The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-11
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
FOR COTTON ASSOCIATION
The South Carolina Division VIII Ask
Certain Acts in Interest of Cot
ton Growers.

Columbia, Feb. THE House of
Representatives is to take up the
legislative program submitted to the
general assembly by the South Caro-
lima Division of the American cotton
association this week. Three bills sub
mitted by the association will be in
troduced in the house on Tuesday by
the agricultural committee and their
immediate consideration will be ask
ed.
The first of the bills provides for
the organization of cooperative mar
keting associations within the state.
The South Carolina division of the
American Cotton association is plan
ming an active campaign in the near
future for the formation of these as
sociations.
The secon1 of the bills provides for
the creatien of a cotton market bu-
reaa. This bureau under the terms
of the bills to be introduced "wlN
provide for better economic and effi-
cient methods in the handling and
marketing of cotton for the benefit
of the producers thereof in this
states
The bureau will take charge of the
supervision of the grading and stap-
ling of cotton stored in the warehous-
es in the state, employ and direct
competent and efficient graders and
staplers and market men in every
county. 1t will prepare and formu-
late sound and economic system of
diversified agriculture on the farms
of the state, encourage the adoption
Of improved types of cotton seed for
planting so as to secure the uniform
production of the best grades, will
encourage ways and means for the
slow and orderly marketing of cotton
SO as to regulate as far as possible
the economic advantages to be secur-
edto the growers in this state from so
regulating the supplies Of their cot
ton on the markets as to meet only
the legitimate demands of consump-
tion, encourage and promote the
planting of sufficient acreage on the
farms each year in food and feed
crops and the production of live
stock to the end that the farmers of
South Carolina shall make their
far,as self-sustaining; will encourage
and promote adequate marketing fac
ilities for crops other than cotton and
promote a wider development of the
livestock industry; encourage the
manufacture of bags from low grade
cotton which enter into the commerce
Of this and other states, and the use
of low grade cotton as covering for
{ cotton bales under better system OF
baling. encourage wider use of cotton
fabrics at home and abroad; gather
correct and reliable statistics from
time to time relative to the acreage
planted in cotton and other crops in
this state, the = ultivation, condition
and harvesting of same and ginning
returns together with statistics from
the best authorities throughout the
cotton belt giving similar informa-
ton, especially in. cooperation with
the federal government, gather Stats
tics on the ,distribtion and eonsump-
ton of cotton throughout the world,
so that such information may be as
sembled and distributed to the farm
ers and business interests of the state
for their benefit; publish journal
to be issued periodically, containing
statistical data gathered from time
to time and other information of
value to the fc-ming interests; en-
courage and promote the organiza-
ton of local and central cooperative
marketing associations under the laws
Of the state SO as to provide for col
lective marketing by the farmers and
the purchase of staple supplies under
the most medern and approved econ
J omic methods employed by such asso-
Citations and encourage and assist in
the prompt organization and opera
tion of Cooperative Finance Securi-
ties corporations when the law for
creating such corporations is enacted
by the state.
The third bill would require cotton
buyers in South Carolina to accept
the standard government grades for
cotton.
The fourth bill provides for an
amendment to the warehouse act by
adding a new section as follows:
'That said state warehouse board
shall have the mower and authority