The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-20
Act ILL., from the dranatcs success of the genIaio The Lion N The Mouse"
vhichw will be seen at he Grand Opera House, Friday, October 22d.
How Many Yards Of Bagging?

The foreign %spinners have promulgated
an order to the effect that their buyers
shall not buy a bale of cotton that has
| over six yards of tagging on it without
, docking it two pounds per each yard in ex-
cess Of six to the bale.
The export buyers here have been unable
! to bid on much cotton sold here for that
very reason, that is, they have not been
able to bid successfully. Most Of the ex-
port buyers look on the order Of the for
eign ~spinners as al uumitigated nuisance.
These same spinners who have issued
this order have been harping on a harp Of
a thousand strings about the way in
which the Southern cotton is packed. They
have huge photographs Of bales as they
were landed in Liverpool, in ~tatters, with
broken hoops and the cotton exposed and
wasting. They have written theses on
subject for our benefit. They have praised
the Egyptian bale, they have Dragged. on
the Indian bale, but when they tarp on the
bale of the South, there is one screeching
diScord.
1t is so much in keeping with these
Manchester fellows to raise u howl Just
when the farmers of the south begin to do
the very thing that the Manchester Mills
have been wanting done for decades.
When the farmers begin to cover their
cotton decently, why Manchester wants
to dock each bale two pounds per yard.
Manchester has been so s%olictious for
the South, so intent on having the South
pack her cotton right, Manchester has
spent so much printers ink in advice, and
now. when we take the advice she wants to
dock us two pounds to the yard for every
yard over six to the bale.
The way the staple of the South has been
covered is a disgrace. Some bales look like
they had been in the New Orleans breast
works before they leave home, no wonder
they come in for criticism abroad. Some
times whole ends are exposed, with the
bagging Tapping around like the wings OF
a buzzard, If either end tie comes off, that
end goes to pieces, for the tie is all n a
holds the bagging on. Ginners used to sew
these ends but nov tuck the ends under
the ties and release the pressure n the
bale Is ready for Liverpool or any other
seaport town, so far as the ginner Is con-
cerned. Six yards Of bagging won't cover
a bale of cotton. 1t may do so after the
bale is compressed. Now, how In the
name of peace and tranquility is a farmer
to tell who is going to buy his cotton
when he packs it? If he knew Manchester
would get it, it would be all rightto put six
yards on it, since nothing else suits Man
chester, but his cotton may go somewhere
else and no matter where it goes 1t should
be protected by bagging all over.
If cotton was3 cents per pound there
would be nothing of this order from Man"
chester, but when MI. Manchester must
pay the rise of rs cents for a couple OF
pounds or water out his fires, then it is
time to %promulgate an order,
1t may be just and right and all that
but please Mr.. Manchester, the next time
YOU give us advice, please let us know In
advance what you are going to charge US
for that advice.