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Cotton Root-Bark.Messrs. Editors: Cotton root bark is selling in the New York market for about 40 cents per pound.Cotton root bark is largely used in the manufacture of medicines both in this country and Europe. For some years past, owing to the very low price for cotton lint, the price paid for the bark by manufacturing druggists ha3 been so low that there was little incentive for gathering it. The supply in the hands of druggists is at present about exhausted, and the price has gone up in consequence.At present prices of farm labor, and the known value of such labor in planting fall sown crops, no cotton grower can afford to gather cotton root bark for less than ten cents per pound, delivered at the nearest railroad station. If growers will stand together and refuse to sell for less than ten cents they can easily secure that price. For early deliveries from 15 cents to 25 cents can be secured. ■The method of preparing cottonroot bark for market is as follows:1. Only the bark of the root below ground is wanted. This may be collected at any time after the lint is gathered until early spring, or until such time as the bark when peeled shows black streaks on inner side.2. Cotton root bark must be stripped from the root while fresh. The fresh bark peels very easily and should be removed as whole as possible. Before peeling wash the roots free from sand and clay. Dry the peeled bark under a shed or other water tight cover. Turn the barkTrfV Tiay. Dry-1ing takes about a week.3. The dry bark may be packed in clean sacks, barrels or boxes. Druggists will not buy less than one hundred pounds. Most of the larger manufacturing druggists will buy good bark in lots of one ton or more. There is a considerable export de- I mand.4. To secure sale for cotton root bark growers should first collect a small lot of ten pounds or so and dry it carefully. Then mail samples of about four ounces to each of the houses named below, stating how much bark can be supplied. We especially recommend the Baltimore houses for North Carolina growers. |5. We advise that the bark be sold f. o. b. at nearest depot and that no offer of less than ten cents per pound be accepted. If no satisfactory offer is received from samples sent do not collect the bark.6. All the firms named below buy cotton root bark. We believe all to be trustworthy, but do not guarantee this:Sharpe Dohme, Baltimore, Md.; Muth Bros. Co., Baltimore, Md.; Higgins Walters, Baltimore, Md.; Davis Davis, Baltimore, Md.; Lohn Fink, New York; Dodge, Ol-cott «fe Co., New York; J. L. Hopkins Co., New York; McKesson Robbins, New York; Thurston Bradich, New York; Schiefflin Co., New York,; Parke, Davis Co., Detroit, Michigan; Frederick Stearns Co., Detroit, Mich.
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The Progressive Farmer And The Cotton Plant
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Oct 25, 1904
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