The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-01-23
Agricultural.
Something for Cotton Planters.

n We have had ouSour table for some weeks,
but we have been prevented from using 1t
sooner by the pressure of other matter. de.
: 2 @;scrption in the Nashville Farmers Banner OF
"a new inventions; called the "Cotton; Leaf
-sCcauer and Boll. Picker" The inventor has
j. obtained patent-tor it. He is Il cotton plan
ter Of Alabama and is said to he gentleman
----Ur uue euurarou aud grHrrai ufol olmalion. He
is making alterations in the machine, and will
--1sooa have his models ready for examination
sand trial. The object aimed at by him Is to
bring into use. an instrument Tor picking cot
ton and to improve its value by removing the
leaf and dirt, and thus send it clean to the GIN
Speaking Of this invention, correspondent
ssof the Banner says:
- 1t comes, q welcome ally, to aid the great
army Of cotton. .pickers, whose labors are
tedious and severe, 1t briags iron fingers and
mule muscles to do the work now done by hu-
IMAM fingers, and thus accompllshes IN three
7 days what now requires SIX 1t can be worked
q by any power that will work gin. A porta-
= Bic horse. power set up in the field VIII be con
venent, and can be extensively used in Octo.
:zber and November, when the seasons are dry.
4 The cotton bolls are to be gathered with as
Z little care as you would corn, and taken to
ssthe machine, either in the field or under sfel.
fSter, as the case may be-. Then the machine
and the mules take out the bolIs, leaf, dirt, and
Z everything, and the cotton comes through
Z the gin as middlrg to good middling lnq quail.
J. ity.zs!s -.
q Such machine, to the cotton growers ot the
United States, is worth millions, prov ded it
s.can he made to do what is intended by the in.
Iyentor. The object to be accomplished is not
without difficulties, and if the first machine,
: which will soon be presented to the public for
inspection, makes an approach to the end
aimed at, we may feel confident that the defects
s;Swill soon be remeded by the genius OF Amer',
j canstalent, and that cotton. will be picked by
& iron: fingers instead of human, which VIII be
equal 10 doubling the field force during the
gathering Of the crop .ss :, -.
~ "A planter who cultivates with fifty hands,
= NAV, by the aid of this maehne, have what Is
Ss equivalent to one hundred hands in gathering,
gSand that without theiexpease OF feeding them
: He is thus enabled to save all that he can
= make, though he may cultivate the best bottom
Islands of the Mississippi, Yazoo, Arkansas, or
! Old Caney.S The hands can be kept out of the
q dew, and their health preserved. More lands
may be opened, aud larger quantities cultiva
4 ted, by driving. two mules with, sweeps and
+ harrows thirty:six inches wide. That is, on
bottom lands, where the rows are five or six
fleet apart. .$.'- &, & -
IS In the cleaning process, a small percentage
NAV be- lost, but You save the loss oceasloned
sstby standing in the field Till February, exposed
Z 20 winds and rains; and also much ofsthe loss
saiin The spinning room, which is now ten PEE
cent. fromidirt dust, leaf, etc. ;, - -
* We shalt look with much interest to the ope.
rations Of this invention. Should it prove sue
! cessful, itsmay lin truth be characterized as 9
ssmachine which will mark more important !rtal
sRepoch ID the progress of the growth and manu-
esfactute of the great Southern staple, than: any
Invention since the scoustraeti of the gin:T-
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