Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-24
BAD BAGGING AGAIN.

Last spring the cotton growers Of the Mis-
sissippi valley were informed that an article
of hemp bagging had appeared in the mar
ket that was so injurious to the cotton it was
intended to cover, that the value of each bale
of cotton to which 1t was applied would be
diminished by its presence. After seeing
some of this Objectionable article, both dry
and soaking in water, we wrote an article in
the APPEAL cautioning our cotton growing
readers against reducing the value of their
staple by using the Objectionable bagging.
1t is with some surprise and much regret
that we find quite an important number of
the bales now coming in is covered with this
mischieyous material. The bagglng is not
bad because it is made of hemp, every ex-
perienced cotton man knows that hemp bag
cling is good, serviceable article-it is be-
cause the hemp of which the bagging is
made is inferior, it is not properly
manufactured, and is wholly unfit for
use in connection with material like cotton
In consequence of being imperfectly worked,
the coloring matter natural to the hemp has
not been discharged. The consequence of
this is that when bales covered with it lie out
in the rain, or are in any way exposed to
moisture-a thing inevitable during transit
to market-the coloring matter is dissolved
and impaired to the cotton that lies on the
surface of the bale. There is, as we write, a
quantity of cotton on show at the cotton ex-
change taken from bale covered with this
Northumberland bagglng. If the reader
Elll pour little cotfee-grounds over his shirt
front, he will see exactly how this specimen
of cotton looks that is now on show at the
cotton exchange. Such is the eolor of the ex-
terror of the cotton when the bale is stripped,
therefore there 10 no hiding what has been
done where the coffee-spot bagging is used.
Nor is this all the story this bagging tells of
itself. Beside the cotfee-spotting, the stripped
bale appears covered with innumerable NOR
sells of straw. Take a straw mattress, on
which lazy loafer has slept seven years,
gnd sprinkle a few handiuls Of the
comminuted straw over the bale before
the bagging is put on; set every hand in the
plantation to rub these morsels of straw well
into the cotton-so as to show how it appears
when 1t has been jammed in cars and boats
and rolled about on its way to market-and
you will see another aspect the cotton pre-
sents when it is examined on being offered
for sale. This effect ia owing to the pressure
of the chives, which imperfect manufacturing
has lett; among the material, and by the
presence of which alone, the greenest hand
may detect the cotfee-spot bagging. 4 third
sign finishes off the description of this delec-
table article, which is bought so cheap and
costs so dear-it is heavy, far beyond the
weight cotton bagging should be. Gentle
men In this city, who haze recently travelled
in Georgia, state that large amount of this
coffee-spot stuff was sent to that and
adjoining States In Georgia, from
one dollar and half TO Two dollars and
half was deducted from every bale
packed in the coffee-spot bagging.
The consequence was that the planters would
use it no longer, it became unstable, and a
large amount Of it was shipped off for sale in
Mississippi, Tennecsee and Arkansas; so our
country readers may be on the lookout ac-
cordingly. Cotton manufacturers will not
touch cotton in this bagging if they know it;
when they End cotton they have bought has
been damaged by it, they will claim for the
damage. Our cotton buyers have strict in
st,gctions from the millsj to watch against
bales covered with this tagging, the New
York and some other cotton exchanges have
passed resolutions declaring cotton SO packed
understandable, SO that its value will not be
that of regular merchantable cotton. On our
cotton exchange desk lies notification, with
many signatures, asking the president to
call that body together to consider
the subject of this coffee-spot bag