The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-04
A NEW COVERING FOR COTTON.

Interest i'm the Substitution of Sugar
Bagging Jute-Jute Manufacture
ing Companies the Chief Opponents
OF the Innovation.
New York Journal of Commerce.
The Cotton Exchange, as already re-
ported in these columns, has officially
decided that the use of sugar bag cloth
in covering cotton is not contrary to it's
rules.
1t was rumored on the Exchange
yesterday, though nobody cared to
stand sponsor for the rumor, that the
matter had come up before the Board
OF Managers, through the action of the
various jute manufacturing companies,
which saw the threat Of u damaging
competition in any encroachment of
other kinds OF bagging, consequently
they had induced the cotton manufac-
turers to unite in q protest against tho
use of sugar bag cloth, and address it
to the board.
Mr.. Richard Siedenberg, president
Of the Cotton Exchange, acknowledged
that letters of protest had been receiv-
cd from a number of Eastern cotton
spinners protesting against the use Of
sugar bag cloth. But he knew moth
ing that prompted this move, and
presumed they were entirely dis-inter-
ested.
"On the other hand" he added,
"the board received q number of COM
munications from farmers ard cotton
growers asking whether it discrimi-
mated against the use of sugar bagging
and intimating n preference for the lat
ter. 1t was in answer to these appli-
cations pro and con that we passed our
resolution OF the Goth and issued it in
the form of a letter to all our patrons.
We desire to make no discrimination
whatever, but to. leave them to their
own selection in the matter. Only
when there is a serious defect in any
particular sort of bagging would the
board care to interfere. For example,
ticc that pine straw bagging was OBJ
~jectionable, inasmuch as it stained and,
therefore, deteriorated the cotton COW
ering by 1t in the event Of it's becom-
ing damp or wet. This was in answer
to numerous protests that came to us,
especially from European customers,
which made immediate action impera-
tive"
CHOW does the Farmers Alliance
stand in this matter ?" was asked.
"We have no official notice us to how
they stand as u body. The only com
munication of this sort was received
from the secretary Of the Farmers Al
lance in Charleston, S. c., in which he
put the same question that had been
put by other correspondents from the
agricultural districts and intimatcd
the same preference for sugar bag
ship to be forced to use jutc."
ITO what do you attribute this pre-
ference for sugar bagging?
We'll. il is chpnppr in tbn. first
place and in the second place, being
more tightly woven, it is said to pro-
tect cotton better than jutc."
Mr.. Walter II. Miller, secretary OF
tho Exchange, vas in substantial ac-
cord with the president. Sugar bag
ging," he explained, can be obtained
by the cotton dealers either at second
or first In either event it is
cheaper than jute. Second hand, it
may be as much as three cents a yard
cheaper, which is about eighteen cents
a bale. You sec that is u considera-
tion. Bagging that has been actually
used to ship sugar in is passed through
a steam process of cleaning and may
readily be utilized for covering bales
of cotton"
cred with the sugar bagging ="
wv W. 'op NV
o that the board has declared itself
there is no doubt that the sugar bag
ging will come into extensive use.
Naturally.all purchases of cotton made
through the New York Exchange are
subject to the rulers Of the Exchange
and no customer can object to the bag
cling which the Exchange approves"
A pioneer trader in cotton who has
been in the business for twenty-five
years assured the reporter that the
more tightly woven material was pre-
ferred by the planters of the South,
not only because it a cheaper, but be-
cause 1T protected the cotton from the
dust and ashes and also, to moderate dc
gree, from the cindcrs which occasional
ly fall upon bales of cotton in cars or
when piled up at the station and set fire
to them. And in any case, he added,
they did not care to be dictated to by
any combination of manufacturers. but
wanted full liberty to use any material
they preferred.