The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-08-25
WAREHOUSE CHARGES REDUC.
't.' 80. .-i ED.

49, 49, .- ED.
sumter Cotton Warehouse Compan,
Will Cooperate With Tri.C Count,
Marketing Association.
The first significant and importan,
recognition of the grading of cotton by
a totally disinterested. and exper,
government grader. and of the Tri-
County Farmers Marketing Associa-
ton comes from the Sumter Cotton
Warehouse Company. through it's Sec
retary' Mr.. G. A. Lennon. This
recognition comes from q business
corporation Independent of the cot.
ton growers.
At last Saturdays meeting of the
cotton marketing association Mr..
Lennon announced that the Sumter
Cotton Warehouse Company will here
after accept the grading of the gov
ernment cotton grader on all cotton
stored in the warehouses OF that
company. and guaranteed by the Tri-
County Farmers Cotton Association,
and that the heretofore usual ware
house charges of five cents per bale
for grading cotton will be discontin.
ued at that cotton warehouse, when
cotton has been classed by the gov
ornment grader.
Secretary Lennon also announced
that all cotton hereafter stored in
hundred or more bale lots will be
stored for fifteen cents per month,
and In less than one hundred bale
lots. twenty cents for the first month.
and fifteen cents per month per
bale, thereafter. II graded by the
grader.
From an economic standpoint the
cotton marketing association has
therefore. accomplished much good
before 1t has really gotten out of its
clothes. in that the cotton
growers who have heretofore had to
pay five cents q bale extra for grad
Ing cotton that is stored will save
that much money by virtue Of CO.
operative organization and govern
ment assistance.
No farmer need hereafter pay FIVE
cents for having his cotton graded
when stored, and the reduction of
charges. also means much
money saved to cotton growers, if he
will store 1t with a cotton warehouse
recognizing the cotton marketing as
ISOLATION and the grading of the gov
ernment cotton classer.
A misunderstanding has arisen as
to the charges Of the cotton mar
ketlng association for membership in
that organization. and as regards the
charges for handling cotton that will
be sampled and sold by this associa- =
tion.
Some cotton growers 1t seems
nave understood that $1.2O per bale
will be charged for handling cotton.
As a matter of fact only twenty cents
per bale will be charged for sampl-
ing and selling cotton. when sold by
the association. and NO charges at
all. IL 1t is not sold through the as
sociation.
The one dollar asked for is a mem
bership fee which Is paid only one
time. and this money goes towards
paying for quarters. furniture, heat
light. and clerk and cotton sampl.
er. for the government grader and
the association.
Any cotton grower or any cottor
seller. white or colored, from any
where, can have his cotton graded
by the government grader absolutel,
free Of cost. and any cotton seller car
place his cotton in the hands of thu
association to be sold. I'm lump lot.
by the association, have his cottor
sampled by the association sampler
and not pay u cent unless the cot
ton Ii sold through the association
when twenty cents per bale will b,
deducted from the amount remittet
by the association to the sellers of tn
cotton. III, after placing cotton will
the association for sale, nOtwithstand
| ing this cotton has been sampled b.
the associations sampler. recorde,
by Its clerk. and graded by the dis
Interested government grader, tn
party so placing cotton desires t.
sell the cotton himself he Is at lib
erty to do so without any charg
from the association Whatsoever.
] The objects Of the association ar