The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15
Cotton Warehouse Construction

During the last two years farmers
stored little cotton. Pieces have
been good since the large crop %
-Sll. But now III a month. prices
nave suddenl dropped from twelve
cents or better TO eight cents The
the export demand. SiXt! per cent
Of the cotton is consumed by Eng
iish, French, and German mills. our
own mills not buying more than
enough ~ supply their Immediate
needs. nor will they as long as prices
continue to fall. They do not know
how much further prices will fall.
to hold their cotton until the denan
becomes normal ard prices rise u at
least ten cents a pound, The average
cost of its production.
In every cotton growing community
a protective credit and
warehouse association should be
formed to see that no cotton is sold
below ten cents a pound. Commit
tees should be appointed 10 canvass
the situation in each locality at >nce
4 list should be made of those who
desire warehouse facilities with the
number of bales each farmer will
probably desire to have warehoused.
In some places it may be possible
10 secure storage space in existing
warehouses at the usual rate t
twenty-five cents a month on each
bale stored. Old buildings may be
utilized if the insurance is not TOO
high. If these structures dc
not suffice to warehouse the amour,
which Will need be stored. farmers
had better incorporate their associa-
tions. A blank application for in
corporation may be secured by writ.
ing to the Secretary OF State. If it i:
GoC1Ced 70 form a nn-nnar9flIn ar.
Sanization application may be mad
to the Division of Markets for Bulle
tin 225, which suggests a form of by
laws.
The Kind of Warehouse TO Build.
In the present ther'
will not be time to build a STANDARD
brick warehouse. Such a warehous'
to store six thousand bales was bull
at a cost of fifteen thousand dollar
this last year. This warehouse in
Guided an automatic sprinkler system
One of the best warehouses in thl
p State cost twenty thousand dollafs
having an automatic sprinkler SyS
tenn, a cement floor, and a capacity o
1000 bales. Other warehouses t
:, store 900 bales have been built TO
three thousand dollars. The rate 0
: insurance varies from seven cents t
three dollars and a half per 500 pc
year, depending upon kind of build
! ing and fire protection on the premls
eS and in the town.
, The form of building cOmmonl
6 recommended to meet The rresen
situation is simply a shelter of gal
! I2nized iron roofing or tar paper wit
! open sides and no flooring. Scantlin
or poles may be laid down to hee
!. the cotton off from the ground. ]
this shelter is tnclosed with a barbe
wire fence and is provided with ST
= casks of water and twelve pals tn
insurance will be 1926 per hundre
: class towns This wire fence .houl
- be placed far enough away TO allo'
the cotton to be removed from a
: sides in case of fire. A Structur
- thirty feet wide by one hundred an
. twenty feet wide by one hundred al
: twenty long will store five hundre
u and forty bales, two tiers deep.
one layer the bales would be laid liz
a and in the other they would be stoo
on end.
:. A more expensive form of buildir
;! would be cheaper in view Of the r.
duced rate of insurance which
;. bears. The warehouse which is con
9 monty built by the mills is q stru'
- ture made of clap-boards with a brio
dividing wall between each cOnlpar
- ment. AS a special concession in II
IL present emergency the insuran'
- companies permit the compartm !
IS to be entirely enclosed with wo,
~ provided, they are separated fro
d each other by q hundred feet Of fr
II space. The rate of insurance is OF
- dollar and Se~venty-fve cents pc o.
&c hundred dollars in fourth class towr
: The conditions upon which such rat
III may be secured are as follows: IN
more than 500 bales to be stored
any one warehouse; warehouse 10
in
Sc Already the doughty sons Of Nipp,
I'd have invested KiaO Chou, German.
I'd concession on the Chinese coast. pIu