The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
success appear more certain.-Sbtrtf OF

GAs we print an extra edition of several thous-
ana copies of this issue of THE PATRON for cir
culation among the Oranges of Tennessee, we
re print the following Report The subject OF
cotton factories is one of great Importance to ev
cry farmer in the Cotton States.
REPORT ON "NEW PROCESS"
COTTON FACTORIES.
The following report, presented by
a special committee at regular meeting
of Powell Grange, 244, October II, 1879,
Lowndes county, Miss, was unanimously
adopted and ordered to be published:
REPORT.
Your committee report that, next to
thorough organization of farmers in the
Grange for cooperative action in business
affairs, there is no question OF greater I'M
portance to the farmers of the Cotton
States than that of manufacturing their
cotton and disposing of it in yarns and
cloth instead of in the raw form. 1t is,
perhaps, needless to state the fact that no
class who confine themselves to the pro-
duction of an article in its crude form, ever
become prosperous and independent.
These receive for the products of their
toll the bare cost of their production. In
growing cotton, for instance, the farmer
makes but little if any profit; and his ear
nings are regulated by the prices which
are constantly changing and over which
he has no control whatever. 1t is not until
it has passed into the hands of the middle
men that it becomes profitable article OF
commerce. Every one that handles it
the buyer and seller, the warehouseman,
etc-realizes a profit, whether the prlce
is high or low. The cotton growers will
always be at the mercy of the spectators,
and that means an annual loss of millions
upon millions of dollars, so long as the
present system of handling the cotton crop
is permitted to exist. The only way of
escape for the farmers is to establish small
factories, convert their cotton into yarns
and cloth, and dispose of it in those forms.
Formerly, under the old system of man
ufacturing C)tton, it was Virtually 1mpos-
sible for the farmers of the South to es-
tablish factories, the outlay and eX-
pense being too.great; but with the inven-
ton of the Clement Attachment, that OBJ
stacle is removed; and we here assert that
with that invention it is within the power
of any community of farmers producing
from 80 to $50 bales, to establish facto-
ry and convert every pound OF their cot
ton into yarns. More than this: the Glenn
ent Attachment dispenses with so much
machinery, buildings, motive power and
operatives, and prepares the cotton tor the
spindles so much more rapidly than by the
cold process" that the annual net profits
Of ''new process" factory reach from Is
to 100 per cent on the capital invested.
AS seed cotton is used exclusively in a
it, Ill h. Lob 4
expense attending the ginning, baling and
transporting the cotton in bales, are saved
Any farmer can readily estimate the inn
portance and value of the time and labor
required to gin and transport his cotton tc
market
A factory of three cards and Attach
ments, with all the machinery new anc
first class, for converting seed cotton into
yarns, ana having d Capacity for spinning
], 200 pounds per day, or 10000 pound:
per annum of 800 working days, equal te
, 400 bales of cotton, would not cost eX
ceeding $4,000 This sum includes freigh
on the machinery and steam engine.
The expenses and profits of factory Of
this size may be thus reduced to figures:
Three Cards and Attachments, spindies
etc, for same, freight, $1,000
; Cost of operating same per day:
Fuel, $500
, Engineer, I.25
| Boss, 200
: 20 operatives at S cents each, 100
Oil, 40
Incidentas, 200
2,Ioo lbs. seed cotton, 2112c per lb. $3.50
$74.I5
Aggregatng for 900 days, 22,24
Cost of machinery, etc. and one
years running expenses, $32,a4
Daily receipts
> BY 600 lbs. yarns at ISc., $IoS,oo
400 lbs. seed at Sc per ton, 400
4 per cent clear and hard
q waste at &C., 100