The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-08-29
THEIR INTERESTS IDENTICAL.
Farmers, Ginners and the American Cotton
Co. Share Roundup Savings.

Certain southern papers are publish
ING articles designed to prejudice
against the roundlap bale those who
do not know their origin or purpose.
They are paid for by the square bale
compress associations, whose interest
is not that the farmers cotton shall
be baled in the way that will bring
him the most money, but that it
shall be put up in bales that will have
to be compressed. The people of the
south are not to be caught with such
chatf. The favor with which the
roundlap bale is received wherever it
has been introduced is due to its merit
alone, and to the fact that the produc-
err receives more money for his cotton
in this form than in any other pack
age. He will continue to use the
roundlap bale so long as he finds 1t
profitable, and no longer.
The interests of the farmer, the gin
ner and the American Cotton Company
are identical.
The. farmer has his cotton put in
roundlap bales because the savings
which accrue in their marketing ena-
BILE the buyer to pay him a premium
sufficient to pay the baling charge and
leave him substantial profit besides.
Much as the compressmen would like
farmers believe otherwise, the Amer
lean Cotton Company has no purpose
further than to secure for itself a fair
share of these savings. Its interests
lies in enabling the presses which it
builds to bale as much of the southern
cutton as possible. In order to insure
this result it is essential that cotton
growers find profit in the use of these
presses ,or they would not patronize
them. To this end, and in order that
the full sayings of which roundlaD
bales are capable might be realized,
the American Cotton Company became
a buyer of rOundlap bales, paying for
them a premium above the market
value of the square bales. Thus the
rental which the company charges for
the use of it's presses by ginners who
prefer lease to purchase is paid by
neither the farmer nor the glnner, but
by the cotton buyer, whether the
American Cot'on Company or some
other and it is paid out Of the saw
ings.
Beyond insuring that cotton in
roundlGp bales shall in all cases sell
for the premium to which it is entitled
and which is paid for it at the mills the
does not go. Its cotton
does not require that
single bale of cotton be sold to the
American Cotton Company. Glnners
are free to buy or lease presses, and
every roundlap bale, with all of its adj
vantaoes. can be bought in open COM
Detion by any responsible buyer
and handled through to the mills, with
an of the resultant saving, but where
ever the ordinary cotton buyer declines
tn nurchase roudlap bales on this basis
the American Cotton Company STANDS
pledged to buy them.
The farmer who patronlzes round
Ian Gin plant may retain as complete
control over his cotton as II he took IL
TO an old-style Clubhouse. If be does
not wish to sell his cotton he can have
# custom ginned and keep his round
Ian bales until such time as he Is ready
tn DISPOSE of them, with the assurance
hat they are always salable at the full
value of the cotton. plus an in
nreasad urice because it is in roundlap
haIes If he likes he can arrange with
the roundlap ginnnr to ship his cotton
~ +he American Cotton Company to
" beld for him and, under all ordi-
1o,,I, circumstances, draw against 1t to
On ,,a,. cent of it's value. The Amerl-
~ ooI Cotton Company has in this way
i I,+n assisted those who desired to
LA their cotton. 1t makes no COM
mission charge for such business.