The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-03-06

leel wlue anu ten or eleven feet pitch fol
first floor. The first floor should be steady
the room well lighted and comfortable If
Wlnter-having strong, steady girders o,
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 hall
per cent per pound of seed cotton, where
four or more attachments are run in the
same mill.
Sixteenth-Is the attachment complica-
ted? What about its durability? What
| its cost?
Answer-It 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 e-fourth as fast.
It's cost, per Sc, is, say $780, and with all
the other changes in the card, say $375.
The royalty, at present., is only $I5o on
each attachment, but will be advanced
on the first of April next to $500.
DO you sell county and State rights,
and at what price?
A nswer-9es; at reasonable prices. In
pricing territory, the population, wealth,
amount of cotton grown, water power,
facilities for transportation, ETC., are con-
sidered County rights vary from $500
to $I2co, 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? ..a.
A Acknowledging is lost in the GIN
ming, for the entire lint is removed from
the seed, thus saving the 6 or 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 instead of 10 per cent.
Nineteenth-Have you different sizes
of Attachments? 2. at
Answer-We have as yet only made
them to suit 3o-inch card. They can be
made to suit any card from go to 90
inches, and to suit all kinds of cotton
card, say ordinary top-feed self-strippers,
worker and shippers or the roller cards
Twentieth-Where can new process
factories be seen in operation?
Answer-At Widsor, N. c., address
L l.
S. c., address Westminster, Mfg Co.; at
Matthews Depot, Mecklenberg Co., N. c.,
address E. 0. 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 at
Tuscumbia, Ala, Henry Habbelen. There
olc
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 hoped to
find it, and does and saves all ever rep
resented it. The mills are netting from e
to so 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.
Twenty second-Are the patents all Sc
cured and title perfect?
AnsWer-9es;t 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-Wo n't seed cotton rot
if kept over year?
Answer-No; if put up dry it will keep
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.
Twenty ffth-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-W ont it require expen-
sive warehouses to hold supply of seed
cotton? Won't the different grades get
mixed, and would not leak in the room
ruin the whole?
Ans-A house costing 500 will hold
from TO to 200, 900 lbs seed cotton, enough
| to run one attachment twelve months.
would advise larger building, with wag
on drive through center, and 1oxI2x1o feet
pens on each side with 6 inch air cham
bers between the pens, ventilated from
the floor between the pens-enables you
to put and keep separate the different
| grades--a leak from the roof if permitted
TO stand year, will only rot a perpendic-
uIar hole through the cotton about two or
three times the size of the leak
! F. E. WHITFIELD, SR.