The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-14
SYSTEM
 FOR COTTON BALES Walter Clark Is In Favor of
 Gin Compress WILL HELP THE FARMERS Association Has Been Formed To Pro- mote Use of Gin Congresses In
 Louisiana and Mississippi.
 Make Better Bale.
WILL HELP THE FARMERS

Jackson, Miss, August 13-(Special)- J. Hon. Walter Clark, president of the Cot ton association, has been spending a day or two in the city to attend the meeting of the State Ginners' association
 MT. Clark admits that the Cotton asso- ciation is not doing very much active work these days, preferring to remain in the shade and see what is going to turn up. It may be that during the fall and winter an effort will be made to get the association forces together once more and get down to work along old lines, but that remains to be seen.
 President Clark thinks the gin compress has come to stay, and that the farmers of the south have the cotton situation well in hand if they will see to the making of a perfect package, one that will land in Liverpool In presentabe shape so as to attract the eye of the buyers He has contended for years that the south paid too little attention to the appearance of it's cotton bales, and since his tour of Flu rope and visit to all the big cotton centers two years ago, where he saw spinners turn up their noses at American cotton
 
 that there is a great deal in the clothes our cotton may wear when it goes to Eu- rope and is placed in competition with cotton from Egypt, India and other lands. MT. Clark has an idea that the gin com press will grow in favor just so soon as the state has demonstrated on its convict farms that the two gin congresses re- gently put in there are successes. The ginners of the state will await the ex- periments the convict farms are making, and if successful will invest for the next season.
 The Gunners Compress association was organized here today with S. E. Dudley of Hermanville, president; F. L. Stack house of Crystal Springs, vice president; R. w. Kilingsworth of Lorman, secre- tary-treasurer.
 Only very few men were present, for the simple reason that there are but six or seven gin congresses in the state. though several are now being installed, or are contracted for, and will be in opera ton this winter.
 Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton association, and who is also interested in the manufacture of gin congresses at Memphis, was present and addressed the meeting along lines sought to be im- pressed on the ginners of the state-that is, that the gin compress Is the coming way, and that those who get in on the first round will be the winners.
 Resolutions indorsing the gin compress in the very strongest language were adopt ed urging the use of the gin compress everywhere and declaring those now in operation have given the greatest satis- faction to the patrons of the gin as well as the buyers of the souths great staple.
 The fee to join the association was fixed at $25, and a number of owners of gin congresses from Mississippi and Louisiana went in as charter members.
 The executive committee of the Farm CTS union continues to meet at Repre- sentative hall with doors guarded, and there has been as little leaking from the sessions as was ever known from any gathering of this nature.
 Fortunately, perhaps, for the secrets of the meeting, there only three mem- hers of the executive committee in att tendance, and these are three who know how to keep their mouths closed as tight as a turtle.