The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-21

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enough for the Empire State, and prob
ably for North Carolina SO it can be
readily seen that with the way things
now stand there will be enough cotton
bagging manufactured by the 31st day
of December to cover one-half of the
entire crop, or about 100000 bales.
If every farmer was member of the
Alliance, and every member was to use
strictly cotton bagging, this would leave
half the crop without covering, and a
substitute would have at once to be Sc
cured However, the Alliance, while
It's strength is great enough to crush out
of existence the great trust, has not un-
fortunately every farmer within its fos-
tering folds, and there will necessarily
be some who will use material other than
that the Alliance prescrbes, so that after
all, even within five months from the
beginning of the fight, the farmers have
marshaed their forces and have almost
iu the strong meshes of their bagging
their foes.
The difference in the cost of the cotton
jute and the cotton covering has been a
rather sore subject to those who have
wavered in their support of the views
Of the Alliance, and to many it seems
| that the price is so much in favor of the
| jute that preference should be given it.
If any doubtful one will read the follow
ing statement, the accuracy of which Is
incontrovcrtible, and then doubt for an
instant the wisdom of the charge, he
will be man whom neither facts nor
figures can convince:
The cost of the jute bagging is 10
cents per yard, and the cost per bale is
60 cents. For this 60 cents, at s cents
per pound, as the bagging weighs one
and one-half pounds per yard, or nine
pounds per bale, the farmer receives 70
cents when he sells his cotton. On the
the other hand, the cotton bagging costs
u cents per yard, or 75 cents per bale,
and as it weighs three-quartcrs of
pound per yard, it turns out four and
onc-half pounds per bale. For this, at
same price, the farmer receives IS
cents per bale. The difference in the
cost of the bagging Is Is cents per bale in
favor of the jute, and in sale the
difference in its favor is 36 cents; so
the total sum in favor of the jute is
ffty-one cents per bale. This
in round figures would be s4,Oso,0oo
lG favor of the jute bagging for
a single crop. These figures may appear
large 10 the casual reader, but by using
the cotton bagging they are more than
overcome, and the result would in few
years be simply wonderful.
To begin with, if bagging for the en-
tire crop is made at home, it will require
the consumption of 100000 to 100000
bales of cotton annually, which, at a
low estimate, is home consumption
enough to insure the price of cotton one
fourth of cent, and this, on the entire
crop, would be $4,000, 900. So, to be-
Gin with, we have over $4,000, 900 per
year in round figures, which emphasizes
the fact of the superiority of cotton bag
glng. But this is nothing. 1t IS not so
much in increased price as in keeping at
home and in circulation the $5,000,000
which have been annually blowing into
the Golfers of foreign corporations that
the people of the South will be benefited.
Again, the manufacture Of this bagg!ng
hin tttees7irst sEsT7 rceees4rt.esc
an outlay of over 81, 900, 600 to construct
manufactures alone. So in this the bene-
fit received will be very great. Also to
manufacture this bagging will be re-
CURED the services of thousands of
skilled laborers, and the money paid
them>in wages will in itself be of sufti-
cient quantity to be felt in the channel
of commerce. IL diversified industries
lies the salvation, and the ultimate great
ness of the South, and the manufacture
of this bagging will enthuse interest,
and will cause the erection of manufac-
lures for rope, sacks, and everything else
that can be made of cotton.
When the Farmers Alliance have
beaten the bagging trust, there will not
elapse many months before the cotton
seed oil trust will be tackled, and unless
the indications are wrong, another year
will see the Alliance mills in operation,
and see hundreds of thousands Of dollars
being saved from this source.
Another thing which the Alliance
claims as great advantage in the use
of cotton bagging is that the price at
which it is now being manufactured
gives, according to the calculation Of
one Of the best experts in the State,
profit of nearly 100 per cent. This,
with competition, will be so reduced
that a few years will see cotton bagging
being manufactured and put on cotton
at a cost that will be primarily cheaper
than jute. At any rate, however, the
Alliance is determined and if the jute
trust is not beginning TO quake it is com
posed of men who have become salts
fed with their enormous accumulations
and are willing now that their occupa-
ton be gone