The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-07-26
A NEWsCOTTON PROCESS.
WHAT THE. ACLEMENT ATTACHMENT
80 ISsCAPABLE OF.

A NEW COTTON PROCESS.
WHAT THE ACLEMENT ATTACHMENT
l.. 80 IscAPABLE OF.
I NoReRoss, Ga May IS-Editors of
The Consultation: On the Air Line road,
near Westminster, South Carolina, there
T is in successful operation ''new process"
cotton mill, which has been quietly at
work a little ovel one year, making money
| for the proprietors, and turning out
thread of the most superior quality.
|. The machinery for this new process is
known as the Clement Attachment" and
lis the invention Of Mr.. Clement, of Ten
nessee.
A few days ago I took the morning
train and crossed over into South Carroll
ma, for the. special purpose of investiga--
| ting this new enterprise, was welcomed
| by the Messrs. Striblings and shown
| through the mill. The machinery is well
arranged, and working splendidly in all
its parts. The proprietors have large
views of the prospects of this new indus
try, and of the great benefits offered
| through it to the cotton states. | was
much impressed with this intelligent state
ment of facts and important claims for the
new cotton process.
Mr.. J. v. Striking, the constructor of
the Westminster mill, is quite young
man, has decided mechanical genius and
much practical sense. The Clement at
tachment having attracted his attention
he investigated it at once, and was so Ia
vorably impressed that he induced his ia
Their and the other neighboring farmers to
to invest with him, and the present West
minister mill is the result of his energy
and skill. ##
Ills located on small creek. or branch,
with capacity of about six or eight horse
power The building is a cheap one,
frame, undressed, with two stories and a
basement. The machinery for driving the
mill is all in the basement A single band,
and it boxed, turns all the factory machin-
ery above, which consists of, first on the
upper flour, the cotton cleanser. This is a
boxed cylinder with hopper into which
the cotton in the seed is poured. The
cylinder makes 1900 revolutions in a
minute, and being armed with spikes,
thrashes out all the dirt and trash, leaving
the cotton as white as when first dropped
from the boil. 1t is now weighed in a
small pair of scales and placed in regula-
| ted quantities on an endless apron, or
eed-table, and conducted down chute
to the Clement attachment on the second
hool, where it strikes a 64-saw 7 inches
in diameter, making only $50 revolutions
to the minute. The saws differ from the
ordinary saws in being much more dele
cate, shorter and more pointed, does not
cut the lint but gently pulls it from the
seed, and at the same time rids it from all
the lint from the saws in its natural and
comparatively untanged state and deliv-
ers it to the card cylinder, the periphery
of which travelling faster than the periph-
ery of the brush, thereby relieves the
brush of the lint as rapidly as received
land in this lies the great secret of the
invention, for by this arrangement in
working seed cotton, one card is enabled
to do five times the work done in working
bale cotton.)
(Mr. Stribling is daily in receipt of let,
tiers from all parts of the country, some Of
enquiry and some doubling the statement
made above. To all such he makes an
swer, "come and see
The lint is next taken from the revolv
ing cards by set of chopping combs
then the small drawing and the can mo
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proper size for working of, on the draw
ing frames. The carded rolls now
leave the Clement attachment anc
are ready for the spinning frames
then for the reels, the bunch and bale
press and for market. All the machinery
besides the Clement attachment, is the
same as used in all other cotton factories
The Westminster mill employs 81,
country girls, one boy and superintend
ent. The hands cost an average of 81 pc
month, they finding themselves. The
building cost $500, the water, dam ane
, fixtures 5000, the machinery S., 900; to
tai investment, $500.
Here are M. Stribling's figures for liza
, bilities and resources for the past twelve
| months, and it should be taken in consid
Grafton that this was the first year, anc
that the difficulties which always attene
new enterprises had to be contendeo
with:
LIABILITIES.
10000 seed cotton, 234c $4,I2s,oo
Operation and contingent ex-
e RESOURCES
10000 lbs. yarn at Isc-$6,ooo.oo
1900 lbs. waste, at &C IA 90