The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-27
THE FARMERS CONVENTION
Action on Cotton Seed Question To ken,
Experts Penitentiary Report FIscd
Especial TO The Messenger)

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Raleigh. September e5.-Twenty-fivo
counties were represented at this after-
moons state meeting of cotton growers.
Senator r II. Speight was made tenn
porarily chairman and T. r. Parker sec
retary- After appointing committees
and transacting minor business there
was an adjournment until this evening.
At the evenings SESSION the tempor-
ary organization was made permanent,
Thirty-one counties are found to be
represented. The counties reported.
recommending exchange OF seed for
meal on the basis OF 1855 pounds OF
meal for a ton Of seed. and that where
seed are sold the price be not less than
% cents a bushel. The report was
adopted. Among those present were
Commissioner Of Agriculture Patterson.
State Chemist Kilgoie. General ". r.
Cox. Secretary Of State Grimes. Senator
Whitaker. j. NJ. b. Battle. Heckter Nc
Lean, r. L. Abernethy. J. III. Stevens.
j. w. Attwater. \ motion for county
organization was adopted. Secretary
Parker was asked to write To- each cot
ton growing county at once. A resolu-
ton TO thank the Farmers Alliance for
starting this movement was voted down.
Fifty cents was fixed as initiation fee.
The next meeting OF this state asso-
citation Will be held here Wednesday OF
the state fair week. Bylaws were
adopted which will be printed at once
and sent TO the counties. The secretary
will correspond with the leading farm
ers in each county TO press county or
ganiZations.
Ex-Congressman Attwater wanted
township organizations as there was
n, "a ha
be on the market. Unless there In
haste, the farmers, particularly ne
groes, will sell no matter at what price.
General Cox said nothing would ter
roriZe the cotton oil trust more than the
independence of farmers as 10 their cot
ton seed. He said he had been forced
out OF one mill bv the trust and was
now notified that the trust had ac-
quired a majority of stock in another
mill he was interested in. He favored
establishing small local mills which can
be done at $1,000 each.
Secretary Parker suggested that a
committee OF three be appointed to pre-
pare an address TO call q quorum This
was adopted, and W. K. Cox. J. w. Att
water and J. Bryan Grimes were ap-
pointed.
This afternoon Chairman O'Berry, OF
the penitentiary executive COMMISSIONS
placed in the governors hands reports
giving the exact financial status of the
penitentiary on January 1st last, April
30th last, when the democrats took
charge and on September eth. Governor
Aycock said he intended to study tho
report tonight carefully and would Civ
it to the press in the morning.
Chairman O'Berry says there is some
rich, rare and racy reading in IL. It
shows how different the true state OF
facts was from that the fusion man
agement gave to the public. Chairman
O'Berry says that on September 9TH
the penitentiary had S17.1S5 assets, and
13S liabilities, 81 900 Of liabilities being
for fertilizers. He says the assets are
now larger and that n dollars worth OF
this seasons crop has not been Sold
He says that he is sure that April 3rd
when the fiscal year ends the pef:iten-
tiary Will come out even in spite of all
this years heavy losses on farms by de-
struction of crops and breaking OF
dikes. He says the new board will put
brick machines at the penitentia-y.
Brick have always been made In the
old style (by hand) there and to this
was due the loss Of 100000 by this
years rains About 100000 have been
made
State Veterinarian Butler today made
his report on the epidemic amouk
horses which has prevailed in count
bordering on Albemarle and Pamlic0
sounds. It has largely abated. He
says that during August and the ffrst
half of September probably five hun
| dred horses died of IL. 1t is no new dis.
ease. but has occurred in that section
since 1867. 1t is known as cerebro.
| spinal meningitis. staggers. mould poiD7
| oning and forage poisoning