The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-01-21

the attachment, where tue lint Is re-
moved from the seed, and while on tn,
fine saw teeth (after passing the ribs
passes through set of combing plates
which removes all extraneous matter
and delivers the filaments to the brush
which delivers them to the card, ant
thence through the doffer, small draw
ing and calendar rollers, are delivered
as perfect silver into a a revolving can
| By this process only four machine.
are necessary to convert any .giver
amount of seed cotton into perfect
yarns-viz:co cord, as changed, drawing
frame, speeder, and spinning Frame
I: is true cleanser of seed cotton il
used as a preparatory machine. Its
size is 22x2Sx44 inches; cost, $75; ca.
pacity, 5000 pounds of seed cotton pei
day; power necessary to drive, one-hal1
of one-horse.
The new process dispenses with fully
one-half the building, machinery, mo-
tive power, and operatives hitherto ne
cessary to convert any given amount OF
seed cotton into yarns; causes the card,
with the same amount of motive power,
to do five times as much work; saves
one-half the usual waste, and produces
stronger silver rove and thread than
can be made of baled cotton, which, on
account of their extra strength, seldom
break or let down, thereby enabling
operatives to attend more machinery
and each machine to do more work.
The thread is equal in every respect to
that made of baled cotton, fifty per
cent. stronger, and more sheeny. The
attachment supersedes the gin, press
and compress, because they are intend
ed and only used to render cotton trans
portable; the willower, Topper, double
Topper, breaker and four-tifths of the
cards, because they are only used to try
to remedy the injury done by the gin,
press and compress; it supersedes the
railway, railway-drawing-head also all
jack frames, shubbers, mules, twisters,
eveners, ETC., simply because they are
costly and unnecessary machines, and
perfect thread can be made without
them.
The reason why the card will do five
times as much, using seed cotton and
the same amount of motive power, as it
did by the old process, using baled cot
ton, is because the filaments are not
permitted to leave the machinery, fly or
become tangled, but are kept straight
and parallel, and carding is but the
Strengthening Of the cotton filaments.--
The saving Of one-half the usual waste
is because fresh, live cotton is used,
and half the usual machinery dispensed
with. The extra strength of the thread
and skein is owing to the working of
the cotton fresh from the seed, the oil
of which has kept it alive, light, clactic
and flexible, with all its alternating
qualities perfect; and the fact that it
has never been nap, cut nor tangled by
the gin, pressed, compressed or per-
mitted to become dry, seasoned and
brittle in this tangled condition, nor
has it been injured by the willower,
Topper, double Topper, breaker and
cards, where the damage done by the
gin, press and compress are sought to
be remedied. But these advantages,
great as they are, are not half that are
claimed for the "new process"
The ginning, baling and bagging,
and ties are saved; the seed inure to
the manufacturers; no loss from falsely
packed cotton, no strikes among oper-
atives, for it is the poor mans factory,
and his daughters are the operatives.
The entire capital necessary for the
smallest size new process mills, inclu
ding building and motive power, is on
y $500, and will pay a net profit Of
10 to so per cent. per annum. (See
report of Westminster Mills at West
minister, s. c. 1t saves all expense,
loss, waste, dryage, perqaisites, gene
raj average accounts, stealage and
speculation, on cotton in transitu from
the field to the factory, be that dis
lance Is or $1,000 miles, as from India
to Manchester, England.
Take bale of cotton on a farm near
CoriDth, Mississippi, and see the ex-
penses, &C., in sending it via Memphis
to Boston, Massachusetts. Hauling ia
Corinth, sampling, weighing, deduc
ton of from two to four pounds from
each bales actual weight, profits te
purchaser, freight aud Insurance. t,
! Memphis, drayage to cotton she'd
storage, insurance, dress sampliDg
commissions for selling, general aver
lage accounts, brokerage fur hnyjpr