The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-03

Fair, or some olncE tluiS, "a -
believed that a larger attendance can
be secured while the low Fair rates
are on than any other time.
Since the above was written. the
Columbia State to hand with
the full proceedings of a State Con
vention held in that city TO discuss
the same question that faces the
North Carolina cotton farmers. The
convention in Columbia was attend
ed not only by farmers n merchants
but as we'll by many bankers, and all
spoke pledged themselves to give
every assistance in their power to
help the farmers in their fight to Sc
cure a fair price for their cotton.
Commissioner Watson announced that
he had just had a "long-distance mes
sage from President Barrett as to the
$4,000, 600 loa from the French
British syndicate for the purpose OF
aiding the holding movement. Mr..
Barrett said negotiations were still
under way but had not been conclud-
ed. President Barrett sent a message
to the convention to the effect that
there vas every indication of a re-
action in New York almost Immediate
ly in the price of cotton and he urged
the convention to do everything in
its power to hold every possible bale
of cotton off the market. One of the
No ~ L ~ xrh cnnEn CoiI hn 6iI mot
see any reason why the local banks
could not ecure the money TO enable
farmers to hold their cotton, indie
pendent Of any syndicate, and several
bankers that they We're
able to len the farmers in their
their cotton that they wished to store,
thus enabling the farmers to pay their
debts and hold their cotton. Many
resolutions were passed by the South
Carolina Convention, among them one
that the county unions Of the different
committee Of not less than three men
in each county to canvass the farm
ers and ascertain how many bales Of
cotton they will pledge themselves to
hOld for the minimum. price. A reso-
luton was passed urging farmers to
hold their cotton for fifteen cents
a pound. also to ask our representa-
tlVes in Congress to use every effort
TO regulate dealing In cotton by the
exchanges so that real cotton will be
the basis Of all contracts and actual
deliveries be had; also hat uniform
laws in the cotton-growing States pro-
viding for the gathering the accurate
statistics and facts and estimates from
time to time showing or tending to
show accurately the production of
cotton in the cotton-growing States.
One resolution was passed as fol-
lows:
I'VE. the farmers and commercial
interests Of South Carolina in con-
vention assembled, reply to the chal-
lenge Of %ten-cent cotton hurled at us
by British spinners and their Ameri-
can Tory allies, after THE example of
John Paul Jones': We have just be-
gun to fight"
In addition, strong resolutions were
passed urging the farmers that mas
much as the cotton crop is maturing
earlier than Usual all farmers are ad-
Vised to plant as largely as possible
wheat, oats and other grains, n that
attention is called to the fact tina t
finished quotations on train-load lots
Of timothy hay is $50 a ton with a
certain advance to $40 before the sea-
son is over and that the farmers
gather and care for ali hay possible,
even to the extent of keeping grass
off the smaller patche s that have here
tOfOre gone to waste The conven-
ton also put itself on record as say
ing that the value of cotton seed is
far above the present market price