The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-28
STATE CONTROL FOR
COTTON GINS URGED
Texas Farmers Institute Recommends
Law Making Gin Plants Public
Utilities.

Austin, Textile Texas State Far.
mers' Institute, which came to a close
Wednesday, adopted a number of reso-
lutions, the most important of which
was one recommending to the legisla-
ture the passage of a law making cot.
ton gins public utilities, TO be placed
under the supervision of a proper regu.
latory commission. Ii was unanimous
ly adopted
The purpose OF the proposed law, 1t
was explained by Fritz Engelhard Of
Eagle Lake, chairman of the commit
tee on resolutions, which presented
the resolution, is to have the gins of
Texas regulated by a commission sim
liar to commissions which supervise
the railroads, public corporations and
insurance business.
Other resolutions adopted were:
Recommendation to the legislature
of the passage of proposed amend
ments to the county free library law
By the State Library Association, so
as to make the law workable and eff
feCtive.
Request that the legislature pass a
law defining uniform packages for the
shipment of fruits and vegetables, and
empowering the commissioner of ag
riculture to adopt and enforce proper
regulations for grading and packing.
That the legislature at its next ses-
sion be asked to pass suitable law
controlling the sale and distribution of
agricultural seed in Texas and that
this law be administered ty the de-
partment of agriculture.
Approval of the efforts of the state
department of agriculture in organic
ing farmers Institutes; commendiN
the activities of the marketing bureau
in its efforts to assist in the marketing
of farm products and recommending
closer cooperation, between the in
dividuals and the marketing division,
each local institute to select at once
a business agent to act in cooperation
with county business agents and the
marketing division with a view to per.
fectinG thorough marketing system.
Also commend especially the CAM
paign last year in favor of diversified
ton of crops; the campaign in favor
of better system of marketing where
by the farmer may hope to realize the
market value produce; the campaign
waged against the serious invasion of
several sections of the state by the in
sect pest, and the camRaign involved
in the protection of N6rher sections
from menace to citrus fruit industry.
Another resolution adopted recon-
mended a more liberal appropriation
for the department of agriculture.
Resolutions were also adopted thank
ing the railroads for their generosity
in supplying transportation to the dele
gates to the state institute.
The commissioner of the department
of agriculture is ex-officio president.
The following were elected vice presi-
dents: J. w. Stoll, Paris; L. NJ Dali
mot, Hale County; j. M. Irving, Rising
Star; Alvin Ollie, Bishop.
The membership of the executive
committee was increased from three
to five, and the following were elect.
ed: c. NJ. Evans, Bryan; NJ. M. An
thony, Tohoka; Harry r. Jones, Myra;
George A. Wanier De Witt; ]. A. Hill,
Corpus Christi.
The report of the committee on con-
stitution and bylaws recommending
that the representation of local insti-
tutes in the state institute meetings
be reduced from a maximum of ten
delegates to five and allowing dele
gate to every twenty-five members or
fraction thereof instead of fifty met
with opposition. The question was
finally settled by making the maxi
mum seven and a delegate for every
thirty-five members instead of fifty.
Commissioner Davis predicted that at
least one thousand new local Institutes
would be organized within the next
year and that there would be approx
mately five thousand delegates to the
next meeting of the state institute.
A paper which attracted great inter-
est was that of Mayor Ed II. McCuis-
ton of Paris, entitled "The Municipal
Abattoir." He told of how Paris play
ed pioneer part in the work and had
been largely copied throughout the
country because of the benefits result
ing
Castro Given Freedom of U, s.