The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-02

w hAO" uOW nuCu COGGOu Is D6lQg
produced in other countries and
what effect those crops should have
upon our market. We want to keep
up with the demand for cotton goods,
and what such goods are being sold
for by the mills. Not only is this
necessary Us to the lint, but we also
need full information about the value
of our seed to the oil mills. No man
can protect his products from the in
satiable greed Of the world, unless he
knows their true value and markets
them in such way as to command
the payment Of their value.
PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.
The present annual assessment
upon each member of the State As
sociution is so cents. orty cents of
this annual dues will go to the sup
port of the State Association, and 10
cents to the Inter state Association.
Now, suppose that through the
efforts of the Association a nulf a
cent per pound is gained for the pro
ducrrs above the price usually fixed
by the spi2ners and speculutOrs. On
Il crop of 10000, 900 bales it would
mean saving to the farmers of $25,-
600, 900 at cost of not more than
$4,000. 1t Is estimated that s., 600
Will pay the operating expenses Of
the Association in Ge rgia. We
make about l 1,2OO,0 600 bales of cotton
annuully-which sold at gain Of
only One-half Il cent per pound over
speculatOr 5 prices, would mean
saving to Georgia farmers of So, ,OOO,-
600 for the small outlay of s., 900 1t
10 per cent of the farmers in GeOr-
giu would subscribe 80 cents apiece
to this movement each year, it would
make the Association strong enough
to defeat all efforts of the specuIa-
tors and spinners to depresS prices
by giving out their usual false re
ports. A member Of the Association
receives back the most OF his dues in
such statistical information as he
needs, which must be printed and
mailed TO him. Twenty five per
cent. of the dues Is taken up in post
age stamps Cancelled on letters which
go direct To him, the balance viii he
used in gathering the information
required and in paying the clerical
and official force OF the Association.
With the producer in possession OF
the truth, it Will be an impOseibity
for another crop to be sacrificed ut
cents per pound, when 1t Is actually
worth 10 cents, as was the case in
1899. Every farmer who sold bale
of cotton in 1899 at cents per pound
based on the false report of MIR.
NeiIl, lost $50 or enough on one bale
OF cotton to have paid his dues in
the Association for 40 years, to have
protection against such loss. These
are practical truths which cannot be
argued against, and it is to prevent
Il repetition of many such losses,
which our people have annually sus-
tained in years gone by, that this
Association was created.
WHAT WILL FARMERS DO?
The officers of the Inter state As
sOciation are: Harvie Jordan, Presi-
dent, Monticello, Ga r. A. Love,
General Vice President, Chester, S.
c.. John P. Allison, Secretary and
Treasurer, Concord, N. G. Each
State has one Vice President, and
Col. w. L. Peek, of Conyers, was
chosen from Georgia. The President
was instructed to hold State Con-
vention Of cotton growers in each OF
the cotton States during the coming
spring and summer, and that each
State be requested to arouse the peo-
pie to action before another crop is
harvested and ready for the market.
If no determined effort is made to
check the downward course OF cot
ton, we may look for 6 and z cent
cotton next season. The plan of or
ganization for protection is now fully
mapped out and the method of work
agreed upon as far as it has been pos
sible. The vital question is, whether
or not the producers are willing to
lend helping hand to a movement
to be operated in their own interests,
or whether they will continue to de- |
pend upon the old system of market
ing their great staple crop as inyears
gone by, the price to be dictated by
tnn hr1uar The farmers made q gal |