SALES OF SEA ISLAND COTTON
Several Farmers Make Sales of Their Crop for the Year
The Price is Some Better Than Has Been Ruling of Late-The Crop From the Rawlings Place Was Sold Yesterday-About Sixty Bales Sold Altogether.
There is a stronger feeling in the sea island cotton market, and the demand is much more active than it was a few weeks ago.
Several sales have been reported lately, and in each case, the growers sold what they had made during the year.
On Wednesday, H.J. and J.L. Carter, of Echols County, sold twenty bales of sea island cotton to B.F. Strickland at 18 1/4 cents a pound. This was for the entire crop for the season and for the various grades. Had it been graded, some of the grades would have brought much more than that.
Another sale of interest was that of the cotton raised on the J.G. Rawlings place. There were thirty-nine bales of it, and it sold for 18 cents all around. The place was bought by J.A. and Ed. Stubbs, but the cotton was planted by Rawlings and his sons before they got in their trouble.
The rows of sea island cotton were alternated with short cotton, a row of one being planted and then a row of the other staple by the side of it. In picking it, all of the short staple was picked first, and then the sea islands were picked out.
What the object was in planting it that way is not known. It is a wonder that the short staple did not have a deteriorating effect upon the sea islands where they were so mixed in the field.