The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-02-28

yarns spun IN tour months Will refund the
cost of the seed cotton.
Thirteenth--1s it your opinion that
when these machines become thoroughly
tested they will supercede gins, and make
agreat revolution in Sou hern Industries?
Answer-Y es; beyond the shadow of
doubt. | am old man of 81 years, and
may not live to see it but my children
may live to see the day when not only
cotton bales. will be superseded by bales
of yarns, but bales of yarns by bales of
textile fabrics.
Fourteenth-What kind of a house is
necessary?
Answer-It should be forty to sixty
feet wide and ten or eleven feet pitch for
first floor. The first floor should be steady,
the room well lighted and comfortable in
withdrawing strong, steady girders or
lines of posts to hang shafting. The build
ing may be of stone, brick, frame orShang-
hal. The cheaper, if comfortable, the bet
ter, for it is the money invested in ma
chinery, and not in fine buildings, that
pays dividends.
Fifteenth-What net proceeds per
pound for the seed cotton, when properly
managed?
Answer-One cent per pound on the
smallest size mill, and over one and half
per cent per pound of seed cotton, where
four or more attachments are run in the
same mill.
Sixteenth-Is the attachment compiled
ted? What about its durability? What
its cost?
Answer-1t is as simple as any other
gin, not liable to get out of order, will
last four times as long as common gins
because it runs only fourth as fast
It's cost, per Sc, is, say $500, and with all
| the other changes in the card, say $375
The royalty, at present., is only SI5o or
each attachment, but will be advavanced
on the first of April next to 5000.
Do you sell county and State rights
and at what price'
| Answer-Yes at reasonable prices. In
pricing territory, the population, wealth
amount of cotton grown, water power
/ facilities for transportation, ETC., are con-
1 sidered. County rights vary from $500
to $1eco, and State rights from $4,000 to
| $4,000.
Eighteenth What is the usual amount
of loss in ginning seed cotton by the
| Clement Attachment?
Answer-No thing is lost in the gin.
ming, for the entire lint is removed from
| the seed, thus saving the 6 or S per cent
of lint obtained from cotton seed by oil
/ mills. But in the other machinery used
the waste is about half what it is by the
old process-say s instead of Io per cent
Nineteenth-Have you different size:
of Attachments?
Answer-We have as yet only made
| them to suit 36-inch card. They can be
made to suit any card from a 90 to &c
inches, and to suit all kinds of cotton
card, say ordinary top-feed self strippers
worker and shippers or the roller cards
Twenteth-Where can new process
factories be seen in operation?
| Answer-At Widsor, n. c., address
| c. T. Harden, President; at Westminster
S. c., address Westminster, Mfg Co.; al
Matthews Depot, Mecklenberg Co., N. c..
address E. O. Grier & Son; at Anderson.
vile, S. c., address the representative Of
the late F. E. Harrison; at Newbern, n
c., address George Allen. A mill will
commence operations March next, at Sc
noia, Ga, address T. A Barnes; also al
| Tuscumbia, Ala, Henry Habbelen. There
are also mills being erected at Conway
Ark, and at Mt. Pleasant, Ark, address
| VIM. Coleman. Many sales have been
made in North Carolina, Mississippi, Ala
bama, and many applications from Louis
lana, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and
Texas.
Are you satisfied with it? Is it sue.
| cess?
Answer-It is more than l hoped to
| find it, and does and saves all | ever rep
resented it. The mills are netting from 39
to 50 per cent per annum on their entire
| investment, at least all that have heard
| from. The one at Windsor, N. c., is the
| only one of all new machinery and latest
| improvements; it at last report was con-
| verting 700 pounds seed cotton daily into
22o pounds yarn on each card. -5
| Twenty second-Are the patents all Sc
| cured and title perfect?
Answer-Yes; to my certain knowl-
edge, notwithstanding some of the secular
press that are sustained by the patronage
| of middle men, state to the reverse.
Twenty third-Can a supply Of seed
cotton be had?
Answer-There has been no difficulty
thus far, nor will there be when fair
price is offered for it in cash.
Twenty -fourth-Won't seed cotton rot
if kept over year?
Answer-No; if put up dry it will keep
a number of years, and the lint thereby
increases in market value, in weight, in
tractility and when worked gives off less
waste, whilst just the reverse in all these
points is the case when baled cotton is
kept over. zE9
Twenty -fifth-Where can second hand
machinery be had and at what price?
Answer-Good second hand machine
ry can be had in PHILADELPHIA, New York
Lowell, Falls River and Boston, Mass,
and in all large Northern towns, at half to
one-fourth the price of new machinery,
but none but an honest expert should be
intrusted with buying second hand ma
| chinery.
Twenty-sixth-Won't it require expen-
sive warehouses to hold supply ofseed
cotton? Won't the different grades get
mixed, and would not a leak in the room
| ruin the 1uhnle2