The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17
PLAN S3O,OOO GIN COMPRESS Third of Sum Already Subscribed.
 - TO HANDLE DIRECT SHIPMENTS Harvey Jordan Talks Before the Farmers Union.
 ~v The Farmers Claim thst ss ger Bale win Be saved hy . Gin cem- press ia Meafsom-
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and also, to save the cost of tare, stor- | age. freight and waste from samplings
 that at present eats into the profit of
 the producer.
 It was voted yesterday, afternoon during the adjourned business meet ing of the Farmers' Warehouse Asso- citation. held at the Commercial Club.
 that this compress be separate cor poration, with no direct connection with
 the assocation's warehouse.
 A number of the members of the as-
 socation, however, announced that they
 would take stock in the new enter
 prise and pledges for Some A2,000 of who Ia promoting the new organza@
 tion. Oyer forty different persons
 have signifled their intention of be- 1 coming stockholders. and all farmers are invited to join th em. Mr. E. IT. Frazer. attorney for the Farmers Gin
 ming Compress Company, will remain
 In the city today, to complete arrange ments for the formation of the new cor- | poration.
 The fifty or sixty farmers and plant CTS who attended the meeting. which
 was called for the express purpose of considering the advisabiiity of build ing such plant in this city were more confdent that ever, that they had at last found the method of compressing | them their deserved profit and procure for their staple product . live mar ket.
 '"rhe farmer can save at least s5 on every bale through the gin compress, as it makes possible direct movement of cotton from the producer to the l spinner" said Harvis Jordan, Presi- sociation and the Farmers Gin Com press Company, which manufactures l congresses. who was the first speaker. '"The saving to the Souths if all the farmers in the country gave up the antequated method and accepted the newer one. would be esO.o00.o0e year. "Our customers are the splnners. not the buyers who are merely useless in- termediaries. There are, in fact, only | two vital interests. the men who raise | 1t and the men who make 1t ready for use in clothing. etc.
 Recently, I attended a conference between the National Cotton Associa- ton and some seventy-two spinnerss the most prominent in New England. They all asserted to me that the only way for delivering cottop st the proper cost was by no means of gin com- presses. There are some fourteen dif- | ferent charges issued against Q bale of cotton that can be saved through this method.
 "one of the heayiest is the freight charge. We have never been able to get carload rates. as we understand | them. The cotton is not being com- pressed so as Co i'll tho car to Its ca- pacity. From the gin to the compress, l 1t now takes four cars to carry what 1 it should take one to move. Then 1t Is unloaded and reloaded and put Into twice as many ears as is needed. But the gin compress allows 1t to be baled tnk 1h0 PnN fa a fS&fsaa me
 with the gin compress, we could ship eighty-six bales, each 800 pounds in weight, in a car that is now filled with twenty-hve bales.
 "When we manufacture line cotton goods with cotton that has been wrapped in jute, nbres from the Jute often gets into the cotton and causes rough places which reduce the value of our goods. Cotton such as can put up with gin compress, baled with cot ton bagging, will bring from quarter of cent to cent more than we are now paying asserted thp spinners.
 Just to show the saving to the far mer or planter. through these direct shipments. made possible by the gin- ming compress. Colonel Maxwell. of Mound, La. the second largest planta. ton owner in the South, compressed several thousand bales. Some he sent to Shreveport to be sold to buyers as previously. For this ge got III cents; the rest he shipped to a Prov idence spinner and obtained 13 cents for it. The freight to Providence was 60 cents a hundred. or e3 a bale. The cost of getting 1t to Shreveport with the storage, the tnBurance and switch ing charges, etc., counterbalanced the $3 charges to Providence. so that by means of the improved cofnpressing he made $7.50 a bale.
 aRaN arfA HHxv Otherwise 1t moulds and weakens the staple. Cotton is valuable to the spin ner, according to the amount and qual- ity of yarn that 1t makes One of the biggest losses the farmer has is the deduction made for rotten cotton. AL ways in figuring out the price. the spinners subtracts so much for the an- ticipated average country damage from the price to be offered for cot son. With careful supervision at the | ginning congresses ali this waste and the consequent loss in price will be saved.
 'Best of ali the contracts which the | spinners will make with us will be passed on net weight. The President of | the Liverpool Exchange promised that | once we had giT- compressed bales to- | gethor with cotton bagging the exs | change would adopt net weight basis. l
 'sThis plan of the farmers to com press their own cotton VIII pc plttery | fought by a number of vested interests. | 1here is now some s25. 900. .o0o invested | in large congresses and the stock m these ia owned by all the large cotton l houses. All these congresses must DC | thrown into the scrap heaps. Besides | che Commission merchants will also be | eIiTninated. Ali will bitterly assail us | ana try to show how absurd IS our | idea. Bue can anything be more ab- surd than our present methods. we ara the laughing stock or the world. sTha cotton from the ignorant people of the Nile and the Ganges IS snippeo in better shape than ours
 PrimatiVe Way Here.
 .Of aii places in the South. Mont s,oyoarv has about the most primative wav of putting up her staple products smali towns in Georgia have better ,sethods. There, for instance. there is none of that old-style one-horse- waaon-one- bale load coming into the nubiic suuare for sale. More should be expected of the capital of great state. .,...
 "Just now there is all likelihood that Congress will pass @ law requiring clasetfieation of cotton In nine grades. Then all parties will be forced to make contracts on these grades. Now not one farmer in a thousand knows what his cotton falls into and the buyer gets the cotton on the basis of as low a grade as he can. With q uniform grading. all dishonest manipulating would be prevented.
 "Every thing must be done to keep up the price of cotton. At ten cents, 1 fha "a orrnap na SnaEa oulv afwfty nno4a l