The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-15
COTTON ASSOCIATION
ITS VALUE TO TBE PLANTERS OF
THE SOUTH,

THE SOUTH,
Two Crops OF 25 ,0O0,00O BALES Mar
keted ct An average Of Ten
and cne Falf Cents.
The value Of the Southern Gotten !
Association to the cotton planters Of /
the South Is apparent from the follow
ing statement:
In the two wears ending September
lst, 1876, two crops OF cotton, sggre-
eating practically 25.O00, 900 bales,
will have been marketed at an aver
age price to Southern producers OF
nearly 10 IL cents per pound.
In the two years ending September
1st, 1898. %, 100000 bales Of cotton
we're produced and marked at an aver
age price Of 1.s cents.
This Increase in price is an acgre..
gate Of about $3.50, 900. 900, and is very
largely the work OF the Southern Cot
ton Association. In comparison With
such an achievement the cost OF main,
taining its organization is but ird-
oitesmal, and it enters upon the com"
irg cotton season with TIE greatest
confidence in the ultimate realization
Of its purpose, namely: fair prices foz
the product Of Southern labor; the
avoidance ct over. production OF cot
son; and the protection Of the South
In its God.giVen privileges Of furnish"
ing the world with the cheapest CLOTH
ing ever known at prices which Will
repay the Southern farmers for their
srducns toll and the trained intelh.
gense employed In producing 1t.
Tie Southern Cotton Association!
has made its mistakes and has had it's
enemies to fight. The mistakes have
not, however, been Important. as
shown by the result, ard its enemies
have fer the most part admitted its
power and have been forced ultimate
Iy to align themselves with its pur-
poses.
The 1st OF September, 1906, will
find the world absolutely bare Of cot
ton. The visible supply will be the
smallest on record. The q, 003, 600
bales # cotton with which the South
has supplied civilization during the
past two years are all consumed. The
United States Department Ct Agri-
culture estimates that it will require
AZ, 900, 600 bales Of cotton to adeo aate.
ly closhe the worlds population, and
Toe progress Of civilizat ation Is rapidly
Advancing the worlds population to q
point at which 1t will REQUIRE to be
adeq quately clothed.
Whatever the sizs OF the coming
cotton crop, there is 40 reason why it
should be sold at anything else than
the average price obtained fo1 the las.
crop, through the Efforts Of the South
cru Cotton Association. namely: II
"a cents and IL cants & pound. In
;sres.ed and self constituted au5hoz-
ties have Of late been endeavo.ing tc
stampede Southern holders and pro.
ducers Of cotton into the belief that
tn, coming crop vas likely to be az
aonormally large one, produced from
an acreage very much in excess OF any
previously planted. This disposition
seems to have penetrated even intt
the CrJp Estimating Board Of the
United States Government, vino ap
parently have not as yet fully eman
c!pated themselves from the mala
3roit influence which resulted In th'
scandal which the IF jrts Of th'
Southern Cotton Association Last yea
disclosed.
} That the cotton crop for the sessol
i iot1906 is likely to be superabundant
OF even a large one, the Southern Cot
ton Association does not believe. It
reports from Its thousands Of member
! and correspondents throughout tn
entire coaton bait indicate that til
increase in aversgs over last yesr
oply 2.52 per cecU., and the scarcit
OF lasor; the lateness Of developne ect
! the excessive rains in many section
and drought In the region west Of tn
Mississippi Valley foreshadow any
5hi2R but fuu yield for the seaso
! con- nercing September 1st next.
The published opinion CT $50 mem
5ers ct the New York, Liverpool AM
5Southern Cotton Exchanges is tina
| a crop OF about IL 900. 600 bales vii
be worth during the coming season
1887 cents par pound, and those pro
duc5rs vino part with their produce
tor less than this figure are needlessl,
curtailing the hard.earned profits o
their toll and deprecisting the Valu'
ct their fsllow-producers' crop.
| Il IS not the purpose Of the South
srn Cotton Association to ad7aDc
cotton to aa sxorbitant price, nor on'
I not justified by conditions. 1t is IT.
purpose to keep its constituency II
sthe South fully informed IS to tn
opsiook and crop prospects, and tt
| the end that it may have the best
ipossible information upon this subject
Eior the purpose of more intelngsn5l!
| reaching z. correct conclusion and tt
oe accurately informed as to condi
tions at the Association meeting to b.
held at Hot Spring, Ark, Sept. 5 ii
f1906, 1t requests every Southern cot
tor plznsar to whose eye this ma.
come to fill out at once, detach tn
accompanying blank and enclose it il
an enEelep and mail to The Southern
Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga.
G.. G, Moore, President North Caro-
Inns Division Southern Cotton AsSo
citation.
| e. D. Smith. President South Care
{ lima Division.
I II. L johnson, President Georgia
Division.
W. b Seymour, President Alabama
Division
Walter Clarke, President Mississipp
Division.
T, O. Long, President Tennessee