The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
uietly, because I knew If would nav.

to begin with the Clement attachment. I
run my oil seed mill night and day Since
it has demonstrated itself I could get
enough capital from. my neighbors to put
up half dozen cotton seed oil mills.
When | go back home they will laugh at
me just the same about the Clement mills,
but when | get the thing to work | will
show them that know what am about"
SIN running your machines how many
men will you employ"
81 employ now sixteen people in my
OIL mills, that is two sets of hands In my
Clement attachment will need say TWEEN
ty more. | should say in the two process
ses about thirty five hands"
How many does it take to grow the
cotton that you would use?"
81 will use 400 bales in year 1t would
take about fifty hands to raise that much"
"Ihen it would give employment to
nearly double the number of people now
engaged in growing the cotton, to run it
ACKNOWLEDGMENT attachments and oil seed
mills?"
es sir; If all the cotton was spun into
yarns and all the seed ground into oil and
made into cakes, it would give employ
ment to twice as many people as are now
employed in growing the crop"
"What value do you add to the seed?"
81 double its value. mean by that
every ton that goes through my mill brings
more than double the money that is Weld
ed by ton not ground up. There are 900
pounds of seed cotton to every bale of lint
or one ton to every two bales The crop
is 100000 bales, which would give us
100000 tons cotton seed. The oil mills
get SIo out of every ton of this that is
ground up, which $40 is wasted in every
other ton. If the whole 2,5oo, 900 tons
were gained we should have added to our
cotton seed value of S22, 100000. By
running through the Clement mill we
double the value of the lint cotton Our
crop of 100000 bales is worth at $5oa
bale 81 5o,ooo,ooo. By spinning it through
the Clement mills we would add a value
of $3.50, 600, ooc."
''These splendid results would he
achieved then if every neighborhood
would be furnished as yours will be?''
eyes. And if these chances existed in
New England they would not lie open one
year. The thrifty yankees would not see
this waste in their staple crop go on more
than single season. The South, though,
may consent to submit to it indefinitely. AS
moved by any patriotic considerations |
it would pay. l am going into the Glenn
ent mills for the same reason and for that
reason only. | never took your word for
what read. l knew I could learn more
in an hour than / could read in a week.
And this is precisely what The. Consti-
tuition advises every man to do. 1t has
DIV CT cd hot fob
as conclusive, but that every man should
see for himself
THE CURRENT OF INVESTIGATIONS
There is not a day that passes but what
some one calls at The Constitution office
to give his views as to the little mill All
classes of men call but they have only one
report to make. We have never yet met
single person who has examined the mill
that has had anything but a favorable re-
port to make. We have looked earnestly
for such a report that we might publish
We persuaded a dozen gentlemen to go
with us and examine the mill; their views
have been given.
A short time ago Mr.. Appleyard, GER
tainly competent authority. having been a
spinner tor many years, and veteran in
manufacturing, went to Westminster at
the request, we think of number of Co
lumbus people. He was solicited for his
written opioion, which he gave after his
visit, to Mr. Israel Putnam. 1t is favora-
BILE in every sense of the term, so Mr.. Put
nam informs US. r7"
Next week Col. J. w. Robertson, the
president of the Roswell manufacturing
company is going up to Westminster for
close examination of the MILL with a
view Of investigating largely. We shall
give his views upon his return. In the
meantime if any visitor sees anything that
he deems unfavorable in the mill, we Shall
be pleased to have his opinion and will
publish it conspicuously. We want to give
the whole truth. I 8
THE PROGRESS OF THE "BOOM."
In the meantime the interest in the At
tachment is spreading. The people of
Americas are moving in the direction of
stock company. Mr. H. P. Almond is
arranging to put up double mill at Con-
yers We know of two that will be put
up near Marietta and the interest is uni
versal over this and adjoining States.
There may be some trouble, as suggest
ed by Mr., Gates, that Mr.. Stribbling will
not be able to furnish these mills as rapid
ly as they are needed next summer. We
know nothing OF MS arIanSelneHtooe beyond
the fact that he receives a percentage on
all sales that he makes. What this per,
centage is, where he has his machinery
made, or how rapidly he can have it made
we do not know. We heard from him
that he was trying to make arrangements
with a Macon firm to manufacture these
mills. Whether he succeeded or not we
| cannot say. He is quite an energetic man
and doubtless knows what he is about.
There are two or three parties in Allan
ia who wish to go into the business will
him and some of them are now cores
ponding with him. IF suitable arrange
ments can be perfected, a mill with frame
or.sc of spindles will be put up in a store
in the city of Atlanta, and the mill be run
daily, so that visitors may see precisely
what it does without going to Westmins