The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-01-10
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.


Henry w. Grady writes from Atlanta
to the Philadelphia Times; sae ss5f asl
The unexpected and artificial rise in the
price of cotton had added fully two cents
pound to the ordinary price of this sta
pie. This surplus of $40 per bale, which
strikes the farmers as happily as did the
fairy god mothers gift to Cinderella and
which comes quite as gratuitously, has
given everything boom. The cotton is
being rushed to market as rapidly as pos
sible Just upon this boom comes the dis
cussion of a little machine that is already
famous over the continent and that prom
Uses the grandest results-the Clement at
tachment. This machine provides for the
spinning of yarns from seed cotton. At
present the cotton is picked from the boil,
and taken to a gin which simply separates
the lint from the seed. The lint is then
baled and sent north for manufacturing.
With the Clement mill the lint is not only
separated from the seed, but it is spun
into yarn. The difference in value is enor-
nous. The lint cotton is worth only
about eight cents pound on the planta-
ton; the yarn is worth seventeen cents a
pound. 1t will be seen, therefore that ev-
cry pound of cotton spun is doubled in
value. 6"e ~se1EsS9 a1I lE Sis .g4v ia
A hale of cotton ginned by the old pro-
cess is worth say $50; the same cotton run
through the new process is worth 500
Of this added value fully SIS is clear
profit. A crop of 5,ooo,oo bales spun
into yarn would therefore leave 100000
600 in the South, while it leavesinow on v
$3.50, 100000. OF this surplus of So co.
100000 there would be $75, 100000 profit
The rest would be kept on the farms in
the way of wages, &c. 1t looks unreas-
onable to apply these figures to the whole
crop, and yet it would require no more
capital to spin the crop into yarns by the
new process than it does to gin it by the
old. There are six of these little mills in
operation in Georgia and the CaroIinas.
Each of them is visited daily by crowds
of sig ht-seers and farmers and capitalists.
Letters are received from all parts of the
country, and samples of the warn have
been sent for by Liverpool capitalists.
The yarns made by this process are supe-
rior to any others, and took the premiums
at all the fairs. The little mills could not.
all combined, supply fraction of the de-
mand that comes from Philadelphia alone
for the yarns. aBosaE a. 80 Vne ll8geoa ii
9 One point that comnends the Clement
Hills 70 tue~OOulIl is lilaI ltney Will make
an essentially Southern industry. The
seed cotton can not be carried away from
the plantations 1t mustobe spun there
just as completelyoas it is now .ginned
there. The mills are very simple. 1t is
simply the connection of gin with aspin
die by means of .carding cylinders In
the old system the fibre is chopped and
torn from the seed by ightnin g-like saws
and then thrown all tangled and torn into
the lint pile, then packed into bales, taken
to the factories, picked out and foggled
again and then ccarded into rolls and spun.
In the new process the gin moves slower
pulls the fibre from. the seed instead of
tearing or cutting it, transfers it carefully
t to a carding cylinder, instead of throwing
It into the lint pile, and spins it at once.
instead OF packing il, Comprising it and
picking it out again. In the process of
converting seed cotton into thread no less
than tour machines used in the old pro-
cess are set aside and profit of nearly &c.
pound is gained. This is an enormous