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6 ROSTER OF NATIONAL AND STATE OFFICERS’ OF THE FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION OF AMER ICA. NATIONAL OFFICERS. C. S. Barrett, president,. Atwater, Georgia. J. E. Montgomery, vice-president, _ Gleason, Tenn. R. H. McCullough, secretary-treas urer, Beebe, Ark. L. N. Holmes, chaplain, Bernice, Louisiana. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. W. A. Morris, chairman, Sulligent, Alabama. Campbell Russell, secretary, Rus sell, Ind. Ter. W. S. Miller, Lake Creek, Tex. James M. Butler, Topeka, Kan. I. N. McCollister, Many, La. STATE OFFICERS. Georgia Headquarters—Barnesville.. R. F. Duckworth —President. W. P. Quinby—Vice-President. J. L. Barron —Secretary-Treasurer. J. L. Lee —State Organizer. G. M. Davis —Lecturer. J. G. Eubanks —State Business Agent. Alabama —I. A. Worley, president, Guin, Ala.; E. J. Cook, secretary-treas urer, Pell City, Ala. Arkansas —J. B. Lewis, president, Jonesboro, Ark.; Ben L. Griffin, secre tary-treasurer, Conway, Ark. Indiahoma —J. A. West, President, Shawnee, O. T.; B. C. Hanson, secre tary-treasurer, Shawnee, O. T. Louisiana —L. N. Holmes, president, Bernice, L,; J. W. Boyett, Jr., sec treasurer, Tanhill, La. Mississippi—J. M. Bass, president; Hazlehurst, Miss.; G. W. Russell, sec retary-treasurer, Hazlehurst, Miss. Tennessee —J. E. Montgomery, pres ident, Greenfield, Tenn.; J. T. Brooks, secretary-treasurer, Atwood, Tenn. Texas —E. A. Calvin, president, Dal las, Texas; B. F. Chapman, secretary treasurer, Dallas, Texas. South Carolina —O. P. Goodwin, president, Anderson, S. C.; B. F. Earl, secretary-treasurer, Anderson, South Carolina. R BRITISH COTTON CLOTHS. Are Being Sent Broadcast to Eastern Countries. Washington, March 13. —The follow ing report from Special Agent William Whittam, Jr., on the cotton manufact uring industry of Lancashire, showing the steady expansion of British ex ports of cotton cloths, should prove es pecially interesting to the American manufacturers and exporters of cot ton fabrics: Lancashire’s staple industry has passed through another year of mar velous prosperity. The projection of new mills still goes on. Recently cap ital was subscribed for two new spin ning mills at Todmorden, Lancashire, to contain 120,000 spindles, and num erous additions are also being made to old established factories. A casual glance at the total of Britain’s over sea trade in finished cotton products is enough to show how she must dominate most of the mar kets in unmanufacturing countries, while closer scrutiny of the returns discloses many matters which ought to command the attention of every American cotton manufacturer and Farmers’ Union ‘Department THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. which every distributer of their prod ucts should study carefully. The growth of the trade in the last two years has been truly phenomenal. The yardage of cotton cloth exported in 1905 exceeded that for 1904 by 604,- 964,200 yards, and the increase in 1906 over 1905 was 64,511,100 yards, a total increase for the two years of 669,475,- 300 yards. The export of cotton yarns in 1905 exceeded that of 1904 by 41,199,100 pounds, and 1906 exceeded 1905 by 2,292,600 pounds, a total in the two years of 43,491,700 pounds. The value of miscellaneous cotton textile manufactures exported in 1905 over 1004 was $150,374, and that of 1906 over 1905 was $7,294,952, a total in the two years of $7,445,326. The increased value of all manufac tured cottons exported in the past two years was $76,442,110. During 1906 there was a net in crease in the outgo of yards of cloth of over 64,000,000. This was due to a considerably enlarged demand for dyed and printed fabrics. The in crease in these colored cloths was, however, at the expense of a falling off in the shipments of gray and bleached goods. The average price per pound of yarns exported was, in 1904, 26.55 cents; in 1905, 24.45 cents, and in 1906, 27.74 cents. It has been said times without num ber that the American cotton trade has but its own indifference to blame for the comparative insignificance of its sales to our neighbors, the Latin- American republics. And considering the great value of our purchases of commodies from these countries the meager share we have in the sales of the most important of their imports is simply amazing to our competitors on this side of the Atlantic. With Cuba British trade is of con siderable, though diminishing, magni tude. With our own non-contiguous territory, the Philippines, Lanca shire’s trade is of fair dimensions. England’s greatest market for cotton goods is India, and India is also the largest buyer of such merchandise of any country in the world, China not excepted. K BAD NURSERY STOCK. Knoxville, Tenn., March. —J. I. Trip plet has secured judgment against the Knoxville Nursery Company, which is owned by Congressman N. W. Hale, for $3,500 in the United States district court, on the ground the fruit trees were not what they were represented to be. Evidence showed that out of a large number of Elberta peaches or dered only one proved to be an El berta. H TRUST’S OFFICIALS WIN. Washington, March. —The fertilizer trust cases, involving the right of the United States to compel the removal of the indicted officials of the fertili zer companies constituting the alleged trust from Virginia to Tennessee for trial, were decided recently by the su preme court of the United States ad versely to the government’s conten tion. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Fuller, who held that the United States circuit court had erred in holding that the indictment was sufficient to justify the removal of the cases without regard to the evidence. The result was the reversal of the decision by the circuit court for the eastern district of Tennessee. COTTON FIGURES. (Columbia State.) Speaking about cotton, its produc tion and consumption, it is interesting to note that on advices being received in New York a few days ago that the National Ginners’ Association report ed 12,716,000 bales of the 1906 crop ginned up to March 2, the price was advanced ten points. Yet that report indicated a 13,000,000 bale crop. Good middling spot cotton is selling for 11 cents or better. Nine years ago, the knowledge of an 11,000,000 bale crop sent cotton below 5 cents a pound. Comparatively, an eleven million bale crop was then as far in excess of consumption, as a 16,500,000 bale crop would have been last year. And, in addition, the farm ers were absolutely without organiza tion, were employing no business methods, and were financially unable to hold their cotton to steady the mar ket. The takings by northern mills for the season of 1897-98 were the larg est up to that time. They aggregated 2,211,740, or about 400,000 bales more than in the year previous. The takings by northern spinners for 1905-6 were 2,349,478, a gain of only 138,000 bales. So the increase in consumption comes from the south and Europe. The southern consumption in 1898 was 1,- 231,841 bales, an increase of 200,000 over the previous year. Last year the consumption was 2,374,225, an in-' crease of more than eleven hundred thousand bales in eight years, and showing greater consumption in the south than in the north. Up to the present time, the Ameri can mill takings, and the cotton ex ported or on shipboard, aggregate a little more than ten million bales. There is nowhere evidence of mills be ing well stocked, except with the com moner grades. American spinners will actually need at least 1,500,000 bales more to carry them to the new crop; Europe will during the same period ask for not less than 2,500,000 bales. So, even with a 13,000,000 bale crop, we are going to fall 1,000,000 bales short of supplying the demand. * DIVERSIFIED FARMS. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) It is to the best interest of every farming community to secure as many of those diversified farms as possible. Every family is an asset in many ways. The producer is a double as set, because of adding to the output from the lands and increasing the number of buyers for merchandise. No family can live in the country without being of some benefit to the neighborhood. It is better to have the homes a few hundred yards apart than to have buildings divided by misel of de serted roadways. Washington is destined to become a great and prosperous agricultural state. It is passing through the for mative period between the pioneer and the small farmer. Old systems are passing away and new ideas are being promulgated. The range of a quarter of a century ago is no more. Stock raising has become a part and parcel of the cultivated farms. With the new era comes the dairy and fruit farm. More people means more roads and larger school houses. A thickly populated community has the modern advantages of telephones, rural malls and up-to-date conveniences. Let the diversified farming spirit continue to grow. THE 1906-07 COTTON CROP. (Atlanta Georgian.) The American cotton crop for the season of 1906-07, as compared with all previous crops, is a bumper yield, and yet it is not of sufficient size to be burdensome. From the first bale mar keted to the present time, it has mov ed from the plantations to the mills at a pace that has surprised the trade, and in greater quantities than the rail roads in the belt have been able to move it in a manner satisfactory to purchasers. Despite this heavy movement, here tofore an influence making for a very low average price, the raw material at no time during the present season has shown decided weakness. All ef forts to break prices to a level below the views of the producer have failed, due entirely to keen competition for an estimated bumper crop, indicating that consumption is keeping pace with the increase in production, though prices are yet below the basis on which spinners are under contract for goods extending well into the com ing year. A decrease in the move ment, however, would soon remedy this, and for the remnant of the pres ent crop much better prices could be obtained. In the Lancashire disrict new mills for the manufacture of cotton cloths are springing up. Nearly twenty new mills have been begun the present year. During the past seven years more than a hundred have been es tablished near Manchester. These new factories, together with a large number of extensions and additions to existing mills, when fully complet ed, will have increased the manufac turing capacity of this district by 10,- 00u,000 spindles. New mills have been built and addi tions have been made to the old mills in the north and the south. The increase in spindleage in the Lancashire district is attributed to the estimates of a record American crop this year. The year 1905, the previous record breaking crop, wit nessed the greatest boom to British spinning in recent years, forty large factories having been added in that year, against only two mills in 1902. Important Information. Since the election of officers in De cember I have failed to get the name and address of all local and county presidents. This is causing lots of union men to miss important information. Organizers and lecturers should im press the necessity of the locals send ing in the names and addresses of their presidents. Remember that you lose by neglect ing this. R. F. DUCKWORTH, State President. THE NEXT STATE METING. The next regular state meeting of the Georgia division of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-eperative Union of America, which was set at the last regular meeting to be held in Atlanta about the last of July or the first of August, will be held in July. The state executive committee has permanently agreed on July 24, 25 and 26. It was the expressed wish of the brethren in discussing the question of changing the time for holding our state meeting, to have it after the crops were laid by and before gather ing time.