The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-25
COTTON GROWERS
North Carolina Farmers As
soclaticn Organized
The Cotton Growers Protec;iv, association
and the Cotton farmers Association
Consolidated Into One.

At meeting of the cotton growers of
the State at the auditorium last night,
the organization of the North Carolina
Farmers Association was perfected, with
DIR. R. Fl. Speight, of Edgecombe, presi-
dent, and T. B. Parker, of Hillsboro, sec
rotary.
The meeting had been called by the
executive committee of the Cotton Grow
ers' Protective Association to hear the
report of the meeting of the Cotton Farm
ers' Association. which was to have been
held yesterday afternoon.
The secretary, ]. p. Allison, called the
meeting to order. and asked DR.. R. III.
Speight to take the chair Mr.. Allison
read an account of the formation and
the constitution of the Interstate South
ern Cotton Growers Protective Associa
tion. organized at Atlanta, with head
quarters at Monticello. Ga.
Mr. Hector Mclean. of Scotland, opposed
this association, because, he said, it pro-
tected the dealers in cotton seed. The
| time had come, he said, for the farmers
| to organize so that they could sell their
| product for the best prices and buy their
necessities at the lowest rates. He well
coined the merchants and the bankers in
the organizations, but not concerns like
| the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company.
| Some little confusion resulted when the
report of the executive committee of the
| Cotton Farmers Association was called
| for
Mr. R. B. Hancock, of Halifax, called
| attention to the circular which had been
issued for the organization of the body
| on September 25th, and said that it
seemed it had not been organized.
| Commissioner of Agriculture S. L. Pat
| terson explained that the Cotton Farm
! ers' Association had been formed at the
meeting in Raleigh on September 25th
but that on account of the absence OF
| members of the executive committee, the
organization had not yet been completed
| The meeting yesterday afternoon had ad-
journed in order that they might come
before the meeting last night, as it had
been considered advisable to consolidate
the two organizations.
/ After some discussion the following
committee was appointed to confer upon
the matter of consolidation: j. w. B. Bat
| tie, f. A. Whitaker, ]. p. Allison, S. l.
Patterson.
The Cotton Growers Protective Asso-
citation then adjourned, and the Cottor
| Farmers Association went into session
| with it's president DR.. r. III. Speight, II
| the chair.
draft of constitution offered by /
| B. Parker, of Hillsboro, was adopted, witt
some changes. Its third provisions are
Name: The North Carolina Farmers
/ State Association.
The officers shall be president, Sec
rotary and treasurer. There shall be al
executive committee to consist OF three
| members.
| All white farmers, ginners, and others
interested IN farming and in securing
benefits to farmers, shall be eligible L
membership.
The dues shall be 80 cents per year, 81
cents to be sent to the State Association
and 10 cents to be retained IN the nome
associations.
The township associations shall hole
monthly meetings, and the county asso
Citations once in three months, and may
have called meetings oftener.
The state meetings shall be held an
nualIy in the city of Raleigh, to be com
posed of delegates from the various coun
ties. one for each fifty members or frac
tion thereof Each township shall be en-
titled to one delegate, in counties wher
there is no county organization.
|
political, tolerating neither religious no
political tests of membership.
Mr.. Mclean spoke in favor of having tn
Agricultural Department of the State hel
along the work of the Farmers Associa
tion by turning over a small amount @
the money in their hands for that purpose
The election of officers at the meetin
of September 25th, Dr. f. H. Speight
| president, and T. B. Parker secretary
| was confirmed.
, Mr.. Patterson submitted the report Q
the majority of the committee for confer
ence on the question OF consolidation
The report was to merge both organlza
tions into the North Carolina Farmers
| Association.
Mr. Travis. delegate from Halifax. re
ported that the Halifax organization sug
gested that the State organization shout
, advocate a rate of not less than % cent
/. a bushel for the seed, or 1900 pounds q
| meal for ton of seed.
u The meeting adjourned until $50 thi
, morning.