The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-01-09

receive said silver, are all the changes
and additions made to the card, and
there are none made elsewhere.
The seed cotton is spread upon the
endless apron of the feed table, and
passes thence through the chute into
the attachment, where the lint is re-
moved from the seed, and while on
the fine saw teeth (after passing the
ribs) passes through a set of combing
platetes, which removes all extraneous
matter, and delivers the filaments to
the brush, which believers them to
the card, and thence through the doffer,
small drawing and calender rollers, are
delivered as perfect silver into a revolv-
ing can.
By this process only four machines
are necessary to convert any given
amount of seed cotton into perfect
yarns-viz: card, as changed, drawing
frame, speeder, and spinning frame.
1t is true cleanser of seed cotton Is
size is 22x2Sx44 inches: cost, $75
capacity, 5000 pounds of seed cotton
per day: power necessary to drive,
one-half of one horse.
The new process dispenses with full
ly one-half the building machinery,
motive power, and operatives hitherto
necessary 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
Il Nhn fl,,soo6 a anprQV in
every respect to that made of baled
cotton, fifty per cent. stronger, and
more shceny.
Tho attachment supersedcs the gin,
press and compress, because they are
intended and only used to render cotton
transportable the willOwer, Topper,
double Topper, breaker, and fOur-tiftNs
of the cards, because they are only used
to try to remedy the injury done by
gin, press and compress it supersedes
the railway, railway drawing-head,
also all jack frames, shubbcrs, mules,
twisters, eveners, &C., &C., simply be-
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
cotton, 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
| 10 ooa1 tho nil
of which has kept it alive, light, elastic,
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,
lapper, double Topper, breaker, and
cards, where damage done by the gin,
press and compress arc sought to be
remedied. But these advantages, as
they are, are not half that are claimed
for the ssnew process"
The ginning, baling, bagging, and
ties are saved the seed inure to the
manufacturers no loss from falsely
packed cotton, no strikes among opera
tives, for it is the poor mans factory,
and his daughters are the operatives.
The cost The entire capital necessary
for the smallest size new process mills,
including building and motive power,
is only $500, and will pay net profit
of 80 to so per cent per. annum. (See
report of Westminster Mills, at West
minister, s. CO. 1t saves all expense,
loss, waste, dryage, perquisites, general
average accounts, stealage and specula-
ton, &C., on cotton in transitu from
the field to the factory, be that distance
Is or $4,000 miles, as from India to
Manchester, England.
| Take bale of cotton on a farm near
Corinth, Miss, and see the expenses,
&C., in sending it via Memphis to
Boston, Mass. Hauling to Corinth,
sampling, weighing, deduction of from
two to four pounds from each bales
actual weight, profits to purchaser,
freight and insurance to Memphis,
drayage to cotton shed, storage, in
surance, dress sampling, commissions
for selling, general average accounts,
brokerage for buying, dress boring,
second weighing, repairs, drayage to
compress, COMPRISING, drayage TO
steamer or depot, freight and insur-
ance to Boston, loss on bills of ex-
change, &c. To these add waste, loss,
Irovaoo aud lace all fhc