. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. providedat first-hand, enabling the producer to sell directto the mills. Wherever this opportunity exists, itgives satisfactory results to both parties. Thefarmer profits, since the factory saves agentscharges for buying, drayage and freight, and thisends wholly to the advantage of the farmer or tothe mutual advantage of both. But since the greater part of the cotton crop goesNorth or abroad, some intermediary factors mustexist in order to handle this enormous this is done by exporting com
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. providedat first-hand, enabling the producer to sell directto the mills. Wherever this opportunity exists, itgives satisfactory results to both parties. Thefarmer profits, since the factory saves agentscharges for buying, drayage and freight, and thisends wholly to the advantage of the farmer or tothe mutual advantage of both. But since the greater part of the cotton crop goesNorth or abroad, some intermediary factors mustexist in order to handle this enormous this is done by exporting companies, whichare financed by heavy capital, and whose sole busi-ness is to move the cotton from producer toconsumer. MARKET GRADES OF COTTON Cotton as sold on the market is first classifiedinto several different grades, and like all the prod-ucts of commerce, its value is measured by intrin-sic worth, merit and quality. Nor does it followthat because cotton has a market classificationwhich includes all cotton grown, that the seller re-ceives its true market value. While there is such. COrrON AFiEU cotton is left on the platform in the open—or worse, flat on the ground;in the second view a farmers crop is being put into a warehouse. s^
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