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a disastrous conllagration by direct contact with the lint cot- 

 ton that is ENTIRELY EXPOSED. 



A bale of cotton when re-compressed with the WEBB HIGH 

 DENSITY ATTACHMENT, when five pounds of patching are 

 ordered and PROPERLY and CAREFULLY applied immedi- 

 ately BEF'ORE re-compressing, will, immediately AFTER being 

 re-compressed, to an average density of 32 POUNDS OR MORE 

 to the cubic foot and tied with eight bands, have a total 

 average surface, as measured on all of its six sides, of 0,405 

 scjuare inches. 



APPROXIMATELY, an average of 787( of such a bale will 

 be covered, LESS the portion of the surface that is exposed, 

 owing to the WIDE OPEN MESH of the bagging now in gen- 

 eral use, and APPROXIMATELY 22% will be ENTIRELY ex- 

 posed and liable to damage, besides affording an opportunity 

 for a spark to start a disastrous conllagration by direct con- 

 tact with the lint cotton that is ENTIRELY EXPOSED. 



PATCHING bagging, that may be ordered by the shipper, is 

 for sale by ALL compressors, at prices COMMENSURATE 

 with the QUALITY and GRADE of patching the shipper may 

 order. 



The compressors will place on a bale of cotton, IF SO 

 0RDE:RED, what is termed "a LOW grade or second-hand 

 bagging," which is nothing more or less, than bagging that 

 has been stripped from a bale of cotton at the spinning mills, 

 and re-baled and shipped to the compressors. 



This grade of bagging is sometimes ordered by the shipper, 

 to SEEMINGLY cover the SAMPLE HOLES, and the MUTIL- 

 ATIONS that have taken place, during the MANY ramifica- 

 tions of the cotton bale in the warehouses and comi)resses, 

 and wiiich mutilations, from time to time, have been done by 

 John Browns, and, or, the Cotton Buyers, until the bale, when 

 finally ordered re-compressed, has often the appearance of a 

 rag bag, of a VERY DISREPUTABLE CHARACTER. See Ex- 

 hibit No. 3. 



Now, of course, THIS character of second-hand bagging 

 will NOT cover the holes and mutilations in the bagging of 

 the bale, and will NOT cover the exposed portions of the bale, 

 but IT WILL supply the weight at destination, that is subject 

 to "TARE." 



