A STORY OF COTTON 21 



This patch is VERY STRONG, and absorbs the ink quickly, 

 and is BY FAR, the BEST marking patch that has ever been 

 produced. 



This "half of a sugar bag," that weighs, approximately, one 

 pound, placed on ONE SIDE of a badly mutilated bale of 

 cotton while being re-compressed, and on which the mark is 

 branded, and an ADDITIONAL patch of three pounds of NEW 

 BAGGING, or a RE-WOVEN PATCH of three pounds, placed 

 on the other edge of the bale of cotton, makes A VERY PRE- 

 SENTABLE WELL COVERED package, if properly and care- 

 fully re-compressed with OTHER than the WEBB HIGH 

 DENSITY ATTACHMENT. 



DAMAGED COTTON. 



The subject of damaged cotton, the various causes that 

 create damage to cotton, from the time that it is picked, and 

 is then in evidence as "SEED COTTON," and after it is gin- 

 ned and baled, and is then knowii as "LINT COTTON," is one 

 that is of the greatest importance to the entire cotton industry. 



The financial loss in the original value of cotton, caused 

 by the damage to cotton, which, by virtue of damage, shrinks 

 to a NOMINAL VALUE, and becomes a WASTE, is a matter 

 that concerns EVERY BRANCH of the cotton business, and, 

 if even APPROXIMATELY calculated, would show a loss of 

 millions of dollars yearly that is sustained, and is entirely 

 attributable to the almost criminal negligence in the handling 

 of cotton from its birth, as "SEED COTTON," until its con- 

 sumption at the mill. 



There are two PRINCIPAL causes responsible for the dam- 

 age to cotton. 



The first cause of damage, and one that is often NOT given 

 the attention it deserves, but which cause of damage figures 

 LARGELY in the general results, is the damage to cotton 

 caused by EXPOSURE, in such a manner, that a discoloriza- 

 tion of the fibre takes place, the cotton proper becomes 

 SOILED or STAINED, by contact with dirt, brickdust, cotton- 

 seed meal or ANY foreign matter that may soil it. 



The second, and by far the GREATEST contributory factor, 

 is the WETTING of the cotton fibre. 



