The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-18

chinery are a guarantee 80.
best methods will be adon,s a5 The
doing the special work of r ih Tor
As they are; but have WE ne ra mill,
the limit of the capacity Of e eaehea
The perfect cotton picked Ot.on'
an open boil of the best stani. iron
beautiful fibre with a br ME
elasticity and strength canab ancy
much better uses than tboas hoe o.
which it is ordinarily put, e ~ .
ordinary practice of PACKING :. Inc
5oo-tb. bales, half covered wi wiz y .
of jute bagging and rusty hog
and then storing these bales
thousands on the uncovered 80
outside of the warehouse and @'.n,
inside, is a shame that is unkno, uO'
even in India. The dark .sS,wi1
weak and lusterless Surat fottsN
far more tenderly handled tbar -. q Z
splendid New Orleans or Mohs ie
and for the reason of this l,,
practiced neglect the non.nrots
sional public hardly know v,bs ',
cotton is. Cotton might be comb na5
here, as it is now largely combsdi !.
France; being there made into ~
most beautiful OF dress fabrics ~:
tating worsted on the one side and
silk on the other. For these Nm.
poses the best raw ecttcn Is vor,L
four or five times as much as a..
which is spun for plain muslin,
while still the French importer ~
American raw cotton gets tb,,
which is little better than the MAJ,
that is here spun into coarse warn,
or made up into brown sheetinr,
The ordinary uses of maupfs,
turing, in fact, abuse eotton shane
fully, and induce the general publ;.
| to undervaltie it much more tho
they would if its true worth was =.
allied. This is one of the ponpi,.
errors to be corrected. Let a NJ
vice in manufacturing examine .
package of perfect cotton. pearlv
white as it is, lustrous and soft 1,
fibres are fine under the mieroseon.
as superhne wool and almost edna
t to silk, and he will believe it worth
1 more than eleven cents pound if
1 silk is worth seven dollars pound
!. 1t will be seen, also, why it is not
: necessary for the French manufac.
J., turer to mix silk with it in order 70
produce the lines of fashionable
y goods now freely imported. In
e short, while many of our European
friends and competitors know the
true value of cotton, we are too gen.
e orally ignorant of its finer Qualities.
a and despise it because it is so com.
:. common.
IS The one striking advantage cot.
y ton has, is in the fast that it is
l. known, counted and handled as a
/. single product-5,ooo,ooo of bales,
, or 100000 of bales, and!certain
: soon to be 100000 and S,ooo,ool
" of bales. Taken together these
= masses strike. with crushing force
n ana many of the cotton grower.
: appear to be almost Eastern fana
c tics in their readiness for persona
f immolation if they can only con
front the world of their enemie
with the force reresented by 1900,
900 of bales of cotton. Nobodl
knows within 5o,ooo.ooo of pound
how much wool is grown in til
country, it being the long standin!
custom to conceal the facts on tina
subject, but every intelligent per
sons follows the weekly count 0
bales of cotton receil ed at TIL
shipping ports and the complet
statement of cotton grown AM
handled at the end of the crop yeat
But cotton lacks much of the valut
and of the interest that should at
tach to it because it is handled S
rudely. Its best qualities and it,
highest capacities are scarcely rec
ognised by the most interested in il
To see it in its best form as a white
unbroken and perfectly clean fibre
it would be thought worth 20 cent
a pound rather than 10 cents, and
would seem a great loss to par
with $4,000 or 100000 bales
the meagre price paid for it whe
sent to Europe.