The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-11-06


times as easy to ,handle as prunes.
We have not done thing with
prunes that you cannot do with cot
ton. The world needs cotton. Stabilize
the price and you can tap the money
markets of the world. If a farmer
tenn 1t is incidentally with the specu-
lator. more often the farmer looses."
Mr.. Sapiro explained the problems
OF the prune growers before they or
ganized., and had the word cotton
been substituted for the word prunes
the description would have been al
most Identical with a description OF
the cotton mans troubles in the
South today.
The prune buyers, he said, used to
come around early in the season and
tell the farmer what a whale" OF
prune crop was being raised that
year. week or so later the buyers
would come and offer to take the
prunes off the farmers hands as a
matter of personal friendship at a
price of about &c per pound. The
average price for the 10 years pre-
Seding the organization was between
&c and &c. Growers in the organiza-
ton this year. received lie per pound.
Growers outside of the Organization
were unable to. sell their crop.
SPECTATORS tried to break the prune
growers association by Offering lac
per pound to few independent grow
ers. but when the association set its
price the spectators turned down
theIr contract with the independents
The speaker closed with a descrip-
ton or the pathetic condition he had
FOUND in the South. due to the fact
that the farmers had been getting
less than the cost of production for
their crops.
I'VE. should see that every finger
that touches cotton makes enough
money to live decently We want 10
NIX II so that when we take bath
IN the country in Texas we do not
nave to do II in round tub in the
Kitchen. Cotton growers have been
making millionalres in New England
long enough. If 1 were you Texas
Farmers / would boil with indigna-
ton when they say that the South
is two generations behind the rest
OF the United States, and would not
pc indignant at the statement but
at the condition and I would give my
life If need be to make things right.
could control the cotton market of
the South and Texas is the key state
to the whole situation
The Texas Farm bureau Federation
Is planning the formation of its cot
ton market committee Immediately
after the election of officers for 1921,
according to distinctly Texas plan
worked out by Texas cotton growers
which shall have for its purpose the
sterilization of prices and the elimi-
Three hundred million bales of cot
ton were sold on exchange in the
United States last year according to
Mr.. Sapiro and the production was in
the neighborhood of 100000 bales.
Allowing for sales on each bale
Mr. Sapiro says that the maximum
number should not have been more
than 60.000.000 bales. Then he asks
what about the other 240,000,000
bales that were sold?
What Texas cotton farmers need
is merchandising plan and not a
holding movement" said the speaker
who claims that the signed agreement
to reduce acreage is a violation of the
lever act and who further states that
the world needs the cotton the South
Is producing"
Farmers who heard Mr.. Sapiro dis
cuss cotton marketing problems ex-
pressed a belief that a real solution
had been found and great numbers or
them told Mr.. c.. q. Moser. Secretary
of the Texas Farm Bureau Fedora
ton that they were going to return
home and see that the Farm Bureau
was started at once. Preliminary or
ganization work for Texas is now be-
ing done in about thirty counties
All the counties organized so far
have a thousand members or more.
Bell County has 1900. Williamson has
more than Bell, and Dallas has at
least a thousand. The election of of
ficers for the state organization Is
coming early in January and the cot
ton marketing plan will be worked
out at once so that 1t may be applied
to the 1921 crop.