| Show PROTECT COTTON TO PREVENT MUCH LOSS damage amounting to done in past year although one of hardiest handiest Har diest of farm products its strength Is not sufficient to withstand exposure to the elements what would you say if you saw a man deliberately destroy worth of clothing by placing it in a rainstorm no one has done precisely that but what lifts has actually occurred Is do less wasteful ful than that art act would be specialists of the bureau of markets united states department of ag conservatively estimate that during the past year cotton growers of the united states suffered a 70 cotton loss through dama camago 0 o tu ti cotton colton by exposure t to 0 weather they say that after ginning cotton Is to remain in the weather 4 13 Z 41 t am I 1 1 1 11 american cotton in damaged condl tion on arrival in england on ac count of improper wrapping for or months at a time instead of twine being properly sheltered and that although cotton Is one of the hardiest handiest har diest of farm products its strength Is not sufficient to withstand such exposure to the elements the bureau of markets maintains I 1 that the amount of money lost through this cause in a single season would probably be to build the warehouses needed and that after the first year these warehouses would become practically surplus assets in the hands hand of the farmers fan ners it is s also pointed out that receipts covering cotton stored in properly op crated warehouses are accepted generally as collateral for loans the interest charges for which are more then than paid for by the profits accruing 0 the farmer through its ills ability to sell bell his cotton as it Is needed by the mills bills |
