The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-02-01
Plan of Action Adopted at the Cotton
Growers Convention.

lTHlly DelleVlnR IL 10 De lHc mOSC
important t step in the solution of the
State Cotton Convention in New Or
leans last week, without a dissenting
vote, declared in favor OF % per
cent redu ctlon In acreage and an equal
reduction III commercial fertilizers,
and backed that action up with the
adoption of the following cOmprehen-
sive plan to obtain the support of every
farmer, big and little, in the cotton
belt
ITO th. Hon. Ilarvie Jordan, Chair
man In ter State Cotton Growers Con
ventiOn We, your committee on acre
age and the use OF fertilizers, do re-
commend that acreage planted In cot
ton III 1905 shall be - per cent less
than in 1907 and that there shall be
red ducllOn Of % per cent III the use OF
commercial fertilizers i'll growing cot
ton.
I'VE rec Omncnd the following plan
for the accomplishment of said Ieduc-
ton:
First. That the vice president of
this asSOclatlOn tor each State shall
call Il meeting of all persons Interested
in cotton ON the 18th day of February.
1903, in the county seat OF each county,
not alread y organized on the plan here
matter set out, at which meeting there
shall be elected 4 county chairman and
a precinct chairman for each school
district or other small political sub
division Of the county
Second. That there shall be held
in each school district or other small
poll teal slb division of the county on
O'Clock r. M, meeting of all citizens
of sad district or other small political
sub division who are Interested in the
growing OF cotton, which meeting shall
elect q committee OF three on acreage
and membership.
Third. At said precinct meeting
| the farmers and land owners present
ehall be asked to sign the following
! agreement.
1--WE the undersigned farmers or
land owners,. living, in (school district
| (beatD (precinct,) No. -, County Of
-, State Of -, hereby pledge
ourselves to reduce the acreage plant
| ed by us in cotton and to reddce our
consumption Of fertilizer in growing
cotton as shown by the statements set
opposite our names.
Fourth. That said committee on
acreage and membership shall imme-
diately CANVASS said district and ask
all farmers and land owners in eaid
district who do not attend said meet
| ing, to sign said pledge and said COM
mittee shall return said pledge to the
chairman of said precinct.
Fifth. aid precinct chairman shall
preserve said pledges and they shall
immediatelJ } report to the county chair
man showing the total number of acres
planted in cotton in said precinct in
1904 and the total number to be plant
cd in cotton ia said precinct in 1905 and
the total amount OF fertilizer used in
growing cotton in said precinct and
tho total amount to be used in said
precinct in said years.
sixth. The county chairman shall
Immediately forward to the State vice
president OE their espective States q
written statement showing the total
number of acres planted in cotton in
their respective counties In 1904, and
the total amount to be planted in 1905,
aud shall III AXE q like report as to the
years.
Seventh. The vice president OF
each State shall, Immediately upon re-
Giving the reports of the county chair
man, forward to the president of this
Association report showing the num-
bar Of acres planted In cotton in his
st ate in the year 1904 and the amount OF
cotton, and the amount OF cotton t.
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Eighth. The President of this AS.
sociation upon receiving these repOrte
shall immediately tabulate the same
and send @ copy thereof to tho county
chairman in the different cotton States
and Territories.
Ninth. If any county not already
organized should fail to organize, the
vice president of the State in which
said county Ia situated shall cause said
county to be organized as herein pro-
vided. and if any precinct should fail
to organize the county chairman of the
county in which euch precinct is stu.
ated shall cause ouch precinct to be
organized as herein provided.
Iro11tthh. IL shnii 10 the further duty
of the officers of. this Association to re-
port the names and addresses of such
persons who refuse, to- sign the agree.
ment to reduce acreage for 1905, to.
gether with the number Of acres OF cot.
ton planted by such persons in 1904 and
the number Of acres that they will
probably plant in 1905, and to make 8
like report as to fertilizers.n