The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-06-06
FARMERS INSTITUTE MEETING
Officers and Delegates Elected. MFR.
Townsend Delivers Address On
Marketing.

year. Joe Strayhorn was reelected
president and w. L. Gross and Geo.
Hendrix were elected vice presidents
and j. s. Hardy secretary.
The membership roll of the insti-
tute numbers about 200. TIE insti-
tute elected delegates to the Farmers
Congress to b held at College Station
during the last days OF June.
The following is a list of the dele
gates w. l.. Gross, Warren scriv-
ner, w. T. Thompson, r. Carl Davis,
w. T. Brooks, ]. s. Hardy w. A.
Warren, c. II. Kelly.
Mr.. Gross, who was a delegate to
the Congress last year made talk
on the duties OF n delegate showing
that there is so much going on there
that one man can't see It all there
fore delegate should set about to
thoroughly understand such opera
tions as will be OF benefit TO HIS peo-
pie at home and be able TO tell about
It when he com-s back.
The value OF the A. & NJ. College
to the Industrial interests OF Tex
as was discussed and the Institute
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved by the Scurry county
Farmers institute at Snyder, Texas,
that Il is the sense OF this body that
Il would be a mistake for the state
OF Texas to now abandon the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College at
its present location to merge it with
the state University at Austin, We
believe the purposes OF these two
institution are so different that they
should be kept separate and that
the state should at all times be lib
eral in appropriations for their main
tainance TO the end that the great
est possible measure of efficiency
may be achieved.
We believe I'm the dissemination of
practical and scientific knowledge I'm
agricultural matters and the a. a.
NJ. College has became @ source of
such knowledge 10 the farmers Of
Texas Tho young men coming out
from that institution are valuable
factors in the Industrial citizenship
of the state and the annual meet
ings hold there and the literature
sent out from there to- the farmers
have proven OF great value TO farm
ers.
Therefore, We would insist that
the present college be maintained
and improved whore st now is and
that the time is now here when a
college of the same character should
be established in West Texas
Mr.. +. !. Townsent addressed the
Institute on the matter of market
ing. He says for several years the
country seems to have gone long on
efforts to increase production He is
not opposing that side Of the Ques-
ton. but he asks why seek TO make
more stuff. unless a market is found
for IT, He points to the years when
a 100000 bale cotton crop
brought tho producers more money
than they got for a 100000 crop.
He asks. M the more we grow the
less we get for IT, then why grow
it?"
He SAYS the Farmers Union has
been working for years on the mark
ct problem and the Commercial Sec
retarles association has been doing
good work along that line, and he is
.gratlfied to see now that Industrial
gatherings and individual economists
all over the country are turning at
tention to marketing.
The desired end must be attained
by organized effort. The people viii
have 10 stand together and the
banks will give support 10 the plans
Speaking upon the plans out lined
by the Farmers Union, Mr. Townsend
said. I'm substance:
we recommend the building Of
ware houses in the interior 90 that
cc,ton can be rCd az the point of
production until sold ana .hc local
banker can have the first charce of
financing the cotton.
we are cudcavoring 20 TAX" out
al the uncertainty I'm the securities
issued upon cottcu by bonding the
warehouseman. insuring ihc cotton
against loss by fire. etc. and ask
ing for loans not TO exceed - per
cent Of the market value of the cot
.aa. T1s cou-n vill then 1a ns good
security as government honis and We
ask thl. iiotr, b. loaned at six
per ccat per ,nnam. The titis to the
cotton. 81 course. rests with tiC pro