The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-05
AND REDUCTION
4 Good Price for Cotton at All Times
in the Future.


ging, also all fertilizer bags, grain
bags, cotton seed meal bags. -four
bags and sheets of cotton, and such
other products that need covering,
also all twines, ropes and every other
article that can be made Of cotton
material. This would consume about
three or four million or more bales
of cotton, making total of at least
ten or more million bales consumed
in our country, instead of only six
or seven million bales as used now.
This, with reduction of acreage.
would help materially to solve the
problem that now confronts us for
the future, for the more we consume
at home, the greater will be the de-
mand for the surplus, which will
naturally create a good price at all
times, and turn the millions into our
own vaults that are now being sent
off each year for jute, or old sugar
bag coverings, which is a disgrace
in appearance. to say the least Of it,
compared to a good cotton covering.
This properly put on the cotton by
the ginners would make a neat pack
age that would enhance the value Of
it. by protecting it against all dam
ages in the handling and transporta-
ton, and would save the 20
to 80 pounds tare that is put upon
each bale, the price of which goes to
| fill the treasures of the foreign mar
kets because of the lack of such cov-
erings to protect it. This, also,
would be a saving of from three to
four million dollars to the producer
each year. While the cotton cover
ing may cost little more than jute,
but what does it matter, when the
saving will amount to millions more
than the jute?
Now, brother farmer, are not these
facts convincing. that the cause OF
the present calamity is largely due to
| the careless handling. and manipula-
ton of our cotton crops, and not al
together because of the war condi-
tions? Why then should we COM
plain longer of the present crisis?
Let us accept the situation as bless
ing in disguise; andavail ourselves of
the opportunities that lie before us,
to correct in the future the evil con-
sequences of the past, by eliminating
the jute coverings, and consume more
of our own great product into the
various coverings mentioned, and
store in our own vaults the much
needed millions of dollars that are
now being turned into other vaults,
because of the lack of it. All that
favor such a movement say aye, and
let us get together and take up the
matter with our manufacturing
friends, and get them to install such
machinery in their mills that would
enable them to furnish covering
of sufficient width and strength, that
6 yards would wrap 500-pound
bale of cotton neatly and completely,
and require our ginneries to see that
each bale is properly covered on ends
and sides. This would make our
great product more inviting to all
markets. home and foreign, and en-
able the producer to enjoy some
thing more than simply the cost of
production, and help him to rise
above the wrecked and ruined con-
dition that has been his misfortune to
have to accept under the present ex-
listing circumstances, caused, to a GER
tain degree, by the lack of self pro-
lection which is considered the first
law of nature, but somehow the
farmer has managed to reverse this
law, making it last, and he is a slave
to all, simply by letting every form
of law feed upon him until he is now
about consumed, and will remain so,
unless he asserts himself by accept
ing the opportunities that lie be-
fore him to redeem himself, and
show to the world his ability to ma
nipulate means and measures that
will give results.
For We realize, through most
trying experience, that the producer,
the worlds greatest friend, who
stands as the pillar Of every enter
prise, and the only source through
which our government can stand,
finds no protection whatever from
his overloaded vaults to aid them
in such fearful calamities that have
befallen them because of other gov
ernmental troubles, which is no fault
of theirs.
Still they are helping to feed and
clothe the nations of the world. at
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