Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-25
Southern Association to Meet
There in 1911-0ffiCerS
Elected for Year

] i've Farmer, Starkvile, Miss, is the new
president of the Association of Southern
Agricultural Workers, which is the new
name for the Southern States Associa-
ton of Commissioners of Agriculture that
met in Atlanta Monday noon and au-
d, iourned Tuesday evening at o'clock, TO
meet next year in Nashville, Tenn Inc
members of tho association are meeting
with the boil weevil congress in Atlanta
Wednesday.
The closing program of the 18th annual
convention of the commissioner assocld-
ton, Tuesday afternoon, was an interest,"
I ing one, crowded with instructive matter.
Eminent authorities were heard 1rohi' OH
various subjects. Four Important resi-
buttons were adopted. by one or whlch
Submitted by DR.. Butler as chairman OF
the committee on constitution) the name
of the association was changed, So that
it's membership will hereafter include not
only agricultural officers but also all VINO
are interested in agriculture. AnotheT'
submitted by Assistant Commissioner r.
F. Wright, of Georgia, through the reso
buttons committee, commended the soou
roads movement now agitating the south
and urged the recognition of It's lmpor-
lance by the national government.
COTTON TARE CONDEMNED.
| The most important of these resolutions
was one drawn up by the committee on
resolutions, condemning the per cent
tare on cotton bales, deducted IN the
markets of England; and, recommending
its removal. This resolution was onered
nv Mai w. A. Graham, of North Caro-
lima and was adopted without discussion.
| The fourth resolution gave emphatic
| Endorsement to the fight now being made
! on the cattle tick, and urged the hearty
cooperation of all persons interested In
agriculture in the national and state gov
ernments' campaign to eliminate the pest
A full list of new officers was eiecteu'
! some of them succeeding themselves. DR..
Butler succeeded DR.. r. e. Rose, of Flor
! ida in the presidency. Maj. w. A. era
ham. state commissioner of North Caro-
! lima, was elected first vice president; w.
4 r. Dodson of the Louisiana Experiment
station. second vice president; B. w. Kill,
gore. of Raleigh, state chemist of North
| Carolina, secretary and treasurer; and
! DR.. r. E. Stallings, state chemist OF
Georgia, assistant secretary.
An active campaign for the enlargement
of the association was launched immedi-
ateIy at adjournment Tuesday. This
campaign will be pushed during the year,
i and every effort will be made to realize
the aspiration for an attendance of fully
800 members at the Nashville meeting
next year.
| DR.. Cooper Curtice, of the bureau Of
animal industry at Washington, was tine
last speaker on the morning program,
following Professor Hite. of the State
Horticultural college at Athens. DIR. Cur
tice told graphically of the progress OF
tick eradication in the southern states.
INTERESTING FINAL SESSION.
Many topics of interest to members of
the association were discussed during the
afternoon session. Among the speakers
were John N Scott, of the Florida Exper-
4 iment station, Carbohydrates in Their
Relation to Feed CONTROL" p. H. Rolls,
director of the Florida Experiment sta
ton, Valuation of Carbohydrates and
| Protein in Feed CONTROL j. NJ. McCand-
I less, of Atlanta, Uniform Rules and
Regulations for the Admission OF Am
moniates Throughout the Southern
States" ". r. Perpins, of the Agricultur-
al and Mechanical college at Clemson col
lege, South Carolina, Boys Corn Clubs
and Cooperative Demonstration Work."
E. H. Sellards, state geologist of Florida,
! American Phosphate Deposits and Their
Relation to Natural Agricultural fDevel-
opment;" NJ. L. Ollen, of Atlanta, on the
/ development of the telephone and the part
it is playing in opening up the rural dis
tricts: and w. r. Dodson, of the Louis
lana Experiment station, with stereopti-
con views of demonstrations recently con-
/ Quoted by his department in that state.
An impassioned assault upon the cot
ton buyers for prescribing how cotton
| shall be baled, and plea for co-ordinat-
ed resistance of their alleged regulations,
were together the sensation of Tuesday
mornings session of the southern states
agricultural commissioners at the capitol,
in the speech of T. w. Kimbrough. repre-
sentative-elect to the Georgia legislature
from Harris county.
Mr. Kimbrough's name was not on the
program. He was introduced during an
interim by Thomas G. Hudson, Georgia's
commissioner of agriculture. But he had
only to announce his extemporaneous SUBJ
ject and gain the close attention of his
/ entire audience.
Mr.. Kimbrough disdained the mincing
| of words or phrases. He called no names,
but he said the cotton crop of the whole
south is under the control of some 200 or
| 300 men.
1.-THE farmers of Georgia are being con-
( trolled and robbed" said he, "of their
1 just rewards on the cotton crop, by men
who do not touch the soil In making it,"
He charged that the robbery he alleged
| is being committed under cover of the 6
per cent tare allowance that foreign mar
kets make on American bales. The tare
is estimated in the price the farmer gets,
"and yet the shippers say If you put on
! the per cent tare we will dock your
| bale of cotton 81 They say you must
not put on but six yards of bagging and
six ties. But before the same bale leaves
/ their hands they have added more bag
gfng and increased it's weight by from
FIVE to eight pounds. They get the benefit
Of the increased weight on their bills of
lading, and the value of 1t Is deducted
from the value of your cotton"
LOSS OF $25, 100000?
| Twenty-Five million dollars a year are
lost to the cotton farmers by this prac-
tice, said Mr. Kimbrough. He said that
several years ago "the jute bagging COM
| bine demanded that we farmers put on
extra bagging, because then cotton was
low and bagging was high. 1 say 1t
is nothing but a system of robbery Their
demands will get more excessive If we
allow them to go on. The rate of in
surance will go up pretty soon. p, I
/ fought them last year on this and they
1 threatened to dock my cotton 80 cents
a bale. defied them to do it. and they
didn't But this year they've got me-
|. The question is whether we shall
control the product of our own labor, or
! leave il to the control of a few men who
do not touch the soil in the making of it,"
Mr.. Kimbrought pleaded for concerted
action. At the conclusion Of his speech.
Acting Chairman H. f. Blakeslee OF
/ Mississippi, recalled that the same uues-
{ t1On had haen he