The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-12
PLANTERS AND BUSINESS
 MEN MEET IN NEW ORLEANS

or a net difference at the present ne of 5 1-4 cents pound. or s26.e5 a~aio,
 Million Bales a Month.
 "The consumption of American cot ton is enormous and will continue un- abated for many months to come. There are 5.000,00 more spindles in ac- tive operation now than was the case one year ago. The entire spinning H- dustry of the world is enjoying an eta of unprecedented prosperity, with the entire output of their mills sold many months ahead. The present crop will not exceed 1o.o00.000 commercial bales. The crop has been practically all otck- ed and ginned. Tho greater portion of the stocks of American cotton, 1,609.00o bales. carried over September 1, 1905, already has been consumed. Consump- tion is going on at the rate of 100000 bales a month. The whole civilized world is listening day and night to the hum of busy spindles. There cannot and will not be surplus from the pres- ent short crop.
 'The policy of the planters during the next three months will largely de- termine their ability to maintain fair and profitable prices for the crop to bs produced in 1906. Diversification must ever be the watchword and pro- tective policy of the Southern cotton producer. Every cotton farm in the GQuNn must 90 tuhdC SCfA ANSaosdstAtAe, through raising each year an abundant food supply. The area planted in cot ton each year must be confined within such bounds as will bring production of the staple within the limits of le- gitimate consumption. The cotton area for 1906 must not be increased beyond that of 1905. The sensible thing will be to plan fewer acres, cultivate bet ter and increase the yield and profit per acre.
 Moving Crops slowly.
 'The proper solution of marketing our cotton crop lies in moving the crop slowly so as to regulate demands of the spinners. To do this, adequate storage facilities must be provided. With standard built warehouses, reducing the cost of storage and insurance to the minimum. and the issuance of receipts guaranteeing grades and weights, and underwritten so as to make such re- ceipts absolutely safe collateral, cheap money can be secured at any financial center whenever needed. These re- ceipts can be sold direct to the buyers or spinners and the present primitive and costly system to the growers en- tireIy obviated. The spinners want sound, dry cotton of uniform grade in each bale. They will pay half a cent q pound more for cotton properly cared for and delivered to them in good con- dition. Let us provide better methods of baling, storage and delivery to the consumers of our great staple crop.
 "A conference already has been ar- ranged between representatives of the various spinners' associations and rep- resentatives of the Southern Cotton As' soeiation in New York. January 24, at which a full and free discussion for xAt a1.a IfndNFEfandfnR between spinners and producers will be had. Spinners are as anxious for Q stable price for cotton, unhampered by the wide and disastrous influences of fiuctuating speculative markets as are the producers"
 Concluding his address. President Jor- dan urged the wisdom and necessity for compact organization among the grow CTS in every cotton producing county in the South.
 Committees Named. 2 Az the opening of the afternoon ses- sion of the Southern Cotton Convention announcements were made of members from the various States to serve on the committees which will do the actual work of the convention. The commit tees provided for are on acreage and di- .ye-sifcation, pushing the work of or ganizaticn and financing the associa- ticn, warehousing, holding balance of unsoId crop, trade relations ard statis- tics.
 An address by Charles Scott. of Rose dale. Mississippi. on foreign labor in Southern cotton fields provoked con- siderable discussion. Mir. Scott said that the negro labor in the South had finally become a general and woefui failure. The charge was gradual at first, but within the past two years the fall of the negro in usefulness had be- come almost perpendicular. It would not be many years. he thought. when the negro in the South would become a thing of the past.
 Mir. Scott gave the results of three months study in Europe last year in an effort to find solution for the labor situation in his own State. He wis. ited England. France, Germany. Hol- land and Italy, and gave reasons for believing that only to Italy could the South look for an avenue of escape from it's difficulties. He praised the frugal ity. industry and peaceable disposition when we'll treated, of the natives of Southern and Central Italy and urged a movement to increase the means of Ocean transportation so that Italian immigrants might be brought to South ern ports and distributed in the cotton fields to meet the labor famine MT Scott described successful experimental tion with them alreedy made In his own State.
 Development of South.
 Mir. Garrison. of Tennessee, gave development of the South since tho war. He said 1t had been made with negro labor. MT. Clarkson did not think that the South had done its full duty to the negro laborer. It had not treated him as 1t was proposed to treat AL. tations of Italians would prove a source of great danger to the south. and believed the opportunity still ex- isted to make the negro the bast la borer on the face of the globe.
 Mir. Irvine, of Georgia, said exten- sive Italian Immigration would uiti- mately result In Italian possession of Southern lands. He thought the ener- gies of the south ought to be directed to the education of it's youth in the ad- Vantagcs of farming, and to the send ing of city boys to the fields.
 MT. Smith. of South Carolina. said that the South, during the past year, had made all the cotton needed win out dinicnlty. and with rsgro labor. and there was no occasion for discussing the qGestion of securing additional labor until the Southern farmers were assur- ed an eprichirg return or the cotton they were able to raise.
 - H' tn' Scnciusion or lbC diScussion. Honorable Y. X. TCmpkins. Of Char lotte. N. C.. was introduced
 Mir Tompkins spoke on Cotton val- ues in textile fabrics" He advocated the sale of cotton goods to China in stead of the raw cotton to England and especially emphasized the need of development of knowledge and n skill in manufacture that would lead tn the production of better goods than osnaEurg and standard sheetiDvs so that in time cotton would become In :. hnncrcn n hnsIs for thn nn1a .c