The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-21
COTTON MEETING
IN BIRMINGHAM
ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS MAY
HEAR HARDING DELIVER AD-
DRESS-SESSION COMES OC-
TOBER 26-29, FOR ANNUAL
MEETING.

Columbia, Sept. 20.-J. Skottowe
Wannamaker, president of the Amer.
ican Cotton Association, announced
today that the directors of that Or
ganization had accepted an invita-.
tion extended it by Birmingham,
Ala. to hold its annual meeting in
that city October 26-29. President
Warren G. Harding has been asked
to deliver an address on the opening
day of the convention and Mr.. Wan
namaker said that many men of ma
tional2 and international prominence
would be on the program. -
The following statement was Civ.
en- out by Mr.. Wannamaker regard
ing the meeting:
"The annual convention of the A
merican Cotton Association will be
held in Birmingham, Ala, October
26-29. The annual convention Of the
organization, which has been held in
various cities since 1914, has been
recognized as conventions of ma
tional and international Importance,
the speakers being men of promi-
nence and the matters handled at the
convention being matters that affect
virtually the agricultural and COM
mercial interests of the nation and
the world.
Among the many important mat
ters to be handled at the convention,
none is attracting more attention
than the move for putting into ef-
feet the plan adopted by a referen-
dunn vote of the members of the as
sociatiqp for planting only one
fourth of the average cultivated acre
age for the next four consecutive
years in cotton, planting the balance
Of the lands in food and feed crops. !
"4The boil weevil and methods for ;
combating same, will be discussed at
The convention. The discovery of
some method for counteracting the
effects of the weevil is recognized as
world necessity, not only to the
cotton industry Of the world but to
The cotton consuming world. The
Veevil now covers 80 per cent of the
;otton belt; its ravages during the
'ast year were the most destructive
'ver known and there is no scientific
method for combating them.
"The approaching convention
promises to be the most largely at
ended in the history of the associa-
iation. President Warren G.. Hard
ng has been asked, and is expected
o accept the invitation, to deliver ,
n address on the opening day.
"Each of the governors of the
ourteen cotton growing states have
cen urged by the American Cotton
association to issue special procla-
lation calling upon the farmers to
estroy their cotton stalks either by
lowing under or burning, with all {
oss5ble speed, it being pointed out
hat it is the opinion Of the best ex- !
erts that by adopting this course I
efore the weevil hibernates his \
avages next year may be reduced. =
he secretary Of agriculture of the \
'nited. States has also been request .
to appeal to all Of the extension 3
'rces and agricultural organizations \
lroughout the south and use every
lfuence possible to have the cotton h
'alks destroyed with all possible q
'eed 1t being pointed out that on az
'unt Of the extreme short produc- n
on this year that large proportions 8
the cotton stalks can be DESTROYED
ow and practically all Of them by 6
Ie first of October" 2
IND MAMMOTH STILL