The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-05
NEW COVERING FOR COTTON.
Tue Substituiion of Sugar Sack for Jute
BagGtng.

Tue Substituiion OF Sugar Sack tor Jute
| Bagging.
New YORK, Aug. 31.-The Cotton
Exchange, as already reported, has Of
licially decided that the use of sugar bag
cloth in covering cotton is not countr-
ary to its rules. 1t was rumored on the
Exchange yesterday, though nobody
cared to stand sponsor for the rnmor,
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 a
| damaging competition in any encroach-
ment OF other kinds of bagging, con-
| sequently they had induced the cotton
manufacturers to unite in a protest
against the use of sugar bag cloth, and
| address it to the Board. Mr.. Richard
Siedenberg, of the Cotton Exchange,
acknowledged that letters OF protest
! had been received from number OF
Eastern cotton spinners protesting
against the use of sugar bag cloth.
But he knew nothing of the motives
that prompted this move, and presumed
they were entirely disinterested.
"On the other hand, he added, "the
Board received number of cOmmunl-
cations from farmers and cotton grow
ers asking whether it Disseminated
| against the use Of sugar bagglng and
intimating preference for the latter.
1t was in answer to these applications
pro and con that we passed our resolu
| tion of the 205h and issued in the form
of letter to all our patrons. We de-
sire to make no discrimination what
{; ever, but to leave them to their own
| election in the matter. Oaly when
there is serious defeat in any partic.
| ular sort of bagging would the Board
| care to interfere. For example, last
May it was constrained to give notice
that pine straw bagging was obi lection.
| able, inasmuch as it stained, and there.
| fore, deteriorated the cotton covered
by ut in the event of its becoming damp
| or wet. This was in answer to nun.
! erous bitter protests that came to u.s.,
especially from European customers,
which made immediate action 1mpeca-
tive"
"How does the Farmers Alliance
stand in this matter?" was asked.
"We have no otlicia! notice as to how
they stand as a body The only CON-
munlcation of this sort was received
from secretary of the Farmers ALI
| ance In Charleston, s. g., in which he
put the same question that had been
put by other correspondents from the
agricultural districts and intimated the
same preference for sugar bagging. He
| thought that it would be hardship to
be forced to use jute."
"To what do you attribute this pref.
erence for sugar bagging?'
"Well, it is cheaper, in the first place;
and in the second place, being more
tightly woven it is said to protect tae
| cotton better tnan jute.'
Mr.. Walter T. Miller, secretary of
the Exchange, was in substantial ac-
cord with the president Sugar bag
gipg," he explained, "can be obtained
| BY the cotton dealers either at second
or first hanis. In either event 1t Is
cheaper than jute. Second hand, it
| may be as much as 3 cents a yard
cheaper, which would be about l8
cents a bale. You see that Is con-
sideration. Tagging that has been
through steam process Of cleaning
and may readily be utilized for cover
ing bales of cotton"
"Have any new crop bales been coV'
cred with the sugar bagging?'
mo, it Is too early for that. But
now that the Board has declard itself
there is no debut that the sugar bag
giDg will come into extensive use
Naturally, all purchases of cotton made
| through the New Y ork Exchange are
subject to the rules of the Exchage and
no customer can obj .ct to the bagging
which the Exchange approves"
A pioneer trader in cotton who has
been in the business for twenty tiTe
years assured the reporter that the
more tightly woven material was pre-
ferred by the planters of the South, not
only because it was cheaper, but because
1t protected the cotton from dust and
ashes and also, to a moderate degree
from the cinders which occasionally
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
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