Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-09-27
WILL DC Gu0n IN THE END.
Commissions Watson Gains Much
Informal ,on on Western Trim.

InfolTat,"n on Western Trip.
Columbia, sept After an alb
sence from TIE cjJy 0t exactly week,
COMMISSIONS watson. Of the DEPART
ment of agriculture, was back at his
desk to-day. During the week he
visited Nashville, st. Louis, Kansas
City and ST. Joseph, Mo-; Lincoln
and Omaha, Neb.; Des Moines, Chi
cago. Hopkinsville, KY, and Atlanta.
At Lincoln, Mr.. Watson attended
the annual conventions Of the Inter-
national Association of Labor Com
m1ssloners and the International AS
sociation of Factory Inspectors.
There two addresses, dealing with
advances In the matter Of labor leg
lslatlon and with the conservation Cf
the human resources OF the South,
through the protective feed and food
laws, were delivered by Mr.. Watson.
Cotton Conferences.
1T had been the commissioners in
tention to attend the National Con-
servation Congress at Kansas City,
put the cotton situation at home had
assumed such condition that he
abandoned that purpose and returned
directly to Atlanta, for conference
with President Barrett, Of the Ma
tional Farmers Union, who, with Mr..
Watson and Congressman Heflin. of
Alabama, compose the national com
mittee provided by the Southern Cot
ton Congress. This committee will
shortly make several announcements
or greatest interest to the cotton
growers Of the South.
One Of the chief objects of Mr.
Watson's trip to the West was to OBJ
tain first hand information as to the
methods employed in the various feed
and food houses and as to the meth
DDS employed by the shippers of
grain into this territory. Mr.. Watson
states that he secured data of an in
valuable nature at every point vis-
tied.
Mr.. Watson came in contact with
leading officials Of many Canadian
Provinces the very day of the cleo
ton on reciprocity and heard various
and diverse views on this subject,
Good Thing for South.
There is one thing about this
reciprocity business, though" said
Mr.. watson, that is very clear, and
that is 1t is going to be good thing
FOR the South that it failed, for the
reason that it is going to mean higher
prices for something to eat, the class
of stuff that we have to buy. aud
that is going to give great impetus
to the movement toward getting our
people to raise their corn and grain
supplies at home
Another principal object OF the
visit to the West was to get first hand
data on the beef packing business
and to investigate marketing meth
ods. Mr.. Watson expressed his opin-
ION that, by the utilization of cotton
Snn6 ,I
or feeding, the Southerners can turn
out equally as good a quality of ma
terial and a better average weight
than the man in the West. He be-
lieves that conditions this year are
such that the fattening OF feeders
VIII prove profitable to Southern
men, and the same is true OF hogs.
Montgomery Meeting.
In regard to the Montgomery con-
vention Of the Southern Cotton Con-
gress. of which he is president, Mr..
Watson had little to say, but he did
say that the abnormal season was
causing cotton to open all at once all
over the cotton belt far in advance
OF the usual time, resulting in appar-
emily larger receipts at interior mar
kets and ports, and that New York
bears were using these facts in every
coHcelFaDle FORM TO try to hammer
down the price.
Some Of the so-callcd cotton let
ters sent out from New York in the
past few days ought to make their
writer's blush,' said Mr.. Watson.
"and, no doubt, would, had not the
class writing them, perhaps, lost the
power to do so. TN the past few
days, however, little Of the truth
is Beginning to pcrmcatc into the
higher quarters in New York, and if
our farmers will simply hold back
for short time such cotton as they
can afford to hold, we are likely to
see very desirable change. II our
people are fools enough, however, to
go ahead and rush every bale OF cot
ton they get ginncd right on to the
market, then they have only them
selves to blame"