The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-01-12
HARVIE JORDAN WILL PRESIDE
Crescent City Preparing for Big
Crowds of Planters During Con-
Vention-Prominent Men to
Deliver Speeches.
Special to the ocaIa Banner.

ton Growers Association, which will
be held here January II, Il and Is,
will probably break all previous rec
ords in the annals of agricultural
meetings, both in attendance and in
prominence. Thus far a surprisingly
large number of hotel reservations
have been made, indicating that many
prominent and wealthy planters will
participate in the proceedings.
Careful selection has been made in
the matter Of platform timber and none
but those men best qualified through
experience and training have been re-
quested to address the delegates on
timely and interesting topics
During the past year or two Of the
cotton growing industry has under
gone some radical changes through
which the balance of power has fallen
to the farmer. This is the result, pri-
marily, Of the improved financial sta
tus of the cotton producer; secondly,
of the immensely augmented spinners'
requirements for raw cotton. With
these conditions as a working basis,
the southern farmers have, through
education, practical demonstration and
a newly developed business sagacity,
swept away the arbitrary domination
of the spinner and the Spectator, COM
pletely upset the time honored mar
ket methods which favored the spin
ner and the speculator, and brought
the export buyer of actual cotton to
the interior, thus eliminating a large
class of middlemen who for nearly a
year have not shared in any of the
profits of the business.
There are many farmers in the
marketing their cotton under changed
and very much improved conditions
but very few OF them understand fully
just what has happened not how these
altered conditions may be made per-
manent and further improved upon.
These subjects will be discussed fully
at the convention next week, and
conservative campaign for the future
will be mapped out.
The following is the official program
announced for the occasion, and will
be followed as nearly as possible:
Thursday Morning.
Convention called to order at 10
o'clock a. m. By president Harvie Jor-
dan.
Invocation.
Address of welcome, Hon. John
Parker on behalf OF THE Progressive
Union and the City of New Orleans.
Response. W. I. Foster, Shreveport
La.
Address-"The Southern Farmer"
Hon. Harvie Jordan. president South
ern Cotton Association.
Acknowledgements of Farmers"
Hon. L. \. Calvin, Dallas, Tex, pres
ident Farmers Educational and Co
operative Union. Discussion.
Appointment of Committees. Adj
journment.
Afternoon Session.
Foreign Labor in the
Cotton Fields" Hon. Chas. Scott,
Rosedale. Miss.
Address-"Value of Manufactured
Cotton Compared To the Raw Product"
Hon. D. A. Thompkins. Charlotte. n.
c. Discussion.
Address-"Closer Relations Between
Bankers and Farmers" John d. Wal
ker. president First National Bank,
Sparta, Ga. Adjournment.
Night Session.
Address-"Trade Relations Between
Spinner and Grower" Hon. J. y.
Brown. Chadbourn, y. G.
Address - Organization" Waller
Clark. president Mississippi Division
Southern Cotton Association. Clarks-
dale. Miss.
Address-"VaIue Of the Southern
Cotton Association to the South"
Hon. II. NJ. Jacoway, Dardanelle Ark.
Adjournment.
Morning Session-Friday.
Address-"Object and Aims Of the
Southern Cotton Association" Hon. J.
McMartin. Port Gibson. Miss.
Address-"Farmer Banker and
Warehouseman." Mr.. W. G. 2. Hard
ing, president First National bank,
Birmingham, Ala.
Address-"Cotton: The Basis Of
Southern Prosperity, Hon. E. d. Smith,
president South Carolina Division
Southern Cotton Association, Column
bia, S. 9.
Report of Committees. Adjourn
ment.
Afternoon Session.
FINANCING the Southern
Cotton Association" Prof. J. H. Con
nell, Dallas, Texas.
Address Diversifcation and Or
ID