The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-09-10
TIE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.

The Georgia Agricultural Society
last February appointed committee
to examine into the Clement attach
ment. On the 7th ult. this committee
visited the establishment of T. A.
Barnes & Co., at Senoia, in Coweta
County, Ga. The committee have Just
made their report, from which we con-
dense as follows:
We found the machinery in opera
tion upon seed cotton of low middling
grade. We followed it through every
process to No. 10 thread ready for
market. t
The motive power is supplied by a
steam engine standing some two hum
pies two-story building 80 by 45 feet.
On the upper floor is cleaner through
which the cotton is run. 1t is next
weighed in draughts of q pounds
each and placed upon the feoder, from
which it passes through trough di-
rectly into the gin which stands upon
the first floor. A sixty-five saw gin,
making about $50 revolutions per min
ute, delivers the lint, to a brush from
which it passes into the cards and
thence through the machinery, similar
to that used in all cotton manufactur-
ing establishments. Mr.. Barnes uses
the best and latest improved machin-
cry, manufactured by the Bridesburg
Manufacturing Company, Philadel-
phia. Everything except building and
engine, cost him, when ready to start,
$4,000. A ten horsepower engine is
ample for the running of all the ma
chinery. The attachment uses 500
pounds of seed cotton In twelve hours,
and produces $50 pounds of yarn, worth
about Is cents per pound. Eight hands
are needed for all purposes at a total
cost Of ~ 80 per day. Ten per cent. OF
the cotton goes to waste, but it is then
worth half price. By a careful esti-
mate, including interest, insurance at
3 per cent, wear of machinery, and all
running expenses, Mr.. Barnes has a
net profit on his Investment a little
over So 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 a profit OF
between So and 81 per day, above per
cent. interest on the 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 considerable in favor of, say three
attachments, as the cost of all machin.
cry for three would not exceed SIC, 900
One fifteen horsepower engine woult
be sufficient and twelve hands coult
do all the work for three sets of ma
chinery. There is a ready demand FOL
all yarn manufactured through The
Clement attachment at about double
the price per pound of raw cotton il
market. We do not by any mean
consider it practicable, or even posi-
bic, for planters to manufacture yarl
from the staple upon their farms will
plantation laborers.
Intricate machinery, 80 complicated
and needing such careful handling, cal
only be used by trained labor and con
trolled by practical mechanics, wei
skilled in the business.
But we do cheerfully and conscien
tiously recommend to our capitalist
and planters the "Clement Attach
ment" as a safe Investment, and
source of prosperity to our Souther
country, by furnishing the means {
support to needy and worthy peopl,
r to-wit, women and children prime
pally, by saving much of the freigh
: expenses Of bagging and ties, ins,
rance, commissions and many oth'
incidental expenses, which tend
r swell the current which is constant