The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-05
The Windsor, (Bertie Co.. Cotton
Factory.

Formerly the business of cotton
manufacture could only be conducted
by large capital. This is now all
changed, by a new process ard i'm
provement which has been introduced
within a few years. called THE CIe-
nent Attachment" 1t is simply a very
nne Cotton Gin, with attachment. The
saws IN 1t are much finer, have a much
larger number Of very fine teeth, and
nearly double as many saws as are in
the ordinary Cotton Gins. 1t sits i'm
nealately on the top of the Carding
machine, i is fed in the same way
with seed cotton as in the ordinary
Gin, and the lint cotton is deposited
Immediately into the carding machine !:
nus saving an immense amount Ct
labor, and putting the cotton in the
very best possible condition for card
ing.
This Clement Attachment will re-
VolutlonlZe the cotton manufacture Of
the country and will be an incalulable
blessing 70 the cotton growing sections.
1t dIspenses with the necessity Of large
capital TO start a cotton factory for the
manufacture Of cotton warns. Ten
thousand dollars has done it for Wind
Sor, which will cover cost Of building.
machinery and every thing. Three
thousand dollars would establish a fac
tory OF sufficient power and capacity
ior the ordinary wants of a cotton
county OF ordinary size. 4 factory of
this size will pay dividends and furnish
a home market for the home product.
We examined the machinery of the
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much interest. To our impractical
eye 1t was novel and beautiful. The
seed cotton IS first placed in q hopper
and passes through a machine which
delivers 1t at a spout, free from dirt
and rubbish. This is called a cotton
cleaner 1t then passes to the feed
table of the element Attachment" 1t
IS there slowly ginned by fine saws and
N out in wide leaves. Thence it
passes to the drawing head,n thence
to a revolving can thence TO 4
drawing frame.' Then the speeder'
draws il out and passes it to the bob
BIN Then il is spun and recled and
the work IS done. This new process
does three times the work Of the old,
at less cost, and makes a yarn of supe-
rior quality and greater strength. The
% after a while, will manufacture
cloths -EliscdeN city Economist.
One white and five coloIed prisoners
were publicly whipped at New Castle,
Del, Saturday.
st. Louis hopes to Increase its cotton
receipts more than 100, coo bales next
tall by new railroad connections now
being established with Texas.
The bodies Of three men were found
in the river at New York during the
twenty-four hours ending Saturday
evening.
District Attorney Mayor and Gen. /.
7. Walker threw inkstands and paper
weights at each other in court 1t Hunts
vile, Ala.
An Irish crier at BaliinsIoe being or
dered to clear the court did so hy this
announcement Now, then, ali ye
hlackguards that isn't lawyers mast
lave the couf'.'
An ugly, mean, horrid, awful, shock.
ing old newspaper published in Hack
hcd1 SdNS. Ill Tie summer season
the muslin dress covcr the most laps"
-Byookiyn Times.
4 child Of Mr.. Wm. Bostic was at
tackled and severely bitten by a hog IN
the streets Of Shelby one day last week.
A son Of Wills. Cary, colored, the
Casweil county Commoner, has been
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
for stealing.
During the year 1878 forty-eight
railroads were sold under foreclosure.
representing S154, Ole, 700 of capital
and $160, Oh, 500 Of bonds and
debt.
The arm of Mr.. c. P. Huntington.
president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, was broken by a carriage ac-
in West Virginia a few days
since.
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