The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-06-09
AuNIFORM BALE.


tiYes OF twenty-five congresses nt tht
state was held in the city hall May 2itt
/ and an organization under the name Of
The Mississippi Compress Association
was perfected with the followingaficers
{ A. S. Jonston, Meridian president; Joe
/ Newburger, Grenada. and + + Becker
Brookhaven, vice-presidents, and A J.
/ Dosseft, Meridian, secretary and treas
urer
/ A committee was appointed to con
slider the present system Of baliBg cot.
ton and to offer suggestions for a sys.
TEN that would give more general slt
/ istaction. After some deliberation the
4 following report was made and unani.
nously adopted
Your committee on improvement
/ in cotton bale beg leave to submit the
following report
We find, and it is generally admit
ted that the American cotton bale is
now delivered at It's final destination in
dirty uneven, ragged condition and
on account of this condition, the cotton
consumers are discriminating against
the American cotton, thereby inAict-
4 ing hardship and losses on the produc-
Hers, and on all interested in the cotton
business. The cotton consumers are
demanding, and transportation com
panies are insisting upon improve
ments, and we are now confronted with
the necessity Of devisiug means to ac-
complish a uniform bale of cotton
Your committee respectfully rec.
onmends commercial bale Of cotton
packed in a rectangular box Of uniform
size, and so perfectly wrapped in stout
bagging, ends sewed with strong twiua,
and bound with strong ties thotit win
reach its destination, wherever shipped,
in good and clean condition
Your committee in its efforts to de-
termine what was advisable for us to
recommend, had its attention directed
to the recent experiments in this agita,
tion in every cotton growing state in
south except Louisiana and Mississippi
Tt finds that the American Cotton
Growers Protective Association, ofTex-
ps, the Texas Compress Association the
State GinneB Association cf Texas the
Interior Texas Cotton Association COM
posed Of buyers, producers and handlers;
the Texas Cotton Exchanges, the Mari
time ASSOCIATION Of Galveston and
New Orleans the interior Compress
Association Of Alabama and Arkansas,
Georgia aud the Carolinas are all urg-
ing and recommending a uniform press
box 2iz54 inches
Your committee naturally s01ght
the reason why thispress box e1X5l had
been SO unanimously adopted and fol-
lowing this line found from recent ex-
periments completed by compresses in
Waco and Temple, Texas and Eufaula,
Ala. Columbus, Ga, that cotton pack
ed in boxes measuring inside 24x54
inches, showing an average density af-
ter compressing in the ordinary com
press in the usual manner, and at the
regular rate Of speed, Of about forty
pounds to the cubic feet The bales
were fully covered by the bagging and
were in every respect perfect shipping
packages
Forty pounds to the cubic foot is the
greatest average density ever gotten
out by any compress process whatever.
not excepting india and Egypt. Densi-
ty cheapens ocean freight rates and il
the ginners will make their boxes "a
inches vide by J4 inches long inside
measurement, they will turn out a bale
that can be shipped abroad at a lower
freight rate than any othersize package
yet produced. It was not apparent on
the face Of it why so slight an altera.
| tion in the size Of a bale should make so
| great difference in its density but the
mathematical demonstration Of IL is
aftera.ll quite simple
The records Of the Maritime Associa
citation at Galveston. Texas. show that
bales 28xj6 inches boxes after compress.
sion and delivery at that 7ort average
32x62 inches giving a superficial area
Of /. 084 square inches whereas the bale
made in boxes 2ix54 inches averaged at
Galveston 26xjG inches or, 456 super.
| hclal inches. The pressure Of the com
| press in both cases is the same namely
/ 500 tons, or 3. 900, 600 pounds On the
/ bale; therefore, by dividing the area Of
the bale in inches into the pressure in
pounds. we find there Is g5s pounds
I greater pressure per square inch on the
smaller bale than on The larger one
! The remarkable increase, the density
/ produces no increase whatever Of strain
on the gin press boxes or machinery or
/ is demonstrated by the fact that alI Of
! 24xJ4 inches cotton made in Texas were
/ turned out BY boxes which had been
used during the entire past season in
making bales 28x5s inches and no alter
alton whatever was made 10 them ext
lcept to line them with two-inch planks
/ and cut down the follow blocks nor
was any additional steam used
1.-THE Sierra Steamship Co, ont Of Calves
toni for Havre made rate On this
| quantity Of this cotton of2s cents per
/ 100 pounds against a rate q 40 cents
1 per 100 pounds for the cotton compress
I ed in the old style boxes a difference in
favor Of 2Jv58 inch boxes Of 1S cents