St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-09-25
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.


ment On the 18th ult this committes
visited the establishment of L. A.
Barnes & Co, at Senola, in Coweta
County, GA. The committee have
just made their report, from which
we condense as follows:
We found the machinery in
operation upon seed cotton OF low
middlin@ grade We followed it
through every process to No. 10
thread ready for market.
The motive power is supplied by
steam engine standingssome two
hundred feet away. The machinery
occupies two-story building 80 bv
- feet. On the upper floor is Il
cleaner through which the cotton
IS run. Il is next Weighed III
drapghts Vi - pounds each and
placed rp3n tie feeder, from Win, |.
it passes through trough directly
into the 2in Ni:ch gtanGs hpon the
first floor. 4 sixty-five saw gin. MAX
ing about 10 revolutions per min
ntr, delivers tie Int 10 Il hra-h Ircln
which il pnsses iuio tan eariS and
thence through tine machinery, sili-
I'm t" that used III all cotton 1narr-
featuring establishments. III. Bar
mes uses thrna-t aoi latest improved
machinery, manufactured Nv the
Birie>burg Manufacturing Com
pany, Philadelphia. Everything
except building aud engine, cost.
Inn, lien ready to staff. 1000
\ ten horse power engine IS ample
for the running ofall the machinery.
The attachment nses 500 pounds
of seed cotton in twelve hours. and
produces $50 pounds of yarn. worth
about Is cents per roVnd. Eight
hands are needed for all purposes
at total cost OF 81 30 per day.
Ten per cent. OF the cotton goes to
waste, bnt it is then worth hals price.
by II careful estimate, including
insurance AZ per cent,
wear of machinery, and all running
expenses. MIR Barnes has net
profit OF lis investment "a litGa
ovcl 50 per day of twelve honrs. He
finds 1t To his advantage to work
two sets of hands and run day and
night, when lie Is now doing. Mt Il
profit of between SIS and 81 per day,
aLaye per cent. interest OH the
lnvestssii--iu all expenses
necessary to make thread! -tlon seed
ctt on
The proportionpto diffrrepce he !
tween operating one or mole at
achments with lie neeessary
machinery amounts to considerable
III favor ~. say three attachments,
IS the cost ~ all machinery for three
would not exceed $4,000.
One fifteen horsepower engine
would be sufficient, and Twelve
hands conld do I'LL the work for
hree sets " machinerv. There IS
| ready demand for all warn monu-
actnres through the Clement At
acliment ut about double the price
Der pound Of raw cotton III market.
We do net by any means consider
practicable, or even possible, for
PLANTERS to munui; ure yarn from
he staple upon their fal1us with
plantation laborers.
Intricate machinery, so compli-
ated and needing such careful
can only be used bv
ralned labor and controlled by
tactical mechanics, we'll skilled IN
be business.
But we do cheerfully and conscien-
ousl Y recopmend to our capitalists
nj planters the 'tClemant Attach
lelt" as II safe investment, and :,
.ource of prosperity to our Soutl.-
n country, by furnishing the
eans of support to needy and
GRITTY people, to-wit, woman and
lildren principally, bysaving much
the freight, expenses of bageing
I'd ties insurance, commissions,
ID many other incidental ex-
enses, which tend to swell the cur
mt which IS constantly flowing
ON the cotton ClstlIctS and which
.oaid renan TO give comfort md
.pport 70 the planting community.
We ar not prepared to say t.ic
cement attachment IS all tHat ~
,eded for the South. For il las
.en clearly demonstrated that
mere capital and skilled labor is
undant it proves Nos, profitable
manufacture cotton III large