The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-11-20

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conference was by Judge Eugene
Williams ON Better Baling and
Hauling of the Cotton Crop
J The general committee on reso'
lutions composed of Messrs. r
M. Potts. +. l.. Maxwell, A. r.
Joiner and p. +. Mackey present
ed their resolutions. which were
unanimously adopted.
The cotton growers are urged
to apply to the local banks for
loans secured by warehouse re
ceipts representing cotton to be
held for the purpose of being
marketed only when demanded
for actual consumption. The
suggestions Offerei - the conven-
ton for the organization OF a
holding corporation are referred
t, the permanent committee con-
sisting of Chairman Jordan. Chas.
Gray and ID X. Pierson and the
Immediate attention of Southern
bankers and financiers is referred
to the inauguration OF great
cotton bank at some leading CEN
ter for the purpose of establishing
a clearing house to aid in financing
and marketing the cotton crop
each season.
A continuation of the agitation
for section factories in the South.
enough to manufacture our cot
ton" is urged aud efforts by the
States of Georgia, Texas and
Mississippi to establish textile in
dustries in their agricultural col
leges is commended.
The repor; recommends diver
sification of crops, claiming that
this can only be brought about by
scientific study of the soil and
practical rotation of crops; the
extension of warehouse facilities
at local market points and large
interior cotton markets and ports,
especially commenting and en-
dorsing the building of the pro
posed warehouse at the port of
New Orleans; that gin compress
ing and marketing a far as pos
sibIe from grower to spinner; that
duplicate samples, etc., be taken
by the ginners and that these
be numbered and mark
ed, the same as bales of cotton;
that the congress of the United
States and various State leg,sIa-
lures enact laws requiring that
the cotton exchanges revise their
making contracts fair
and just, and that the cotton de-
livered on the same be restricted
To more than five grades and that
none below low midollng be
Continuing. the report con-
dennis speculation and gambling
ln futures AS encouraged and
practiced through exchanges; ap-
proves of the Uaitrd Staie- statis-
tIcal reports when based On facts,
but disapproves III, tepurts based
on calculation aud guess work. |
I'VE urge that the department of
agriculture use every prccaution
To make their reports n accurate
rs possible"
1t urges the independence of |
The local corporation of cotton
growers in matters of common
interest in the cotton industry.
On the boil weevil the farmers
10 States now threatened with boil
veevil are urged to prepare them
selves in advance to meet the
veeyil by adapting themselves AS
recommended by the United
states department of agriculture
~ approaching conditions anil
we ask for continuation of
aud state aid In CON-
batting the weevii."
On night riding the resolutions
NY: THE meeti0g condemns in
terms the recent law
essness throughout few of our
southern States of the might
'Itlers' and we urge that the gov
'rnment of the various states in
which the evil is threatened to
AXE immediate and decisive action
or effectively suppressing It,"
The report concludes by re-
Iuesting the press of the South to
Issist ia bringing about the results
hat are hoped from this report
lot merely in dissemination of