20 A STORY OF COTTON 



This character of bagging is the LOWEST PRICED and the 

 LOWEST GRADE of bagging, that the compressor CAN fur- 

 nish, to fill the order for patching given him, the compressor, 

 by the shipper. 



The next grade of bagging that is usually on the market for 

 the covering, or the patching of cotton, is a much better grade 

 of "SECOND-HAND BAGGING. " 



This character of bagging has usually been carefully assort- 

 ed and handled at the bagging factories, where the mutilated 

 parts in the bagging, that has been bought from the spinning 

 mills, have been removed from the bagging, and a "second- 

 hand bagging," WITHOUT HOLES in it, is furnished and 

 sold to the compressors, who, in turn, sell this bagging to the 

 shipper and apply it on the shipper's order. 



One must, however, remember that MUCH of this second- 

 hand bagging, that is re-sold to the compressor, has been 

 woven from, what is termed, "RE-WOVEN BAGGING," which 

 "RE-WOVEN BAGGING" is manufactured from the decorti- 

 cated strands and fibres of SECOND-HAND BAGGING, OVER 

 AND OVER AGAIN. 



When the bagging is re-woven, a sufTicient number of times, 

 the fibres will CEASE ENTIRELY to exist, and the strength 

 of the bagging, SO RE-WOVEN, unless it is mixed with some 

 foreign substances to make it hold together, will be simply a 

 NOMINAL COVERING, that is very easily torn. 



The next character of bagging that the compressors are pre- 

 pared to furnish, is a patching of "NEW BAGGING," cut in 

 appropriate sizes. 



The "NEW BAGGING" patch is applied to each bale of cot- 

 ton in accordance with the orders received from the shipper. 



This bagging is an EFFECTIVE covering and produces a 

 VERY GOOD package after re-compressing, and very little cot- 

 ton is exposed, except what is exposed due to the wide open 

 meshes, PROVIDED the bale is NOT pressed with the WEBB 

 HIGH DENSITY ATTACHMENT. 



The compressors are prepared to furnish, and DO furnish 

 a very elTective patch that is known as a "MARKING PATCH." 



This patch is one, that is placed on a bale, when so ordered, 

 of one-half of a closely woven second-hand sugar bag. 



