The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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cellulose. A single pound of the Utter
yields over four thousand miles of
fibre. In wool and mohair, losses in
scouring and edmbing reduce by half
the total weights (312,000,000 lbs, in
U. S., in 192*) to a possible 150,000,-
000 lbs of animal fibre, unspun.
Compare 468,000,000 lbs. YARN’
(synthetic) with this 150 million lbs.
UNSPUN, and visualise how the
dumping of this great mass of artifi-
cial fibre on the market affects ani-
mal fibres. Investments in plants for
making synthetic yarns in this country
are stated at $120,000,000. In the
world, 1 1-4 billion dollars.
This country produced “rayon” and
other synthetic fibres last year near-
ly one-third of the world total, and
consumed half of the 468 million
pounds of yarn.
A writer in Scientific American
says: "An ordinary newspaper sheet
is nine times the thickness of a sin-
gle filament of the man-made pro-
duct." Silkworms make their filament
front cellulose <>f mulberry leaves;
man-made firbe comes from cellulose
in wood-pulp or cotton lin.ters, and
the process is very like the organism
of the silkworm—dissolved the cell-
ulose drawn through minute orifices
in the neck of the worm.
In a recent issue of a New York
trade newspaper the various artifical
fibres were advertised in entire pages,
half-pages and smaller space, but not
one "ad" about mohair or wool. Cot-
ton was prominent, but in second
place.
Meanwhile, the best brains in Am-
erica concern themselves with reduc-
ing production, and not all with mar-
ket outlets. Growers leave their wool
and mohair at the warehouse door and
forget it. Tariff increase of three cents
a pound does not prevent purchase of
Cape kid hair while domestic mohair
of equal quality lies .unsold. Mills are
buying only for immediate require-
ments., Better demand for manufac-
tured suitings is not reflected in the
raw wool triple. It is a waling game.
ample*.
In the wool and mohair situation,
however, there seemi to be only limi-
ted vision in the quest for basic rea-
sons for low prices and shrinking de-
mand. Leaving aside the financial de-
pression >vhich began last October,
there is an economic reason for sur-
plus accumulations of sheep and goat
hair. It is the competitive influence of
artificial fibers, which apparently does
not enter into the calculations of the
marketing pilots, Who are steering a
course for the American producer.
In the following paragraphs keep
in mind wool and mohair only, with
silk in the background as relatively
affected.
Artificial Yarns
(World Production, 1929)
468,000,000 Pounds
<234.00 Tons)
Four principal processes or metho-
ds of making these filament yarns are
employed, all based on the cellulose
elements in vegetable fibres, chemi-
cally treated. All nature is cellular. A
viscous element is sticky, adhesive,
tenacious. Hence the designation of
the first of these processes
Viscose
Cellulose acetate
Nitro-cellulose
Cuprammonium
(Copper oxid-animonium)
More than a century ago the first
experimenters produced an artificial
filament. Exhaustive study, chemical
research and mechanical invention
culminated, within the last decade, in
a man-made fibre closely resembling
silk, fine wool or mohair. Down of
the milk-weed long ago was turned in-
to yarn, hut lacked strength and was
never commercially successful.
I)r. Arthur D. Little, master che-
mist and industrial engineer, a few
years ago, set at naught the old say-
ing, "You cannot make a silk purse
out of a sow's ear." Securing from the
packers a barrel of sows’ ears, his
chemitsts macerated them, broke
down the tissue with acids, floated
off the non-fihrous portion, forced the
remaining viscous portion through
perforated plates, much as the but-
cher makes link sausage, fixed the re-
sulting filament with acetic acid, and
secured a rather tenuous, fragile fi-
bre. An expert craftsman spun it into
yarn and knitted a "silk purse from
a sow's ear.”
Various woods and cotton Hitlers
(the fuzzy covering of the seed), are
used in synthetic yarns. It should be
noted that figures given apply to yarn
weights, not to the unspim filament of
Edwards County Leader
Published By
act empowers the farm board and
national marketing corporation to
create outlets and new marketing
channels by publicity. The Rayon In-
stitute, the Cotton Institute, are doing
this very thing. The later organiza-
tion is mailing cut samples (swatches)
of colorful cotton weaves and prints
each week in attractive form to thou-
sands of distributors. Likewise the ra-
yon distributors are supplied with al-
luring trade-pullers. It is not a ques-
tion of agricultural economics, but of
merchandising in the era of mass pro-
duction and distribution.
The farm board should compare the
process as between the man-made
fibres on the one hand with natural
fibres like cotton, wool and monair
on the other.
Raw materials for the "synthetic"
are delivered direct to the mills, with
few intermediate handlers, fabricated
and distributed direct—often by a sin-
gle organization amply financed.
Raw cotton passes through various
intermediates, is subject to speculation
in transit, fluctuates in value as a con-
sequence, and is sensitive to weather,
world supply and endless crop influ-
ences, before it reaches the mills.
Largely the same is true of mohair
and wool. Growers widely separated,
producing a staple easily uffccted by
and selling costT before it finally
reaches the milk.
Precisely these are thfc things the
farm board has set out to simplify,
eliminating the spread between pro-
ducer and cbnsumer, and seburing’ for
the grower better returns on his in-
vestment. But until the scope of op-
erations is extended to include out-
lets and open up markets for the na-
tural fibres in the close competition
created by the synthetic fibres, the
problem will not approach solution.
A. C. GAGE,
In Angora Journal.
J. W. HUTT
Managing Editor
Entered as second-class matter November 18, 1927, at the post office at
Jtocksprings, Texas, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879.
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Mr. Gage On
Mohair Market
Ranchmen and Fanners Seem to
be Targets of Baying Speculators
Best brains in America arc study-
ing tin mohair and wool situation, and
striving for a solution. No one ex-
pects that the national marketing
corporation, under the farm hoard
plan, is to achieve instant success; big
organiations are not built in a single
year. Chairman Leggc and regional
directors are dealing not alone with
fleece accumulations, hut with grain,
cotton, the dairy problem, and tin-
long list of commodities for which
marketing systems arc- urged.
There i- some solution, they feel
confident. As in other things, how-
ever. "time is the essence.”
Government money is being used;
advanced in sums close to the margin
of safety. But the advance is inade-
quate to many growers. How long
can producers carry oil? Restriction of
volume is urged. Less grain, less cot-
ton, lc-s wool and mohair. This is the
picture on one side.
Brains in action arc not confined to
the revised system of handling and
marketing. On the other side of the
picture are the long-established trade
medium—the grain dealers, wool and
mohair merchants, cotton brokers,
etc.—these are men of acumen, adepts
in commercial and financial methods,
and they hold that the law of supply
and demand will prevail, quoting the
coffee situation in Brazil and other
efforts at distributive control, orderly
Don’t Discard Your
Fine Shoes
Many pairs of fine shoes are
discarded which could be re-
paired like new at this shop.
It requires expert work to
properly repair fine shoes,
but our piaster workmen ex-
cel in the fine art of shoe re-
pairing.
Try Us and See
Sessum Shoe Shop
Kalo Wormout Tabs
and Black Gold Salt
I am the agent in Edwards Coun-
ty for the above remedies that have
proven so effectively for stomach
worms. Recommended for tape
worm.
S. A. RANEY
BARKSDALE, TEXAS
BUY
OCTOBER
CAMPAIGN
Mazda Lamps
Annie Taylor
H. L. Wade
EDWARDS COUNTY ABSTRACT CO
ANNIE TAYLOR, Abstractor
Money to Loan
Local Representative of BANKERS LIFE COMPANY
Liberal Appraisements. Call and See Us
Office at the Baletine Hotel
on Cartons of 6
or more-any size
Never before have MAZDA
LAMPS been offered at such
a low price as this. Buy a
carton or two now, any size
desired, at 10% discount * . *
fill those empty sockets and
keep a few spares on hand
to replace burn-outs.
Ask any employe about
our October Campaign
Delivered at you door in sanitary, fly
proof truck. Refrigerator In Truck
ZEB NEWSOM and D. W. FIELDS, Props.
BUY A CARTON NOW
have them charged in two in-
stallments on your electric bill
Mal^e Your Appointments at
The Ralen tine Hotel
J. L. VALENTINE, <Prop.
Serves Meals that are an Invi-
tation to call again.
You’ll Find a Welcome Here
Wood! Wood!
Keep a few spares on hancT
Winter will soon be here, and now is the time to
lay in your supply of well-seasoned wood, in or-
der that you may be protected from the cool
spells during the early fall, preceding the winter.
Well Seasoned Oak and Cedar
Will be delivered to your wood yard in required
lenghtB, if you will Telephone
FT) ADAMS
CENTRAL POWER
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Hutt, J. W. The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1930, newspaper, October 3, 1930; Rocksprings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112481/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .