The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-03
'CUTOUT Gambler
AN AND MIDDLE / / | {: MAN.
These Among the Ends Sought
by the International Cotton
u Conference.
CROP REPORTS DENOUNCED
Those Of the Government De-
g5 {. IL A ia Com,
CROP REPORTS DENOUNCED
Those Of the Government De-
risivcly Spoken Of As "a Com
plicated System of Guessing
(By Associated Press.0

3 Il
WASHINGTON, y. c.. May 2-After
de,,o,incing the government crop reports,
and moro particularly the reports of the
Department OF Agriculture. and passing
resolution advocating that the statis-
tical cotton year should run from August
LIST to August 1st instead Of from Sep
TENDER list to September list, the Inter-
/, national Cotton Conference adjourned to-
day to rcassemblc next year, should 1t
q he deemed advisable by the various or
y ganzation to do 80. It was found that
f the delegates were not clothed with suf-
I ticient authority to effect Il permanent
4 organizatio ton.
Differ AS to Reports.
When the subject Of governmental crop
reports came up, President iMacColl spoke
in commentator of Census Bureau work,
q bIt felt that some radical changes In the
{. methods Of the Agricultural Department
s should be made. President Hnrvie Jor-
dan, of the Southern Cotton Association,
nlso commended some OF the features OF
n the government reports, but numerous
Il iother&d delegates strongly condemned them
a .. "a. Tompkins, of North Carolina, char \
actcrized them as "a complicated system
5iof guessing" while another Southern
y grower uenOuIlCeu Iilcii os % 'SltE"'>>ii'' =
T. football"
Various remedies were suggested but
4 no two delegates seemed to agree on
y satisfactory plan. The whole subject was
4 laid on the table.
j.i{ President AlncColl expressed the hope
III that henceforward there will be q closer
III bond Of union between the North and the
South and between America and Europe
in all that pertains to cotton growing
and manufacturing
Marketing the Product.
Another topic of discussion was the
/ marketing of the product, which en-
broced the questions Of warehousing,
stability Of price and relations between
d growers and manufacturers. a. d. Cal
aS win president of the Farmers Education
e al and Co operative Union, declared that
n 1t had long been the dream of the cotton
grower to abolish all intermediate agents
q who levy toll unnecessarily on the pro
n duct on its Journey from the field to the
~ factory. The grower, he said Is the con
Ne sistent foe of all forms and methods or
81 cotton gambling. The fluctuations of the
It'll market, he contended. are quite as dis
3turbing and Improbable to the grower
NJ as to the spinner. lie voiced what he
III said was the unanimous opinion OF the
Il Southern growers to Join IN any move
XII uent which promises to eliminate the
\ =. ,,,l,,er from the cotton market. to re-
duce the marketing expenses, to expedite
tho delivery Of cotton to the spinner ana
"a ~ give reasonable stability to the market
5,gnr;ce. He declared that the South was SO
Z completely able to supply the world Win
a& cotton that with Il proper UNDERSTANDINGS
y With the manufacturers there wouid DC
sH no necessity for conducting experiments
e.f,n 4 rr,ca and elsewhere. Direct rclatlolS
Y. hat ween the growers and manufacturers
4 was strongly urged.
q president NlacColl oec!ared that the
prosperity of the grower was q mater
vi ~ interest to the manufacturer VINO
4 would like to be able to eliminate the
{55 sncculative element. He inquired, now
ever. If the plan Of constructing ware
H houses and giving contracts would 40
ANYTHING toward elimnats.s speculation
Ind also If, after storing the cotton IN
M the warehouses. the produce for any
Il reason went up. would the gro---'s De
willing to deliver it at the regular price
83 they had fixed.
several growers insisted that they
would live up to their contracts, ana
Mr. MacColl said he had no doubt Of
Y q hut wanted to know what had been
done after the contracts expired. He
thought, though, that as in all prohl-
bility the period ofLthe contracts would
be about a year. it would be sufficient
Z to Kill speculation in the meantime
A Plan Proposed.
In the discussion which followed. the
p proposition was laid down by the spin
& ners and manufacturers that II the
H farmers and business interests of the
q South will build warehouses, store cot
II ton, finance it and put the product IN
q charge Of expert cotton men to handle
3 1t and practically be the medium OF
buying and selling between tho manu-
facturer and producer, they will do bus
Il mess on that basis.
Mr.. Jordan called upon his associates
ITO get at the proposition on business
basis. He said they had now squarely
Y before them the attitude of the spin
4 1ners and manufacturers and he advised
the growers to go ahead and build ware
h houses, store their cotton and get rid
OF the cotton damage, and then to finance