It infested all U.S. cotton growing areas. It devastated the industry and the people working in the American south. The boll weevil became a serious pest. Cotton growers were going bankrupt because of the drought and the boll weevils. Economic losses were significant due to the relatively high cost of growing cotton.
The outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 prevented southern cotton growers from exporting their crop to European cotton mills. The "buy a bale of cotton" movement aimed to help growers by providing demand for their cotton. The campaign targeted people of comfortable means and urged them to buy a bale. With cotton selling at ten cents per pound, a 500-lb bale cost $50. The argument was that the cotton could then be warehoused until the next season, when the price of cotton would certainly have risen, and the buyer could sell his purchase for a ten to twenty percent profit. President Woodrow Wilson set an example by buying several bales in September 1914.
From the south, like always. Lincoln's main Republican rival was Salmon P. Chase. Chase's daughter Kate, a lovely girl and the belle of Washington, married a very rich but extremely eccentric and alcoholic Rhode Island mill owner named Sprague, largely to obtain Sprague's money to finance her father's bid to replace Lincoln as the Republican nominee in 1864. Before the campaign got started details began to emerge about Sprague's treasonable dealings with southerners to obtain cotton, and he was far from alone. (Lincoln solved this potential cabinet scandal by naming Chase Chief Justice of the Supreme Court). Every Yankee officer in the south was trying to "save the bales" and make his fortune. A single bale might be worth a month's pay for a general. Many Yankee expeditions into Rebel held areas were for ostensible military purposes but the real impetus was to try to "confiscate" some cotton.
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Farmers' cooperatives were common among fruit growers in the west.
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Sunsweet Growers was created in 1917.
Bradenton Growers was created in 1919.
Bradenton Growers ended in 1926.
Stemilt Growers was created in 1964.
Dakota Growers was created in 1990.
The population of Stemilt Growers is 1,500.
United Grain Growers was created in 1906.
United Grain Growers ended in 2001.