The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-01-10
ITS ADVANTAGES

| times as much using seed cotton, and
same amount of motive power, as it did
by the old process using baled cotton, is,
because the filaments are not permitted to
leave the machinery, fly, or become tan
gled, but are kept straight and parallel.
and carding is but the Strengthening of
the cotton filaments. The saving of one
half the usual waste is because fresh live
cotton is used and half the usual machin-
cry dispensed with. The extra strength
of the thread and skein is owing to the
working of the cotton fresh from the seed,
the oil of which has kept it alive, light,
elastic and flexible, with all its alternating
qualities perfect; and to the fact that it
has never been mapped, cut nor tangled
by the gin, pressed, compressed or per-
mitted to become dry, seasoned and brit
tie in this tangled condition, nor has it
been injured by the willower, Topper,
double Topper, breaker aud cards, where
the damage done by the gin, press and
compress are sought to be remeded. But
these advantages (great as they are) are
not half that are claimed for the ''new
process The ginning, baling, bagging
and ties are saved, the seed inure to the
manufacturers-nol loss from falsely pack
ed cotton, no strikes among operatives,
for it is the poor mans factory, and his
daughters are the operatives.
THE COST.
The entire capital necessary for the
smallest size new process mills, including
building and motive power, is only $3 900,
and will pay net profit of 80 to 50 per
cent. per annum-see report of Westmin-
ster Mills, Westminster, South Caro-
lima. 1t saves all expense, loss,
waste, dryage, perquisites, general aver
age accounts, stealage, speculation, &C.,
on cotton in transitu from the field to the
factory, be that distance Il or 1900
miles, as from India to Manchester, Eng
land.
Take a bale of cotton on farm near
Corinth, Miss, and see the expenses, etc,
in sending it via Memphis to Boston, Mas
sachusetts. Hauling to Corinth, sampling,
weighing, deduction of from two to four
pounds from each bales actual weight
profits to purchaser, freight and insurance
to Memphis, drayage to cotton shed, sto-
rage and insurance, dress sampling
commissions for selling, general average
accounts, brokerage for buying, dress
boring, second weighing, repairs, drayage
to compress, COMPRISING, drayage to
steamer or depot, freight and insurance
to Boston, loss on bills of exchange, &c.
To these add waste, loss, damage, dryage
and stealage, all the expenses, specula-
tons, &c, of the guerillas Of the South
and the great cotton kings of the North;
also the expenses in our seaport towns,
where it is, or was, recompressed to be
shipped to Europe, the expense of the
shipment, and the expenses after its arri
val there until it is sold to the manufac-
turer. Now, if to all these you add the
expenses, profits, &c, of the manufactured
goods returned South, you will have some
idea of what middle men receive, and
what the new process will save, when
generally adopted, to our impoverished
but still beloved South.
THE ONE OBJECTION.
There never has been nor can be but
one objection to the new process, that is,
that on the Ist of January an eight months
supply of seed cotton must be held to run
the mill until the next crop comes in.
This will continue to be the case so long
as Southern farmers remain slaves to COM
mission and other merchants, middle men,
spectators, Northern capitalists and man
ufacturers. In both the ''old' and 'new
process" some one must hold this supply
of cotton, and must be paid for SO doing;
but it is better for manufacturer to receive
this pay or lose the interest for three or
four months, by which time he can repay
it with manufactured goods, than to pay
the gambler in spots and futures fifty per
cent for holding it for him-which was the
case last year. But as one of the many
offsets to this only objection to the "new
process" / will state what know to be
true and what / think will be entirely sat
| isfaetory to any one except middle men
| interested in continuing the cotton bale
| system: that seed cotton, being in bulk
from eight to twelve months, enhances in
market value from I ] to cents per pound
| Qint), by absorption of oil from the seed
| by the filaments which gives the staple a
rich, creamy color, increasing its weight
and tractility ami causing it to work ur
with less waste Whilst baled cotton
standing the same length of time, deteri
crates in market value from to Il cent:
per pound, becomes dry, seasoned ano
brittle, losing on the average from Is tC
IL pounds per bale from dryage, and loses
greatly from waste in being worked up il
this dry state.
The International Cotton Exchange o
London in 1876 or 1877, resolved that ''cot
| ton standing in compressed state sixt,
days was injured more than one class o
grade There are no half grades, ant
the difference between grades or classe
is about &c. per pound. The same bod,
also resolved that 'sWhereas, the deduc
ton of tare for bagging and ties in Eu
rope caused complication, ETC.; therefor
be it resolved, that hereafter the said tar
be deducted in the first purchase of tn
cotton in the country where it is grown.
This of course was not approved by gu
national and city cotton exchanges, but
have yet to see the farmer who does nc
believe he gets more for his bagg'ng an
ties than he paid for them.
F. E. WHITFIELD, Sr.
OHIO STATE GRANGE.
The Sauenth Annual Session of th