The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-19

the average price is not as
certained and each mule sold at TINS
figure, but each mule has a price put
upon him according TO his supposed
so it should be with cotton.
and / think is. after the producer
parts with it. The farmer IN this,
as in almost everything else he does,
sells at wholesale and buys at retain
prices. His cotton goes at "nolesaie
and not much is heard about grace
until the tinges and stains begln 70
come into market. The merchant mas
bought generally at wholesale, out
when time comes to sell he becomes
a retailer. and this contributes to the
mar Who buys the cotton and also
u the man from whom he buys any
thing.
prom what have heard from the
papers which l have red, and from
conversation with men famlllar Win
the question, the final solution Will,
and should be to have the cotton
graded weighed and branded at the
gin. The grader must be a man Skill
ed in his business, who has passed
an examination before a board au-
thoriZed to act upon the subject ana
receive a license as a grader. 1t Will
be too expensive to have a grader at
every gin. Can not one (WhO might
be the gin reporter for the county,
act at several gins, as a guager IN
the revenue service might act at sew
eral distilleries. if the liquor was kept
in a tank, and released when guaged.
This matter can be worked out sat
isfactorily. l make these suggestions
as a start.
II thought that the grade rllidlins
might be fixed with a certain length
and tensile strength of lint and the
grades advanced and reduced from
this point, and a certain per cent as to
price be regulated by reference to the
price of middling; but men we'll post
ID in the trade say that this can no
be done-that the handling OF this
sample will affect the length ano
strength and amount Of trash. in q
short time. and the quality be chang
ed. At the cotton exchanges samples
for grades are changed frequently
during the season: on some ex-
changes every day by u committee
appointed for the purpose. They say
hat National Department will have tt
change it's standards at least ever
other ear
1.-The A. and M. College should
give Instructions IN grading, and a:
soon as they a be had men capable
of explaining this should be n viii
be placed on the institute force O.
the Farmers Institutes. T endeavoree
to find some last season, but nom
capable were available.
81 suggested to Senator Smith ant
Mr.. Lever establishing by law tn
length of staple of one inch and uh
der as short staple, and above on
inch as long staple.
sit is not practical to fix a pric
for middling grade and arrange tn
price Of other grades by this, for FIRE
quently the demand is heavy for diff
ferent grades to fill orders and tn
price is high, but when the demand j
supplied the price falls, as the amour
of goods manufactured supplies tn
demand.
There seems to be a Liverpool lis
Of standards which seem exchange
use.
II brought the matter Of the De
partment procuring a set Of standard
from the National Department to tn
attention Of the board last Decembe
and will do SO again at the sessio
next month. I do not think that til
North Carolina farmers are intereste
lin each Of the nine standards, but thu
four or five will cover North CAROLYN
cotton. The samples are sold as
whole, or such as are desired can /
Dough separately.
This is a matter, as You tate,
Importance to the farmers, and wi
add to his profits when properly a,
ranged. He need not expect much a.
from the cotton buyers in arrangir
this matter; they will have to wo1
1t out themselves until each bale
cotton will be an item.
In the meantime let us continl
| to urge the farmers to make the SUI
: plies for his farm and some to sell
; home, and let it be his cotton and n
|. some ones else that he is holding
selling.
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