The spectator., 1920-11-09
FARMERS URGED
 ID GUT ACREAGE
COTTON ASSOCIATION uRGES COTTON CROP BE REDUCED AT LEAST ONE-ThIRD OF
 PRESENT PRODUCTION.
MORE FOOD CROPS NEEDED
Bankers Association Asked to Aid. Convention Recommends hat Crop Handling Methods Be lm-
 proved Over State.


 Little ROck-The Arkansas Division ci the American Cotton Association held statewide conference last week with an attendance of 400 bankers business men and farmers from all sections of the State. It was decided that the association should recom mend "an increase in the acreage of food and feed crops and correspond ing decrease in the acreage of cotton of not less than B 1-3 per cent in the entire acreage of the State" This was adopted in preference to the Texas plan, which included signed affidavits of reduction by farmers, bankers and others It was the general opinion that the low price of cotton and the necessity of growing more food and feed would force a reduction in cotton acreage.
 The convention passed a resolution calling upon the president of the Ar kansas Bankers Association to issue a
 
 ganization within the next ten days for the purpose of considering plans to as sist the farmers i'll a constructive pro- gram of acreage regulation and profit able marketing. It is expected that this meeting will be called for about November 10 to devise ways and means of making available all pos sible credit to the farmers of Arkan sas for the gradual and orderly mar keting of the cotton crop and pre- venting the needless and ruinous sac rifice of the same under present mar ket conditions, and for the further purpose of securing the full co-opera- tion and approval from all bankers of the program outlined by the Arkansas Division of the American Cototn As sociation.
 Among other things the convention recommended:
 That Arkansas subscribe it's quota of 5000 bales toward the organization of the $10,000,000 export corporation being formed in South Carolina.
 That all cotton be picked as soon as possible after maturity, ginned promptly and stored in a warehouse to prevent loss from country damage
 That cooperative handling. storing grading and marketing constitute the only means of improving the methods of sale and distribution of this world product.
 That all violence and lawlessness as exhibited in threats against and actual burning of gins, warehouses congresses, fields and other places containing cotton be condemned in an unstinted measure.
 That Arkansas can not approve the plan urged by Louisiana for closing down all gins for thirty days, as farm CTS lack sufficient storage places, and such policy would be ruinous.
 That Arkansas farmers should pro duce sufficient vegetables, milk, eggs bread and meat for the people and feed and forage for all live stock.
 That every county and township ir Arkansas be thorouhgly organized by the cototn association.
 That Congress be requested to pass laws prohibiting and abolishing al cotton exchanges where futures arc sold and speculation runs riot. That Governorelect McRae and the Legislature be requested to enact { law prohibiting cottonseed oil com panies from owning or operating cot toh gins or buying seed cotton in Ar kansas.
 That Congress be petitioned to pro hibit the meat-packing industry from owning stock in cottonSeed oil com l panies, or other concerns engaged il manufacturing products therefron which come in competition with pack l ing-house products.
 1 That the problems of the cottoI l farmer are similar to those of al American farmers. restricted credit! and restricted markets or lower de mand.
 That Arkansas growers sell onl, such cotton as may be necessary tt meet prssinS obligations, and that al cotton possible be held for gradua marketing.
 That emergency warehouses b, erecte dall over the State, as hIndred of thousands of bales of cotton ar, lying out on the ground unprotected
 That the Arkansas Division be un derwritten for $10.o00 to carry on tn work of organization and to meet OK isting obligations.
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