphaticalIy Urged.

The association Of commissioner Of
agriculture Of the cotton states com
pleted its work in Atlanta, Ca, Fri
day aud the convention adjourned TO
meet on January 10th in New Orleans.
The final session was one Of the
most important Of the three days con-
venvion, and the full report Of the
committee on resolutions was read and
adopted.
Tho convention declared to put forth
it's most earnest efforts 10 secure stand
ard weights and proper classification
of cotton in the states represented in
the membership Of the convention.
A resolution was adopted restricting
the membership Of the convention to
the following states and territories:
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas,
Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Flor
ida, North and South Carolina, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, California, territories Of
Oklahoma, the Indian Nation, New
Mexico and Arizona.
The convention unanimously deoid-
ed to so to work to get agriculture
taught in the graded schools Of the
states which are members of the asso-
citation.
A cordial invitation was extended
capitalists and manufacturers to come
to the south and invest their money.
Manual training was most cordially
Endorsed and the aid and cooperation
OF the convention was promised.
Farmers institutes were warmly ap-
proved, and resolutions endorsing
them were passed unanimously by the
convention.
A resolution thanking the governor
and the general assembly, the mayor
of Atlanta, the commissioner of educa-
ton and the assistant commissioner,
the secretary OF the convention and
his assistant and to the city press and
the people of Atlanta for kir dness and
cOurtesies extended the members of
the convention.
The action of the convention in de-
claring for standard weights and CLASH
fcation is regarded as the most lmpor-
tant thing that has been undertaken
by the commissioners at this time, for
this strikes at the greatest foe to the
export buyers and the producers them
selves and gives promise of remedyinR
an evil that has been pronouncedly
initiating against the cotton business
since it was first begun in the earliest
days of the south and agriculture.
cl just how this standard weight and
! assifcation is to be brought about
as not been stated, nor have any of
The details connected with the pro-
posed revolution and regeneration
been outlined, but the mere fact that
a movement has been begun along
this line is significant in meaning that
for the first time an effort, bold as it
may appear, has been made to fight
down the annual reclamations that
come across the water to rob the mer-
chant and the farmer alike of whatever
profit has been made during the busy
season.
By President Stevens, the following
resolution was read and adopted, look
ing toward securing standard weights
and classification Of cotton:
Whereas, The annual loss accruinp
each year in the handling of the cotton
crop, growing out of the loss Of weights
and failure of the bale to come up to
the sample classification, which is due
to the fact that there is no standard sys-
tenn of weights and classification, aud
Whereas, these reclamations de-
stroy the profits of the business to the
merchant and is indirectly taken from
the pockets of the producer.
''Be it resolved by this convention,
That we use our earnest and energetic
efforts to bring about the proper stand
ard weights and classification of the
staple, urging such legislation az to
bring about the desired result, and
BE it resolved further, That we in
vite Che assistance and cooperation
of such exporters of cotton who realize
the Importance of the movement and
who are, from experience, in position
to furnish substantial aid"
The convention, without doubt, is
one of the most important, if indeed
not the most important, that has met
in the south In years, for it has for its
purpose the rendering of substantial
aid to the farmer, the fountain source
of all material success and prosperity.