The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

Letter from J. e. Gray. Chair.
man of the Executive Commit
tee Oh wrexas State Grange.

man OF the Execut1Ve commit
tee Oh wTexas State Grange.
Editor Patron. Having been
sent out to South gCaro1ina BY
the,4Texas State Grange for the
purpose Of examining into the con
struction and operation 2of the ma
lchinefy. forconverting seed8cotton1
into yarn, Know as the - cement
/ attachn1entS and @lsaving made my
reports to the officers of said organ
ization, now propose to give-the'
membership and the public the
benefit of theSinforination thus
obtained, through your valuable:
and widely circulated paper, pro-
vided you,can afford the space.
= feel that I can not describe
fully every thing connected with
said machinery in this article, hence
Z VIII confne my selfs to~the princi-
pal parts of the machine, and the
effects Of its work. Then as to the
machine, and just; here before g
describe the parts. win remark, !.
that-theres is no doubt about It's
Working as there is no new prin-I
c;ple involved in il, every operation.
sis-as well.4establshed as ginning
and spinning, and done with ex
Nactlyzthe same machinery, that is
now in gordinarypuse, with. the ex-
ception of~the gin (whichsvariesr in,
construction but not in principle).
being smaller, the saws are about
? inches in diameter, and the teeth
are much finer than the ordinary
gin and runs at a slow rate, Just
fast enough gin-the cotton as
fast as the card can receive and
work it off into silver, or a contin-
ued roll, there being small brush
well covered with bristles used to
pass the lint from the gin saws to
the cards, and upon these parts
thus constructed and combined
with the cards that are in common
use for carding lint, or baled cot.
ton, was the patent for this machine
| obtained, and not for any new in
vention. The small gin and brush
is bolted on the front of the card
stand, having removed therefrom a
flat piece, or plate, over3which the
bats, or lap of lint is passed to the
cards, and this with simple feed
ing apparatus constitute the At
tachment. Every other piece of
machinery used, is the same that is
used in all factories spinning the
baled nor lint cotton, consisting of
what is called a Drawing Frame,
the object of which is to double,
draw and equalize the silver, which
is necessary to produce an even
and uniform thread. From this it
is passed to what is called the
Speeder, and here it = is made into
what is called frovine, which is
wound on 6ob6in, and from this,
and thus prepared, it goes to the
spindles, and is spun into the size
of thread intended when the cotton
is fed to the gin, or Attachment
1t is then, Ireeled into hanks, The
hanks pressed by a hand press into
FIVE pound punches, and then the
lunches put into bales, of 200
pounds each by hand press, COW
cred with cheap sacking, tied, and
sent to market. Some kind of a
cleaner to run the seed cotton
through is necessary to knock out.
the trash and dirt and to open up
the locks, which is all weighed and
placed upon a revolving feed table,
and passes to the gin. The parts
thus enumerated, with some few
others necessary to keep the ma
chinery in repair, constitute the
outfit, less the house and motive
power. aa bue fnas..a $500 "a
The factory that I examined at
Westminster, S. c., was run by
water power, and attended by one
man, two women and four girls,
and spun up about 80 pounds of
seed cotton per hour. The number
of pounds varying little accord
ing to the size or number of the
thread spun. The thread being
spun-while / was there, was No.
10, the quality used in making good,
heavy shirting domestic, and their
books showed that their yarn had
been sold for. the last five months
at an average price of e cents per
pound for Nos. s and 10, which
fully doubled the price of the cot-o
ton, while the amount of capital
and labor necessary to spin the
cotton does not much exceed half
of what is necessary to produce
cotton, besides by spinning it into
yarns it is relieved of a, great bur-
den in the shape of expenses, which
justly belongs to the profit side. 97sI
I have perhaps said enough to
give some idea of the. machine and
my opinion of its merits and I will
close by stating that consider it a
complete success, perfect, practical
and simple in construction, and not
extravagant. in price, when its ca
paclty is considered. 4. I.e,
And that feel under obligations
to the Grange organization, and
will visit any Grange, company, or
cooperative association in the State |
that viii pay my expenses, and exad
hibit the sample Of. yarn l saw
spur, and tell them all that / know /
about the machine. and its iadvan.s
tages; And if any should desire
individual or county. rights to use
the machine, il, they will cores
pond with me, I wall give them
full particulars concerning that as
well as the machinery -