Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-05
COTTON seed CRUSHERS
CLOSE With ELECTIONS
Macon Man Chairman Of Ex-
GCutiVG Board

Atlantic Beach, Fla, June 4.-B. L
Bond, president, Atlanta; P D. McCar-
ley, vice president, Atlanta; A A.
Frierson, secretary and treasurer, At
lanta, were yesterday elected for the
ensuing year by the Cotton Seed
Crushers' association of Georgia, as the
closing business of the annual con-
vention.
R. S. Patillo, of Macon, was named
chairman of the executive committee,
the members of which are B. NJ. Diffee,
Atlanta; E. c. Ponder, Rutledge; W.
j. Murphy, Newman, and ]. ]. Reynolds
of Waynesboro.
A silver waiter and glasses were
presented retiring President Mckee,
CT Atlanta, by the association. B. L
Bond made the speech of presentation.
The election of the above mentioned
officers for 1924 brought the ninth
annual convention of the Cotton Seed
Crushers' association of Georgia to a
successful close here. The opening
address at the morning session was
delivered by Hon. E. E. Pomeroy, CT
Atlanta, whose address was most in-
structive.
He was followed by Joel Hunter, Ger
titled accountant, whose lectures and
writings are attracting a great deal
of attention throughout the countrT.
Mr.. Hunter was for years an auditor
in the cotton seed oil industry, which
gave added interest to his address on
"Fallacies in Seed and Crushing
Costs" Mr.. Hunters address is n
part as follows:
Mr.. Hunter stated that the cotton oil
industry was different from most any
other business in the South, due to the
fact that it's earning power was re-
stricted to the crushing season, which
at best extended hardly over 6 months
etc, covered a period of one year He
also called attention to the unusual
state of affairs which necessitated the
operation of the cotton oil mills dur
ing the six months period of activity
very often as much as "a hours day,
which naturally entails excessive por-
ton to the wear and tear upon ma
chinery which is operated the year
around In great detail he explained
this incogruous situation and pointed
ii out as one of the pitfalls to be
guarded against.
Mr. Hunter, whose years of practi-
cal experience in the cotton oil in
dustry gave him facts and figures by
which he was able to point out the dam
ger of endeavoring to increase the
tonnage of seed crushed in order to
decrease the overhead expense per ton,
and pointed out number of instances
where failure had come upon those
Who had adopted this mistaken policy.
He also laid special stress upon that
phase of bookkeeping, where bad debts
against seed buyers were charged off
against the cotton seed account which
naturally increased the cost per ton
of cotton seed to the mills, and has a
tendency of running up the cost per
ton OF seed crushed Mr.. Hunters
conclusion was a strong plea for the
oil mill managers to keep their ma
chinery up to the standard and in this
way secure the highest efficiency both
from men and machinery, in order to
obtain the best results. He urged that
the system of bookkeeping be as COM
plete as possible, in order that the
day to day insight into the cost If
operation might be had and the great,
est good result.
Bahnsen Addresses.
The closing address of the conven-
ton was that delivered by DIR. Peter L
Pahnsen, state veterinarian, whose
splendid fight to rid the state of Geor-
gia of the cattle tick, now costing the
live stock owners $5,OOO,O00 annually