Cotton for Cotton.

The article discusses the use of cotton bags in the U.S. in lieu of jute as of February 1943. It states that storage bags used to be made out of jute from India, but that country was cut off because of the war. The Lane Cotton Mills Co. developed bags made out of low grade cotton, producing most of the 2.5 million bags used in 1942. The Department of Agriculture ordered 8 million of these in the current year to store about 75% of the expected crop with subsidies. The cotton bags are superior to jute as they are non-absorbent and provide better cover.