The Mena star., 1899-08-31

tt Manufacturers Record, givinc K. % perience with his Huntsville n,. says:
 We are ginners and cotton
 lecturers, and operate ten 7o.saw " and four presses. For two va,. '~ have operated ronndlap bale nrass the American Cotton Go. Tha year we handled 2,2O0 500 pound h.' S This year with good crop in tb;s
 cinity, we expect to put up so@ 10, 100 bales. Our experience has Q most satisfactory, both from glnass and a manufacturers standpoint s.s the fact that we have so laroelr aa creased our business is ample ey;s.I ID that the planters are well sat;sss1 The universal opinions expressed \ all customers is that they arc than satisfied. And why shonld sOe ,s be otherwise? We gin and comprassay $l and pay the planters one.eigh" cent premium on their crop, or if buy in the seed. as is now the rnla h. we pay them on this basis. and ,S'S1 sell their load and get spot cash for;. thus saving much labor formerly nas cessary. Under the old process ,has paid S3 for ginning, made trip to x. gin with their load, generally had ss leave it and wait several days for ois ming. ana then made a second trin ta. the cotton and seed and another trs to market. In the spring we furnish them seed at the same price we nsia when ginning was done, and they a.s then sure of getting good seed io, planting, and only what they wan, Hence there is no waste. Any plan,a. who has dealt with us will certify to the fact that he can better afford ,0 haul cotton twenty to thirty miles to our gins rather than gin near homs with the extravagant old-fashioned method. He can not only save time but make money by so doing. and ces paid for all the cotton be briEps whether he sells at once or holds hjs crop. He also appreciates the sayingiu having the bale sampled once instead of many times. and he further under. stands that he gets better grade than he does on the old country gtns, owing to the superior machinery used for cleaning. etc. So much for the planter
 Now let us see how the pinner stands. First he can gin, cover and compre 500 pounds of lint in eight minutes, using good outfit of five 70. saw gins to the press. and can do bet ter with larger battery This can be done at a cost not exceeding forty cents all told. while the old process costs him not less than Sl, 9, 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 allow him compress fees of eight and one half cents per hundred weight. or fortv-two and one. half cents per bale If he wants to sell his cotton to the American Cotton Co. it allows him a premium of S2.25 per bale over the value of the same cotton in the square bales at his lo cality, thus giving him SL 25 net after pay ing royalty of twenty ceLts per hundred weight for the use of the press maintenance of the same and regular inspection The gin plant ( e be run with less labor and less cost Q .o. Asur ance than the old system. ant E Abttor is stored, four times as muchf kn b' placed in the same room
 There is no chance of mixing hale or samples, owing to the perfect Isys tenn in use and no chance of looSinl cotton by country damage, as watel will not permeate the bale, owing t all air being excluded in bailing. Ths street buyer. sampler and cotton thief owing to complete covering, have nt chance to get their anger in, to use common expression. as there is no ne cessitv for cutting the covering nude the American Cotton Co. s sampllnl system.
 From manufacturer's standpoint the advantages of the system are toI numerous to mention. but the best eyi dence of the advantages derived bl the mills is that cotton finds a readl sale a good premium over the squar bale, and new mills are now be!nI erected which will do away with bal breakers opening lappers, etc. Iher is no necessity for middlemen, as tn mills can buy direct from ginners Q rom the American Cotton Co. and D sure of getting what is ordered.
 The warehoussman who ha handled the ronndlap bale is loud II his praises. He has no turtle backs to handle. no lost ties to replace, n damaged bales to pick and inspect and he knows that the weight stampe plainly on the burlap covering is th actual weight of the bale. and will no vary. He can handle to the mill .loa m cars or on wagons with half ta help formerly required, and his ware house IS not Uttered up with cotto and dlrt as under the old system The howl of the middlenen, 'towr crop handlers. compress stock holder and operators is but natural and eN pected. as they are hurt. and dadi hurt. But who can blame them 10