The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-31
FURTHER PLANS
 ID BE DISCUSSED Jordan Talks of the Meeting at
 New Orleans
PRAISES COTTON PICKER
Thinks If Machine Picked 5000 Pounds Day at Shreveport It Is Won derful Stride in the Cot
 ton Industry.

New Orleans, December 90.-(Special.)- Secretary Henry Mayo of the New Or leans Progressive union has received a letter from President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers Protective association, thanking the union for the tvnder of it's hall for the meetings of the association, January 24, 25 and 26, when the subjects of great moment to southern co ton growers will be discussed and an amalgamation of various southern agri- cultural associations formed. The letter Is as follows:
 Monticello, Ga. MT. Henry N Mayo, secretary Progress
 slve union, New Orleans:
 Dear sir.-I beg to acknowledge re- ceipt of your very kind favor of the 16th instant, tendering the use of the rooms of the New Orleans Progressive union for the meetings of the Southern Cotton Growers Pr6tective association, January 2i, 25 and 26, 1905 and to thank you most cordially for\ your interest and kindness We expect " have large attendance from every Notion growing section Of the south andA l am sure every delegate VIII dppTtCtdlcs dS uO lAt SOhA eNoJ SA your great civic organization.
 'srhe Shreveport convention accomplish eo much good and at New Orleans we propose to follow this up with sane and business like organization, free from prejudices and operated solely in the in terest of the security of the cotton grow CT. We will come tp New Orleans pre- pared to bring together the various agri- cultural organizatioAl of the south and weld them into strQg central body and upon this united bodf will rest the re- sponsibility of organiAAg the bureau of statistics of the UnitedA tates department of agriculture. It is ' pjected for the purpose of supplementinfth the work of the bureau, but with infornANon coming di- rect from our own mem ership. and In addition giving facts 4pcerning the spinner and manufacturerA shich will tell the producer what is beingksone with his commodity.
 The statistical and inforni ton bureau will furnish the producer Nth reliable information as to the aereaAs, the av- craze condition of the growinA$ crop the prospective yield and the acNal yield. Also the actual cost of delivekN of his cotton to the spinner, the prices at which the manufactured goods are sold and the consumption of American cotton oy the mills of the world and the amount Of surplus carried over, if any.
 "Other questions of economic interest will be discussed and none is of more importance than the south's laDor prop lem. Fortunately for the cotton pian.er' the world seems to have produced man who has taken great step lor"aru in solving this vexed question: anu "hlie I did not witness the test or the Lowry niclxer at Shreveport, I note from the s, ranorts that the result was so sat isfactorv that some sixty-five or seventy of the most responsible cotton planters and business men of North Louisiana many of whom I have the pleasure or knowing personally. passed resolutions unoualifiedly endorsing 1t. This Is tre- mendous victory for the cotton grower, for the reduction in ti., cost of labor and production will be immense as the picker is asserted to do the work of from three to five men a day. At Shreveport the accounts show that each one of the four arms of the machine picked an average of 126 bols a minute. This Is at the rate of 5000 pounds of cotton per day per ma chine.
 If this machine of MT. Lowry's can do such things as these. half the battle has been won for the farmer, for this picker will take rank as the greatest improvement in the cultivation of cotton since the invention of the cotton gin.
 Since the Shreveport meeting disband- ed. its memSers have scattered all over the south and nave spread this watch word: Hold your cotton-to such pur- pose that the farmers everywhere have fallen in line and announce that they will wait for better prices. In this work O. conveying word to the farmer we have met with the hearty and liberal co-opera-