The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-04
COTTON BAGGrNG.

COTTON BAGG1NG.
Circular from the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange. ~ >
The Directory Recommend That a Proper
Difference be Made IN the Iare- +.
4 Notable Victory for :,
Cotton Covering. =
Considerable interest was aroused
in business circles yesterday afternoon,
awaiting the action of the Board of
Directors of the Cotton Exchange on
the question of the reduction of the
tare on cotton covered with cotton
bagging::'a This all important question
has been a subject of consideration
with the management of the Exchange
during the past year, and now that the
Alliances have brought forward a
bagging that will stand full test, the
board has adopted an independent
view of the situation, which it be-
heves to be for the best interest of all,
and which it purposes submitting to
the Exchanges of the United States
aud Europe.
. The circular, unanimously adopted,
reads as follows:
In baling the cotton crop of the
United States there is now annually
employed about 100000 600 yards Of
jute bagging. The jute fibre is a
foreign product, and it's manufacture
into bagging is conducted chiefly be.
yond the limits of the cotton States.
The annual cost to the growers of
cotton for the bagging used in baling
their cotton crop of 1000, 900 bales
may be stated at say SIS, 600, 600.
For the purpose of prompting home
manufactures and increasing the use
and consumption of the great staple
crop of the cotton States this Elk.
change has instituted inquiry into the
qualities and merits of a cotton fabric
made specially for baling cotton. The
results of this inquiry discloses very
conflicting but extensive and valuable
opinion.
A number Of manufacturers in the
cotton States are reported to be pre-
pairing to supply an important proper
ton of the covering required for baling
the cotton crop Of the current year.
There is naturally a great and COM
mendable desire to Isl the product of
ouryOwn fields and of our own factories.
This Exchange is in entire harmony
with
THIS PROGRESSIVE IDEA,
and will now, as heretofore, encourage,
promote and sustain any practical
measure promising general benefit to
the cotton interests of its great con
stituency in the cotton States. The
probable annual requirement of one
hundred and twenty thousand bales
of cotton for making bagging, the
employment of thousands of operatives
at loom and spindle, and the conse
quent retention at home and disburse-
ment among u w people of the
SIS, 600, 900 now annually sent out of
the cotton States in payment for
foreign jute, are partially developed
facts, that must command our serious
notice. The interests concerned are
general in character. They are of
great magnitude and are pertinent to
our own especial friends and people.
2Inothe matter Of fabrics suitable for
baling cotton there should be compe-
tition, at least, and that competition
should be on terms of equality, This
leads up to the point that the jutei
covering on a bale weighs 8 pounds
more than the cotton covering. To
sell cotton covered and iute covered
bales for the same price for the gross
weight Of bales, irrespective ofqbag-
lging, would be to the
PREJUDICE OF THE LIGHTER COVERING.
/ 1t is apparent then that there can
not be any fair or equal competition
without a distinct recognition of the
important difference in the respective
weights Of the bagging used. In
recommending that a proper adjust
ment of existing differences be made
in favor of a suitable cotton fabric, as
against the iute fabric, the opportun-
ity for competition of the different
fabrics is ~equitably established, with
out prejudice to the seller o. buyer of
1cotton; it is, therefore,
Resozved, That copy of these views
be sent to the several cotton exchanges
of the United States; to the Cotton
Brokers Association in Liverpool,
England; to the Bourse in HaVre.
France;to Bremen, Amsterdam, Genoa
and and all other foreign cotton com
munities and associations in Europe.
STANLEY O. THOMAS, Pres't.
HENRY G. HESTER, Sec'y.
New. Orleans, May 81, 1889.
The above we take, from the Times
Democrat of the 22nd ult.; and to
which reference was made in our last
issue. We cheerfully give place fol