The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-15
JANUARY 10, 1880.
Mtseeuaueous.
Clements Supplement to Whitney.

Mr.. L.. I. Clement, as a Southern inven
tor, deserves some notice from those VIII,
desire to see the South advance and pros
per. Born OF humble parentage, he learn
ed the trade of cabinet maker, and later Sc
up a factory for making cotton gins. Bus
mess failures, changes of location, with the
distractions of the war, postponed the per
fecting of the crude ideas he had in mind
After the war, penniless, and worn with
age, he resumed his studies, and compile
ted his machine. Friends advanced a lit.
tle money, and a small machine was set at
work. Then came to the fatal railway &C.
scident at Mill Creek Bridge. Sent. 1850.
md he was killed at the moment Of turninD
~fortunes. Mr.. Whitfield a North Carolian.
formerly from Wilson, then made a sue
~cessful effort to bring the ssattachment'
INTO use. That the machine is a success
we feel assured. Mr.. G.. F. Hardin. of
Windsor, BERTHE county, writes:
w have been running two Clement
attachments about three months. They cost
$500 each. We are running 6l2 spindles,
which cost SIS per spindle. The top fat
cards cost $2S5 each; card clothing $50,
and drawing frame six delivers, six Tito
one, $500; one block list speeder, $3.50 1.-TWO
reels, forty spindles each, $3.50; one cotton
cleaner, So.
Fifteen horsepower is sufficient to run
the above machinery. We work ten hands
pr day, and make an average of 300 lbs.
OF yarn one engineer at one dollar per
day one foreman 50; four girls at so cents
each and four girls at 40 cents each. We
consume three fouIths of a cord of wood
per day at $l.2o a cord. Our mills net us
from S. to SO per day. We get from l6
10 Is cents per pound for yarn. We sell in
New York, Norfolk and Baltimore.
The "new process has an advantage of
half over the ''old." edispense with the
lint room and all the machinery used there
In. We do three times as much work as |
can be done on the same card in the ''old |
process.' The cotton cannot Hy or leave
the machine until it passes off into a silver,
or continuous roll into a revolvin ms can.
The profits are more than double that of
the "old process" We use only four ma
chimes from the field to make perfect |
thread Except the cotton cleaner which |
can be dispensed WITH There are ten
machines used in the old process, taking
the cotton in the seed.
We IN by steam, and think it cheaper
than water, everything considered. The
more attachments or the larger YOUR mill,
~ S :" VIII NC yum plOutS, DIS tue eA-
|pense does not increase in proportion. The
main object is find out how much seed cot
ton you can get, and build your mill ac-
cordingly. One great beauty of the Gle
ment attachement is that you can build on
2 very small scale and make it profitable,
and another is, that the northern peo-
pie cannot utilize it, because they cannot
get cotton seed, and therefore they are
are down on it, and are doing all they can
against it. We sell our seed at s cents per
bushel to the farmers.
Our machinery is all new and of the la
test and best improved. Second hand ma
ehlnery can be bought for half the money,
and u cheaper class of new machinery can
bought, but [ always prefer the best if
lt does cost a little more. i
| hope to seq the day when every pound
% cotton raised in South will be manufac-
Eured in the South then we will become
! more prosperous people. We nave la
pred long enough to enrich the North. I
q q 1t is now time our eyes were opened to s
opr own interest" i