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} The Clement Attachment.

committee to examine into tne
Clement attachment. On the
9TH inst. this committee visited
the establishment of T. A.
Barnes & Co., at Senoia, in Co.
weta county, Ga. The commit
tee have just made their report
and have favored us with a copy
from which we condcnse as fol-
lows
We found the machinery in
operation upon seed cotton OF
low middling grade. We fol-
lowed it through every process
to No. 10 thread ready for mar
-ket.
The motive power is supplied
by a steam engine standing
some two hundred feet away.
The machinery occupies a two
story building so by IS feet.
On the upper floor is a cleaner
through which the cotton is run.
1t is next weighed in draughts
2-3-4 pounds each and placed
upon the feeder. from which it
passes through trough directly
into the gin which stands upon
the first floor. A sixty-hye saw
gin, making about $50 reyolu-
! tons per minute, delivers the
lint to brush from whence it
passes into the cards and thence
through the machinery, similar
to that used in all cotton manu-
featuring establishments. MIR.
Barnes uses the best and latest
improved machinery, manufac-
tured by the Bridesburg manu-
turing Company, Philadelphia.
Everything except building and
engine, cost him, when ready
to start, $4,000. A ten horse
power engine is ample for the
running OF all the machinery.
The attachment uses soopounds
of seed cotton in twelve hours,
and produces $50 pounds of
yarn, worth about IS cents per
pound. Eight hands are need
ed for all purposes at total
cost OF $3.50 per day. Ten per
cent. Of the cotton goes to
waste, but it is then worth half
price. By a careful estimate,
including interest. insurance 5
per cent, wear Of machinery,
and all running expenses. MIR.
Barnes has a net profit on his
investment d little over s. per
day of twelve hours. He finds
it to his advantage to work two
sets Of hands and run day and
night, which he is now doing at
profit of between So and 81
per day, above 7 per cent. in
terest on his money invested in
all expenses necessary to make
thread from seed cotton.
The proportionate difference
between operating one or more
attachments with the necessary
machinery amounts to consid-
cradle in favor of, say three at
tachmentS, as the cost OF all
machinery for three would not
exceed $4,000.
One fifteen horse power en-
ginc would be sufficient and
twelve hands could d. I'll the
work forthree sets of machinery.
There is a ready demand for all
yarn manufactured through the
Clement attachment at about
double the price per pound of
raw cotton in our market. We
do not by any means consider it
practicable, or even possible,
for planters to manufacture yarn
from the staple upon their farms
with plantation labor.
Intricate machinery, SO conf
piicated and needing such care
full handling, can only be used
by trained labor and controlled
by practicable mechanics, well
skilled in the business.
But we do cheerfully and
conscientiously recommend to
our capitalists and planters the
element Attachment" as safe
investment, and as source Of
prosperity to our southern coun'
try, by furnishing means of sup
port to needy and worthy peo-
pie, to-wit, women and children
principally, by saving much of
the freight, expenses of bagging
and ties, insurance, commissions
and many other incidental eX-
penses, which tend to swell the
current which is constantly
flowing from the cotton districts
and which should remain to give
comfort and support to the
planting community.
We are not prepared TO say
the Clement attachment is all
that is needed for the South.
For it has been clearly demon
strated that where capital and
skilled labor is abundant it
proves most profitable to man
ufacture cotton in large estab-
lishments.
But we Go heartily RECON-
mend the introduction Of small
establishments in every village
and town throughout the coun-
try, looking forward hopefully
to the period, not far distant,
we trust, when cloth as well as
yarn will be produced in the
midst Of the cotton growing dis
tuctS.
In this way we think the Gle
ment attachment may be the
means of opening up vast field
for enterprise, prosperity and
independence to our people.
An ordinary farm wagon, one
which, while it may be used
nearly every day for heavy