The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-28
COTTON CONVENTION NOTABLE SUCCESS J. A. B. Lovett Returns from
 New Orleans TALKS OF THE GOOD DONE pr. Lovett Elected secretary-He Also Had the Honor of Presiding
 for a Little While Over
 the Convention.
TALKS OF THE GOOD DONE

Dr. J. A B. Lovett, president of the Central Alabama Agricultural college at Blountsville, passed through Birmingham yesterday on his way home from New Orleans, where he had been to attend the cotton convention held this week in that city.
 In the proceedings of the convention pr. Lovett was a conspicuous and esteem- ed participant being at one time tenn porary president an office he filled with signal ability, and being elected secretary of the association for the ensuing year. lie Is also first vice president or the Na- tlonal Cotton association.
 x In commenting yesterday on the con- yention held at New Orleans, Dr. Lovett said: "The interstate cotton convention, just closed at New Orleans, will go down in history as the greatest cotton convention ever held up to this date. Four or the leading factors in the worlu maternal advancement were largely represented In this great convention: the farmer, the merchant, the banker and the manulae- turer of cotton goods
 'srhe immense auditorium of the Wash ington artillery, with a seating capacity of about two thousand persons, was hlled with white-ribboned delegates, from the invocation to the final benedction. Never in the history of this country has there been more real seriousness exhibited in the solution of great questions, or greater enthusiasm displayed in the hopeful propositions, than in this great conven- tion.
 "It is useless here to refer, In detail, to all the work done by the convention. In due time, the entire proceedings will be printed in pamphlet form and sent broadcast over the cotton growing sec tion.
 Business-Like Methods.
 ''The great object for which the con- vention was called were settled in busi- ness-lilxe manner and with such harmony in the convention as will no doubt bring all the producers of cotton to a unity of action in the future. Diversification of farming products, the rotation of crops. the reduction of acreage 9 per cent with a similar reduction of commercial ferti- lizers, the holding of the present surplus for 10 cents pound, and the gathering of cotton statistics through the sheriffs of the various counties and parishes were the most vital measures settled by the convention; and these are sufficient If faithfully carried out, to make this con- vention an epoch-making power in the future of cotton growing in the south.
 |A1hDdfnd was laTBely represented Ill New Orleans, and this delegation was ably and faithfully looked after by Com missioner Poole. MT. Poole in his address made plain, before the convention, the matter of gathering the facts in cotton production. and In other ways he was 8 most useful member of the body
 Fought Waco Scheme.
 'Mr. Nesbitt of Birmingham was the leader in the fight against the Waco scheme of warehousing ootton, and wor the victory in a prolonged committee con test. MT. E. Ashcroft of Florence was the author of the resolutions seeking better knowledge of the needs of cotton in for eign markets, and he was appointed, with Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, and John M. Parker of New Orleans to visit President Roosevelt with a view of ob- taining through the Department of Agri culture, the desired information
 Arrangements were made for complete permanent organization of all cotton pro. ducers. and when is shall have accom- plished practical results will no doubt be obtained, and all will recognize the wis. dom of the call, and the nature of the New Orleans cotton convention"