The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-14
Rush Springs Organizes Cotton
Growers Association Under
Direction of County Agri-
cultural Agent.
STANDARDIZE CROP
is PURPOSE GIVEN
Market Falls Off When Staple
Becomes Short Says Farm
Man; Mills Trace Product
to Growing Section

TO stabilize the cotton industry
from the growers standpoint by
standardizing the length Of the. sta.
pie in Grady county is the purpose
of an organization of farmers formed
at Rush Springs yesterday through
the efforts of J. W Owens, Grady
county agricultural agent. Mr.. Ow.
ems is in Alex today on a like mis-
sion Final details will be worked
cut at subsequent meetings, Mr..
Owens announces
In outlining the work proposed for
these cotton growing organizations,
MI Owens explained in some detail
4he relation Of the grower to the
Tnill ana the reason why there is a
commercial ban placed on some COM
munitle5 by given mills He declar-
ed that every mill is equipped with
a given Kind of machinery that win
handle a staple Of a certain length
only, and explained that that mill
could not possibly handle staple
longer or shorter
Here is how the thing stometimes
works out" said Mr. Owens. "A
buyer has in mind certain mill to
which he desires to make shipment.
He buys bale from farmer, or
several bales in a particular com
munity. He ships to the mill in
question. Possibly the staple of
cotton he has purchased is too short
for that mill. The result is that
the mill traces back and determines
the locality from which the cotton
was shipped. That mill is in the fu.
ture skeptical of cotton shipped from
that point
Nov where the farmers get to.
gether and form an Organization for
the purpose OF raising a better grade
and longer staple cotton, the cotton
of that community will be at a pre-
MUM when the organization is rec
ognized by the state marketing com.
mission. Seed for such an organi.
zation will be procured through the
state marketing commission.
"For several years the Rush
Springs community has been gradu-
ally leaving out the growing of the
long or marketable staple cotton,
drifting into the short on what is
commonly called half and half cot
tom until today at least IS per cent
Of the farmers are producers of this
variety. Only one result could fol-
low such condition, and that is
just what Rush Springs has today
no market for this cotton.
so long as one-third Of the far
mers were growing short staple cot
ton, buyers would come there and
take it up in order to get the longer
staple, but when a majority were
growing this staple, then no market
Or buyers could be found, conse-
quentiy the whole community is pen
allied Rush Springs is the largest
ginning point in Grady county and
several Chickasha business men are
interested there. We invite the in
fluence Of these men to assist in
redeeming the cotton market of Rush
Springs through this organization.
a meeting is scheduled for Satur-
day, November oath, for the purpose
of enrolling all the farmers, bankers
and business men of Rush Springs
into the organization.
The greatest drawback TO the
cotton business in any community
is the production Of a short staple
Gotten. The mills Of the world are
adjusted to handle certain lengths
Of staple We only find the mills
handling short staple cotton in the
Orient or Japan where cheap labor