The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-03
CROP REPORTS AREDENOUNCED Want Change in Cotton
 Year. JUMPED ON THE GAMBLERS No Permanent Organization Was
 Formed. Haryie Jordan Said That South Must Build warehouses and Growers and Manusaeturers Must Pull
 Together.
JUMPED ON THE GAMBLERS

Washington, May 2.--After denoun- cling the government crop reports and more particularly the reports of the department of agriculture and passing a resolution advocating that the statis- tical cotton year should run from Au- gust l.. to August 1, instead of from September 1. to September i, the in~ ternationaI cotton conference adjourn ed today to reassemble n-xt year, should it be deemed advisable hy the various organizations to do so. 1t was found that the delegates were not clothed with sufficient authority to af- feet a permanent organization.
 When the subject of governmental crop reports came up. President Mac Coll spoke in commendation of the cen sus bureau work but felt that some radical changes in the methods of the agricultural department should be made. President Jordan of the South ern Cotton Association also commended some features of the government re- ports but numerous other delegates strongly condemned them. D. A. Tom kins of North. Carolina characterized them asF'a complicated system of guess ing" while another Southern grower denounced them as speculative foot ball" <-
 Various remedies were suggested but as no law delegates seemed able to agree On d SATISFACTORY plan the WnO1S subject was laid on theetable 4ff
 President MacColl expressed the hope that henceforward there will be a clos CT bond of union rbetween the north and the south and between America and Europe in all that pertains to cot ton growing and manufacturing V.
 At the afternoon session the report of the seommittee1 on baling, ginning and handling of American cotton was re- ceived and adopted unanimously The report recornHaended the following:
 That all bales be made of standard dimensions; that light weight new bur- lap be used for. bagging; or if condi- tlons justify, that cotton canvas be used
 Ten Ties to BaIe.
 se That ten ties be used on all tales with the Egyptian style of buckles preferred. That all cotton should be bought and sold by the weight That d committee be appointed whose -du- ties it shall be to have cotton baied as above and to submit the same for prac- tical test to consumers.''
 The general topic of discussion to- day by the international conference of cotton growers and manufacturers was the marketing of the product wAich embraced the questions of warehous- ing stability of price and relations be- tween growers &nd manufacturers. As on yesterday, speculating in cotton was severely denounced.
 A. E. Calvin, president of the Farm CTS Educational and Cooperative Un- ion. declared that 1t long had been the dream of the cotton growers to abol- fish all intermediate agents, who levy toll unnecessarily on the product on its Journey from the field to the factory. The grower. he said, is the constant and persistent foe of all forms and methods of cotton gambling.
 Violent fluctuations of the market, he contended, are quite as disturbing and unprofitable to the growers as to the spinner. He voiced what he said about the unanimous sentiment oS the Southern growers to join in any move ment which promises to eliminate the gambler from the cotton market, to reduce. the marketing expenses, to ex- pedite the delivery of cotton to the spinner and to give reasonable stability to the market price He declared that the South was so completely able to supply the world with cotton that with a proper understanding with the man ufacturers there would be no necessity of conducting experiments in Africa and elsewhere. Direct relations be- tween the growers and manufacturers was strongly argued.
 South Can Furnish Product.
 A similar stand was taken by Camp bell Russell of Indian Territory. The Southern growers, he said, rapidly were arranging system of warehouses so as to be able to maintain not only the stability of price but to furnish the spinner cotton whenever he wants it and in whatever amount.
 A proposition which met with some favor came from T. W. Davis of Texas who, in urging direct relations with the manufacturers. suggested that the manufacturers deal with an agent of the grower at the warehouse,
 The discussion then took a general turn. the English delegates expressing their pleasure at the building of ware houses t-stead of warehousing cotton in the field"
 Further opposition to the middle man came from W. S. Miller of Texas and E. B. Smith of Arkansas. The for mer in reverting to the question of MT. Jordan yesterday as to what amount of cotton would be needed for 1906, said 1t was not a matter for con sideration so much as the growers will raise what they think they can sell.
 Mir. Smith threw out the suggestion that perhaps the growers would fare better if they formed themselves into corporation which could guarantee the performance of contracts in the matter of price, quality and delivery, and which would send abroad an agent, armed with full authority to deal with the buyers of the manufacturers and upon his orders ship direct from the warehouses which are being estab- lished.
 President Maccoll declared that the prosperity of the grower was a mat ter of interest to the manufacturer who would like to be able to eliminate the speculative element. He inquired however, if the plan of constructing warehouses and giving contracts would do anything toward eliminating spec uIation and also if, after storing the cotton in warehouses and the product for any reason went up, would the growers be willing to deliver 1t at the regulation price they had fixed.
 Several growers insisted that they would live up to contracts and MT Mac coll said he had doubt of that, but wanted to know what would be done after the contracts expired. He thought that in all probability the period of the contracts would be about year, 1t would be sufficient to kill specula- tion in the meantime,
 A resolution was offered by J. A.