The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-04-14
MADE MONEY ON ROUND
BALES.
Patrons of Roundlap Gin Plants
Tell of Their Big Profits.

ton ComparY's Rundlap bale.
Not only were farmers benefited
who had their cotton put up in
Roundlap bales, but even the
patrons of ld,style gins profted
by the presence of R6undlap
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. Mr.
w f Hartley: Sr., who patronized
the GreenviIIe, Ala, plant, wrote
Feb 3, 1900: "The most impor-
tant point in the Roundlap bale $
favor to the farmer Is the advance
IN price above ttat of the square
bale. 1t has averaged the entire
past season 81. 90 per bale more
than the square bale. More than
S5, 600 has been placed in circula>
tion by the advanced price caused
by this one press. "
Mr. + Nj Rogers also wrote from
Greenvillc, Ala: 81 have re
ceived from Z to ! cent per pound
more than the market price here
for square bales. The Roundlap
bale is Godsend to the farmers,
! and has saved them thousands of
dollars in n few months"
Mr. j ID ReiIoy, CcntreviIe,
Miss, wrote Dec 5, 1899:
"Another advantage to the farm
ers is that RoundIap 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 IA
town where there is II Roundlap
press. "
MIR + b Simmons, Temple Tex,
Nov l3, 1899: 81 have received
from 81 so to So so per bale more
for cotton than If | had ginned
and sold IN the square bale. Be
sides | know that the prices The
American Cotton Company has
paid for seed cotton have been
the cause of those buying the
the square bale paying from 10 to
30 points more for it,
MIR j l. Wood, of Venus, Tex,
Dec ,, 1899, wrote: 81 sold to
The American Cotton Company
at its East Waco plant the first
bale of cotton that was ever gin
ned by the Roundlap bale system
in Waco, and have been Sc ling
mvscotton in the seed 10 you since
that time. For the last three
ears, including 1899, have sold
my cotton to your Venus plant.
| can safely say that | have made
-. O0 per bale more by selling to
You in the seed than | would have
made if | 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 RoundIap
system say that you do not let
the farmer have cotton seed | viii.
say that | have always gotten
seed when | asked for it. "
Mr. p b Hall a merchant and
planter of Waynesboro, Ga, wrote
Nov 10, 1899, to Messrs Wilkins
d Jones, owners of the Roundlap
plant at that place: 81 had one
lot of 20 bales turned out by you,
and without saying anything to
anyoody | put the samples on the
market. All of the buyers in
town bid upon ZANE, thinking it
square bale cotton. )ne of the
BUYERS bid 81 cents, another
5.S7! cents, and another 5.95
cents, the latter remarkiug at the
time that he was really bidding
full sixteenth more than the lot of
cotton was worth. Without
knowing what bids | bad received
in fact | did not tell you that
anybody bad bid upon it-you
offered, and paid me 6 so for the
lot of cotton, which was clear
difference of 80 points in favor of
the RoundIap bale. | believe that
the Roundlap bale is the bale of
the future, as it effects a large
saving of waste, and enables the
planter to get higher price for
his cotton"
Mr. Abram Williams, Nov 10,
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