The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-01-24


the stained cotton answer for this purpose
but by picking it in reference to this use but
little pains need be taken TO keep it clean
from trash, for the Gin viii separate it from
all except the fine leaves &c. which will do
no injury. We think, therefore, thai $50
lbs. can be picked for 5agging with the same
labor that will pick 100 lbs. as we now pick
it. In fact, the Cotton which is wasted, or
is unfit to be saved for sale, will furnish a
large portion of the material fot bagging.
A yard of Cotton Begging would weigh
something less than two pounds. The pre-
sent year cotton for Bagging could be pur-
chased for 5 cents or less. So that about 9
or 10 cents would be the cost of the material
for a yard of bagging.
The advantages to be derived from the
home manufacture of Cotton Bagging are TOO
numerous to be enlarged upon in an article
of this kind 1t will furnish the consump-
ton of about twelve thousand bales of cotton
annually. 1t will prevent, in some degree.
the Cotton Market from being cogged with
an inferior article as has always heretofore
been the case. 1t will cause the payment
of near million annually of our foreign
debt. 1t will tend to lessen the production
of cotton by employing portion ofthe labor
now used for that purpose. 1t Will tend to
infuse spirit of domestic economy and ag-
ricultural independence into the minds OF
our citizens. 1t will enable our Cotton to
be got to market in better order than hereto
fore, for the bagging will be greatly superior
to that now used. And it will, we have every
reason to belive, enable the planter to get
this better article at a cost of 25 per cent.
less than the bagging we now use.
respectfully appeal to the less through
out the State, to notice this important sub
iect. If we mistake not our editorial friends
in Natchez, by conversing with some gen.
tIemen in that vicinity, DR.. Duncan, some
OF the Messrs. Dunbar's, and others, can
give the public some valuable information
on the subject. For we believe that some
of those gentlemen have in some former
years paid the subject some attention, and
perhaps made some valuable calculations or
experiments in it.
A question OF vital importance ARISES, as
to how this enterprise is to be set on foot.
If we wait for individuals to do it it will not
be done. We have understood that proba-
bly, some effort would be made at the pre-
sent session of the Legislature, to get the
State to afford some assistance to a Company
to be chartered for the purpose ofestablish-
ing an extensive mandatory. This is what
ought to be done. The Legislature ought
to do something to assist Agriculture and
Manufacture within our limits; and in this
way it can at the same time do much to the
relief of our embarrassed finances. A Com
pany ought to be chartered, the State ought
to loan it a sufficient sum, reserving ample
guarantee, to set it in vigorous operation
1t ought to be kept free from banking and
all other kinds of politics; but possess sufi-
cient privilege to effect the object intended.
Perhaps an extensive ROPE MANDATORY
ought to be connected with it. We do not
think the rope will answer We'll for bailing
cotton, on account OF it's elasticity. but Cot
ton Cordage for thousand uses can be II ade
cheaper than hemp, and it is worth much
more. The reason that it is moi now manu-
featured more than it is, is that the factories
are not situated where the Cotton grows,
and the price of cotton for cordage is not
Iessened by having it saved with reference
to that use.
Since writing the above we have been
much pleased to observe that Gov. McNutt
has made favorable mention of this subject
in his late message. He seems, however,
indirectly to admit that it will probably not
be quite so strong or durable as the Ken
lucky Bagging. In this we are sure that
he is mistaken. Let it be well twisted and
it will stand more cotton hooks and more
exposure than any Kentucky Bagging ever
used.
We hope this subject will engage the at
tention that it deserves.
Gen. Harrison disObeyed the will of his
constituents in Congress, and they re.
fused to re-eIect him.
In 1916 the great Missouri question con