The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-22
MEETING OF THE COTTON GROWERS AssO-
CITATION.

W. 49,
organized, EdgecOmbe and Scotland,
we're not represented. And while
little of Importance vas done at this
meeting, some novel ideas yer set
forth it cannot be said that the
meeting was without plans. They
have not been reported in any other
paper, for The Progressive Farmer
was the only journal represented in
the meeting.
At II o'clock Wednesday, 10th, the
convention assembled in the Agricul-
tural Building and was called to or
der by President W. A. Graham.
Secretary JnO. p. Allison read the
minutes of previous meetings and
also the minutes of the Interstate
Association at Macon, Ga, last No
vember, as reported by him for The
Progressive Farmer of Dec. 18th.
Mr.. w. P. Bachelor wished to
know if any feasible plan for reduc-
ing acreage was presented at the
Macon meeting. 81 attended a cot
ton growers meeting in Atlanta four
or five years ago." said Mr.. Batch
elor. "Cotton was selling at five
cents. We unanimously resolved
that it ought to bring ten, elected
our officers and adjourned. And no
more attention was paid US. Flo
quent addresses and resolutions
amount to nothing without a we'll
defined business policy" Mr.. Batch
elOr then outlined a plan for a cot
ton growers trust, which he thinks
should be tested. We expect to pub
lish his proposal in next weeks
Progressive Farmer.
Mr.. w. S. Barnes also presented a
scheme providing a system for cot
ton growers very much like that an
bodied in the Jordan plan for to-
baccO growers. Mr.. Barnes will also
explain his proposed arrangement in
an early issue of The Progressive
Farmer.
Mai. Graham said he didn't think
farmers should term any Organiza-
ton formed merely for the purpose
of self protection, etc a trust. ''The
trouble with u people is that they
want good prices for their products,
but they do not want the trouble of
attending meetings and paying dues.
But we cant start d State movement
here it must be started in the town
ships and worked up"
Pr #. Benz min Irby thought sup
ply and demand influenced prices of
cotton 1915, speculation, etc, 25%.
"Get a majority of the people
pledged to curtail crop and the I'M
pledged minority will double it's acre
age" he said. 1.-The best way to in
crease the profits is to reduce the
cost of production. Don't sell your
products as raw material, thus get
ting only one small profit. Let a
hundred farmers of each county
purchase II thousand acres of land.
ON this let them run a cotton farm,
d cotton factory, Il cotton oil mill, a
fertilizer mixing establishment, also
raise beef for market. With this
arrangement they can put their pro
ducts into manufactured form and
save to themselves the bulk of the
profits that now go to manufacturers.
Take IL bale Of cotton. Your factory
separates lint from seed, and you
save Ii profit. Your oil mill gives
you huIls, seed and meal-another
Dig profit saved to you. Then you
have many of the fertilizer ingre-
dents made for you. [ have always
advised hOme-miXing, even as d
merchant. For $50 you can buy the
ingredients and mix any ordinary
S25 fertilizer. Greater would be the
saving with cooperative oil mills,
etc. If these manufacturing enter
prlses can buy our products
and manipulate them and make u
profit, we should certainly be able
to make "a profit, with our own
products"
Col. Cameron thought these plans
somewhat Out of order. "This asso-
citation as organized in Georgia is
merely u combination of tanners,
merchants and bankers for the pur-
pose of ascertaining size Of crop and
distributing sales throughout twelve
months instead of two"
Mr.. Bachelor thought that the
ASSOCIATION should work for greater
thinns. that this in itself would do