The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-27
op1cK OF SUBSCRIPTION:
,ar CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.

Columbus, Mississippi
EaE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.
al about one of the Host Won
dertuI Inventions Of the Age.
IF. E. WHITFIELD, SIR, CORINTH,
MISS.
The late census, crop statistics,
onorts from cotton mills and other
lstries, indicate state of pros
is the South as unexpected to
Incredible to the North.
e of population in the
rs is estimated as follows:
and States, 10 per cent;
tates, 70 per cent; South
IS per cent. The pro-
obacco, cotton, sugar and
rec last produced only
has greatly increased
ne. "Of the tobacco
d chiefly in the South
retailed and manu-
,.cr,..u. >..,1s4le United States, over
s,S.ooo,ooo revenue has been deriv-
I'd during the last fiscal year."
The cotton crop of I86o-7o was
u54,o46 bales, whilst that of 1870
Sowas 5,76I,25a bales. Every South
sm State has more or less spindles
in operation. Georgia leads, having
in 1S79-So manufactured 1852
bales. whilst Florida comes last with
no bales. The South manufactured
in IS767k t2z, f89 bales, and in 1870
50, 60 les, an increase of
II mt per annum.
IN mills during the
ears of great pecuni-
almost without ex-
SADLY, paying from 10
t profit, whilst North
re either suspended or
hort time, and the mills
gin, still furthef from
dS, in a much worse
egort of the condi-
ess Of the cotton mills
lima lately published
Department of Agriculture
At State, by order of the Board
Commissioners, gives the net
Gifts of the II "old process" cot
N mills as varying from IS to rs
PER cent, the average being az; and
of the new process" mill visited at
Westminster in that State, he re
ports as follows: "Capital, s., 700;
number of spindles, 254; daily pro
duction of yarns, 100 pounds; net
profits, 40 per cent" The $3,7oo
includes all machinery, buildings,
water, power, land, ETC.; little or no
commercial capital, as the owners
grow most of the cotton they spin
they use 7 h. p; 7 operatives; and
work up $50 to SIS pounds of seed
cotton daily, leaving lno lint on the
seed. Before leaving this part of
the subject, [ will state that this
agent, in his report of each "old pro-
cess" mill, gives the answer received
from them to the question, "What
do you think Of the Clement At
tachment?" The answer wassinva-
rlabIy unfavorable; some denounced
it as humbug, some said it was
worthless, and others that it could
hurt none but such as invested in it,
and the last one interviewed Mr..
Hanmett of Piedmont Mllls) com
pared 1t to sea serpent. The inter
viewer in closing his report, (after
speaking very favorably of the Gle
ment Attachment on page 10, says,
1T is fair to state that the factory
men who opposed the Clement At
tachment all admitted they had
never seen one"
, The reports from Georgia mills
Re equally favorable; many new
4 tories, some very large, are being
ted, and new process" mill at
a, Ga, has been running night
since last Nay.
rocess" as well as cold
s are being erected
producing State.
BEGINNING to see the
e cotton to the eXclu-
cessaries of life, to re
{ that no people can
pendent and prosper
pendent on a distant
and raiment; to
-oducts of coun-
build be manufac-
value before ex-
A. aealize by expert
Ice thar' IS more money in
l'anutactuFng than in producing
n. The South surely has every
.iity possessed by the North for
manufacturing her great staple, md
N addition cheaper land, food, fuel,
labor, building material, shorter and
milder winters, abundant and more
IelabIe water power, hundreds of
thousands of INDECENT women, girls
} and boys, unable or unwilling to
- Com petition with
consumers and
e for want of such
as cotton mills.
also an abundant