The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04
AMERICAN COTTON AssoCIA
ION ADOPTS PLATFORM

@be4ec dSsOcldClVASy uses Jue following
language under date Of July ~:
IF the cotton growers are not
guided Alright during the next two or
three years regarding cotton pro
duction, they are likely to face dis
aster worse than that of 1921.
eve have conducted a careful in
vestigation Of the textile situation
in this country and in Europe, and
1t will require several years for the
spinning and manufacturing indus
tries in many Of the countries to re-
build their shattered mills, rede-
velop their trade connections and
return to normal pre-war conditions.
Under-consumption of cotton can
only be met by limited production of
the staple. Any other policy will be
suicidal and will produce universal
bankruptcy among the growers and
their allied business interests. Cot
ton acreage should be reduced more
severely in 1922 than in 1921. Live
stock, food and feed production should
be correspondingly stimulated. The
opportunity of a life time is now
presented the Southern farmers to
put their farms on an absolutely
self-sustaining basis, and to force
the world to pay them back the
heavy losses enforced against the
1920 cotton crops, and to become
independent Of the all-cotton fallacv.
with the drastic reduction in
cotton acreage this year and a con-
sequent reduction in yield, the farm
ers will have the open lands and the
time to put in heavy acreage Of
small grain crops and prepare to
make themselves secure against the
disastrous consequences Of over
production Of cotton in the. future
Inc campaign should call for the
following system of crop diversifi-
cation under a four-year method of
rotation:
Il. Three-fourths of all open
|ands to be devoted to food and feed
crops and to pasturage for livestock.
q. One-fourth of the cultivated
and to be planted in cotton, well
-ertilized and worked, so as to pro-
luce the best yield under the most
economic conditions of labor and
'ther expenses.
3. Encourage the rapid organiza-
ion Of statewide cooperative mark t
ting associations for handling cot
on and other farm products.
4..Adopt economic reforms and
in the future baling, ware
ousing, financing and marketing the
otton crop, upon the most approved \
nd advantageous modern methods
+ orderly marketing. |
%. Induce every cotton farm in
ne South to become, first of all, \
elf-sustaining, and so control the
reduction and sale of cotton as to G
'rce the consuming world to pay =
le growers profit on the product !
N Of each and every bale Of the
APPLE. i
I'VE believe the whole South is t
lady to get squarely and forcefully :,
the above platform. 1t is the q
My hope to rebuild its shattered =
'rtunes and work out an indepen-
mt and progressive future. W
I'VE believe the people will quick 9
rally to the support of the above
ated platform. ~
The time for apathy, pessimism al
Id depression has passed. The
ruth can and must depend upon its M
vn manhood and ability to wisely
ID economically solve the problems NJ NJ
It'll which it is confronted. There q
N be no doubt of success with tn
lited and whole-hearted co-opera- Y
,n."
It was the American Cotton As W
citation that told us far in advance DC
the opening of the cotton market We
st fall what we might expect in I,
e way Of prices on our cotton. It "
IS the American Cotton Associa- he
N that led the fight which has Of
suited, according to its own and u
9 governments estimates, in re- -
ction Of more than % per cent. q,
the cotton acreage this year. vi
This letter at this time from this pc
ganization is Of more than passing y
crest and should have the re-
oughtful consideration of every af
rson in the South who is inter- W.
ted directly or indirectly in the ~ n
oduction Of Gotten. 10