Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-09-02
THEIR INTERESTS IDENTICAL.
Farmers, Ginners and..American Cot
ton Co. Share Roundlap Savings.

GOH TO- 0udIe 1OuH0Adp OdNAASS'
Certain Southern papers are pub
fishing 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 chaff.
The favor with which the roundlap
bale is received wherever it has been
introduced is due to it's merit alone,
and to the fact that the producer re-
ceives more money for his cotton in
this form than in any other package.
He will continue to use the roundlap
bale SO long as he finds it profitable,
and no longer.
The interests of the farmer, the GIN
ner and the American Cotton Company
are identical.
I The farmer has his cotton put in
roundlap bales because the savings
which accrue in their marketing en-
able the buyer to pay him premium
sufficient to pay the baling charge and
leave him substantial profit besides.
Much as compressmen would like to
have farmers believe otherwise, the
American Cotton Company has no
purpose further than to secure for it
self fair share of these savings. Its
interest lies in enabling the process
which it builds to bale as much OF the
Southern cotton crop as possible. In
order to insure this result it is essen
tiaI 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 savings of which
roundlap bales are capable might be
realized, the American Cotton Com
pany became a buyer of roundlap
bales, paying for them a premium
above the market value of 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 ginner, but by the cotton buy
er whether the American Cotton
Company or some other and it is paid
out of the savings.
Beyond lnsuring that cotton in
roundlap bales shall in all cases sell
for the premium to which it is entitled
and which is paid for it at the mills,
the company does not go. It's cotton
agreement does not require that sin
gle bale of cotton be sold to the Amer
lean Cotton Company. Ginners are
free to buy or lease presses, and every
roundIap bale, with all of its advan-
tages, can be bought in open compe-
tition by any responsible buyer and
handled through to the mills, with all
of the resultant sayings, but wherever
the ordinary cotton buyer declines to
purchase roundlap bales on this basis,
the American Cotton Company stands
pledged to buy them.
Tn6 farmer who patrorizes a round
lap gin plant may retain as complete
control over his cotton as if he took it
to an old style gin house. If he does
not wish to sell his cotton he can have
it custom ginned and keep his round
lap bales until such time as ne is ready
to dispose of them, with the assurance
that they are always salable at the full
market value of the cotton, plus an In
creased price because it is IN roundIap
bales. If he likes he can arrange with
the roundlap ginner to ship his cotton
to the American Cotton Company to be
held for him and, under all ordinary
circumstances; draw against it to 50
per cent. of its value. The American
Cotton Company has in this way large
ly assisted those who desired to hold
their cotton. It makes no com mission
charge for such business.