The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-11-18
IMPORTANT TO corroN GROWERS.
Hery's hrention for Me Manufacture Of Yarns
Spinning The Cotton on Me Plantations

Henry's hrention for the Manufacture Of Yarns
Spinning Tie Cotton on he Plantations
One of the greatest improvements Of the
age is the invention Of Mr.. GeorgeC. Henry,
now 70 be seen at the Crystal Palace. where
BY GOTTEN yarns may be manufactured on the
soil where the cotton grew, and the capital,
labor, and power used to gin it, with no n,a-
terial cost added. can be made to spin It also,
and thus make the income of the planter
double what II now ia. Mr.. Henry in his
Invention uses gin, but SO constructed as to
be preparation carder. with lapper and
speeder attached, withalso carders andd draw
ug head, and drawing frames. speeders. spin.
lining frames. and reels. This machinery,
banded to shaft which gives it motion, opes
rates singly or altogether. as is the case in
the factory. BY lIenry's process the fibre IS
taken directly from the gin and lap to the
cards while in loose and Strengthened con.
dition. and passed through the other ma
chimes. He thus excludes the use Of the press
and ordinary picker totally, saving the labor
Of baling aud also The injury TO the fibre il
occasions. saving the waste this machinery
causes; and as this picker is a machine in
which the fires Of the factories arise, this
process diminishes immensely the risk by fire,
There are other advantages of great impor'
tance which space forbds our touching upon
The number and qualifications Of the hands
for few planters, according TO the quantity
Of cotton they want to spin, will be about as
follow: A planter Of hundred bales will
require, for the gin and lap machine. his gin
ner; Tor the card a boy OF fifteen years; ior
the drawing frame a girl Of twelve years old
for the spcedcr another girl Of the same age
for the spinning frames three more girls o
the same age; aud for the reels three women
A planter Of three hundred bales will requir,
only four more hands, and the cotton-growel
gets for his yarn about double as much wher
only ginned as his cotton yields him. and th'
saving Of labor all computed is about equal L
that usually employed. With this improve
ment single operative can superintend Al
much work as could have been done by twt
hundred men sixty years ago. Yarns rang
in price from twenty-five cents to dollar ;
lpound, according to quality. A planter 0
enc hundred bales would require -, 500 wort
OF machinery TO make his crop. now wortl
$4,000. bring him $4,000. a fifteen.hund
red bale planter will require machinery cost
ing S50,O0O, his crop, supposed 70 be 95O
000 pounds. aud his income, instead OF bein.
sS5, 900, will reach TO Sl70,0O0. The con
sumption Of yarns is immense. Last yen
England exported 169. 600, ,0GO pounds, whicl
il is estimated required the amount OF $40
l5S bales Of cotton TO make, allowing fou
hundred pounds to bale, and deductinI
twenty per cent. for waste and loss in weight
II is said the markets which England nov
supplies would be our own if We took holt
Of this improvement in the South. and th'
sS5,000,0OO Of cotton goods now annual.
Imported will stop at once, and the cotto
manufactures Of England be transferred I
our OVID country. NeO Yak Day Book