The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26


 spurs with main line. .
 The Cost of Plants
 The cost of large plants will be far below the aggregate cost .of the ,as sma,. st and the saving in operating would soon repay the loss in their abandonment, even though they had to go to Junk dealers.
 There is q surfeit of adulterated and prepared syrups which are daily losing their hold. upon popular favor, wnicn disfavor has been recently accentuated by the publicity given to investigations showing adulteration, or ingredients m compounds called syrup. marketed chiefly upon their attractive appear ance and neat packages
 These impure preparations, some. times. really hurtful in character. will not give up their advantages In the
 market without tisanic aam ght onr sno selves for this inevitable conflict, If we propose to press the syrup industry to successful conclusion in giving 1t commercial standing, and our best uniform grade, attraotively presented. Our ability to produce sugar cane proftab1y is established and the manu- lecture of 1t into the highest grades of syrup is only a matter of greater skill and superior machinery. both obtaina-
 
 a case of having to create one for our syrup, as often Is necessary with other products, but of capturing a market that has been responsive to every att tempt to work it. and is. today, in open revolt against the detestable and vile preparations 1t is compelled to accept to appease it's desire for liquid sweet ness, or go athtrst for it., The vital principle in international reciprocity as advocated in national af- fAt tx-e ( No aF tAI> x.xJ such political prominence ten years ago, is ayowediy to create markets for surplus products of field, factory and mine. If country is prosperous her surplus productions must increase and | the demand is constantly arising for new as well as larger markets for their | absorption.
 Sympathy for Cotton Growers. The extent to which any character of our production that is in immediate excess of market demand may bring loss to community, is forcfbly Illus trated by the cotton situation engaging, today, the earnest consideration of a large and representative body of the producers and handlers of that product, assembIed in convention in a neighbor- ing city to devise means for protect- ing the producers from the low stan foundest sympathies are with them in | their efforts to find the solution of the difficult problem confronting them, solution involving as 1t will the most | vital interests 1.-the South as an agri- cultural country.
 Fortunately for the cane and beet grower, for the manufacture of sugar or syrup. until the United States ceases to be an importer of these pro- duets. national overproduction is re- mote, but this does not mean that there will not be fluctuations, because supply and demand often set aside local ad- vantage in adjusting the worlds prices for a commodity, and we can not expect immunity in our case from these unchanging laws.
 Therefore, no agricultural country should build upon single crop, even though a practical monopoly Is held In that crop, as s pre-eminehtly the south's position today in the worlds cotton supply. yet within a year we have been witnesses to the most frenzied of extremes in prices for this staple. It is no safer in the case of sugar and syrup, though millions go out of the country annually for the foreign made products, to meet our ever increasing demand for domestic consumption over demand for domestic consumption over we have had also a wide range in the prices of these articles, the result of Legislation, factors. that can overcome. momentarily, the laws, of supply and demand, by creating artificial condi- tioife
 These experiences and similar ones in other productions are unanswerable arguments for diversity as the only safe principle to follow in the agricul- ture of any country blessed with climate and seasons that permit diver sity, that the surplus Of every farm may result after every want of the farmer has been first supplied. thus making 1t. in truth and reality a cash surplus measured only by the market demand for it, and then only will our agricultural system be grounded upon foundations of granite.
 More Compact Organization. If at it's third convention, the Inter state Sugar Cane Growers Association has demonstrated to your minds a need for its continued existence, the time has come when a more compact and effective internal arrangement is im- peratively needed to enable 1t to con- tinue it's work and maintain it's organi- zation. Heretofore the expenses leading up to our annual meetings and those consequent upon our sessions, have been borne by the communities in which we have met. While con- tinuing this 1t should not be the only source of revenue for our maintenance and work, and l therefore, commend this matter to your most earnest con- sideration at this session.
 1T our orBanizatlon IS to oe conunueu there are many ways by small expen- ditures between conventions when it's usefulness and value could be con- spicuously demonstrated. Any work of this kind that has been undertaken has been a tax upon the private re- sources of your officers. which places a burden on office holding in your body. Our present short code rules have proven ample for our past work, but would need revision If our activity is to be enlarged.
 I regret to say that circumstances over which your officers had no control have prevented the publication of the proceedings of our session at Jackson vile. but they are now being put in shape for issue.
 Arrangements have been perfected, I am now happy to inform you, that in- sure the publication of the proceedings of this conventin at an early date after adjournment