State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-10-23
TO Planters.
BulIOck's Progressive power
Press.


cents per bale.
YSHE attention of Planters is invited to thi:
Il powerful and economical Machine II:
qualities having been fairly and conclusively
tested in the city of Mobile, and elsewhere, du.
ring the last two years, it is now confidently
submitted as a lucrative acquisition to every
Cotton Planter in the country, whatever may
be The scale OF his operations and at price
comparatively trIfiing to the purchaser. Be-
tween its cost and its value, it would be difficult
TO institute comparison. In all cases, without
single exception, it has given unbonnded sat
lsfactlon. IL not only possesses every function
heretofore so long sought as necessary 10 com-
plete Cotton Press for plantations but others
not hitherto coniectured as available. Among
its ascertained and unquestionabe advantages,
may be enumerated the following:-
lst Its machinery is perfectly simple and
substantial; requiring only negroes to attend 10
1t, and not liable to get out of order. 1t obvi-
ates the yearly bill for repairs usually entailed
by the screw press, and the Planter has the sat.
lsfacton of knowing that 1t is always ready for
use. Its first cost is its only cost.
3D. It occupies space of but a by 10 feet j;
can be put up in one corner, or along side of the
Gin House, and always kept under cover. Re
curing but one horse power, it can be worked
by the same power that drives the gin, and, if
desirable, ut the same time.
Sd. 1t can thus be worked in rainy weather,
when the hands could not otherwise be employ
ed, nor employed in packing without the loss
and inconvenience attendant upon the carriage
of the cotton from the Gin House through the
rain and up the ladders to the press, by which
process much is often tramp'ed into the mud,
and great labor and loss of time are incurred.
4th. 1t enables the same number of hands,
ordinarily engaged at the screw. press, to DO
double the amount Of work in given time, and
IN very superior manner, with apparently no
more eXertiOn from twenty five 10 thirty bales
can be packed with this press, in the same
time, and with the same manual labor, that
twelve or fifteen bales can be packed with the
screw.
9th. Its superiority in packing consists not
merely in the neat and square form which it
gives to the bales, but also in lessening the La
bility OF the bagglng beng torn in handling;-
thus greatly obvlatIDg both the damage Of the
cotton from exposure at the landings and place
of export, and those heavy "pantage" bills
which are insererabe from the present loose
style Of pack ng.
9th. Ii packs and keeps in permanent COM
preston bale of 500 lbs. to the density Of 20
lbs. 10 the cubic foot; being the density to which
1t Is brought by the presses at Mobile.
9TH. 1t thus saves the expense of compression
at Mobile, which, though directly paid BY the
ship-owners, indirectly comes from the pocket
of the Planter, and this. added y the saving of
one yard, or half breadth. of bagging, and
more than one rope upon each bale. is saving
10 The Planter Of at least seventy five cents per
bale, Independently of the vantage and damage
before mentioned. To this may be added a
probable saving of one-thrd upon the storage,
since bale thus compressed. occupies but two.
thirds OF the room it otherwise requires. Nor
is it unreasonable TO calculate upon an eventual
reduction of freight from The same cause.
9Th. The power and other facilities afforded
by this press. would enable the Planter TO adopt
round iron straps instead of the ropes now used,
with demonstrable advantage in several impor-
tant particulars. Annealed iron wire OF about
3.l6ths of an inch IN diameter, aud Of strength
more than adequate to bear the rough usage to
which the bales might be exposed, could be pro.
cured at four and half cents per strap, or
twenty seven cents per bale, even at the high
price of iron. under the present ennrmnns tariff;
and It is evident from these facts that neither
the weight nor the price Of wire OF this size,
will exceed, in any appreclable amount, that of
the rope now ordinarily used. 1t is confidently
believed that cotton secured in this manner,
would reach the foreign market IN condition
that would readily command fifty cents per bale
more than at present, whilst the intermediate
saving OF vantage, waste, and accomplishing,
would be unquestIonable.
9th. Bat paramount to all the advantages
above enumerated, is the certainty that the gen.
eral adoption Of the PROGRESSIVE Power
Press on the plantations, would enable the
Planter, for moderate and final expense, to
render himself permanently Independent of all
Cotton Press combinations at Mobile, and thus
TO extorpate an evil which has long been deeply
felt by the whole planting community.
To the intelligence and provdent discern
ment Of that community. the proprietor of the
patent right submits the PROGRESSIVE Power
Press, not as new and uncertain invention,
but as machine already thoroughly established
bv the constant use Of several years, during
which it's capacity, durability, and economy,
have been severely tried, and cordially acknow.
lodged. 1t is only necessary to add, that it has
been admired and adopted wherever it has been
seen, and has more than realized, in every in
stance, the highest expectations Of the purcha.
sers.
A Press Of this description has been in use at
Thompson's Plckery during the past two years,
where it can be seen at any time packing $50
or 700 lbs. into the same space bale of 500 lbs.
would be if made by screw.
TERMS For Press of A 1-2 foot segment,
to pack 800 lbs. $75; for 1.2 foot do, to
press 400 lbs, $l25; for an foot do, to press
500 lbs. $3.50.
GRIGGs, BARNEY u Co.,
Sole Agents.
Mobile Mav 1919 IT, o.