The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1918-11-15
ADVISED BY
MARKETING BOARD TO
HOLD Their COTTON
Ayr. Com'r. Brown Tells the
People to Put Themselves
In Accord With Boards
Action


Following the meeting of the Cot
ton States Official Advisory Market
ing Board, just held in Atlanta, and
attended by governors of cotton
states, commissioners of Agriculture,
market bureau directors and Farm
ers' Union residents, Commissioner
j. ]. Brown, who is president of the
board, feels that he must put it
squarely before the farmers of Geor-
gia and the south, that their saliva
ton in the matter of cotton prices is
in their own hands, if they will only
put themselves in accord with the
boards action.
At this meeting, which was one of
the most enthusiastic and largely at
tended the board has ever held, reso-
lutions were adopted unanimously de-
claring that the recent break in cot
ton was wholly unjustified, and
strongly urging farmers, bankers and
merchants throughout the cotton belt
to organize firmly for the purpose of
holding all cotton, until it reaches a
price which will cover the cost of
production plus a reasonable profit.
Particularly were producers of cot
ton urged not to sell a single pound
of cotton, until it reaches 35 cents or
more, because it has been found that
the average cost of making this years
crop througout the cotton belt was
in excess of 35 cents.
Responsibility for the drop in the
cotton market was put upon the war
industries board; and in a separate
resolution it was demanded that the
war industries board be dissolved inn
mediately upon the declaration of an
armistice in Europe.
President Brown, who presided,
cordially favored the resolutions
adopted, speaking in their behalf;
and stated at the conclusion of the
meeting his firm belief that its ac-
ton would result in holding move
ment throughout the South, that will
soon bring to the producer just and
fair price for the staple.
While cotton occupied most Of the
board, the meeting did not overlook
the important situation in the pea
nut market to which the Georgia
State Bureau of Markets has been
devoting its attention for some weeks,
in the effort to secure more salts
factory price to the producer.
Following the refusal of the Geor-
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the restrictions governing the mar
keting Of peanuts, the matter has
been taken up with the food admin
istration at Washington; and the
marketing board, at the instance of
Director L. B. Jackson of the Geor-
gia Market Bureau, appointed COM
mittee which includes in addition to
himself, Commissioners of Agricul-
ture J. A. Wade, of Alabama; w. A.
McRae, of Florida and Fred W. Davis
of Texas, to go to Washington to
present the matter to the fsod adj
ministration there.
Already the effect of the activity
of the Georgia market bureau has
been felt in the receipt from Nor
folk, Va, of an offer for peanuts to
net the producer approximately $110
per ton, f. o. b. shipping point. The
quantity desired, however, is limit
ed.
The government regulation prohi-
biting buyers of peanuts from holding
them longer than 60 days, before
selling them to the mills, has forced
this product along regardless of the
law of supply and demand, resulting
in extremely low prices.
1t is the confident belief of Direc-
tor Jackson that when the matter is
properly presented to the food adj
ministration in Washington, it will
remove this Objectionable restriction,
and that peanuts viii soon bring the
producer $120 or more, for which
figure the bureau urges the farmer
to hold, as a minimum.
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