Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-09-10
10 CENTS FIXED FOR COTTON.
Faremrs' Union Pledges Hold for
that Price-=$3O Ton for Seed.

Salina, Kan, Sept. 4.-The high
cost of living will be higher as a re-
Isult of the action of the National Far
mers' Union here to-day in fixing the
price at which members will sell this
years cotton at Is cents pound.
The present price is approximately
IL cents.
The action of the convention binds
every member of the Union to hold
his cotton until the market reaches
the figure set.
In the past repeated efforts have
been made to have a similar resolu-
tion passed by the convention, but
advocates of the proposal always
failed to muster the necessary votes.
This year there was no opposition
to the plan Several Of the leading
cotton growers wanted the minimum
figure fixed at II or IS cents, point
ing out that owing to tghtness of the
money market and unsettled condi-
tions in Europe and America prices
of all products would soar and cotton
would bring that price if members
Of the Union held out.
Experts employed by the Union es-
innate this years yield at 14,074,-
500 bales. Last year it was 14,200,-
600 bales and the price averaged IL
cents. There are nearly 100000
members of the Union who are cotton
growers and leaders in the movement
say their neighbors who are not
members Of the organization will
only be too glad to join in holding
the crop until it can be marketed at
l ) cents a pound
The minimum price at which cot
ton seed will be sold was fixed at $50
a ton, and members are pledged to
hold out for that figure. Last years
prices ranged around $26, approxi-
mately the present market figure.
Consolidation Of rural schools as
the best method of improving the
educational system Of rural commu-
mites, and thus make farm life more
1
tion. which also called for all increase
in the length of the rural school
term and compulsory attendance.
Other resolutions urged greater
protection for animals and birds and
a chair Of marketing in the agricultu-
raj departments Of State universities.
Education through improved schools,
lectures and the press was indorsed
as the foremost factors in the ad-
vancement of the farmer.
Farmers Union to Have Paper.
Salina, Kan. Sept. "A national
official paper will be established by
the National Farmers Uniou. This
was decided to-day. /, was said the
purpose Of the publication would be
to advance the interests Of organized
farmers by disseminating informa-
ton regarding the pending legisla-
ton in which farmers are interested.
The Union declared against alien
ownership Of land and said that cor
porations should not be allowed to
own more than is necessary"
The agricultural committee in it's
report declared the minimum price
Of wheat, corn, oats and barley on
the home market, in order to pay the
cost of production and 6 per cent on
the value Of the farm lands in various
States should be as follows:
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma,
wheat $1.05, corn 20 cents, oats 45
cents and barley SO cents; Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri, wheat $1.25,
corn 65 cents, oats so cents and bar
ley SO cents; Western Slope States,
wheat 81 cents, corn 90 cents, oats
SO cents and barley SO cents.
The report was adopted.
C. S. Barrett, of Union City, Ca,
was reelected president Of the organ
iZation.
The meeting Of 1915 will be held
at San Francisco. The place for next
years convention has not been Sc
lected.