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THE PROGRESSIVE JF AMER, OCTOBER 1 1889. HaBmaMaMMHHawanMMaiMMH - . . . - She xjmm Jarmw. L. lu POLK, - - - Editor. D. H. BROWDER, Business Ijiaoe. Raleigh, N. C.: SUBSCRIPTION: gtarte Subscriber, One Year 1.25 Six Mpntb.8 5 Five Subscribers, One Year ... 5.00 Xen " One Ye&r 10.00 One copy one year free, to the one sending Clnb Of Ten. Cah Invariably in Advance. Honey at onr risk, if sent by registered letter or Honey order. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To Cort eiondents: Write all communications, designed for publica J tlqn, on one e de or tne paper only. I Monty In the State. We want facte of value, re- nits aecomplkhed of value, experiences of value we want Intelligent correspondents in every i plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, la wortn a tnousana tneones. Address all communications to Thb Progressive Faemek, Raleigh, N. C RALEIGH, N. C, OCT. 1, 1889. . , , i, JL - I 1 1 i The Progressive Farmer is tne . ft Otacial Onran of tne N. rarmers Association and N. C. State Farmers' A lliinra in A h xircrinia State r arm- .w . -1 - era' Alliance. Do you want your paper changed to another office? State the one at which you have been getting it. Do vou want your communication pub lished? If so, give us your real name and your postomce. Our friends in writine to any of our advertisers, will favor us by mention- ists of the United States for central Sag the fact that they saw the advertise- izing the money. How far that policy ment in The Progressive Farmer. nas heen adopted and practiced bv The date on your label tells you when your time is out J 1 THE NORTH CAROLINA NE- GROES, AND MISSIS- cf ppr THE Atlanta Constitution charges, if not directly, at least by inuen. do, that North Carolina is securing the emigration of its negro population tr Mississippi. It is bad enough to have to endure the misrepresentations of Northern sectional demagogues in regard to this everlasting and ever- present question of the negro, but what must be said of a paper which claims to be the great leading South- ern journal, which thus retails false and groundless charges against the good people of our State ? . w a r,t v.oioxro tw o cino-lA mon i thia RtjLtA. of rftsnp.r.tabilitv or inflnence has ever eiven the least en- mnrao-pmp.nt to the exodus move, mAnt. So far aa we know a larze majority of our people are supremely, indifferent to it. They would neither fiimonrafra nor hinder the neerro in the matter. Theo would leave him to his own unfettered choice as to whether he will remoin or go, and if he, will go,, they leave him equally free in se lecting his future home. The white people of, North Carolina have long since learned that on the great and vital questions affecting the well-being of that race, their opinions or advice is as little valued as it is soght. Some of us have very decided opinions on this matter and one of those opinions is that the two races cannot exist and prosper under their present relations, nui we wouiu iniorm uie unuHi.w -rx u x n I Uiab iuo uugrucB wil. uui oiaw aio uuii i Demg persuaaea or unven away, nor are we wasting any 01 our time in the vain effort to impress them with any of our views on the subject. No, we are not "seeking our safety by negroiziug xuisippi. n m: : : : I SHOULD THE ALLIANCE BUILD A BAGGING FACTORY ? THE more the subject is discussed and investigated, the more the thinking men of the South, in ' and out of the Alliance, are impressed, j with the practicality and expediency of the Alliance idea that the South I snouiu cover us coi-ion crop wnn cot-1 ton bagging, spun a ad wove in our own mius. inai inis wm.pe qone, admits of little doubt. Why'slipuld not the farmers share largely, ihtais jibw ouuiutjiu euierpnsw i Vynn vuey I do it r V hy not 7 It requires About iwo ana a nan muuons oi yaras to cover the cotton crop.of North Card lina. To make this would reciuire nearly 4,000 bales of cotton! : Three thousand bales more would, mut up xand equip a mill worth a hundred thousand dollars. This saven thou " T 7 j "" yuy ,Vi every fifty that is produced in the r A. T All- I m - . auuut tuts finance OI our State subscribe 7,000 bales as stock to North Carolina capital and a North I Carolina product, furnish everv vard of baersrine: with "which to cover onr North Carolina crop ? We base our o . estimate on yellow, stained or dirty cotton. , We had as well hecin to investierate thA ... ... ... . . arrvATit.Afrps which w fn nw. aa hftst we may. Sr. snnn aa th rnliv inanfrnrafpH by the Alliance shall become settled and is accepted by the whole South and tne commercial world, and our I mills shall cover our cotton, other re - forms and enterprises will naturally muow. Among tnese will be the TpynrrnihriTi Af i.il. ii i -i - i ,uw u um ioai me size tad style of our present . bales is ex - wasteful. No other crop, of whatsoever kind, is handled so .carelessly or with such loss. It suffers constant loss from the gin to the spindle and the loss is sustained only by the producer. : It would astonish the farmers of the South to know the immense loss on a single crop. A demand will arise for small bales, neatly and securely packed, of convenient size, shape and weight for handling, by one man, and that demand will be met. This demand will come when the farmer begins to investigate it earnestly, for he will then begin to learn the great loss he sustains, uur success in manuiai;i.ur- ns 0ur Own bagging will be followed u ;. WKr afcrmlH nnt uy iud ouuun y . gouth, at least, spin Our raw COt ."Ut"' ! K D ton into thread? And the answer to that enauirv will be heard in the hum of the spindles of hundreds of mills all over the South. Again we ask why not the farmers share the advantages of these enterorises ? And why, not " . . begin-as they begin ? Why "not the Alliance oi orm vaiviiu ucgi" uj . 1 . erecting a milto maKe its own oag .Tn0r? We would be erlad to give space in our columns for the views of IX' . . . . our people on this subject. THE WAY IT HAS BEEN DONE. TTOLLOWTNG up the article in I? our last issue on the subject of Trusts, we offer an extract from a document known as the " Hazzard Circular.'' presenting the plan or policy to be presented by the capital- x our capitalists, and to what extent .. fl . , . f nxraJ.nrnent , , j i has haan moHa r rrvnfrvrY T r if. I AT. I nam jiix uiauo bv vuuiuiiu mj J the depressed condition of agriculture throughout the country answer The circular was issu ui 1862 by English capitalists and distributed in a secret way among the bankers of this coun- try. Read and ponder: , " Slavery is likely to be abolished h7 the war power and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but &e owning of labor and carries with it the care for the laborer; while the European plan, led on by Eng- 13 wnuvuu, ,u,, VJf wn. trolling wages. Thls can be done 7 controlling the mojY , ... ... The great debt that capitalists will see t0 lt is made out of the war must be used as a measure to control the volume of money To accompUsh this, the bonds must oe used as a bankmg basis. We are now waiting to get the 3ec- retary of the Treasury to make this recommendation to Congress, Ifc wil1 not do to allow the green- back, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, for we can not control that. THE WAY THEY DO IN SOUTH CAROLINA. the 19th ult., according to a V correspondent of the Ifews and (Jourier. the town of RlackvillA S. IT. was throne-ed with was-ona. all loaded wjth cotton that was in full dress of Alliaace uniform. At one o'clock all the wae-ona moved to the cotton rlat . . r form ana unloaded. The correspon- dent &ava "Then the excitement began. The Alliance clubs had alreadv. selected Mr j. c Matthews, one of our most thrifty energetic and reliable farmers as their salesman for the dav. and it J 1 waa a waste of words to mention buy ing to any of them. After gettmg everything ready Mr. Matthews an nounced that he was ready to sell and bidding began. There were cotton buyers from Charleston and Augusta present, but the lay-out, about 310 bales, was bought by Mr. Simon Urown for 10.27 1-2 cents, and then the weighing began. There were, no samples taken, .the whole -being graaea aiixe. kjoi. sojourner, tne head of the Alliance in this county, ana jir. j. u. Mattnews, tne salesman for the day, each with a representative from Mr. Brown.' and sufficient help, uxu uyo weigumg,. me . Alla,nce men keeping the weight, s a also Mr. Jbrown. r. PAYING CASH. ? - In instances where other merchants had liens or claims on this cotton they were allowed to take it at the figures, offered by Mr. Brown, if they chose, Vint in TIPftrlv Crvtsnr inetanna V -rV preterrea Mr. urown giving . the cash Za wi C&UVJ. "- " Lllflib lift nKLLIMII Hill. II. riU. otia f th ctr,Vt0ct O -wv, . ww- 0f the AUiance that each and every I The Alliance men are in full spirits, 1 j . . t . .i. . - - 1 ana l"at to-aay is notning to what taeY w do, and it certainly seems I tu oe so, ior arter xo-aay no -one can I sav tQat they are not thoroughly or- I ganized. No one here expected such I a lOTT n J ' ' I J t " "xb. auu remarjss were maae I Dy ever7 one expressing surprise. All I uuamess except COttOn was SUS- pea;, and the people were on the 1 We are informed nf tha Hoath r.f Bro. Geo. W. Wade, of Live Oak Alliance, No. 1,165, of Carteret county I i t i i . i wmcn look piace September 12th 1 1889, in the 66th year of his age. ' nensire. extravagant and A GOOD SPEECH FOR YOUR X . LECTURER., M EN arecareless.H; They have de fective memories. They' be. come negligent. "They need to be re minded of their duties. - We know of no more instructive or profitable theme for the Lecturer of Sub-Alli ances than is to be found in our obli gation, and in the tenth article of our constitution. w e ueneve n wouiu have a moat happy effect on our order generally, if the Lecturer of each Sub Alliance should oe required ire quehtly to read the obligation in open Alliance and comment upon lW-ex- plain it and impress it upon the mem. bers. He should also lecture the Alli ance on the tenth article of our Con stitution and show the absolute im portance of its faithful observance. No Alliance can be too iamiliar witn the principles of our order, or with the nature of the solemn obligation we have taken to uphoia ana promote those principles What we need now, is to educate our order in the princi ples we have espoused. . Our trouble in the future will not come from the outside, but from our own ranks. Let us learn the law and reqire every member so stand by it and he who refuses, let him be dropped from the roll. Let all our Sub-Alliances have their Lecturer, to study and present these subjects to the members in open meeting. Try it. HOW TO BUILD COUNTRY ROADS. EVERY farmer and everybody else is interested in more roads, better roads and cheaper roads. They can be had and must be had. The proper authorities must see to it. They can. best learn by seeing. At the State Fair to be held in Raleigh, N. C, October 14-19, '89, there will oe exhibited practical road-making and terracing, the machine employed will do the worK oi a nunarea men. it will be supervised by Captain B. P. Williamson, the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Wake county, and one of the most practical and conservative men in the State. It is the duty that every county commissioner in the State owes his people to come and see and earn. The best money the county could spend would be to send them. COMING TO OUR HELP. WE clip the following from the Mecklenburg Times, as show- ng that the Alliance, in its struggle to buiM up the great agricultural in terests of the country, have nosts of riends outside who are co operating with us most cordially. The Times says: Gen. Rufus Barringer, of this city, is one of the large land-holders of Mecklenburg county. Besides his stock and dairy farm near Charlotte, he has some 20 or 30 tenants, and, as he gives his numerous farms his per. sonal care, he often resorts to short, pointed circulars to make known his wishes and instructions. In his "1889 Fall Circular" he meets the great in dustrial issues in the following ex plicit terms: "I am not an Alliance man, but I favor its policy of ' holding cotton,' ' baling id home wrapping, and boy cotting all supplies and merchandise covered by pools, trusts, etc. In cases, therefore, where tenants have arranged for continuing over, I will store cotton free of charge and insur ance." "Further, to aid tenants, I furnish small grain for fall seeding, and carry cost to next crop; or if tenants leaves to be on shares, as agreed. Kufus Bakeinger " . , EDITORIAL NOTES. Shall thes.North Carolina farm ers have a cotton bagging factory of their own 7 W hy not ? Cotton bagging for the South small, compact and neatly wrapped bales ior the market, and Southern- spiin cotton thread for the manufac turers, and then ! y-1' J We congratulate the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley people , on the early .completion of their road to the city of Wilmington. We learn that wie enure iraae win be completed ana trains running : through, by tbi first of January. This will be a. most impor- tant and valuable line to our State. We gladly welcome our good friend H. C McCall, with ' his able pen,' to the field of Alliance journal- . ' TT 1 i m . ' . . ism ne is - eauor oi the1 Alabama Alliane Advocatce. at Montgomery, the official organ of the State Alli ance, and we shall confidently look for effective work on that part of the line. Anti-Alliance : farmer" How are you fellows getting on with your iute fight?" Alliance man First rate. We are very well satisfied with the situation." Aiiti-Alliance farmer "Arn't you losing about sixty cents on the bale by refusing to use jute baercrincr?" Alliance. tnon " mt I A w But if we were, we are getting five dollars more per bale for our cotton than we would if there had hwn no Alliance, and you and all the farmers who are not with us are getting it also. Don't you think it is wrong and, selfish in you to thus reap the re wards : of our labor, while you are standing aloof and won't help us?" And the anti Alliance farmer walked off a3 if he had a ". flea in his ear.'' It is the purpose of The Pro gressine Farmer to give proper credit in all cases where it uses the matter of its contemporaries. It believes it is not only courteous to do so, but that it is just and right. It desires to thank such of its contemporaries as observe this rule andespecially, the Rural Messenger and Pee Dee Alliance, who never fail to give full credit. The Sanford Express, one of the very best weeklies in the State, enters the fourth year of its existence, under encouraging auspices. We read , the Express with pleasure and profit. Bro. Sinclair, though young in age and in the profession, has de veloped in strong. lines, some of those qualifications which are essential to success in journalism. He is vigilant,' persevering and bold in his convictions. The Progressive Farmer is proud of its young brethren of the press in North Carolina. North Carolina never wants more than a fair showing. Give her that and she will never suffer. We are proud to note the compliment re ceived by our good friend N. W. Cratt, of Shore, Yadkin county, from the Paris Exposition. He is one of our best and most successful brchard ists. His apples were given a promi nent place and he received a gold medal on his wines, and this, too, in the land that is presumed to lead the world in this industry. Another step forward, old Rip ! st The editor, as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Alliance, goes to Washington to day to audit the books and accounts of the National Secretary and Treasurer, preparatory to the transfer of these offices to the National Farmers' and Laborers' Union, in December. He has urgent invitations to call at Luray and Staunton, Va., and address the people during the trip, and if practic able, he designs availing himself of this opportunity of shaking the hand of his Virginia brethren. AA A prominent Alliance man in Alabama, bought a roll of pine straw bagging, but on reaching home he discovered that it was jute, dyed ex actly the color of pine straw bagging, and had been sold to him for pine straw. Of course he sent it back to the merchant. We see that some merchant was kind enough to send our'good friend Henry Hainie, of An son county, a roll of jute bagging and he, like a true and loyal Alliance man, that he is, promptly sent it back. The Alliance is standing for a great principle in this fight. , Bro. Foote, of the Gazette, and Secretary of the Warrenton Fair, writes us that Gov. Fowle and State Auditor Sanderlin will speak on the first day of the Fair, October 9th, Capt. S. B. Alexander and Dr. D. Reid Parker on the 10 th and on the 1 1th Hon. W. J. Green will address a grand reunion of the ex-Confederate soldiers from North Carolina and Vir ginia. Every Alliance man in all the country round about, has been special ly invited. . Last, but not least, The Progressive Farmer will be on hand to swell its subscr iption list. A very old man, a subscriber, wrote us in August that he could no longer read our paper, owing to fad ing eyesight and expressed his great regret that he could not renew. We now receive the following from him: f'.I- am the same old man, seventy- three years old, who stopped your paper in August last. I have felt ever since like one of the family is missings so please send it again to me and I will send you the money. May. our old friend be greatly blessed in his ripe old age and may he never again miss this one of his family.1 The Charleston Cotton Ex change declined to send delegates , to the New Orleans meeting, upon the ground that they thought that the question of tare should be left to the Liverpool and other foreign markets. But some how or other the inajdrity of the American cotton exchanges, and a majority of the cotton farmers of the South, do not agree with them and seem t6 think that; the people on this side 6f ' the water, "have some rights and some 1 opinions, which should be respected. But Charleston will be all right'ere many moons shall qomeand go., v' ; . . ; - ' Athens, Georgia, is.-a good cotton market but it has not bought a single yard of jute bagging. One of its leading cotton operators visited Charleston last week and investigated the situation. He found very little new jute bagging on the cotton. He V 1 1.la-. nas no aouot tnat tne iarmers are winning their fight. He visited the compresses of Charleston, and also the wharves where the ships were being laden, with cotton for shipment to Europe, .and found that the bales packed in cotton bagging stood not only the pressure, but also loaded as well as the jute covered bales. He says there is no truth in the report that the compress men are removing the cotton bagging and substituting jute. These bales are compressed and snipped just as they are received. There are some bales packed in cotton sheeting that will not stand the pres sure, and this is, of course, taken off and jute substituted. "Farmers had as well use the jute at once as any of this flimsy stuff, for it will not be re ceived by the shippers. ,,.,. The Alliance Fair, at Millbridge last week, was a most gratifying suc cess. The stock was especially fine; We hope to see it repeated. It is a great farming section, and is occupied by as good people as can be found anywhere. The editor of this paper, Dr. G. W. Sanderlinin, Hon. A. Leazer, Commissioner Kobinson and R. B. Hunter, Assistant State Lec turer, made speeches. The brethren of Rowan are in earnest and they will be among the foremost in all good Alliance work. The writer also met the brethren of four Alliances of Ire dell county at their union picnic at Gay's Chapel, and .we had a most en joyable time. Penick, Wolfe, Hol man, Clendenin . and a host of , others are doing a grand work and we ex pect to find that section always in line, where faithful, loyal service is demanded. We are greatly indebted to our brethren and sisters at both places for their generous kindness. ALLIANCE NOTES. Always give the name and number of your Alliance, your postoffice and your county, plainly, when you write to the President, Secretary, .Trustee, Business Agent or Chairman of Executive Com mittee of the State Alliance. Bro. D. M. Graves, of Selma, writes: "Our people here are solid on the bagging question; we are deter, mined not to use the jute bagging at any price. No weak kneed brethren in Johnston." Edgecombe Farmers' Alliance has established an Alliance cotton agency ' in Tarboro, with J. M. Cutchen, as Agent. We predict that it will be a success, for Edgecembe farmers never do things by halves. The following Alliances have passed resolutions since our last issue, denouncing jute bagging and declar ing that they will use only cotton bag ging in the future: Euphronia Alli ance No. 903, Moore county; Auburn Alliance, No. 40, Wake county; and Snowden Alliance, No. 1247. Cross Roads Alliance, No. 1,058, at last meeting passed the following: Resolved, That if any member of this Alliance shall be known to be engaged in the purchasing, manufacturing or selling spirituous liquors made out of molasses or syrup of any kind or purchasing the same after its manu factory, he or she shall be expelled from this lodge as an immoral char acter. There will be a grand Alliance Mass Meeting on Wednesday night, the 16th of October, (Fair week) in the city of Raleigh at 8 o'clock sharp. Prominent Alliance men from this and other States will be present, and important matters will be considered. Alliance headquarters will be estab-' lished on the Fair grounds, in full view of the entrance gate, near Agri cultural Hall, in charge of L. L. Polk, State Secretary, and will be kept open during the week for the accommoda tion of the visiting members. Please have this read at your meeting on the 4 th of October. Lamb's Cross Roads Alliance, No. 646, of Wilson county, has re solved to expel any member who uses jute bagging or who patronizes a gin- ner who keeps jute bagging. The correspondent says: "You may de pend on us to stand by the Alliance until death. We want none but true Alliance men in our lodge, and if we find a Judas we are determined to route him at once. I think I will be able to send you a good list of sub scribers as soon as our members sell some cotton, for we are aroused as never before, and most of our mem bers want your paper. Hereafter we propose to do our own thinking." -A brother writing from Rocky Mount, renewing his and and other's subscriptions, says : " Our ' J uyenile Alliance met last baturday in regular meeting. We had seventy-two mem bers present and; initiated - ten more, among whom were two ladies. I find that we can keep; better order since ladies have joined our lodge. Brethren, you must have ladies in your lodges. They are the flowers of discipline. We discussed several interesting sub jects, among which was the propriety oi esiapiisning a cotton yard and ex change in Rocky Mount. I think we will be certain to have one. We want to employ an agent to attend to ' AA 5 "i our cotton ana oraer sucn goods as we need. I want to know if we can't buy our goods through the State Agent this fall. The time of harvest is right there, and it is time that we were up and doing. The farmers of this section are flocking to the Alli ance with the expectation of getting some beneht this fall, and may they not get disappointed. The farmers of this section are united as they have never been before by the lash of the comDinatioiiS and trusts, itaiiroau excursions are almost as bad this year as trusts. They have put the rates down in reach of anybody and there- bv drawn thousands of dollars from tne poor farmers." THE BAGGING QUESTION. Attempt of Some of the Buyers to B fog the Matter-The Case 6 Clearly Stated. X New Orleans, Sept. 21, '39 To the editor of the Times-Democrat : It is evident that there is aeon certed effort being made on the part of those interested rlus u , the value 01 cotton to misrepresenf results luai wm ioiiow ine enforce ment of the resolution adopted at th convention of the cotton exeban here and to befog and bewilder th farmers still further as regards the merits and demerits of the proposed and existing rules governing the tare question. From the very fact that the opposi. tion to the sale of cotton by net weight is strongest on the part of buyers and exporters the farmer naturally Slls pects that the proverbial Ethiopian is concealed in some part of this parties lar woodpue. it does seem strange that cotton buyers should object so strenuously to naving to pay for twenty-four pounds less weight every bale of jute covered cotton than they are being charged for to day. As far as is 'known cotton bnvpro are not generally so philanthropic as to retuse an allowance of twenty four pounds per bale for any sentimental reasons, and it is perfectly certain that they understand their own inter ests thoroughly, so that it may be taken for granted that thev Bee their way to making more money under the present system of tare than under the twenty four-pound and sixteen-pound rule. Every one knows now that whil no deduction in weight has been made to cover tare on cotton, a deduction in price has been invariably, though unwillingly, submitted to by the pro ducer to protect the buyer in this re- spect, and whether the deduction be applied to the weight or the price the result to the producer is the same, for a buyer with a purchasing limit of 10 cents per pound of actual cotton pays to-day only 10 cents, less 6 per cent for gross cotton, or 9.40 cents per pound. A 500-pound bale, gross weight, at 9.40 cents, will bring $47, and 500 pounds, less 6 per cent, 470 pounds net at 10 cents, will bring $47. To compare the existing 6 per cent tare on price and the new fixed tare 01 24 pounds per bale, it will be more convenient to assume that the deduc tion in both cases is made from the weight. The 6 per cent, allowance was adopted when the average bale of cotton weighed about 400 pounds, and when 7 yards of 2-oound iute bagging were more generally used ;han is now the case. The six ties and seven yards of bagging made twenty.four pounds or 6 per cent on a 400-pound bale. Thi3 tare was adopted by the buyers them selves, and was quite satisfactory to them then, and is still more satisfac tory to them now. r or the average weight of the bale of cotton has increased steadily, and ast year it reached about 480 pounds, while the percentage allowed (or rather appropriated for tare has re- mained unchanged. Six per cent on 500 pounds is thirty pounds of a deduction for tare, as against twenty -four pounds on 400 pounds. Now it is manifestly absurd to suppose that 100 pounds of cotton added to a 400 pound bale will neces sitate the use of six pounds additional weight of bagging and ties. As a. matter of fact twenty-four pounds is in ) excess of the average weight of bagging and ties used on the heaviest bales- We have seen that a buyer with a purchasing limit of ten cents per pound of net cotton is enabled to buy a bale weighing 500 pounds gross for $47 under the existing tare rules. Take the same purchasing limit and 0 - the same gross .weight of bale, apply the faxed tare of twenty.four pounds, and we find that the producer gets SU7.60"for the Ram ft ViaTa of cotton that now brings him $47, without the purchaser raising his price per pounu or being called on to pay for cotton tnat he does not get. : Consequently under the . existing nsanroa tha rs-rnAttnay tncaa fi reY Cent. on every pound of cotton over 400 pounds that he puts into a v&, it 10 cents per pound the loss in this way last year amounted to about 325,000. . ? t . ima .was r a- nice mai" , . buyers, in itself, without calculating the additional margin iney bales covered with cotton bagging ana other light wrappings, i :And thev thev take full advantage df this mar'gin, for where the ; actual tare is ascertained in Liverpool to iau short of 6 per cent bagging is added to the bale to makeup the deficiency. It must surely be plain to our farmers from the foregoing statement that the existing tare of 6 per cent is excessive on any bale weighing over 400 pounds, and that if they wish to put up heavier bale's without paying tribute to the cotton buyers for that privilege they must insist on the fixed tare of twenty-four pounds for jute and sixteen pounds for cotton bag ging, and at the same time see to it that sufficient covering is put on their bales to make up these weights. Six yards of 1 3-4-pound jute bag ging and six ties will weigh only 20 1.2 pounds, and this is about the 4dP
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