The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
They Declare Bears Are
 Buying the Tags.
Fine Reports Received from Various Beats of Montgomery County State Organiser Brooke
 Makes . Speech.

| | nized. all the city beats and all but | two of the country beats having deie- gates present.
 The work of the organization for the | mast several weeks was reviewed Tn | full and 1t was found that advances | have been made in strengthening the | precinct organizations.
 State Organizer H. Y. Brooke, who | was one of the speakers at the meet ! ing flung defiance into the teeth or | the bear spectators who, he said, are
 responsible for the purchase of ferti- lizer tags in large bulks recently in | order to check the progress of the l Southern Cotton Association. He de- | clared that in order to influence the l market to the detriment of Che soutn | the bears have agents buying tags
 throughout the cotton growing states
 which do not represent actual sales or | fertilizer.
 l Tt Is all dope, gentlemen" said MT.
 Brooke in emphatic tones yesterday,
 "and 1t is easy to see how crowd or | speculators can afford to spend some | si5. 900 or $20, 900 in fertilizer tags | when they can realize by the decline | in the market of 1 cent a profit or several million dollars"
 l The State Organizer cited instances | in shipments of fertilizer into Union | Springs and Bowden Springs where l five and more tags were hung to sin- | gle sacks. In this way, the state | ment of the Commissioner of Agricul- l ,nre for the past month which showed increased issuance of tags, was dis l credited as an index to the real sales | of fertilizers in this State.
 A Good Representation. After the meeting was called to
 order by President W. H. Vaughan. Secretary Charles L. Gay enrolled the delegates from the various beats ana found that thirty were present In all properly accredited. There were oe- sides these several farmers ana pusi- ness men from the city precincts. which were represented by regular delegates. All the country beats were repre- scented except Is and 21. Delegates | from adjoining beats informed the nresident that Beat 16 would have sent A representative delegation had 1t not been fo rthe heavy downpour or ram there yesterday morning.
 | The prize beat organization of the | County Association is to be found in Beat 16 where there are 146 paid up members. In this beat practically | every member has pledged reduction of cotton acreage and use of commer- cial fertilizers.
 | The enrolment of delegates yester- day waa as follows: Beat 2, J. R. Relfe;s Beat 8, G. W. Dickey. F. M. Jones and W. G. Jones; Beat 3, J. C' | Chestnut and T. B. Waters; Beat 10, q. H. Shackelford and J. B. Slaughter; Beat Il, J. B. Walters, J. W. Underwood and H. B. Jones; Beat 12, J. F. Down | ing and E. M. Benbow; Beat l3, w
 |. Dick and J. M. Jones; Beat IA, w. T.
 M. Rushing and J. H. Holton; Beat 16, I | Merritt: Beat IT, J. M. stuckey John
 L. Witt and George Turner; Beat 1si John Carter, J. H. Thigpen and A. B.
 Bates; Beat 19, Gray Henderson; Beat | 20. W, H, Vaughan and A. J. Taylor. | Report of Organizer.
 | County Organizer N. B. Williams | made A report on his work accomplish
 ed during the past month. He re- | ported that there is conviction of | cumulative growth of the wisdom ot
 reducing acreage and use of fertilizers He has found this in every beat in the county. He has run across many ex-
 members of the Alliance in his itinera-
 ry business and has experienced con l siderable difficulty in getting these
 men converted to the sincerity of the 1 plan for Southern redemption as out | lined in the New Orleans convention Of | last January.
 | Even the old Alliance veterans, how ever. according to MT. Williams, have
 been forced to admit that there IS more backbone to the present move I ment than the Alliance leaders could
 have ever hoped for. All classes of
 business. including the bankers, mer- chants and cotton mill men and even some of the fertilizer manufacturers. are falling in line with the objects and ] actions of the Southern Cotton Asso- | citation. Another difficulty of the county organizer in his work of the
 mast two weks particularly has been
 the favorable weather for planting
 which threw the planters to work and they were slow to listen to the pleas for cooperation that he had to oner | in behalf of the county organization. l Influence of Bears.
 He said he found that also some
 men of bearish inclination, or for some
 purpose, unexplained are trying to inn | press on the farmers that the ferti- | Iizer sales all about them are on the increase this year.
 l He told of one scare in the county where a report was current that train of thirty car loads of fertilizers had
 passed through their midst He said he took care to investigate this rumor
 and proyed concIusively that the train |
 only one car of fertilizer and the rest | consisted of coal and other shipments.
 He said that the general average In tha use of fertilizers this year is far
 below that for last year for the same
 length of time.
 MT. williams said that he found that l in some sections of the county the
 planters are reducing their acreage as
 much as 100 per cent some 50 per cent, others 25 per cent. while few are not
 reducing the acreage at all Of the | latter he believes that most are owners
 of small faGms and planted last year
 only a few acres in cotton He rarely
 has found that the planter is going to increase his cotton acreage.
 | Future Cotton Market.
 | MT. williams dwelt on the great future consumption of cotton to be brought about by the end of the Russo | Japanese war. He has spent some four or five years in China and ex-
 nressed the opinion that when Japan ia released from the throes of the pre- aent conflict her eyes will be turned
 towards driving a wedge through the
 emnire of China which will result 1T onening up a vast market for cottor
 He said that no nation in the worlC outside of America uses more cottoT Ithan does China The Chinese do no
 use thermometers as exclusively as dC
 Americans for measuring the tempera
 ture saving the weather is four anC
 Eve and six coats cold' instead o
 fen and twenty degrees above zero.
 He said that the reduction of ferti
 lizers and acreage this year is a mer'