Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-29
c. s. Barrett Urges Cotton Growers Against Nasty
 Marketing.
26 COUNTIES HAVE
 DELEGATES AT MEET
George Rogers Tells Conference He Will Loan 75 Per Cent of Value on 95,OOO Bales of Cotton to Aid
 Farmer in Marketing.

Little Rock, Sept. 2S.-Twenty-six counties of the state were represent ed at the mass meeting of farmers, merchants, bankers and members of the Arkansas Farmers union, held at the New Capital hotel today, to for mulate plans for improving cotton market conditions and to prevent a flooding of the market with the sta pie, which in turn would force down the prices.
 Geo. w. Rogers, vice president of the Little Rock Bank of Commerce, at conclusion of his adress before the meeting, offered, in behalf of his bank, to loan 75 per cent of the mar ket value on 10000 bales of cotton, during the next month, and, if it were necessary, to loan at similar rate on as high as 25,000' bales. 9th CT Little Rock bankers are prepared to make the same offer, they. say. MT. Rogers, c. s. Barrett of Union City Ga., national president of the Farmers union, and H. s. 9Mobley. president of the Arkansas Farmers union, were speakers at this morn ing's session of the meeting. A dis cussion followed MT. Rogers address. sa Predicts 2O.Cent COtton.
 Mr.. Barrett. in a brief introductory address. predicted 15, IS or even 20 cent cotton within the near future.
 When cotton goes up. the cotton farmers grow indifferent" said MT. Barrett. "Only when the market has failed do they become active. But this year we need good price-a higher price than is offered on the market today-for the cotton farmers have debts from last year that are due"
 Mir. Mobley, in his speech, advocat- 1 ed that farmers raise produce TOT their markets within their home fodostuffs that are needed for home consumption. 1 "Diversification of crops is not needed merely for diversitication of the produce sent to market" said
 MT. Mobley., Each farmer has a market for perishable products in his l own home but instead of raising these products the farmers have been 1 buying them. The only perishable
 crops that should be grown by the l farmers in Arkansas are such as will
 be used in their own homes.
 "The markets for the non-perisha- hle crops have presented rough and I tumble appearance. Conditions have
 and do prevail that are unfair to- the
 farmers. The farmers as well as the
 business world have been responsible
 The remedy is cooperation and elim
 ination of individual competition.
 "The purpose of this meeting is tt
 perfect cooperation between thu
 bankers, farmers, warehouse me1 < and merchants to prevent a flooding of the market. We are not tryint
 to bull the market or to corner cot
 ton. but we do want fair price tt
 obtain. "We want to get the business worlt
 to help us continue next year, ant
 the year after. what we partly ac
 complished this year-reduction Q
 cotton acreage. Good prices for cot ton this year will tend to cause al increase in acreage next year, an' that is just the result we want t dodge"
 ,i MT. ROgers' Address.
 sl MT. Rogers paper was next resolution was adopted asking tha 7 lit be given the widest publicity. "We have for too many years look . ed too much to cotton," said MI Rogers. "Cotton is the great none
 crop. It always will be our grea } money crop, But this year 1t is. estl mated that the SOuth's grain crop !, will exceed $39O. 100000 in value. tn 3 10-year average of the cotton crop ,i It is just as important for; us t } save the spending of money as 1t
 to make it. We are in 3 position t feed ourselves. grow crop of greate l, value than our cotton crop and hay , our cotton crop as, a surplus and 5. profit crop.
 We all see and realize the evils c a crop raised on a credit-no on
 more so than the credit merchan ' He realizes that the buying capacit sl'of the farmer is limited, and whe k all the buying capacity ts exhauste Il in the purchase of foOdstuffs there ii nothing left to buy more prohtabl : goods with. gFsa{ 9i5 F. with plenty of feed for the live
 stock. . good garden, chickens and
 few pigs for the home. all are prol
 crly fed and able to do q full day n work. N .ssls f| Thefe fs a. greater loss in hand Z 1liny the cotton crop than any cthe
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