The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-02
MIXED COTTON
NOT WANTED
ENGLISH COTTON MEN SAY
GROWERS LOSE $3.50 TO $500
A BALE DUE TO MIXING LONG
AND SHORT FieERS.

The Manchester England Cotton
Association, Ltd, following the Con-
gress of American and European
C5tton Exchanges and Associations,
held in Liverpool June End and 3rd,
has protested to the Secretary of
Agriculture against the practice of
certain ginners of mixing various
staple cottons in the same bale. In
the course OF this protest. in which
the other Associations are to jo.
the Manchester organization, through
its president, states:
You will appreciate the serious
consequences that this growing prac
ice must have upon the quality OF
the American cotton crop, thereby
effectually reducing its monetary
value"
They then urge the Department of
Agriculture to make representation
to the cotton exchanges of the
South, asking them to inform ii.
ginners of the necessity for keeping
different seed cottons of various
staples separate, and not gin /,
ferent qualities together.
Following the receipt of this lei
ten, the Department of Agriculture
took the matter up through the
Office of Cooperative Cotton Hand
ling and Marketing. The fault, j
seems, lies largely with the ginner.
and results from the fact that he is
unwilling to take the time after gin
ming one kind of cotton, to clean
out the ginning machines before h.
introduces another staple. AS
will contain some of the cotton pre-
viously ginned, II the cotton being
ginned is long staple, the mixture
of short cotton in this first plate or
layer will lessen the value of the
hale from $3.50 to $500, even
though there be only about 2Olbs of
~ ic;
is that the cotton merchants sample
from each side of the bale, and rate
il by the worst side. so that such
a bale would be rated mixed,
whereas 480 lbs. of it might be long
staple. and only the first plate or
layer of about 10 OF 20 lbs. of mixed
staple. Even if the second run of cot
ton is short staple, it loses in value
by having it's first layer mixed with
any other kind of cotton.
The Department urges particularly
upon cotton growers in the country
to limit their cotton growing to one
variety, or else provide themselves
with seed cotton storage houses in
which cotton of single staple is
stored. Where storage houses are
used, the cotton producer can take
a large quantity at one time to the
gin and be certain that it will not
he mixed with previous runs Where,
however, he takes only a small guam
tity of cotton at a time, all these
bales may have a first layer of mix
ed cotton. 1t also urges upon cotton
producers that if they cannot pro-
vide themselves with seed cotton
storage houses and gin large guam
titles at time, to insist that the
ginners clean ont the ginning
1nachine and take the old role of
previous cotton out before ginning
new cotton. This would probably
cost the ginner loss of time of
about $1,000 day, but where
frequent changes in cotton are run,
the losses to the producers may we'll
amount to $4,000 or more q day The
presence OF a mixed first layer in
cotton bales is: found particularly
serious in times when cotton is
plentiful, they use the presence of ::
mixed layer as a weapon to lower
the price paid for the entire bale.
The loss to the producer in this
way is very heavy.