Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
How the Cotton States Can Save
100000 a Year--HOw?
BY Packing Your Cotton in Small Bales
You Save Sampling, COMPRISING.
Handling With Hooks.
You Save Freights; You Save in Labor, in
StOrage-Gain from One-FOurth to One
Half Cent per Pound.
HERBERT POST, SELMA, ALABAMA.


The following paper on ''Baling the Cotton
Crop was read by request before the National
Farmers Congress, at Montgomery last year.
This paper, together with one read by Major R.
J. Sledge, of Texas, entitled Handling the
American Cotton Crop was considered so ex-
haustive and instructive that resolution
unanimously adopted petitioning Congress to
enact legislation in harmony with the sugges-
tons presented in them:
Now that the Farmers Alliance has gained
such victory over the jute trust, showing the
world that they mean business, the question
arises what else we can accomplish for the COM
mon good. The action of the Alliances is now
being watched by the whole country, hoping that
the victory gained viii not be lost, but solve the
question whether cotton bagging shall rule or
the jute trust carry their point. Already the
iute trust are preparing for the contest of 1890,
and the Alliance must checkmate them at every
turn.
If the devil fights with fire. let us use fire
also. and / believe the Alliance viii win.
One OF the most. if not the most important
movement for the cotton states now to under
take is the manner in which the farmer prepares
his cotton for market. So far the use Of cotton
baEgIng has met with great success and only the
difficulty of obtaining supply has prevented 3
more general use, 10 the exclusion of iute.
II is painful fact, noticed by Northern and
Western men, that no crop grown reaches the
market IN such q sloyenly way as the cotton
crop, the loss aCCruIng millions of dollars.
up the cotton IN small or quarter bales, of the
same size the hay so universally used
throughout the United States. ! am as well sat-
isfed that this VIII be done as am that the sun
VIII rise tomorrow morning. Those who adopt
this plan will reap great benefit, as the follow
ing article viii show.
At the request OF some Of the members of our
Alliance have prepared this paper to be read
before the county Alliance upon the subject of
small bales Tor cotton versus large ones.
At the exposition in Atlanta in 1881, Messrs.
Dederick & Co., of Albany. N. Y, had on
hiblt ion q cotton press of the same style we use
for hay. which put up the cotton in small bales
lexis inches long, weighing about one hundred
and twenty hve pounds. or quarter bales. Ever
since seeing this done have often thought Of
the great advantage the cotton grower would
gain by adopting this plan.
Let me say at the outset that have no axe
TO grind, - nor am agent for any particular
press, but simply desire, from my many years of
experience IN pressing hay in small bales, to
use my voice and pen TO induce the cotton grower
10 use the same plan for putting his cotton in
the market. This has worked wonderful
change in the hay trade of the country, and
can see no great reason why the same good may
not result TO the country IN the use OF the same
method for cotton. especially so, the results
are TO be gained by the grower and not the mid
die men. In the present state of the finances OF
the Southern farmers. the amount saved to them
and badly needed, would il a few years make
the cotton states the richest and most independ-
-ent of any part Of the United States.
] offer these suggestions for discussion in the
different Alliances during the coming winter,
hoping they may provoke thought which VIII re-
suit IN great good 10 those most concerned. II
there are any good. valid objections TO the plan
1 have never heard them, but venture the sSser-
tion that once adopted the present plan of send
ing cotton 20 market win be q thing of the past.
This plan is proposed that the farmer may get
the whole benefit and not be compelled to pay
out his hard earnings to others who have no
further interest IN his success than to get their
slice Many cotton growers WI be astonished