The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
THEY LIKE SQUARE BALES.
Cotton Men Not Impressed With the
Style of BaInR.

OOIbOh men NOL 4AnpL655Eu " 4ku LA4e
Style of BannR.
An effort is being made TO introduce q
new method Of baling cotton, which. it is
claimed, VIII do away with COMPRISING
and will make the bales much easier to
handle, as well as afford better protec-
ton to the staple than the present style.
The coming bale, as claimed by the ad-
vocates of the new process, will be cYlln-
drieal.
The cylindrical bales are already being
turned out in Waco, Tex. \ photog
contrasting the old and the new
style of. bales, was received by the
Savannah Cotton Exchange some time
ago, with pamphlet describing tire new
process, and attracted considerable in
tefest among the members. The Rookie
feIlers are said to be interested in the
new process. The Galveston News de
scribes it as follows:
-Four gins tailed to common center
in which is a steel frame costing 1900.
Through this frame run four mandrils.
The power which runs the gins runs the
mandrils in the frame. A boy comes
along grabs the end of a bat as it comes
from a gin and gives it a turn around the
nearest mandri which Immediately
commences winding il up like roll of
wall paper. An iron roller runs against
the cotton on the msrdril, COMPRISING
the WI lite cylinder to density OF about
twenty seven pounds per cubic foot. The
people who have this wonderful scheme
in hand say that they can put the cotton
down to forty pounds.
There are other Rlchmonds in the
feld-not the cotton field. where the
staple is grown, but in the cotton fields
where nothing grows but the other
mans bank account The RembeTt cot
ton roller has been greatly perfected and
- Sc ,Iafv0oa mn "a 70
forty pounds a cubic foot if necessary.
The Rembert bales are twenty-five
inches square by about five feet eight
inches in length. Some of this cotton
will be exhibited here this week.
Several members Of the cotton ex-
change who were approached on the'sub-
ject yesterday said they failed to see the
AS contrasted with the square-cor-
nered bale, they were of the opinion
that the latter has the advantage for
cheap handling. Cylindrical bales would
take up more space, they said, upon cars,
steamboats, and ships, than the square
bales, as the latter can be
While with the cylindrical bales
there must necessarily be intenstices be-
tween each row of bales. The square
bales compressed can be laid in a ship
as tightly as sardines in a box This, it
is said, could not be done with the cylin-
dfical bales.
President Cam, of the cotton exchange,
expressed himself somewhat upon the
above line.
81 would not like to pass Judgment
upon the cylindrical bale,p he said,
without first having an opportunity to
examine it. Another objection that
can forsee to a bale pressed as de-
scribed, is the difficulty of securing fair
sample. If the bale is given the density
described, all cotton men can see at once
the difficulty in securing fair sample from
hard compressed cylindrical bale. There
is an undoubted tendency in the direction
of an improved cotton bale. There is room
for improvement, but it will be
brought about very slowly af-
ter experiments in various direc tions.
The great need now is for a standard
size press box. AS it is now, cotton bales
are produced of all lengths and sizes,
causing great difficulty in placing the bales
aboard ship so as to economic space
A movement by the cotton exchanges of
the country in favor of a uniform press
box is not unlikely"
''It will be long time before the COM
away with said Col. w. w.
Gordon. THE tendency now
is to greater use of the congresses and
the recompressing of the larger portion of
the compressed cotton received from the
interior. Under the present system of
chartering vessels the tendency is to
economic space as much as possible
1t is TO the advantage Of the shippers to
use every available foot of space aboard
the ship. A movement to make rates by
the cubic foot, instead of the 100
pounds, is not unlikely. AS the
present square cornered bale can
be compressed and loaded aboard ship
more simultaneously than a cylindrical
shaped bale, it seems to me that all the ad-
vantages are with the former"