The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-07
COTTON SITUATION
IN THIS STATE

Columbia, May 5.-That the dele
gates from South Carolina to the New
Orleans cotton convention two weeks
hence may be able to make a detailed
certified statement regarding the cot
ton situation in this state, the central
committee of the South Carolina Cot
ton Association is sending out a letter
to every county chairman in the state
for infornaton
Each chairman is urged to have a
personal canvass made in every sec
ton of his county in order that the
information obtained may be as near
correct as possible. The instructions
sent to the chairman says that the
United States government will make
the closest detailed check Of acreage
this year that has ever been made in
Its previous history. A QUESTIONABLE
sent to each county chairman asks for
the following information:
Information Wanted.
Total number of acres of cotton
planted in county in 1918.
Total number of acres estimated
will be planted in 1919.
Number of acres reduced and per-
centage of reduction.
Estimate as to reduction in COM
mercial fertilizer for 1919.
,ioN many weeks backward chair
ms.N considers the planting of cotton
Whether preparation is good or
poor.
Has any cotton in county been kill
ed by frost? If so, how much?
How is stand Of cotton? Will it be
necessary to replant?
what is condition regarding labor?
Have follow-up committees been
named for each township.
Have representatives of Northern
spinncrs and spectators secured in
formation in county?
Under fair season has county suffi-
cicnt acreage planted and can it pro-
duce sufficient grain crops, including
corn and other grain, for the entire
consumption of the county for the
next season?
Will county with fair season make
sufficient hay crops?
Have efforts been made to encour
age. planting of sufficient hay and
grain crops?
VIII farmers be urged to circulate
pledges binding themselves to discon-
tlnue sending orders to the West for
grain?
Will banks be urged to increase
their capital stock so per cent?
VIII county take it's allotment of
stock in the big cotton marketing. |
exporting and financing corporation |
Estimate as to amount of Western
nay, corn and oats shipped into coun-
ty.
m Expect Prompt Reports.
Inc central committee has request
ed the county chairman to make |
prompt replies to the questionable in |!
order that the committee at it's meet |
ing here on next Thursday may be |
ebie to prepare its report for the New |
Orleans convention.
Inc letters sent out to the county |
;halrman contain this paragraph re-
5aralng the New Orleans meeting:
The convention at New Orleans
VII be one of the most important and
argely attended conventions ever held
n the South The result of the work
there will prove Of un-
old benefit. 1t really means a new
south. The organization of the For
'igh Marketing, Exporting and FL
lanclng Corporation, with capital
'round $2OO,OOO,OOO, the increase in
he banking capital of the South so
yer cent and the formation of a per-
nanent Southern Cotton Association
0 foster, promote, protect and upbuild
ne cotton interests and the various
lied interests Of the South, all of
Which work will be perfected at this
invention, and will bring not ONLY
!cw South, but permanent progress
nd prosperity. We are in the fipht
0 the end"