The morning news., 1888-09-24

The southern people are pushing ahead IN
thor efforts TO find a covering for cotton
which will answer all the purposes of jute
bayging, and at the same time cost less, and
it begins TO look like they will succeed.
Quite number of substitutes have been
suggested, and some Of them have been put
10 the test, but no one of them is known to
be satisfactory in all respects. The use
of osnaburg, as suggested by farmers
club Of Wilkes county, this state,
does not appear TO be practicable, for the
reason that while il would cost less per
yard than juta bag ging, it also weighs less
per yard ar,l, being narrower, greater
number of yards would be required to
( cover bale Thus, six yards of t.o-pound
/ jute bagging at IA cents a yard would
( cost 81 cents, and if the farmer sells his cot
( ton at 10 cents pound, he gets SL20 for
the bagging for which he paid "a cents. On
the other hand, nine yards of osnaburg at
cents yarl would cost ~ cents, but the
weight Of the nine yards is only 4 2 pounds,
therefore when the osnaburg is sold with
the cotton. al ~ cents pound, 1t would
bring only ~ ceats, or - cents less than
was paid for it.
The cotton bagging manufactured at the
Lane mills, in New Oh leans, would be
much better substitute than osnaburg, but
a serious objection to it is said to be that it
does not protect cotton nearly SO well as
jute bagging.
The suggestion that secondhand jute bag
giDg Le used seemed TO be the most practi-
cable one made, but it has been ascertained
that such baggIng cannot be returned from
England without being made subject to
duty.
The pine straw bagglng which covered
bale of cotton received in this city the other
day solves the question, in the opinion of
many. Its color is about the only objection
to it, SO fac as has been learned, red ink not
showing to very good advantage on it. 1t
is stronger than Jute bagging, and is said
TO possess every desirable quality of jute
bagging. As has been stated, the farmer
may sell the jute bagging ON bale of cot
ton at profit Of 81 cents, even when he
pays II cents yard for it. Now, it would
require the same number of yards of piue
straw as of jute baggiug to
cover o rsl--thet s. gx wards
fCaa o.s ~.rov .5~9eiuz. It ia-
G.ia v ouiu -oe. about q .e1t,s yord, OF 1
cent. - e1ouzn .7 eoe e. hala It would
,te. d :. ire -diou o-cr t'to r5unla > y.rd.
ind il oli r-iyh ine v.tion a 10 calts would
bring y q, o. Il > more than tho farmer
paid for IT,
But q very important consideration con
nected ',5h it Is that 10y its manufacture,
a commodity that j. put 10 virtually no use
i'll tbs south would be utilized TO the advan-
tagc OF the farmers. aud the adoption of the
baggiug would keep very great sum Of
money ia the south that now goes out OF it.
1t would seem that if any satisfactory bag
ging can lie made in the south fro n south
ern material, it ought to be adopted, even if
In its manufactured state it should cost as
much as jute bagging at present pric S. 1t
would open up new aud vast industry in
the south.
An encouraging sign with regard to bag
gIag is that those interested in the trust are
beginning to sque1l. Heretofore they have
cumplacently pccSeted their enormous
profits, and the attitude of the press ard
people has caused them no concern. We
notice in very recent number Of the New
Orleans Times DcmOcrpf however, a
communication from one interested in the
trust, in which a good deal of growing
against tile press is done, and in which an
attempt IS made to convice the farmers that
they had better stick to jute baggng Is the
trust becoming uneasy