The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-06

boom and make it permanent"
GU are satisfied then with the at
tachment?"
II am satisfied that it viii pay 2 to 40
per cent. profit on any sort of proper
management. | do not believe it is val
liable alone for the farmer. think cap
ital of $3.50 900 put into these attachments
and managed properly. would pay bigger
than any cotton mill that can be run.
Two cents pound is an enormous mar-
gin of profit. In the cotton factories a
ngle cent is run into hundredths and
thousandths parts. Two cents pound
profit sounds like a fortune to such men,"
Judge T, ]. Hen dcrson, the commits
sioner of agriculture, says: 81 have fig
ured on the thing from every possible
standpoint and I can not see possibly why
single Clement attachment should not
pay from ST, 500 to s., 900 a year. 1t
ought not TO cost over $500, which
makes a fine showing. These young
men have, by the figures | have here,
made about 81, 500 per annum, and that
too with second hand nachinery. l think
these attachments put on plantations and
worked by neighborhood of farmers
with one of them to superintend it, will
do great good, and viii prove a perfectly
safe and profitable investment. | shall
advise the putting up of these attachments
wherever these conditions can be had.
am thoroughly satisfied with the exami-
nation | have made and found the Glenn
ent mill all that had been led to expect
General Gordon says that he expects to
see it effect revolution in time. He
thinks it is so simple and does It's work so
directly that it will commend itself
strongly to farmers, who are naturally
AFRAID of complicated machinery. He
says be found the mill all he expected,
! and was more than pleased with it.
| Mr. Fred Boil says: It was astonlshed
at the simplicity and efficiency of the
Clement mill. I consider it the greatest
agent of change and progress that the
| South has ever introduced. l believe
that it will gradually and more rapidly
than we expect take the place of the gins
on the plantations. You see, it will rap
| idly be cheapened All new inventions
cost enormously. AS they get into use
they are simplifed and improved, and the
royalty charged on them is diminished.
Sewing machines that cost $500 and over
at first can now be had for $40 to $75 As
these mills are multiplied they will be
greatly cheapened. Do you know, ore of
the greatest advantages that will result
| from these mills is that it will encourage
small croppers? In the n orth every,child
| and woman has her little home patch or
| garden She sells what she raises and it
is her money that she gets for it. In the
| South we see little of that because cotton
is the great crop and none of the women
or children about farm could hope to
raise bale. What they do raise7is gin.
| ned, packed in the general bale, and sent
off to market and she never hears of it.
| Under this plan cash markets. furnished
for seed cotton in any quantity. A girl
can raise her fifty pounds of cotton, put it
in bag and go to mill and get her money.
In this way they will be encouraged to
work and we shall thus utilize a great
deal of labor now wasted" So l7a. e1s
While the crowd was looking at the
attachment, I had a talk with Mr.. d. u.
Sloan, who has done much to bring the
little mill into notice. He said that his
attention was first called to the matter by
gentleman who really seems to be the
good genius of the Piedmont region, DIR.
/ H P Gatchell. Said he: 81 knew moth
ing about the mill until DIR. GatcheH told
me of it. He had examined it carefully,
and had come to believe in it very
strongly He was SO impressed with it
that finally promised him to go up and
look into it. did SO, having little faith
in it. [ was astonished at what I saw,
and felt as every one else does that has
ever seen it, that it was destined to work
a great destiny. Y on see sort of death
penalty followed the Clement attach
ment Clement who invented it, died
before he could push it. General Harri-
| son, of lAndersonville, S. c., saw one in
! operation and put him up one. Before
he could establish its merits he died. The
Striblings happened to see it and built
one, and Dr. Gatchell happened to see
theirs. He got it into the newspapers
and now everybody is talking about it
You have no idea how slowly a new
thing moves when it is put in quiet
country neighborhood. 1t has no chance
of progress until the great public gets to
DIR. Gatchell 1--we should have known moth
ing of this mill yot, and its development
might have been set back for years"
A FEW PARTING WORDS.
I might carry these opinions on further
and quote from every writer, but have
said enough to show that the mill stood
j the test of the fullest and most intelligent
investigation. It did just as well as any
one expected, and all came away pleased.
;. I still insist, however, that every man
who thinks of operating shall go and see
it at work. If a neighborhood thinks of
investing, one man ought to be sent out
to look into it. The day our party was
there, there were several other persons
quietly studying its work. There are
) visitors every day. It is easy of access
) and can be fully examined in dav.