The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
ENTERTAIN FARMERS
ATLANTA ID MAKING ELABORATE
 PREPARATIONS.
Intefnatleaal Cetten Conference .Will
 De Held h Georgia City During Fall and Many FeFelgneFs Are BxDeeted.

Atlanta, Ga. July 13.--PreparatioAs have been made by the city and the State of Georgia for the entertainment next fall of perhaps the largest gath ering of cotton growerG spinners and men interested directly or indirectly in cotton the world has ever seen. The delegates who will be present at the International Cotton convention will be royalty entertained by the city and state officials.
 There will be from 50 to 100 for eign spinners at the convention. These spinners will represent the cotton mill interests of Great Britain and the con tinent, and the domestic spinners of New England and the South will also attend Thers will be besides repre- ssntatives of all the cotton exchanges, American and foreign. delegates from the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union. as well as from the marine insurance companies. =.
 A special train of the Southern Rail- way will bring the delegates from New York to the South. The convention will be held here October 2. 8 and g. After the convention is concluded the dele- gates will be taken through the cotton belt on . special train and they will be shown cotton in every stage; from the field and gin to the mills
 The convention Is part of a general tendency to bring all cotton interests together for mutual understanding. At the Vienna conference. the foreign spinners were invited to come to At- lsnta. The Atlanta gathering will be greater and more varied in the inter- ests 1t represents even than the Euro pean conference.
 Problems of balinE. transportation and marketing of cotton will be dis
 A A >aux viewpoint. The visit to the South will he . revelation to the European spin ners. many of whom have never seen the South. the production of its great staple, and the operation of its cotton mills.
 Apropos of cotton production. Pres ident Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association. announced today that on his tour of the cotton belt, which will begin next week. he will urge reforms in the methods of baling, handling and marketing cotton. so as to place 1t on . parity with foreign cotton.
 He has photographs showing the im- maculate condition in which Egyptian and other foreign cotton reaches the spinner. The foreign growers use can vas instead of jute bagginE.
 T favor the use of cotton bagginE on the part or SOutne4n IdrmerS, bddu Mr. Jordan. discussing this phase of cotton. Cotton bagging not only holds, the marks better. being more closely woven than the jute, but 1t opens . new demand for cotton" Nr. Jordan says that he expects that cotton next fall will bring the highest price i twenty years. and he will urge the farmers in his speeches to keep to as slow a movement of the crop as pos sible to maintain good prices. He will also comment on what he saw in Flu rope, where he not only attended the spinners' conference at Vienna, but al. so visited the large r1ill cenrers. Mr. Jordan will open his campaign in North and South Carolina. On July 1o he will speak at Garner. N. C.. and al Raleigh on July 20. He will speak also | at Union, s. C., on Ju'J 29. at Spartan | burg on July 30 and at Gaffney on July | 31.
 Leaving those states. President Jor- dan will address meetings in two of the largest concentrating points in Texas Then he will go to Arkapsas. thence to Louisianan. then to Mississippi and Alabama and will finish his tour in Georgia in the latter part of August | President Jordan said that he expec- ted good crowds at the meetings. Hs
 will be accompanied by General Orgs.
 nixer E. D. Smith. of South Carolina i and he has the cooperation of the