The age-herald., 1899-09-23

good outfit of five 70-saw gins to the press, and can do better with a larger battery. This can be done at cost not exceeding forty cents all told, while the old process costs him not less than $1.25 including bagging and ties. In case the ginner wants to buy and sell cotton on his own account most of the railroads of the south will al- low him compress of 81a cents per hundred weight or 4212 cents per bale. If he wants to sell his cotton to the American Cotton company it allows him premium of $225 per bale over the value of the same cotton in square bales at his locality, thus giving him $l2o net after paying royalty of 20 cents per hundred weight for the use of the press, maintenance of the same and regu- lar inspections. The gin plant can be run with less labor and less cost of insurance than the old system, and if cotton is stored Tour times as much can be placed in the same room
 There is no chance of mixing bales or samples, owing to the perfect system in use and no chance of losing cotton by country damage, as water will not permeate the bale, owing to all being excluded in baling The street buyer, sampler and cotton thief owing to complete covering, have no chance to get their 'augers in,' to use common expression, as there is no necessity for cutting the covering under the American Cotton company's samplng system.
 From a manufacturers standpoint the
 
 to mention, but the best evidence of the advantages derived by the mills is that cotton finds ready sale at a good pre- mium over the square bale, and new mills are now being erected which will do away with bale breakers. opening lappers, etc. There is no necessity for middlemen as the mills buy direct from ginners or from the American Cotton company, and be sure of getting what is ordered.
 'The warehouseman who has handled the roundlap bale is loud in his praises He has no turtle backs to handle, no lost ties to replace, no damaged bales to pick and Inspect, and he knows that the weight stamped plainly the burlap covering is the actual weight of the bale, and will not vary. He can handle to the mills, load in cars wagons with half the help for merly required, and his warehouse is not filtered up with cotton and dirt, as under the old system. The howl of the middle men, 'town-crop' handlers, compress stock holders and operators is but natural and expected, as they are hurt, and badly hurt. But who can blame them for trying to get up combines, compress trusts, regulation sized press boxes, laws to prevent the op- eration of the round-bale system, and for telling all kinds of stories about hard cores (which do not eXisO, etc? If they did not see the handwriting on the wall, they would not be so vigorous in their efforts. But to the producers, gfnners, carriers and consul mers the only four parties who are inter- ested, the situation is entirely different, and especially to the producer who, by reason of the low price of cotton, is com pelled to adopt new and cheaper methods or give up the fight. The new system has come at a time when the planter most needed it, and those who have taken ad- vantage of fhe system are free to state that but for this improved method and it's econ- omizing advanlages it would be impossible for the cotton planter to continue on the farm"