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delegations in the agricultural states
and in ’ the rural districts of even
our industrial states desire only to
know-the will of the people regard-
ing this controversial question. It is
our duty and responsibility to edu-
cate our friends in the cities and our
representatives in congress regard-
ing our desires along these lines,
and our reasons therefore.”
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Pure Seed Next Year
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Official Of A.C.C.A.
States Approval Of
Acreage Regulation
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and wear clothing.
sowing and reaping is the
A new vegetable, the chayote, a
native tropical plant, is reported as
having, possibilities in the southern
states. It has been grown to a
very limited extent in Georgia and
a farmer in Sacramento county in
California has reported that he has
been1 growing the plant for some
time.
The chayote is a fall and winter
vegetable produced on a climbing
vine with perennial roots. The plant
belongs to the cucumber family but
it more hardy and prolific. It is
pearshaped and contains a single ed-
ible seed. The flavor is similar to
that of the summer squash. It may
be eaten boiled, creamed, used in
salads, baked, stuffed, fried, stewed
or pickled.
The seed has a nut-like flavor and
is said to be very nutritious. It is
a delicacy adapted to many culinary
uses.
The forthcoming fight for
Austin, August 6.—Overcoming
objections of farmers and dealers
to the use of cotton bagging as a
container for binder twine will be
an objective of the Association for
the Increased Use of Cotton Lowe
Simons, executive secretary of the
Texas division, has notified the In-
ternational Harvester company. This
company is one of the largest man-
ufacturers of binder twine.
Simons was informed by Alexan-
der Legge, president of the com-
pany, that they had tried a number
of times to use cotton sacks in place
of burlap as containers for the twine
but that the cotton wrapper had
proven unpopular.
The difficulty, Legge said, seemed
to be largely of appearance. The
binder twine must be oiled to make
it flexible enough for use in the
grain binder, and this oil soaks
through the bag. The burlap bag,
because of its natural color, does not
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total output for last year. Ship-
ments are now coming only from
the Southern district of the State,
and last week ranged about 1,500
cars, against 852 cars in the same
week last year.
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Produce Container Is
Important In Selling
Support Asked For
Texas Campaign In
“Use Cotton” Move
square deal to co-operating farmers
will be “the grand contest of the
century, a challenge to our intelli-
gence, to our manhood and to. our
best abilities at organization,” de-
clares C. O. Moser, president of the
national cooperative council. Mr.
Moser is a member of the commit-
tee of three, representing farm or-
ganizations, responsible for defense
of the agricultural marketing act.
Edward A. O’Neal, president of the
Farm Bureau, andL, J. Taber, mast-
er of the Grange, are the other two
members.
“Let it be remembered that we
have no fear of repeal of the agri-
cultural marketing act ” says Mr.
Moser. “That act is a part of the es-
tablished policy of the country fol-
lowing years of careful study, in-
vestigation and deliberation. It rep-
resents the minimum governmental
support that was acceptable to our
most intelligent and patriotic farm
leaders, although no one claims for
it perfection or infallibility.
“Farmers and their business
friends propose to stand together
for the improvement of the legisla-
tion. Let us create in the minds of
not only the farmers but the peo-
ple of the nation generally this as-
surance. (
"As we contemplate the approach-
ing session of congress let us not
underestimate the strength and cun-
ning of our adversaries. Our oppon-
ents are supplied with practically
inexhaustible funds. They are turn-
ing our own hardearned dollars
against us. Individually they have
more money and influence than far-
mers, but collectively the strength
which farmers have is many times
that of this smaller group. As much
as we dislike to engage in a fight
with the agricultural trade groups,
and as much as we regret to oppose
the large sums of money which they
are using against us, we have no
honorable choice but to do so. They
have declared war on us, they have
fired the first gun, they have shown
no quarter to their prisoners, they
mean to destroy by fair or foul
means our hope for economic inde-
pendence.
“We believe that the congressional
Austin, August 6.—With low pri-
ces making high quality cotton im-
perative, farmers planning their next
year’s budget were urged today by
J. E. McDonald, state commissioner
of agriculture, to make ample pro-
vision for replenishing their stocks
of pure-line cotton seeds for next
year.
Records of the division of field
seed certification in the department,
McDonald said, indicate that while
pure line seeds had their usual wide
distribution over the state this year
amounts sold were somewhat under
previous years, indicating a desire
on the part of farmers for the good
seed but an inability to buy.
Those who planted seed several
years removed from the breeding
block this year and compared their
cotton with that from pure . bred
seed, he said, no doubt noticed the
difference in quality. Cotton, be-
cause of its hybrid nature and the
method of handling, tends to degen-
erate into mongrel types. The off-
types, or rogue plants, are due to a
variety of causes, among which are
mixture of seed in the gin, failure
of pickers to clean their sacks, re-
sulting in mixtures, mixtures of seed
in the cotton wagons, and a cross-
pollenization in the field to a minor
degree.
The certified cotton breeder, op-
erating under the strict inspection
measures of the state, avoids these
common causes of deterioration.
Rogues are carefully weeded out
and every certified breeder must gin
his cotton in his own gin or one
approved by the division of certi-
fication. »
He is required, year after year,
to maintain and improve the uni-
formity of his strain, and the tests
for varietal purity are made by ac-
tual field inspections.
Farmers desiring the best results
should select a uniform cotton of
thee variety best suited for his sec-
tion, McDonald said. If unable to
plant all his cotton acreage in good
seed, he should establish seed plots
from which to obtain his planting
stock.
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Austin, August 6.—Declaring he
had been against acreage regulation
by law but “the time has come for
whatever is necessary to meet the
situation,” C. O. Moser, vice-presi-
dent of the American Cotton Cooper-
ative Association, pledged his sup-
port to pending legislation to reduce
cotton acreage.
A surplus of cotton has been ac-
umulated and pyramided, Moser said
until it will equal an entire year’s
production by the end of the com-
ing season, and at the same time,
the world has the lowest buying
power that any living man has ever
known.
"It is not a time for normal
measures,” he said, “but a time for
whatever it takes to meet the sit-
uation.” He added that it was up to
the Texas legislature, representing
the greatest cotton state, to “meet
the issue squarely." He pledged the
cooperative would do everything to
get other states to follow Texas
leadership.
The curtailment of cotton produc-
tion by law was favored by the ma-
jority of the delegates attending the
conference of representatives of the
large cotton growing states of the
south held in Austin Tuesday at
the call of Governor Ross Sterling.
Texas, as by far the largest cot-
ton producing state in the union,
was asked to take the lead in the
reduction move by enacting as law
a bill introduced in the legislature
to prevent the planting of land in
cotton two years in succession. Oth-
er southern states would follow this
lead, conferees asserted. A resolu-
tion endorsing laws to enforce cot-
ton acreage reduction was adopted
just before adjournment.
Another resolution asked the fed-
eral farm board to make one of its'
activities the finding and promotion
of new uses for cotton. The con-
ference expressed its “hearty dis-
sent” from the request of the rail-
roads for a 15 per cent increase in
freight rates.
They also requested President
Hoover to “have careful study be
given to the question of the general
effect of tariff barrier and of war
debt on the cotton industry.” Speak-
ers had contended the tar iff and in-
tergovernmental debts had crippled
the export market.
Industrialization of the south and
“all sane forms of effort in the di-
rection of cooperative marketing,”
were other recommendations.
The conference asked the gover-
nor of each of the cotton states to
appoint a member of a committee to
continue the work of “this conven-
tion.”
Representative Westbrook of Wa-
co offered a resolution to request
’ the farm board to withhold its three
and a half million bales from the
market until after January 1, 1933,
and then dispose of it in small
amounts. The farm board would
have been allowed to dispose of some
of its holdings only upon condition
that it replace it immediately from
the current market. The resolu-
tion was voted down 16 to 14, the
opponents taking the view that such
a resolution would be an attempt
to tie the hands of the farm board
and might interfere with the board’s
contracts.
T. Arthur Edwards, of Lake
Charles, the Louisiana governor’s
representative suggested that a
campaign, advertising the possible
uses of cotton, be carried on. He
. told of a railroad substituting cot-
ton table cloths for linen cloths in
its diners as an example of what
might be accomplished by concert-
ed advertising and salesmanship.
Dr. H. L. Kent, president of New
Mexico Agricultural College, said
that cement manufacturers are us-
ing paper bags in their shipments
whereas they could just as easily
use cotton containers at no addi-
tional expense to the consumer. He
stated that the South would have
to look more and more to the Amer-
, ican market for disposal of its crop
• as other natipns are finding places
in their own boundaries or in their
colonies where they can grow all the
cotton they need.
C. O. Moser of New Orleans, vice
president of the American Cotton
Cooperative Association urged the
promotion of grower cooperation
stating that “everywhere agricul-
ture has touched industry, agricul-
ture has been the sufferer” because
industry is organized and agricul-
ture is not.
He pointed out that the burden of
the proposed 15 per cent increase,
if granted, would fall on the farmer
because it would increase the ex-
penses on the products he sells and
also on the goods he uses. “Gin-
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show the dirt so apparently as the
cotton sack,, and therefore dealers
and farmers have objection to its
use because of its appearance, Legge
wrote.
Simons advised Legge he was cer-
tain that with the cooperation of the
sellers of binder twine it would be
possible to overcome this objection
as to the appearance by “mission-
ary work” among dealers and farm-
ers, who would be more interested
in increasing the consumption of
cotton than in the appearance of the
sack in which their binder twine was
shipped, other qualities of the two
containers being equal.
The binder industry has not yet
worked out a typing device that will
handle cotton binder twine satisfac-
torily, according to Legge.
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California Produce
Shipments Heavier
Than Those Of 1930
Interstate shipments of fruits and
vegetables from California for the
first six months of 1931 totaled
141,731 cars, against 126,342 for the
same period of 1930.
June shipments were 37,854 cars,
against 28,421 a year ago. This
shows an increase of over 33 per
cent for June and over 12 per cent
for the first half of the year.
Up to Saturday, July 31, Califor-
nia had shipped 79,856 cars of or-
anges, against 53,009 up to the same
time last year. This makes shipments
this year about 20,000 cars over the
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mark on goods of fine quality is il-
lustrated by the English buyers who
did not want some Western Austra-
lian apples, recently, merely because
they were not in red cases, the Chris-
tian Science Monitor points out. The
red wood cases of high-grade West- A
ern Australian apples have become a
familiar to apple buyers all over the 2
world, and as a result the same ap- H
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Austin, August 6.—Seeking funds
with which to carry on an agressive
campaign to increase cotton uses,
the Texas division of the national
Association for the Increased Use
of Cotton has appealed to every Tex-
an interested in cotton for small
contributions toward the organiza-
tion’s support, according to Lowe
Simons, executive secretary.
Letters are being mailed to bank-
ers, manufacturers, corporations and
individuals in every part of the
state, outlining the aims of the as-
sociation and what it hopes to ac-
complish for the cotton industry
Since the goal is to enroll as many
Texans as possible in the organiza-
tion, in every case the contributions
asked are relatively small, he de-
clared.
Every person who contributes, Si-
mons said, should reap many-fold
dividends if the association is able
to stimulate consumption of the
enormous cotton surplus which
threatens the stability of the entire
south. Potentialities of the organi-
zation were demonstrated when it
persuaded many mills of the south
by a weight equalization, to make
possible the use of cotton bagging
on this year’s cotton crop as a sub-
stitute for jute.
“Economists tell us,” Simons said,
“that industry cannot recover from
its distress until agriculture stages
a come-back. They also say that
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ning costs as much as when cotton
was bringing 30 cents a pound in-
stead of eight or nine cents,” he
added.
Col. A. E. Markham, introduced
as the largest cotton grower in
Tennessee, said he believed his state,
Kentucky and Mississippi, would en-
act acreage reduction laws if Texas
led the way.
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Isle Of Pines Has
Large Grapefruit
Crop Ready To Ship
.....Just as surely as these go on as
they ever have, prosperity cannot ipSinffiM
be long delayed.
world prosperity is dependent upon
America’s prosperity. Since Ameri-
can cotton’ is the leading agricultural
product of the world, the far reach-
ing effects of any movement which
helps cotton climb back can readily
be seen.
“For his own economic salvation,
every Texan should join this organ-
ization.”
All expenditures of the Texas di-
vision, Simons said, will be approved
by the advisory committee, consist-
ing Judge W. A. Keeling, former at-
torney general of Texas; Lawrence
Westbrook, Waco, member of the
Texas house of representatives and
long identified with agricultural in-
terests of the state; and T. H. Da-
vis, vice-president of the Austin Na-
tional Bank.
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Association To Ask
Grain Farmers’ Aid
In Cotton Campaign
Reports received from the Isle of
Pines indicate that the island will
have a large crop of grapefruit this
season. The groves were favored
with an early bloom, which means
early grapefruit. They have had
excellent growing weather, and it is
estimated that the crop will run
from 250,000 to 275,000 boxes. This
is much greater than the crop in
the past three or four years, when
not more than 125,000 to -150,000
boxes were shipped. This year’s
tonnage compares favorably with
the normal output prior to the 1926
hurricane.
It is also reported that shipments
are almost ready to go forward.
There is some talk that fruit will be
shipped during either the first or
the second week in August. This
may be an unusual year for Isle of
Pines grapefruit, on account of the
heavy shipments still coming from
Porto Rico? The latter is faced this
season with a bumper crop of late
fruit; it was estimated some time
ago that it had from 500,000 to 600,-
000 boxes to ship during June, July
and August.
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