The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-16
COTTON REPORTS.
Each Ginner to Keep a Record OF
Every Bale Ginned.
WORK OF THE SPECIAL AGENTS.
Five Statements Are to Be For
warded to the Census Depart
ment During the Cotton
Season.
COTTON REPORTS.
Each Ginner to Keep a Record of
Every Bale Ginned.
WORK OF THE SPECIAL AGENTS
Five Statements Arc to Be For
Season.


every effort to secure accurate state
mentS as to the number OF bales OF
cotton produced each year, and in or
der to get this information, says the
Columbia State it has been decided to
furnish ginners with books in which
they may keep a record Of every bale
handled by themselves The depart
ment arrived at this decision, upon
the suggestion of special agents OF
| the census department and upon re-
quests from ginnerS themselves. The
books have beei printed and will be
sent to the agents for gratuitous dis
tribution
The gin book should be rosta! daily
and should show record OF every
bale ginned. This will provide a new
and uniform system Of bookkeeping
and will facilitate the efforts Of the
department to keep track OF the pro-
duction Upon the accuracy with
which the books are kept this year de-
pends the success of the innovation,
and if the department is satisfied with
this years work the gin books will Be
published every year.
These are blank books, properly
ruled, with spaces in which the ginner
may record the number Of pounds Of
seed cotton sent him, the number Of
bales and pounds Of lint, the pounds of
cotton SEED, and finally notes as to
the cost Of ginning. In keeping books
for the government, the ginner will
keep record which will be valuable
in his own business, and at the end Of
each day his earnings will be right be-
fore him.
Where a person gins for himself he,
should, for the purpose of this record,
open an account With himself as scus-
TONER" and thereby provide COM
plete record Of all cotton ginned for
himself as well as others.
The work of collecting cotton sta
tistics during the last ginning season
through special agents appointed by
the government proved quite satisfac-
tory both to the producer and TO the
manufacturer. There will be i've cot
ton reports this season. TIE first
will show all cotton ginned from the
growth of 1908 up to and including
Aug. 81. The second will show all
cotton ginned from the beginning OF
the season to Oct. is; the third all
cotton ginned during the season up to
and including Nov. 18th; the fourth
report will show all cotton ginnes
from the growth Of 1908 up to Decem-
Der 18th. The fifth and last report
will likely be nade during the first
portion of March, 1904, and will show
the total crop Of 1908.
The information given is held as
strictly confidential, and the opera
tions of individual ginners are not
divulged. Upon the joint cooperation
Of the cotton growers, ginnerS, and
local agents must depend the success
Of the census sofice in this inquiry,
and it's ability to render this great
service to the southern people and to
all interested in the cotton staple.
Cotton statistics collected through
the commercial system. however ao-
curately compiled, fall short of the de-
mand of both producer and manufac-
turer-frst, in that as they cover the
quantity of cotton marketed between
Sept. l of one year and Aug. 81 of the
following, they are not statistics OF a
crop grown in any one year; and Sec
ond, in the liability to error involved
in statistics so compiled.
Nothing short Of official reports,
made sufficiently early to form basis
of prices, will entirely satisfy the cot
ton grower or manufacturer. A cot
ton man Tuesday said it is gratifying
to know that the south has the asslS-
tance and cooperation Of the govern
.ment in bringing about the result
they desire-an undertaking the sue
cess of which now depends upon the
cotton growers and ginnerS themselves.
Realizing that the collection OF the
data for these reports is made at a
season when the ginners' time is
greatly taxed, and appreciating the
necessity for prompt returns, the cen
sus office has located, in each county
containing 10 or more ginneNes, an
agent, who will visit each glnnery IN
the county and secure report OF the
quantity Of cotton ginned up TO GER
tain dates In undertaking the fire.
ouent and hurried reports now sought,
it is Of vital importance that the re-
turns be made with absolute un!torml-
ty and that all be received at WASH
ington at one time.
This result could not be expected
from individual requests made by mall
Of 30, 900 ginnerS, at time when they
are engrossed in their ginning work.
Furthermore, the census Office must
be kept advised Of all changes in the
management and operation OF these
estab ablishments, and secure returns
from all new and revived plants. 10
accomplish such results, it becomes
necessary for the office to have local
representatives who shall be charged
with the duty Of keeping in close
touch with the ginning industry IN
each county, and Of promptly report
ing the quantity Of cotton ginned.
lis Dis De Man"
Jpdpe Audenreid of Philadelphia