Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-29
COTTON BAGGING.
Effect Upon the Factors of the Determination
of the Farmers to Use the New Material.
New Orleans Times Democrat.

Effect Upon the Factors of the Determination
of the Farmers to Use the New Material.
New Orleans Times Democrat.
One of the rising young men in the
cotton factorage business was led into
discussion yesterday upon the probable
outcome of the strained position at pres
ent brought about by the cotton bagging
and jute bagging differences.
- am decidedly annoyed by the cir
cumstances. When the matter is lo0ked
al in true light, the contingencies open
until il seems quite q bad business.
cit is quite easy TO suppose that the
matter Of tare is the question, and that
settled, everything will run along
smoothly But there is to-day as much
diversity of opinion between the buyer
and seller of cotton as to the best mate
rial as when the subject was in its in
fancy Athny rate, | am to be the VIC
tim, with good many other factors. [
can t declare in favor of the one article
or the other for the reason that my GUS
toners are identified with both mate
rails The customer who opposes jute is
paired with the one who has stock OF
that material, and if l encourage senti-
ment upon one side or the other L am to
iujure half of my trade.
Suppose, for instance, cotton bag
ging farmer ships me a lot Of cotton for
| Immediate sale a buyer is found for
! the cotton, but he won't have it with
| this covering unless | give HIM the thirty
| pounds tare or the same deduction as If
| the price was regulated by the deduc-
! ton of loss upon jute; or he might put
! the objection that the covering Is not
! good, and he viii suffer loss when the
| bales arrive on the other side. l know
! his demand is very unjust, for he may
! as well say | believe cocoa mating the
! fitting material for covering, and you
/ must pay me for putting if on in place of
! the stuff around the bale now. So
whether it is cotton bagging he wishes or
any other material, at the present way
Of doing business [ am at his mercy. II
ism t the apple, it seems, that Is worth
ANYTHING, but the skin around it.
but this does not get rid of the cot
/ ton | am Offering for sale. I am as OBJ
/ stfnate upon my side as he is on his, and
the farmer is the most determined.
must either sell directly against his in
terest or hold the cotton. OF course,
hold the cotton. Every factor Is dong
! the same on lots covered as mine IS, aDc
the result is we are increasing day by day
! our outlay because we can l collect from
the planter the money we advanced HIN
five aud SIX months ago. How many
factors III town do yOu imagine coull
double the. outlay of their business?
But this is only an example. The
real case IS L am the buyer and the
farmer is the holder, and | have already
bought Now the farmer lets his de
termination take him so far that IN
won I ship his cotton TO me until he cal
put his favorite bagging around it. s.
YOU see l, and not the farmer, am max
ing the fight against jute. The farme
has my money and ! have to wait ill b.
delivers me the article. The principle il
the case is the same, if the facts are
little exaggerated.
Cotton bagging has been thorough.
tested and found TO be superior TO jut
for the purpose for which II is intended
If there is any trouble in disposing Q
cotton covered with the new material, l
will result from the obstinacy and selfish
ness of buyers in England, who naturall
desire chat there shall always be ! MAJ
ket for the jute product Of India.