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If the damaged cotton has deteriorated somewhat more, and 

 the fibre is not AI^TOGETHER destroyed, he, the pickery man, 

 will credit the producer, or merchant, with a less price than 

 he does if the damaged cotton shows the fibre is but slightly 

 deteriorated. 



If the part of damaged cotion removed is what is termed, 

 "PAPER STOCK," the unfortunate owner of the bale will 

 receive a nominal sum for the paper stock so removed; AND 



Thus, SEASON after SEASON, and YEAR after YEAR, 

 starting with the producer, immediately after his bale has been 

 ginned, and all the way to the consumer, this sadly neglected 

 bale of cotton is always in evidence as a witness of its own 

 destruction, and a silent example of MANY MILLIONS OF 

 DOLLARS lost, EVERY YEAR, through the CRIMINAL NEG- 

 LECT, in the handling of a cotton bale. 



A very great many arguments will be presented, in which 

 it will be EMPHATICALLY STATED, that it is an IMPOSSI- 

 BILITY, to correct the evil of the wetting of the cotton bale or 

 the cotton fibre, owing to the rapidity of the movement of the 

 CROP, but none will contradict the statement that this great 

 loss by damage obtains. 



If these arguments are accepted, and if IT IS AN ADMIT- 

 TED IMPOSSIBILITY, that cotton can NOT be kept dry, 

 the same as other commodities, then we must BURY THE 

 THOUGHT FOREVER, of preventing the damage to cotton by 

 water, and finally consider that the "damage by water feature" 

 must remain as an INCURABLE DISEASE, for all time to 

 come. 



WAREHOUSING OF COTTON. 



The inadequate storage facilities for the proper sheltering 

 and caring for, and avoiding damage to, cotton, in the South- 

 land, and the lack of facilities for the storage of cotton at 

 convenient localities contiguous to cotton mills in New Eng- 

 land and the Carolinas, is so well known, that the simple 

 assertion, that such is a FACT, will be generallj^ accepted. 



It is essential that, in the construction of warehouses, due 

 consideration be given to ALL points concerning the preserva- 

 tion of the cotton fibre. 



