The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-15
CBy Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D. c., July q
Methods of baling, sampling and
marketing cotton in Egypt may be
studied with profit by American t.
ton producers, both by way OF teach-
ing to save waste and by way of eX-
hibitng the excessive charges of mid
die men, is the conclusion reached by
j. S. Williams and Clarence Ousley,
the sub committee of the American
commission to investigate and study
agricultural credit and co-opera-
ton, whose report on their study
of the production and marketing OF
Egyptian cotton had just been pub
lished as a senate document. Egypt
however, they found, can offer 10 The
United States no instruction Wha ever
III skill, science or other element OF
economy or efficiency in cotton pro-
duction nor does that country con-
stitute any menace of over produc-
ton.
Summarizing their investigation
briefly. they say:
Egypt, with her 100000 to 2,00O,-
600 bales of cheaply produced, but
dearly Sold cotton, admonishes Ameri-
can growers to improve their method
of cultivation and marketing i'll order
to reduce their cost of production
Should Hold Cotton.
The proprietors Of large Egyptian
estates, representing IL to 10 per
cent of the crop, are in a position to
cooperate and render powerful aid in
maintaining fair prices for their COM
modities and these prices will tend TO
steady the prices of American cotton,
if our producers do not commit the
folly of producing more than the world
will take at profitable values, and if
the cotton states will establish a sys-
tenn of state regulated warehouses,
which will enable the farmers to store
their cotton and secure cheap money
upon warehouse receipts whereby they
may sell the crop gradually over a Pc
riod of several months, instead of fore
ing it upon the market, as they do
now, within two or three months.
These proprietors and the British
Egyptian department of agriculture
promise hearty cooperation in .estap-
fishing a system of accurate reports
OF cotton consumption.
Concluding, the sub committee
states there is a vital relation be-
tween Egyptian and American cotton
production which should be cultlVat-
ed in amlty and muruallty by every
possible official ana cooperative en-
deaVor They state that the result
OF their investigation was threetold,
and in each respect the situation is
we'll worth careful consideration FIRST
Egypts cost of production in the ra-
ito to the value of her commodity is
much lower than Americas.
Output Varies But Little.
secondly, Egypts output varies
but little from year to year and is
capable of but slight expansion and
is therefore a more or less nXed rae
tor of great economical potentallIy'
Thirdly, an influential and predoml-
mating group of large planters are IN
cordial sympathy with Americas pur-
pose to establish a more intelligent
system of marketing.
we have reason to hope that Egypt
will join in any effort the cotton
states may initiate to establish an in
terstate and international bureau OF
cotton intelligence for the promotion
of more efficient production and more
economical marketing. In this connec-
ton we earnestly recommend that the
principal cotton states OF the union
create the office of cotton commits
sioner and that such commissioners,
together, constitute themselves as a
bureau of cotton information, with
snecial reference to consumption and
the extended use of cotton goods, and
that other cotton growing countries
be invited to have representation in
such bureau to the end that intelligent
information may be furnished the pro-
. ducers for their guidance in ad-
justing supply to demand, and that
the demand for our great staple pro
duct may be stimulated. We are con-
ffdent that such a bureau would oper-
ate as a practical insurance against
either over production or under pro-
duction, and yet prevent abnormally
high prices, to the injury and hard
ship of consumers
'Egypts comparatively low cost Of
production, Notwithstanding her an
Inundated methods OF cultivation, her
heavy expense of conversion from
seed cotton to spinnable lint, is mat
ter of serious concern to America,
for Egypt is able under present con-
ditions to produce her superior quail
ity of cotton, worth Is TO 20 cents
pound. at about Il ga cents a pound,
compared with American cost of 10 to
u cents pound