The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-29
PRESENT GINNING
SYSTEM At TTACKED
MONOPOLY ALLEGED N HAND
LING COTTON ~ STATE Bf
TIE EXPORTERS

cotton seed oil interests. the result
il is asserted being detrimental both
10 the farmer end the exporter in
the poor quality OF cotton raiseh
4 biz bearing upon the subject
( will be presented n the next ses-
sion OF the legislature. which il pass
J ed viii compel the farmer TO put
: his cotton through the custom gin
+ before Offering either the seed or
/ the ginned cotton for sale.
It is asserted by those back Of
/ the bill that the present methods OF
! handling cotton is threatening TO be-
come a moncpoly which will oblige
the farmer 20 sell his cotton in
the seed. the buyers then dumping
the days purchases into a general
warehouse 10 await the ginning pro-
cess and in so doing. the differen;
1ualities become so hopelessly mix
ed that grading the cotton after il
has been ginned, in order that II
NAV be shipped 10 the spinning
mills is made exceedingly y difficult
and not infrequently, as many %
four different grades have been to
gether in a single bale.
II is asserted tina: both the spin
ming mills and the cotton grower
suffer losses owing 10 this, not to
mention the exporters who are 50
handicapped that it is next to i'm
possible to grade TIE cotton acci-
ratcly That they are obliged To-
bug the ginned cotton after ths
varying GRADES have been freely diff
fused is one OF the contentious upon
which the proposed bill is founded.
Custom Ginning Method.
The remedy proposed in the bill
constitutes revival OF the custom
ginning method whereby the seed
and int are separated before either
Is sold Thereby, ne farmer ma
command the standard price for his
cotton, the grade showing up in uni
form size, but when Obliged TO sell
to the cotton seed oil gins, owing 10
lack Of competition from independ-
ent gins, the former may dictate
the price which the farmer Sener
ally accepts rather than haul his
load Of cotton back to the farm.
I there 10 hazard the sprouting of the
seed IN .hc cotton, while awaiting
more favorable price. This can be
| ubyated only by the possession o.
warehouses by the farmer which Is
expensive and dIe tn this, the price
( offered on bis Mrst trip TO marke'
! generally Is accepted. Otherwise
when he possesses the balcd cotton
he may haul it to market and re-
] J,n tArin
/ bale to his farm to await an In
crease in price, as the baled cotton
NAV be preserved Indefinitely with
ont the expense of placing it in
warehouse
The spinning concerns in Liver
pool and elsewhere which hereto
J fore have lookoi upon Oklahoma
cotton iayorably ara said to be pro-
testing against the lack of uniform
/ itv in the length of fiber sent them
! by exporters IN the local field. The
spinning process requires that the
machinery !e set to catch GER
. tain length Of fiber, for instance,
one and OncsiXtccnth inches, and
whenever a fiber, through incompe-
/ tent grading. Easscs through the ma
/ chinery, t fails 20 catch on, it fails
thrnuoh the machine and becomes
waste matter
Appeal Of Exporting Firm.
The cotton exporting firm of w.
Turner q Co. with offices in the Ok
latoman building, makes the follow
ing appeal 20 the farmers over their
own signature:
Re the proposed bill to make il
illelal u sell seed cotton before
it is ginned and put up into bale
or bales:
In reference to this the follow
ing extract from letter just re-
ceived from one of Liverpools large
buyers Of spinning oottcp should be
of interest:
$50 far, )ur spinners like tne
Oklahoma cotton, but We have heard
recently Of overland samples coming
to the market and the merchant
refuses 70 touch them owing to the
poorness of style. We find cotton
very mixed in the bale as reIard
staple and with all ;he sampling IL
the world you are not sure what
you are forwarding to your clients
1T is not only the farmers who
feel the effects of 'he way the bus
mess is troniing through custom
ginning having lost ground, owing in Z.
a great measure g the OIL mills /
gradually becoming the owners OF /
the majority of the cotton eirs in /
thi5 state. but in the end it will be .
the growers OF cotton who will suf- .
fer, as the death of custom ginning .
can only mean lower prices to tho .
farmers when tie Gil mill ginning /
monopoly realizes its power to die
tate.
nsderng the Farmers.
we should like 10 ask is il fair .
10 the farmer to have HIS cotton |
thrown into house to be mixed with !
others, until the monopoly finds it |