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Show COTTON -TARE QUESTION UP ; Farmers Should Have Benefit of Full 81a Pee Cent Tare or New Basis ' Should 8e Established. While our cotton farmers are discussing dis-cussing great economic questions It might pay them to take a snap-shot at a few of the little ones and not ( the least of these Is what Is known as cotton tare or waste or to put It more plainly, the amount tbat Is do- ducted for bagging and ties. Now In order to explain this matter mat-ter so It can be fully understood we will say tbat when the exchanges of the world set the price of cotton every day, It Is set less six per cent. 1 or 30 founds to a f.00 pound bale, 24 ' pounds to a 400-pound bale, and so on. ' This amount Is excessive and causes 1 a loss to the cotton farmers of the ' south of many millions of dollars an-noally, an-noally, says the Progressive Farmer. 1 There Is no particular reason why the exchanges should deduct six per 1 cent, from the price of the farmer's ' cotton, as It Is not necessary to put on this amount to protect It from damage; 4H per cent, will be found to be sufficient covering after the cot- ( ton la compressed. Hut tf the spin- 1 ners of Europe Insist that the full six 1 per cent shall be put on, then the farmer and not the exporter ought to be the one to put It on, for if he (the farmer) does not, then be loses the difference between what he doea , put on and the full six per cent This ' amount Is usually from seven and a 1 half to ten pounds per bale or a net ' loss of "5 cents to fl on every bale 1 of cotton raised In the south or say 4 from 112.500.000 to fl5.ooo.000 per ' year, quoting cotton at present prices. ' Now It does not make any differ- ' tnce whether the farmer sells to the mill men or speculators at home or 4 abroad, his loss Is equally the same is each buy by the same emasculated J price. There are two ways In which this matter can be adjusted. (1) The farmer can Insist that he be allowed to put on the full six per cent tar. Thla. however, will be found to be more apparent than real. 1 being neither a benefit to producer ' r spinner as this amount Is exeee- live, therefore unnecessary. 1 (t) A better way, to my mind, would 4 Im for the producers, through the na- 1 tlonal government, to Invite a confer- 4 race with the spinners of Europe at ta early date and settle the question on a baals that will be fair alike to the producer and spinner. . i |