New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-17
Culture OF Iicmp--Important Improve
ments-'' II entuc:ky Linen" &c.
Correspondence of the Tribune
LOUISVILLE. April l. 1874.

| hemp What is here called "breaklng" hemp,
l. G., separating the lint from the wood, has hith
erto been very ahorious aud expensive, and the
machine used for that purpose OF the most prim'
live description With the aid of this brake"
ias it is called) an able bodied man will clean
about IS lbs of hemp per day, at an expense OF t
of cent per pound. You will readily suppose
that cfnr,s to improve this brake" and lessen
the expense of cleaning have engaged much Of
the public attention. Numerous have been the
inventions" that have promised all that was
! desired and Just as numerous the failures; and
generally the inventor has iallcd' with the IN
vcntion. 1t seemed indeed that the ingenuity Of
the Universal Yankee" was to be tollcd by the
hemp brake. Bu, within the past few months
machine has been put in operation near this city
lat hemp suburb, generally known as, " Hum
bucgerv' merely because the proprietors proposed
to accomplish in hemp what the mass thought
| impossiblc), which is thought by competent
iudgcs to have overcome all obstacles. With D
! hands, this machine will brake and clean sou los
per hour in the most perfect manner at cost OF
not more than 25 cts. per 100 lbs; making
saving TO the planter of 50 cts. per 100 lbs. on his
CROP and to the state of Kentucky in her annual
crop of more than s. $4,000. 1t is now certain
that much larger proportion of our crop than
usual will be" water'rotcd, ifencouraged by the
General Government Various experiments in
water rotting have been made by the enterprizing
proprietors Of I" Humbuggery," and entirely new
and very economical methods have been discover
ed Under the old mode it required from to 10
DAYS to water-rot hemp, whilst it is now daily
done at Humbuggery" in to hours, and an
article produced in every way superior to that
formerly attained. And there can be no doubt
that with the aid Of these recent discoveries, wa
ter.rotted hemp of the best quality can be pro
duccd for an advance Of from SIS to $50 per
ton on the price of the ordinary dew rot. II the
Tariff is let alone, in three gears zoe shall be
exporters instead Of importers Of every qualify Of
hemp. With the recently perfected "hemP cut
ter; reducing the cost of cutting hemp one half
snd the Just discovered hemp brake, reducing the
expense OF cleaning three iourths, and both facli-
taling the production in an extraordinary degree
the entire cost of producing will be immensely
Iesseped 1t is believed here by most persons
conyersant with hemp and the recent improve
ments, that it will eventually supersede flax and
all fiaxen productions in tins country. The sup
position that our finer linens and lawns will ever
be manufactured from so coarse and rugged
fibre as hemp is supposed 10 be, may starlic you.
Bat a proct s. has been discovered at G. Humbug-
gery'' by which ii is purified and refined as to
be scarcely distinguishablc from the finest Irish
| flax 1t has been compared with sample OF
the best flax, sent here by an Irish Linen manu-
| facturer and found as white, as dlvisiblc IN the
! fibre and as ductile in the manufacturing. 1t
can be produced for one fifth the cost OF the Insh
flax. Then what is to prevent its universal use
The machinery is invented which can SPIN 1t,
and can soon be produced here to weave 1t.
! y,Lc Io ,I, nf IrjcL EDpn
and kentucky M,cnS, Of Irish la,cns.
Within five years Hemp was first spun and
woven in Kentucky by machinery. And tits only
within two wears that it could be considered
completely successful. Previous TO its introduce
ton all the cotton bagging manufactured IN the
| State was on hand looms, at cost oil D to cents
per ward. Il is now produced by the power
looms for Is cts. per yard. 1t is inevitable that
the new machinery will supcrccde the hand looms
| in Hemp as in the Cotton manufacture, and with
results nearly or quite as remarkable. Ana
| have no doubt whatever that Louisville will be-
come as famous in the one as Lowell IS IN the
other. There are now in operation here two enor-
NOUS bagping factories, with the new machine
~, producing 100000 Of yards of cotton bag
ginr per annum, and various cordage manuiac
tories producing cordage 10 very heavy amount
And there is now being erected another large
factory, designed for the manufacture OF an aru-
c'e similar, but much superior, to the Drusdee
barring, for Georgia and Carolina consumption
OF the entire success of this attempt entertain
not the slightest doubt. 1t is under the manage
ment of Goudng, the inventor and builder OF
the present most improved hemp machinery, who
is sanquinc he can produce an article that will
take the place of the Scotch forever. MIR. Gree
lev should know Goulding. He IS one of those
who believe nothing impossible 10 an American
mechanic. and his name will GO down 10 poslell-
tv with that of Arkwright and Whitney. In ad-
,hl:on to his bagGing machinery, Gonldlng has
commenced the manufacture OF "sal duck, the
samples Of which are pronounced equal to any
ever imported. Aud lie proposes to connect with
it the manufacture Of the article imported as
"Patent Thread" made from flax; entertaining
no doubt he can produce as good an article from
hemp, and cheaper. At all events he SPINS his
prepared hemp as readily as if 1T were cotton!
All these arc but the germ OF the hemp manulac-
ture, and think justify my predictions Of ITS nm
mense increase and value md which will. re.
peat, make Louisville in the hemp what Lowell
is in the cotton manufacture.
We have most glorious weather, as glowing as
Wing prospects and as vivifying as Wing policy
you-< &r a JUNIOR.
Or A friend OF ours, who came down the river
the other day with Col. Benton, says that the
Colonel was very free III the expression of his
opinions about the Annexation scheme. The
great Loco-Foco denounced the project us got up
by Tyler and Calhoun for the promotion of their
own absurd and ambitious purposes. Lou. Jour-
SHOCKING AccIDENT-Wc learn that some
horses attached to a farmers wagon, became
frightened in Canalstrcet this afternoon, running
over two children boy and girl. They were
both taken up lifeess, and the boy soon after ex.
pred. The girl, if not already dead, is not eS-
pccted to survive We did not hear whether any
blame is attached to the owner OF the wagon.
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