Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-15
THE ExsosiTioN.
improvements In nsohnulsm.
The Great Good I % be Accomplished by
the Memphis Mechanics IBstitnte.

Those excellent gentlemen engaged In
the ~beuefcent task of organizing an sssO-
citation for the purpose OF holding in this
city an annual industrial exhibition, de-
serve for their lsbors the gratitude of the
people. There WEs never such necessity
for the encouragement Of mechanical in
dustry, excellence and inventive genius,
and there is no sgency more effective for
this purpose than such An association as
his proposed to be established in this
city.
INVENTION N IMMIGRATION.
Much az is said in behalf of the promo
ton of immigration by Lieutenant Msury
and other philosophers, there is q point
beyond which the influx OF Asistics and
other populations would not be desirable.
The continued aggregation in these States
of European muItitudss would begss here
the very evils of o~vercroWded commuui-
ties that curse the old world. Il were in
6uitelY better If, by the perfection of sgri-
cultural machinery, the present popula
Iion of the South were practically multi
piled, II such plOWs bs made that one
man can cultivate hfsy ceres in cotton and
twenty il corn, snd 3 machine be devised
which will gather twO-thirds Of the cotton
produced ON these fifty acres-the rest be-
ing lost in the process of "piekingD by ms
chinery, the South would be the gamer.
That such a cOtton-picker viii be born of
some inventive brain We may rest
assured. And yet poverty or the
want of cooperation among men
such as were gathered in the
hall of the Mechanics ~institute-s few
evenings ago may postpone for years the
introduction into common use of such
ploWs, cotton pickers, plantation COM
prssses' and other like invaluable pro-
ducts of inventive genius, No improve
ment in modes OF agricultural industry
I ---Tl ~ 1900 q. --hFsn -annNh IL Fh1
present condition of our labor system as
now disorganiz9d than
STEAM ~PLoUGHING.
It is rather 8 singular fact that all at
/ tempts st ''st6am culture" in this country
hsve so far proved to be fsilures. In this
respect, progressive though we are, in
/ other matters we have b5en lsfE hshind
/ by many European countries. Yet in the
/ cultivation of large tracts OF land steam
ploughing is undoubtedly more Ell
cieut, as well as more ecOnomicsl
than the present system. Our English
cousins fully appreciate this. There are
in England several different establish.
ments, employing over 200 men each, In
the manufacture Of steam plOughs. The
plan found to work the best in Gresi
Britain is to rave organized companies
who hire out their steam ploughs and de
the work by contract, and, 1t is said, that
more Gnau nVo Unur6 sb6sm plOHSA'
are thus held for hire. The success of th:
experiment Is proved by its working on
tract of five hundred acres near London
So poor was this land deemed that j
would not bring s lent OF three dollarl
per acre, but after being plodghed by
steam it brought a clear profit of $500
on grain crops. Scotland also finds M
difficulty in making steam plOughin,
"psy." In Germany the same mechanic
al forcs meets with general approval
while further in the E Ist the Pacns o.
Egypt employs four hundred Of thesI
ploughs.
THE TWO ASSOCIATIONS.
But it is needless to specify mechanical
wants Of the South which may be readily
supplied by inventive faculties that OnlI
require those faculties which the institute
will furnish for the illustration of tn
practical value Of inventions. This dem
Onstrated, the Inventors Aid association
"a kindred institution will not bs sloE
to find means for the practical application
of any vsIusble discovery or invention
The Iatter company has its charter, ant
tomorrow will cpsn books for suoscgip
lions to its capital stock. i will be 81
active agent OF the Mechanics Institute
and the two cO-opersting will bsget
thorough revolution in many systems 0
thinking, sction and Of industry