The age-herald., 1900-04-13
MONEY MADE ON ROUND BALES
Patrons of Roundlap Gin Plants Tell of
 Their Big Profits

The past ginning season again demon- strated the incomparaDle superlorlty oI the American Cotton companys Roundlap bale. Not only were farmers benefited who had their cotton put up in Roundlap bales, but even the patrons of old-style gins profited by the presence of Roundlap competition.
 Farmers all over the cotton states have written letters to the owners of Roundlap plants telling of the profit that has come to them from having their cotton put up in Roundlap bales. MT. w. F. Hartley, Sr., who patronized the Greenville, Ala, plant, wrote February 3, 1900: "The most impor- tant point in the Roundap bales favor to the farmer is the advance in price above that of the square bale. It has averaged the entire past season $2.00 per bale more than the square bale More than s5,O00 has been placed in circulation by the advanced price caused by this one press"
 MT. F. M. Rogers also wrote from Green Vile, Ala: T have received from as to h cent per pound more than the market price here for square bales. The Roundlap bale Is God-send to the farmers, and has saved them thousands of dollars in a few months"
 MT. J. D. Reilly, Centreville, Miss, wrote December f. 1899: Another advantage to the farmers is that Roundlap cotton brings such good price that the buyers of square cotton have been forced to put their prices up. Thus all the farmers are benefited in town where there is Roundlap press"
 MT. F. B. Simonton, Temple, Tex, Mo- vember 12, 1899: 1T have received from S1 50 to $35o per bale more for my cotton than II l had ginned and sold in the square bale Besides I know that the prices the American Cotton company has paid for seed cotton have been the cause of those buying the square bale paying from 10 to bO points more for it."
 MT. J, l.. Wood of VeDus TTav nacap, Der 2 1899, wrote: 1T sold to the American Cotton company at it's East Waco plant the first bale of cotton that was ever ginned by the Roundlap bale system in Waco. and have been selling my cotton in the seed to you since that time. For the last three years, including 1899, I have sold my cotton to your Venus plant. I can safely say that I have made $2.00 per bale more by selling to you in the seed than would have made if I had ginned it into square bales, besides saving a great deal of annoyance with the street buyers. In view of the fact that the custom ginners and those opposed to the Roundlap system say that you do not let the farmer have cotton seed will say that I have always gotten seed when asked for It."
 MT. F. B. Hall, a merchant and planter of Waynesboro, Ga. wrote November 10, 1899, to Messrs. Wilkins & Jones. owners Of the Roundlap plant at that place: "I had one lot of 20 bales turned out by you, and without saying anything to anybody l put the samples on the market. All of the buyers in town bid upon same, think ing it square bale cotton. One of the buy CTS bid 5A cents, another 587k cents, and another 5.95 cents, the latter remarking at the time that he was really bidding a full sixteenth more than the lot of cotton was worth. Without knowing what bids I had received-in fact I did not tell you that anybody had bid upon it-you offered and paid me 65O for the lot of cotton, which was clear difference of B points in favor of the Roundlap bale. I believe that the Roundlap bale is the bale of the future, as 1t effects larger saving of waste, and enables the planter to get a higher price for his cotton''
 MT. Abram Williams, November 10, 1899, wrote Messrs Wilkins & Jones: To-day I had two Roundlap bales of cotton packed on your Roundlap bale press, for which you paid me "A cents per pound, when the same grade of cotton in the square bale here today is only bringing to 7ls cents per pound"
 Mir. J. S. Collins, Pike Road Ala, No- yember H. 1899, wrote: T have gotten for my cotton S2.50 per bale more than I could have gotten for it in square bales I be- lieve that the Roundlap press is the saliva tion of the farmers of our country. I be- lieve that it has saved in our neighborhood of eight or ten miles square 5000 in the price of cotton, and 10000 pounds of lint cotton that would have been lost in sam- pies, theft and weight, and s1 300 in ware house charges, besides drayage and rail- road expenses"
 The England Gin company. which oper- ates a Roundlap plant at England, Ark, December 13 1899, wrote: We are very much pleased with the Roundlap bale press. It is a recognized fact in this community that we have made the price i of cotton from 1s to % cents higher than it would have been. Only this last week when we were out of the market about four days seed cotton dropped from 2h to 2 cents per pound"
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