State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-10-09
To Planters.
BulIOck's Progressive power
Press.

For Packing and COMPRISING Cotton on
the Plantation, efecting sarang Of 70
cents per bale.
GNHE attention of Planters is invited to this
= powerful and economical Machine. Its
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 trifling to the purchaser. Be-
tween its cost and its value, it would be difficult
to institute a comparison. In oil cases, without
single exception, it has given unbounded sat-
lsfaction. 1t not only possesses every function
heretofore SO long sought as necessary 10 COM
pete Cotton Press for plantations but others
not hitherto conjectured as available. Among
lis ascertained and unquestonable advantages,
may be enumerated the followng:-
lst Its machinery is perfectly simple and
substantial requiring only negroes to attend 10
! it, and not liable to get out of order. 1t obyi-
ates the yearly bill for repairs usually entailed
by the screw press, and the Planter has The sat-
lsfacton OF knowing that It is always ready Tor
use. Its first cost is it's only cost
I'd. It occupies a space of but A by 10 feet !;
can be put up in one corner, or along side ofthe
Gin House, and always kept under cover. Re
curing but one horse power, it can be worked
by the same pswer that drives the gin, and, If
desirable, at 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.
9TH 1t enables the same number of hands,
ordinarily engaged at the screw. press, to do
double the amount of work in a 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 f1Eeen bales can be packed with the
screw,
9Th. Its superiority in packing consists not
merely IN the neat and square form which 1t
gives to the bales, but also in essenng the La
bility of the bagglng beng torn in handling;-
thus greatly obvlatng both the damage of The
cotton from exposure at the landings and place
Of export, and those heavy ",cantage" bills
which are insererable from the present loose
style of packing.
9th. 1t packs and keeps in permanent COM
preston bale of 500 lbs. to the density Of 20
lbs. TO 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 to the saving Of
one yard, or half breadth, of bagging, and
more than one rope upon each bale: is saving
TO The Planter Of at least seventy five cents per
bale, independently of the vantage and damage
before mentioned To this may be added
probable saving of one-third upon the storage,
since a bale thus compressed. occupies but two.
thirds of the room it otherwise requires. Nor
is 1t unreasonable TO calculate upon an eventual
reduction Of freight from the same cause
Slh. The power and other facilities afforded
by this press, would enable the Planter 10 adopt
round iron straps instead of the ropes now used,
with demonstrable advantage in several impor-
tant particulars. Annealed iron wire OF about
g. l6ths of an inch IN diameter, and 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 enormous tariff;
and it IL evident from these facts that neither
The weight nor the price Of wire OF this size,
will exceed, in any apprecIable 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 oil vantage, waste, and re- COMPRISING,
would be unquestionable.
9th But, paramount to all the advantages
above enumerated, is The certainty that the gen.
eral adoption Of the PRooREssIvE 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 provident discern
ment of that community, The proprietor of the
patent right submits the pRoaREssIvE POWER
Press, not as a new and uncertain invention,
but as machine already thoroughly established
bv the constant use OF several years, during
which its capacity, durability, and economy,
have been severely tried, and cordially ack now.
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.
Press Of this description has been in use at
Thompson's Pickery during the past two years.
where 1t can be seen at any time packing $50
or 700 lbs. into the same space bale Of 500 lbs
would be if made by n screw.
TERMS For Press of 4 10 foot segment,
to pack 800 lbs. $75; for a ID foot do. 10
press 400 lhs., $l25; for an 8 foot do, to press
500 lbs. $50.
GRIGGs, BARNEY Il Co.,
Sole Agents.
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