The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-20
From the Georgia Southron.
KING COTTON

KING COTTON a.rs.. -
AND HOW TO MANUFACTURE Usage
ADVICE FROM AN oBsERvANT WRITER 2
Editor Southron.. On the nth instant
in company with some friends we visited
| the Westminster factory, situated two
miles from Westminster, S. c. Our OBJ
| Ject in doing SO was to witness the Glenn
ent attachment process of making yarn
from seed cotton. We found several
other gentlemen there actuated by the
| same motive.
! Several friends before and since my
visit there have requested me to write for
| publication my opinion of the Clement
attachment, which / now hand you for
| publication.
My opinion of the attachment runs into
great many things. think it the great
est and simplest invention to facilitate the
putting of cotton into yarn that has taken
place since Whitney's invention of the
cotton gin or Fulton's application of
steam. The gin OF the Clement attach,
ment is only an Improvement on the old
Whitney gin in this: the saws are only
eight inches in diameter, the teeth are
finer, consequently more of them in the
same space on the periphery of the saw,
| luliS oIOH Cl IICDIC QOGS IlOl cut VI nap
the fibre, and discharges the seed much
cleaner than the old gin. It samples bet
ter-makes a prettier. stronger yarn. The
! gin tal=oe the llnt from the seed, the brush
takes it from the saws, the card takes it
from the brush, and after carding and con-
densing deposits it in tin can shaped
into most beautiful roll. This consti-
tutes the method of the operation of the
! Clement attachment. The after process
is the same as seen in all cotton factories.
Now, Mr.. Editor, as you and hundreds
of others know that l have tried for a
number of years to convince the people
of all the cotton growing States that it
was to their interest to manufacture their
own cotton at home and not ship pound
of raw cotton from the South, it is my
opinion, then, that the Clement attach
ment is the entering wedge destined to
bring about that desideratum.
How then shall that long desired object
be accomplished? I answer, let every
cotton State buy the right to run the at
tachment, make the heirs of the inventor
l understand he is dead-rich, and not let
them die, as some eothers-benefactors of
mankind-and their heirs have died, in
! 4 poverty, contempt and hunger; then let
Ehe right to run the attachment be dis
closed free to all citizens Every one
then would have the right to run it. 1t is
my opinion that any mechanic or machin-
ist could so modify and remodel our COM
mon gins now in use and apply them to
the carding department. with success. If
then | am right in this, not one gin now
in use would be lost or a gin maker thrown
out of employment. Then let each of the
cotton States put the lawful rate of inter
est to six per cent. and exempt from tax
B alton, for ten years from the date of such
investment, all capital invested in machin.
cry of every kind. This would cause pop
ulation and capital to flow into the South
ern States by thousands, and instead O
our taxable property being lessened, be
fore that ten years ran out it would bt
trebled. But all this will require time
and my advice is, don't wait, but go int
the operation as soon as possible. / an
aware that but few persons have any idea
unless they have made the calculation, o
the loss to the planter in freights, waste
bagging and ties, to ship cotton to Eu
rope | know it is a delusive idea, com
mon among planters, that they get paie
back for bagging and ties because nothin:
is deducted from the weight of the bale a
the time of selling. But my friends lie
me tell you that as long as raw cotton
shipped to New York and Liverpool
viii be priced in those two, places. AN
= in the meetings of cotton brokers an
Il merchants these subjects are discusses
ii and cotton priced accordingly.
e Now let US cipher a little: suppose tn
S crop of Georgia alone to be 10000 bale
It and that amount is shipped to Liverpoo
It the freight at SS per bale is $4,Soo,ooe
n Cotton ginned on the common gin an
a made into fabrics loses on an average a
h of ( per cent This is called waste, an
e on the 6ooooo bales amounts to 5000
IS bales, which if left at home would max
a 5000 tons of the best manure. Baggin
d for 600, o,ooo, bales at yards per bale take
n 100000 yards which at I25 cents pc
II ward is $375, 900. Then it takes six ties
a the bale, and 80 ties weigh So pounds, t
s king 67zo,o pounds of ties which at
u cents per pound will amount to $4,000
l. This then is the loss of freights, baggln
( and ties on 100000 bales, which adde
, together makes the pretty little sum {
: $5,5o5, 900 which the planters OF Georsl
lose by the shipment of 100000 bales