The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-27
WHAT BECOMES OF ALL
THE COTTON WE RAISE
Many and Various Uuses to Which the King of
Crops of the South are Put
Nowadays.

Not long ago a man noted for
broad grasp of the industrial and
commercial situation said: This is
the age of cotton. 1t is just as tar
in advance of the iron age as the
iron age was in advance of the stone
age"
Cotton to-day plays bigger part
in industrial development than any
other commodity except steel. 1t en-
ters into the manufacture of more
products of the soil than any other
product of the soil. Eliminate cot
ton, and the mere stoppage of spin
dies and looms would be but tritie
compared with the paralysis that
would visit countless other indus
tries.
'.Why has new record for con-
sumption been established? Where
has the cotton gomez"
..The world has just begun to find
out the countless uses to which cot
ton is put. There is hardly an indus
try of Importance to-day that does
not pay tribute to King Cotton. The
man who makes trip on a train
hardly realizes that the railroads OF
the country are among the largest
consumers of cotton. Yet cotton
duck is the basis of the air-brake
hose; cotton duck is the basis OF
the enameled ceilings; the plush
chairs. are of cotton; the leather
seats in the day coaches and smok-
ing compartments are cotton. An
expert in the employ of one of the
leading car building firms in this
country says that he believes the
railroads and trolley lines in this
country alone require an amount OF
cotton cloth equivalent to a quarter
OF million bales.
'tOur information leads us to place
an estimate of 100000 bales annu-
ally as the present amount of cotton
required for motor cars.
''It would be difficult to estimate
the amount of cotton required yearly
for the harvesting and marketing of
our great cereal crop. Thousands of
bales annually go into the making OF
bags. We believe the, largest individ-
.ual contract for cotton goods in the
world is the one placed annually by
the International Harvester company.
1t calls for millions of yards of cotton
duck to go into the manufacture OF
aprons, carriers and elevators for
thousands of reapers and binders,
headers and thrashers, and a recent
authority places the output through
out the world at 100000 new ma
chimes annually, and this calls for
SO 900, 900 yards of cotton duck run
ming two to three pounds to the yard.
Electricity is the most powerful
agent in the world, but it cannot get
along without cotton. Millions of
miles of copper wire annually owe
the perfection of their insulation to
cotton yarns or tape of cotton cloth.
1T is estimated that the sales in the
New York market alone amount to
100000 pounds of yarn weekly to
the electrical industry.
To-day the service uniforms of
the armies of the world consist of
khaki cloth or something similar.
The United States alone requires
about 100000 yards of eight ounce
khaki cloth annually. When one
comes to figure out the amount of
khaki required for the military es-
Establishments of Great Britain, Ger
amny, France, Russia and other
countries, the, total is likely to reach
staggering proportions.
''The navies of the world use tre-
mendous amount of khaki and other
duck. 1t is said that more cotton is
used by our battleships to-day than in
the days when sailing vessels consti-
tuted our men of war. While the
sails have disappeared cotton duck
is so extensively used for awnings,
coverings for launches and similar
purposes, that the amount of materi-
al required is even greater now than
in the old clipper trade.
another demand for cotton cloth
has been created by the increasing
use of cotton cloth for growing to-
bacco under shade. Several hundred
acres of land in Connecticut are COW
cred in this manner. One large to-
bacco company uses 100000 yards
of cloth for it's shade culture in Flori-
da and Cuba. The same company
also uses 100000 yards of cloth
annually for making bags for two
of it's popular brands of smoking to-
bacco.