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If the bales ol' cotton were compressed at the gin as 

 ROUND BALES OF COTTON, which bales are becoming 

 EXCEEDLNGLY POPULAR THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 

 WORLD, NO iron bands whatever would be necessary, as a 

 bale of cotton compressed at the gin in this manner does NOT 

 expand after compression, and, therefore, does NOT require 

 an IRON BAND to retain density, as it is only necessary to 

 sew around this original package a VERY LIGHT WEIGHT 

 BAGGING of the character of ^^hat is known as BURLAP 

 BAGGING. 



Such a character of bagging is woven with its meshes so 

 close together that, when a bale of cotton is gin compressed, 

 as is a ROUxND BALE OF COTTON, and the bagging PROP- 

 ERLY and CAREFULLY applied, there is not one ounce of 

 cotton exposed. 



The average weight of the present STANDARD BALE of 

 cotton is approximately 520 pounds, while the weight of the 

 ROUND BALE runs from 250 to ,300 pounds; and, being such 

 a light package, may be handled without the use of a cotton 

 hook; thereby, preventing the disastrous mutilation to the 

 bagging commonly suffered by the STANDARD BALE. 



FINALLY 



The members of the INTERNATIONAL COTTON CON- 

 FERENCE, that is to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, 

 U. S. A., October 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1919, are the ones that 

 should analyze these abuses, if they consider that abuses exist, 

 to cotton lint or to a cotton bale, from its birth, as an open boll 

 of cotton, to its manufacture and its delivery in a manufac- 

 tured form to the consumer. 



The Convention may ACCEPT and ENDORSE the two 

 pound bagging with a wide open mesh that now OSTENSI- 

 BLY COVERS about one-third of a bale of cotton. 



They may endorse a bagging with an even WIDER MESH 

 or a closer woven bagging. 



