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- COTTON CONVENTION HELD ATJIALEIGH Resolutions Adopted At This Convention Means Much . For Cotton Fanners. The South is confronted with a dis aster unless the crop of 1919 he re duced and the balance of the crop of 1918 be protected and held until mar ket conditions justify its sale To en able all people in the South interested in cotton, and nearly all are. to adopt a direct and intelligent method of meeting the situation, this Convention earnestly recommends that the fol lowing plan be adopted: (1) That the crop of 1919 be re duced at least 33 1-3 per cent in acre age, and that the fertilizer on the two third area be not increased; but this does not apply to any farm of less than five acres to the horse: Provid ed, that in carrying out this recom mendation the following ?chr?dule of reduction shall be observed: Any man planting five acres or less to the horse to make no reduction; 6-7 acres, reduce one acre to the hcrsp; 8-9 acres, reduce two acres to the horse; 10-11-12-13 acres, reduce three acres; 14, reduce four acres; 15-16, reduce five acres; 17-18, reduce si* acres. Under no circumstances will any farmer plant more than 1? acres to the horse. (2) That on all the cotton land left out and on the balance of the farm, ample supplies of food, feed and oth er crops be planted. we Deiieve mat tne existing sa nation justifies the holding of every bale of cotton now in the hands of our Southern people, and we urge our farmers not to sell the balance of the present crop for less than thirty cents per pound, basis middling. (4) That to carry out this purpose we call upon the bankers and busi ness men of the State for their hearty co-operation. (5) We recommend that every own er of cotton immediately put his cot ton under shelter, or in a warehouse, and will not permit it to leave the warehouse until the owner shall so ?pecify. (6) We earnestly warn the farmer that if he buys high-priced fertilizer, and a large acreage of cotton is made, be must pay next fall with cheap cot ton for the high-priced fertilixer and other supplies. (7) We recommend to the farmer that he leave uncultivated in cottoc every acre that he cannot reasonably j expect to make enough cotton to yield ? a profit at reasonable prices. We do ? not believe that an acre that produces % lets than two-thirds of a bale will yield a profit to the grower, and every ?uch acre should not be planted In cotton. (8) For the purpose of securing the ?nited co-operation of all financial in terests. and to put this plan into ef fect. the merchants, bankers, land- 1 lords, fertilizer dealer* and other business men are asked to extend credit and to finance farming on the basis of a safe program. Including full production of food and feed, rather ? i- than the production of cotton alone. (9) Tt is recognized that the world ' need for cotton when conditions be come anything approaching normal will, without doubt, be exceedingly great, and it is therefore important that those who can hold their cotton agahist that time, and that In the meantime the situation be held in hand by control of future production. (10) We recommend that the pres ent 'Congress of the United States en act the Smith bill covering the char acter cf cotton deliverable upon cot ton exchanges. TIT. 1 iC.i iL. 1._J. (ii| w e re^ommenu in?i mc lature pass an adequate warehouse 1 bill for the State of North Carolina. (12) We recommend that the tax baaing day for individual taxpayers be made June 1st. (13) We recommend that a commit tee of seven persons representing the farming and business interests of the State be named by the governor to inaugurate a State wide campaign to effect the purposes set forth, such committee to meet immediately, and to have full authority to devise ways and means to carry out the provisions ( Of these recommendations. This committee is authorised to raise money, employ clerical assist ance. and to put on an intensive cam paign and to do any and all tilings , necessary to effect the purposes of this meeting. (14T This organisation shall he known as The North Carolina Cotton Association, and every person present is asked to enroll as a member before leaving. The following committee was ap pointed by the governor: C. D. Or rell, Moncure, chairman; W. G. Clant, Turboro, S. H. Hobbs. Clinton; E. B. Crow, Raleigh; J. Z. Green. Marsh- ' rille; G. N. Newsome, Gpldsboro; 0. ' A. Clark, Clarkton. The committee decided that the as sessment on farmers should be twen ty cents per bale for *11 cotton on band and ten cents per acre for cot ton planted In l?lft, which would en title him to membership In the North Carolina Cotton Association. Fifty per cent of the funds raised are' to be t forwarded by the local treasurer to the central orgsnisau-w Dr. B. W. Kllcore. Treasurer, Raleigh. N. C. Tbeae funds ?n being used tor tftf ?nd ?d-*rttslng l? this State a.. . 1.. WINTER STORES _ FOR HONEY BEE Of Much Importance to Consider Both Quality and Quantity of Food Supply. SUGAR SIRUP MUCH FAVORED Moat Common Cause of Poor Colonial In Spring la Poverty, Directly Dim to Negligence on the Part of the Beekeeper. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The stores given to the bees from the end of one season to the beginning of the next are of the first importance. It la necessary to consider both the quality and the quantity of these ?tores. Quality of Store*. As has been stated, It Is fortunate that In both of the zones where cellar wintering is or might be practiced the natural stores nasally are good. Honeys snch as those from white and alsike clovers, sweet clover, alfalfa, wild raspberry, buckwheat, and wU> ? ?? It la Eu; to Handle Bee* Whan You Know How. lowherb are fine stores tor winter, i while honeys from baaswood, hearts ease (smartweed), asters, goMenrod, - and most of Ae other fall flowers are lees desirable. It Is especially lmpor-1 tant during the period when the bees are In the cellar that the stores shall j be of the very finest quality, and It If [ therefore the practice of many good beekeepers to feed each colony flvt J pounds or more of sirup made of gran ulated sugar late In the fall, after all1 brood-rearing has ceased. This In | stires that the bees will have for thelt use, during the period of confinement In the cellar, stores which will not bring about the condition known at dysentery. In general It may be stated; that honeys from mired sources and j dark honeys, except buckwheat, are to j be avdlded. Honeydew honeys ar?j highly Injurious and In all cases where such stores are present granulated sugar sirup should be fed. Quantity of Stores. From the end of one honey season to the beginning of the next a good colony of bees will need fully 4! j pounds of honey. When the bees an wintered in the cellaf, It Is usual not to have all of this honey In the one hive body in which they are wintered. It Is a good practice to have at leas! 20 pounds within this hive, although! IS pounds will be safe. It Is absolute-1 ly Imperative, however, that the re i maindcr of the 45 pounds shall txj available to be given to the bees soon after they are taken from the cellar, j The most common cause of poor col I onics in ine spring 18 poverty, direct!}: doe to neglect on the part of the bee | keeper. A good beekeeper sees to II that at no time when brood 1b being reared do his bees have less than 1C pounds of store* In the hive, and th< full amount of 46 pounds often wll! an be used, and Is always needed 11 the colonies are to come to full strength on time for the gathering of the full crop. This amount la al ways augmented by honey from sprint flowers, for 4fi pounds of honey la not enough to bring a colony to full strength In time for the main ho?ey flow. PRODUCE AN IMPORTANT FOOD Boys' Club* Are Being Instructed If Hog Raising?Beoomo Soldiers of Commissary. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) By mean* of the hoys' pig dubs thoo sands of boy* under nineteen yean ?re being Instructed In hog raisin! and by this means are helping to pro duce a very Important food. A good general account of thlo work may b? found In "Pig Clubs and the Swim Industry" (Yearbook 1017, Separata 7fi.lV Tour county agent, club leader, or director of extension work at th? State Agricultural college will tell yo? of the work In your own state and how to Join a cltib. The department wants aOT OOO hoys to raise pigs?40, 000 ,-r- already doing It If you II?? ? In the country, the small town, or th? Mburbe of ? city, you can do It, tM _ nil prowl 1 is grippihg south Movement is Spreading Like Wild-Fire All Over The ; Cotton Belt Reports nceirad at state head (Barters, Raleigh, of the North Caro lina Cotton Association during the past few days indicate that the more men t inaugurated at the recent coun ty convention^ held In practically ev ery county in the state last week to hold the unsold balance of the pres ent crop and to reduce the acreage for the coming crop by one-third as compared with 1918 is spreading like wild-lire in all parts of North Caro lina. The bankers, merchants and farmers who attended these conven tions last week let no grass grow under their feet upon their return to their homes. The New Orleans, Hous-1 ton, Galveston, Dallas, Memphis, i Montgomery, Atlanta, Little Rock, | Charleston. Savannah and Blrming-: ham newspapers have been publish ing daily reports of county and State meetings held in these States to ratify ' and put into practical effect the work outlined by the general convention re-, cently held in New Orleans. In fact, | It would seem as If every Southern i State and every county In the cotton belt were vieing with one another to; see which will make the best record In the matter of reducing the cotton I acreage in 1919 and holding the cot ton now on hand for remunerative prices. Alarmed over thU movement, which threatens to break the strangle-hold which the spinning interests of the country, aided and abetted by the bear speculators in the New York market, have had on the cotton market for ?orne weeks past, the Northern press Is attempting to throw ridicule on the movement and to belittle It. A typical Instance of this bear propaganda to eott?? reduction ?erement Is furnished ay an article published In a recent Issue of the Tournal of Commerce. Some suppos ed correspondent from the South Is quoted in that Journal, which has al ways been very friendly to the New England spinning interest*, a* saying: "I take little stock hi resolt^ions to decrease acreage, aa such attempts it reduction are economic heresy. Too well do many of us remember the lays of four and fire cent cotton In the nineties. Conventions were held ; In Memphis and elsewhere to reduce icreage. Solemn oaths were atgned. Jut always the result was the same, j in Increase of acreage, because each irent home with the as me determine- i :lon to increase his own acreage aa >? believed his neighbor waa going :o decrease. Such article* aa these, fufl of mis statements of facts, are calculated to lave Just the opposite effect tn the 3outh from that intended by the an gora. Much water, in an economic vay, has passed under the mill since lie early nifties. The cotton giow irs of the South have learned by sad experience that a small crop with { rood prices pays better than a large Top with low prices. If they had any j loubt on this score Secretary Hps- i let's annual reports, showing the total 1 ralue of the various crops produced >y the South, state the facta only too : Jlainly. The Journal of Commerce | itatement to the contrary, no signed >ledges were required by the cotton convention previously held in the [ (outh. and It was this very lack of i ilgned pledges that foredoom ?d the icreage production movements of pre rlous year* to practical failure. There lever waa a year In which-a eonven :lon of tbta sort waa held that the irreage waa not materially decreased, ilthough the cut in acreage did not tlwaya come up to what the eouven Jon had plahned. Lack of proper or ganizations by States and counties, he failure to get signed pledges to tarry out the objects of the cotrren- j ton and the fact that no subsequent j ?(invention waa held later In the sea ion to receive reports as to the pro* ??bh made by the different cotton crowing States In effecting a rednc- 1 Ion in acreage were some of the rea lona that the former conventions jroved a failure In so far as aceom- I >ltshmeot went. All these loopholes tare been cloaed by the recent con rent Ion, and. In addition, a resolution was adopted by the convention to trand any man In the cotton belt who ?efuses to co-operate as "so lacking n public spirit as to forfslt the eonfl lence of the community In which he Ives" The "economic herasy" at reducing .he cotton acreage, to which th? lournal of Commerce refers, la a fine isunding phrase, bat cotton man aay it will not deceive anybody In the South who stops to think. The New England and Southern milla. when .hey find a stock of goods accumulat ing and do buyers coming lpto the lry goods iparket at ones take steps to reduce their output It Is argued, therefore, that If It la a good thing [or the milla to reduce their output of the manufactured goods, la order to itlmulate demand, why should It not ylso be a good thing for the cotton rowers la the South who produce the raw material? This Is the point of view that the eottoa interests ef Ik* Booth lake ? _ - ) " ' ~ ; "In the Service of Humanity" EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U. S. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. f * / Of *11 the Equitable'* sixty year* of public service, 1918 was, by far the most important and successful. ?<S 4 During that year the greatest epidemic in America's history carried off over 400,000 people, most of them in the young and healthful period of life. Of the $27,799,026 distributed in death claims by the Equit able in 1918, to the beneficiaries under its policies, $5,200,000 was directly due to the epidemic of Influenza and Pneumonia, emphasizing the urgent need of life insurance and of securing it at an early age. In 1918 the Equitable distributed to its policyholders in Death Claims, Endownments, Dividends and other benefits, $65,412,490. It also promplty met all the obligations imposed by the Government dur-' ing the great war. Liberty Bonds to the amount of $54,000,000 were purchased during 1918. To do this it was necessary for the Society to borrow $23,000,000. The following figures are from the Society's 59th Annual Statement, which will be furnished on request: OUTSTANDING INSURANCE, Dec. 31, 1918, $1,924,538,578 Increase over 1917, $169,669,670. NEW INSURANCE IN 1918 $273,223,559 I I 1 m ' t ; ' Increase over 1917, $21,878,907. INSURANCE RESERVE $483,817,197 Balance due Banks, Liberty Bond account 21,000,000 Other Liabilities 18,085,970 $522,903,167 i ???? , SURPLUS RESERVES: For distribution to Policyholders, 1919 $18,016,362 _ Awaiting apportionment on deferred dividend policies 57,967,578 For Contingencies 12,926,813 $88,910,753 ASSETS, December 31, 1918 ' $611,813,920 Through GROUP INSURANCE the Equitable, in 1918, in creased the protection furnished by employers to their employes to the extent of $80,000,000. The value of this protection was strikingly il lustrated during the epidemic. There was a marked gain in policies giving beneficaries Monthly Incomes for life, as well as in Business Insurance, and in policies to cover Inheritance Taxes. There was also a large increase in life policies providing for (1) waiver of premiums if totally disabled, (2) continuous income dur-1 ing total disability, and (3) double payment in case of accidental death. As an extension of this branch of Equitable service,' policies are now issued giving complete accident and health coverage, and pro viding for weekly incomes for disabilities caused by accident and disease. W. A. Day, President J. E. Odom, Special Agent Ahoskie, North Carolina. "
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