The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-28
APPEAL TO
 LEGISLATURE Cotton Seed !Crushers
 Meet TO PROTECT ALABAMIANS Members to Demonstrate Sincerity
 to Lawmakers. Meeting Was Held in Hall of Knights of Pythias and Was Largely Attended by the Manu-
 lecturers.

That the Alabama Legislature should render such enactments as will fully protect the buyers of cotton seed prod ucts, and that legislation should also CTS to sell under proper regulations any quality of meal made by the ordi nary method of manufacture from such grades of cotton seed as they may buy was the sense of the members of the Alabama Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso- ciation. which met in this city yester- day In regular annual session.
 It was also the sense of the members that the association should endeavor to demonstrate to the Legislature tEe sincerity since it Of % the oil mill men in dealing ial and with the public in general in the sale of their product.
 The meeting of the association was in the Knights of Pythias Hall on Court Square. and was largely and en- thusiastlcally attended. The session ciation's president, Ernest Lamar. os | Selma, with J: M. Kyser acting as sec retary in the absence of J. W. Black. President Lamar, In 8 few prelini. nary remarks. recited the many good | things that have been accomplished by the oil mill industry, laying particular the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association, and urged a more careful | attention to the essentials of the trade | than have ever before been given. It was shown that the State organization | at that time in session had achieved | good results since It's birth and that 1t | was on an era of better prosperity than ever before. and for this reason it was 1 urged that the Legislature of the State should take a hand in the perfection of the results that the people of the
 The keynote of the meeting was struck when a resolution similar to l the resolution recently introduced by Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso- | citation in Jamestown, invoking the | aid of the Legislature of Alabama in was Introduced and unanimously passed l by the members in session: The reso- | lution which is self explanatory. in
 aBe it resolved by the Alabama Cot | ton Seed Crushers' Associations: | That the growth of the industry represented by this association is or | such magnitude as to require just and equitable legislation.
 "It is therefore incumbent upon this body to assume the responsibility of | such recommendations as may lead to a full understanding of the subject and lay the foundation for just and reason 1 able Legislation.
 "The quality of cotton seed is the foundation of the quality of all pro ducts made tnerefrom, and we recom- mend to the producers the most careful | attention to the preservation of their cotton seed which article is becoming more and more valuable. and we recom- mend such legislation as will make it. impossible to deliver damaged cot ton seed on contract for good seed. and particularly legislation to prevent the | admixture of trash and dirt. which leads to the apparent difference in value oe cotton seed in various parts of the country.
 we recommend that the cotton seed | trade be given the benefit of regula- tiou and inspection such as now gov erns the trade in wheat. corn. and lin- | seed
 Cotton seed oil This product is l most valuable of the products made from cotton seed and is now sold un- der well defined rules and regula- tions satisfactory to the buyer and seller. and no special legislation seems | to be necessary.
 Cotton seed meal This article is traded in largely by manufacturers | and consumers directly and through the medium of brokers and dealers It this trade shall be regulated by legis- | lation that is broad enough to cover Interstate as well Intra-State tran sections. and to give the manufactur- of the best manufacturing talent, | and at the same time, pro- l tect the buyer against fraud eithsr on the part of the manufacturer or deal
 The quality of cotton seed meal is governed by the quality and character of the cotton seed from which it is made. and the method of manufacture adopted in various parts of the eoun- try, each section having adopted such l process as proved necessity in order | to obtain the greatest value for pro- ducts per ton of cotton seed, by which method only the greatest value for raw material can be paid to the pro- ducer
 These conditions vary within the border of each State as well as in the fnC ts fv,n possible to restrict by legislative en- actment the quality of meal to be made unless legislation also undertakes to classify the quality of seed offered for sale.
 We therefore after full and carefu l investigation of the subject recommend that the Alabama Cotton Seed Crush CTS Association urge upon the Alabama Legislature such an enactment as will fully protect the buyers of this valu. able product by requiring sellers to deliver such goods as they guarantee | - l