The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-10
Current Cotton Crop EStimat-
 cd 10,471,000 Bales.
Interesting Papers Read by Dele gates and . Fine Barbecue Served at Jackson's Lake
 Resolutions of Ap-
 preciation.

The Fifth Annual Convention of the
 Commissioners of Agriculture Associa-
 ton of the Cotton States. closed yester-
 day after jolly days session at Jack
 sons Lake.
 The two previous days were spent in
 work and all of yesterday morning and
 part of the afternoon was spent in dis
 cussing ways and means of promoting
 agricultural industries in the South.
 Even after the members of the associa-
 ton returned to Montgomery from the
 lake they held a session lasting over an
 hour in the pariors of the Exchange Ho'
 tel.
 IhS Mo .tgomery meeting was pro-
 nounced by the members of the associa-
 ton and officially by ex-President J. G.
 Lee of Louisiana the most successful ir
 the history of the organization. Pres.
 ident Lee said: "The three days have
 been spent in profitable work; still, we
 have found time to enjoy the hospital
 ity of the good people of Montgomery
 which has so freely been accorded us. "
 Most of the members left for their
 homes last night.
 Riehards's Address the Feature. Decidedly the feature of the business meeting of the association yesterday was
 an address by M. V. Richards of Wash. ington. D. C., Land and Industrial Agent of the Southern Railway. MT. Richards at the close of his address, assured the members of the association of his sym patiy with their work and promised to aid them in every way. whenever they might call on him.
 By c rising vote he was unanimously thanked for his speech. and elected an honorary member of the association. The report of the committee on the cotton crop was submitted and adopted. The committee to whom the duty of computing the number of bales of cot ton which will be marketed in the South ern States this year reported total of 10, Al, 900 bales.
 Members of the association. one hum dred and fifty in number, met at the Union depot yesterday at 10 o'clock and proceeded to Jackson's Lake on a spe- eial train.
 Business at the Lake. On arriving at the lake the members at once began work. A paper of interest
 was read by R. E. Rose, State chemist of Florida, on ''Sugar Production in the Gulf States"
 Mir. Rose gave the history of the su- gar growing industry and its different variations from the Assyrian period un- til the present date. He was grieved, he said to say that in most sections or the South the same primitive methods are l used in the growing of sugar which were employed by the early Spanish settlers of Florida. To this lack of facilities, he
 assigned the cause of the draw back in | the industry. Sugar cane growing, he
 eontended, was profitable even under | these poor conditions. but in Louisiana where the modern appliances are used the profit Is even more decided. The cane of the South. had ben proved equal te any in the world.
 He compared the cane sugar industr, | to the beet sugar industry. In the man ! ufacture of beet sugar only modern ia ciiities are used. The sugar accordingly goes to the market without flaw ant demanos a higher price than the cant sugar although the material is far in ferior. He appealed earnestly for i'm l provement in the syrup manufacture ant the abolition of adulterations.