Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-02
HARV|E JORDAN
 IN THE CITY President of Southern Cot ton Association Pays This City a Visit.
IS HERE ON BUSINESS
Talks Interestingly of Cotton and it's Production and Urges Gin Compression.

Harvie Jordan, of Atlanta, Ga, president of the Southern Cotton As sociation, arrived in Pine Bluff last night and will spend today here on business. He will be a guest of F. H. Walker, local president of the Far mers Gin Compress and Cotton Com pany, which is interested in the plant in the Eastern part of the city. Mr. Jordan is stopping at the Hotel Jefferson. He is accompanied by E. J. Hahn, who is interested in the local plant
 Mir. Jordan will return to Mem- phis possibly tonight, after a tour of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, mainly to look into the conditions and study the outlook for the com ing season.
 He talked Interestingly of cotton and it's proper production last night in the lobby of the Jefferson. He declared that as far as the cotton question is concerned the only saliva tion for the south is to increase the number Of cotton warehouses and the compression of cotton at the gins. He said that while progress was be- tion, other states were way ahead of her. In Georgia, he said, a farmer can secure money at any bank after taking his cotton to a warehouse and get from 80 to S5 per cent of it's total valuation in negotiating the ware house receipt. On the other hand it is necessary to take cotton to the compress before he is able to obtain money for same.
 "This is the wrong idea, MT. Jor- dan declared. ''The need at the pres ent time is for the gin compress, so that the cotton shall not have to be handled more than once between the time it leaves the farmer until it is ready for delivery to the spindles Adequate warehousing is another ne CCoo1Iy. SOICOA III lIo lo" otoIC should be taken care of and delivered to the spindles spick and span, the same way the finished product is de- livered to the cloth mills. Our cot ton is tie laughing stock of Europe, at the present time. The cotton rais ed Egypt and South America arrives in Liverpool in spick and span con- dition, while that from America, looks as if it had been dragged through the mud"
 Decrease in Production Alarming.
 MT. Jordan gave interesting figures regarding the production of cotton in the south, and what he termed the alarming decrease in acreage. He said that while the future of cotton is good, so far as the values are con- cerned, there is cause for alarm in the fact that while the worlds spind- | les have increased B per cent and the cotton acreage nas increased B percent in the past ten years, the , actual production mas been on the decline. According to MT. Jordan's figures, the crop last year was l. 25OOO0 bales less than that produced in 1898, notwithstanding the increas- ed acreage In 1898 the production
 was 240 pounds to the acre, while in 1909 it was but 165 pounds, nearly
 100 pounds less per acre, he declar- ed
 "I attribute this decline to the same causes that have cut down the yield of wheat in the past 20 years the planting of one crop, year after year. The only solution of the prob
 lem is diversificat on and the rota-
 tion of crops and more scientific