The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-27
An Executive Committee Named to
Draw Up Constitution and
Bylaws.
ANOTHER MEETING HERE FAIR WEEK
Delegates Express Themselves Pleased With
the Conventions Action and Believe
That il VIII Accomplish
Their Purpose.


The cotton growers convention, which
met here Wednesday afternoon, completed
its business yesterday morning at 1920
O'Clock and adjourned to meet again at
4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon of
Fair week.
An address to the cotton farmers of the
State was read and adopted, and an ex-
ccutivc committee was appointed to draw
up a constitution and bylaws, to be
submitted at the next meeting of the
convention.
This committee is composed as follows:
w. H. Clark, of Edgecombe; j. w. Battle
Of Edgecombe; j. A. Stevens, of Wayne;
]. w. Atwater, of Chatham; S. l.. Pat
tcrson, Commissioner of Agriculture; B.
II. Thompson. of Beaufort, and Hector
Mclean, Of Scotland.
Though the plan Of organization to
be drawn up by the committee cannot
be adopted till the next meeting, the
convention urged upon those present
and all other cotton growers in the State,
to cooperate in the movement looking to
demand for a fair price for seed, and
recommended that in case that amount
cannot be obtained the seed be used
on the farmr To this end further and
completer organization of the farmers in
the cotton growing counties was suggest
cd on the lire of the following address:
AN ADDRESS.
To the Cotton Farmers of North Caro-
iina
At a meeting of delegates appointed
to assemble in Raleigh on the 25tk inst,
for the purpose of considering and de-
Gliding on the best method of securing
just and reasonable price for our cot
ton seed, it was agreed to organize under
the name of 1.-The North Carolina Cot
ton Farmers State Association and
make such recommendations to those en-
gagged in raising cotton as might secure
the end in view.
After full information presented by
the State Agricultural Department of the
intrinsic value of cotton seed for fer
tiliZing. stock feeding, ETC., supplement-
Cd by the individual knowledge and ex-
pcrience of the farmers present in rela-
tion to them, the following recommended
lions were made, and the undersigned APP !
POINTED committee to briefly outline the
conclusions of the conventions:
That we should not dispose of our seed |
in case of sale, for less than twenty five |.
t25) cents per bushel, or when ex-
changing the same to mills we should not !
receive less than 1893 1-3 pounds of
meal, analyzinz S1a per cent ammonia !
for ton of seed. This price was based /
on present price of cotton seed meal |
end oil. If these products advance in !,
price the seed should sell at a higher /
Price than 25 cents per bushel. In the /
event we are not able to sell or
exchange on these terms, then it was
recommended that we should use the seed !
en- the farm for fertilizer, and wherever
practicable there should be established |
~ the farmers neighborhood cotton seed |
oil mills. 1t was the sense of the con- /
vontion that it was preferable to ex-
change the seed for meal to be used on |
the farm rather than impoverish the
farm by the system of robbery so much i
rractiscd by our farmers in making an
outright sale of the seed In all cases
Of sale or exchange the purchaser should
pay the freight on seed and the farm |,
ors' freight on meal. 1t was further
more agreed to urge upon our friends !;
the Importance of township and county
organizations TO accomplish this desira-
te end; for we fully realize that mere !
state organizations and resolutions can
accomplish but little unless those whom
we seek to aid shall organize among
themselves and actively and intelligent
iy cooperate with us. To this end we
insist that every farmer interested in
procuring better prices for cotton seed
engage actively in this work of organiza-
tion and that no time be lost in perfect
ing the same in each township and
county.
(Signed.) w. r. cox.
J. BRYAN GRIMES.
JOHN w. ATWATER.