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Show URGE HOLDING COTTON FOR PRICE ATLANTA. Ga.. Nov. 23. Governors of eight southern cotton states have signed a proclamation urging farmers, merchants, mer-chants, bankers and businessmen to form organization and hold the 191S cotton crop for not loss than 3o cents a pound, middling mid-dling basis. The proclamation, an indorsement of recommendations made hy the cotton states official advisory marketing board, terms such a price "equal to the cost of productkn plus a fair profit." The proclamation was signed by the governors of Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Caro-lina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Mississippi, Mississip-pi, Alabama and Florida. |