The Conway log cabin., 1901-01-15
GROWER AND SPINNER.
Have Mutual Interest in Proper
 Care of Cotton.


 cotton from the time they com mence picking until they sell. From the time cotton comes up un- til it blooms, they work hard and give it their best attention and care. But from the time they com mence picking, up to the very hour they sell, they are careless and neglectful.
 Two thirds of the low grade cot ton that is sold is low from careless picking, handling and ginning. I venture to say from close obser- vation that at least one third of the cotton raised is injured by careless ginning Take last fall and this fall and see what beautiful weather the farmers have had for picking, and yet, what a small percentage of the crop gathered and marketed thus far, will run from strict good middling to middling fair. There is no excuse for this. It is all due to bad handling and ginning.
 There is no cotton mapped i'll the boil; this comes from bad gin ming. I have seen cotton picked clean and then piled up on the ground in the open air with no protection from heavy dews or rain, and then taken to the gins to be ginned. What is the resulte It is gin cut and looks bad and dingy. In this case the ginner is not to blame. Let northern man travel all over the cotton states and he will be surprised at the small number of cotton houses he will find on the farm or planta- ton.
 Then again, half of those he finds will be anything but clean. Let him then visit the gin houses and over half of them will be dirty and dilapidated. He will then be surprised to see cotton thrown out of the gin after being baled and left lying on the ground very often for weeks, exposed to rain and of ten damaged from exposure, be fore being sold. After the farmer sells his cotton it is roughly hand led by the railroads and steam boats.
 I say without fear of contradic ton that there is no product that comes out of the ground that is as badly handled as cotton. From the time it is picked to the time it gets to the mills, it is badly hand led by the farmers, the ginners, the country merchants, the buyers, the congresses, the railroads. dray- men and last but not least, the screwmen on the steamers. All this isradically wrong and should be remedied.
 This will never be done until a new system is adopted.
 have been close observer and have made a careful study of the cotton business in all of it's branch es; therefore. feel that I have a right in criticizing as severely as 1 do. I challenge anyone to contra dict my statements. Fronr~my long experience Ill the cotton busi- ness have noticed that in nearly every branch of the business it has been, and is purely self interest.
 How few people from the pro ducer up to the cotton buyer, (with some exception) have the interest of the manufacturer at heart?
 The time is coming when the spinners who have been paying for all the sport will have the gang to time.
 The coming of the round bale will do more to eradicate tie evils I have mentioned than all the ai'- ticles that may be written on the subject have been commenting upon.
 This has been the main reason of my advocating the round lap bale. I believe . this bale should be wrapped in lowells or heavy osnaburgs, for it would make d neat and clean package, which would be handled with more care than the square bale. All branch. es of the cotton business. from the fnr,,,ar t,r, ruucf ha tanofrf thaf rnt