The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-01-22
Marketing LOng-Staple Upland Cot
ton.

Now that raising upland long staple
in the Piedmont" Of Georgia, South
Carolina and North Carolina, is no
longer in the experimental stage. but
is going on in 1913 on larger acre
age, we are fast learning how to i'm
prove and lengthen the staple, but
are, many of us, content to fool
this superior away" to short staple
buyers. Many do not know how to
grade and pull upland long staple
with fairness, and many buyers think
where ignorance is bliss of exorbi-
tant profits, it is folly to be wise"
This class Of cotton right in north
eastern South Carolina today is being
sold at 10 to IS cents as highest,
while short staple is II cents, and
last year while short staple was nine
cents, l sold four bales Of Allen and
Bradham long staple at II cents.
Buyers are taking the advantage Of
he unposted.
We breeders Of South Carolina
have organized the South Carolina
| Cotton Seed Breeders Association at
Columbia, and are going to intro
duce many features, not only to i'm
prove and maintain the length of
staple, but look we'll to market con-
ditions We are we'll informed that
| this class Of cotton on the Boston
! market is selling from 15 to % cents,
according to grade and staple length.
We are investigating this and other
| conditions. The remedy for all farm
ers having this class Of staple is
| 10 hold on and accumulate it in COM
| munity collections at central points
and warehouses, and have reliable
short staple buyers and cotton fac
| tors, that you can trust, to help find
market for from ten to 100 bales
| grouped together, and thereby save
| from two to four cents per pound
now giving away to local buyers.
I can readily sell every bale I have
on these markets today singly at Is
to IS cents, but this is not getting
| the Boston price. One large Missis-
| sippi Delta firm which has bought
| this kind of cotton a lifetime is on
| this market paying no more than the
| nf h,,N- .,n ali
| short staple when it is high enough,
and hold your long staple until last
| sold a bale of Columbia long
| staple November 5, ginned carefully
| at snail-slOw speed on a common
| short staple gin. This gin sets apart
| haf of its equipment exclusively for
long staple every Monday, hence pure
seed for all the long staple growers
of this community. These common
gins handle l IA staple perfectly
where ginner understands to adjust
the feed and run slow. This battery
of three gins set apart to long staple
every Monday gins only 5 bales per
day at this slow speed but turns out
the smoOthest, prettiest sample of
long staple up to l Ia inches that
YOU ever saw. The majority Of this
long staple in this community is l ii
inches and under; very few bales go
5-S to l 1-2, SO few in fact that we
do not require the proverbial long
staple needle gins at yet. We are
looking forward to the needle gins
TO handle our l 1-2 to 5-S cotton
when by seed selection in later Years
We can coax longer staple into exist
sHE local standard varieties.
Your local ginner, 10y adjustment.
slow speed and running tight
roll and giving personal pains and
pride to doing his level best, can give
YOU perfect product on common
Ptatt short staple gins.
H. Eugene FAINT, Seneca. s. c., in
Progressive Farmer