A STORY OF COTTON 23 



DAMAGE TO COTTON. 



DUE TO THE BALES OF COTTON NOT BEING 

 PROPERLY COVERED. 



We will endeavor to analyze the damage to cotton due 

 ENTIRELY to the lack of sufficient covering that is applied 

 to a BALE of cotton. 



The majority of cotton, that is ginned and baled, at present, 

 is usually termed, an UNCOMPRESSED bale of cotton, and 

 is generally considered as a bale of cotton, of STANDARD 

 MEASUREMENT, as follows: 

 27 inches wide, 

 54 inches long, 

 and usually 48 inches in height (assuming that the bale is 

 on its edge and measurement taken from the floor to the top 

 of the bale.) 



Such a bale of cotton, were there no bagging whatever on 

 the bale, would represent, on its entire surface, on all of its 

 six sides, an area of 10,692 square inches. 



We will assume that these 10,692 square inches of EN- 

 TIRELY EXPOSED white cotton, are awaiting covering, and 

 are before us in, what we will term, a NAKED STATE. 



According to the PRESENT method, of OSTENSIBLY COV- 

 ERING a bale of uncompressed cotton at the gin, there is 

 applied to the top edge, the bottom edge, and both heads of 

 the bale of cotton, a total of SIX YARDS OF JUTE BAGGING. 



These six yards of bagging are sutTicient, to not only 

 OSTENSIBLY COVER the two edges PROPER, and the two 

 heads PROPER of each bale, but extend over the edge on the 

 FLAT side of the bale of cotton approximately twelve inches, 

 and also extend approximately six inches on each flat of the 

 bale over each edge at the head of the bale, as is shown in 

 Exhibit marked No. 4. 



The bale, as shown in this exhibit and as described, shows 

 that a surface of 2,016 square inches of the bale was not cov- 

 ered in the ORIGINAL application of bagging. 



This area of 2,016 square inches is the exposed surface, on 



