The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-05-31
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.
OR ''NEw PROCESS" OF MANUFACTURING

THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.
OR ''NEW PROCESS" OF MANUFACTURING
COTTON
Editor Patron-I have seen for some
time, great deal said, and published in
the columns of your valuable paper about
the "New Process Cotton Factory" its
costs and profits, etc; and | have been
anxiously waiting to see some further eX-
PLANTATION of some advantage therein set
forth. For instance, under the head of
Cost and Profits of New Process Cot
ton Factory we find these items: Zone
card and attachment, etc.,-$2, 900; 900
! pounds of seed cotton, as a part of the
| daily expenses. AS matter of course we
are to take it for granted that this 600
| pounds of seed cotton is all that one card
and attachment can work up in one day.
Now we suppose that farmer has his
gin and necessary buildings. He goes to
the expense of So, 500 to get machinery to
prepare his crop for market; he makes one
hundred bales of cotton on his place. Ac-
cording to the above statement it will take
him three Hundred days to prepare his
crop for market; we see no profit in this,
we also see that the seed are set down as
part OF the days profit. This is we think
wrong-as the seed is no part of the prof
its of the cotton crop They properly be-
long to the land and stock, and should not
under any consideration be sold off the
place. We would like for some of the
knowing ones to explain when neigh
borhood, cooperating together, and put
ting up "New Process factory" would
! get their crop into market at these rates?
I'VE are aware that by going to expense
enough, they could have machinery suffi-
cient to work up all their crops in months
time, and the interest on that investment
would soon set up profits and machinery,
too. We are not opposed to the ''new
process" by any means-but seeker after
information
Crop prospects in this vicinity are in
deed flattering. The farmer that has work
ed has no room for complaint.
Fraternally, R. NJ. J. ARNErTE.
Jefferson Co., Miss, May 18th 1879.
We take pleasure in publishing the
above, and hope to be able to satisfy our
esteemed correspondent that the ''new
process" of manufacturing cotton is the
most profitable business that the farmers
of the Cotton States can engage in.
Our correspondent should remember,
that the Clement Attachment supercedes
the use of the gin, press, etc. When far
mer or community of farmers have
| factory of this kind in operation, say of
three cards and Attachments, they will
realize the following benefits:
They are relieved of all the labor, time
and expense of handling cotton from the
field to the factory, as under the old sys-
tem The expense thus saved will pay for
| operating the factory. Cotton converted
into yarns bring about twice the price of
lint cotton. Thus, at 9 cents, yarns would
be worth IS cents, and the additional nine
cents would be net profit.
The annual capacity of three cards and
Attachments is, say three hundred and
seventy bales of four hundred and fifty
pounds each. The cost Of firt-class ma
chinery would scarcely exceed $4,000,
put in operation. The net profits on the
first years work of the factory, say with
cotton at nine cents per pound, would be
at least $I2, 900, making every allowance
for accidents ETC., which would more than
pay for the machinery, and the machinery
would last for many years, and leave full
| ly 10 per cent interest on the money in
vested.
The money now paid by the farmers
for ginning, baling, etc., till the baled
cotton reached the distant factory, which
is now dead loss to him, would under
the "new process" system, be retained in
the neighborhood in tie shape of wages
for operatives, and other expenses of op-
Grating the factories.
Where the 'new process" factory is
owned by the farmers themselves, they
could of course retain the seed after the
lint has been spun into thread, and that
item would be dedunted from the daily
expense account.
The fact taht mans crop cannot be
converted into yarns at once, instead of
being an argument against the, "new pro-
cess is a strong one in its favor When
the farmers in the cotton States are not
forced to sell their cotton in lump, as