The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-07
Cotton Mills in Pine NJ,
CLEMENT ATTACu,,n

ton m'li; lnough there are ma ~
thousand cotton mills in many
and the Eastern States rnurops
100000 of spindles on rroaalns
with very little variation S;O'OO
machinery; still, it may be- he
Southern mills now to bs NE
should not follow the plan of Sult
European mills nor the New p NE
land mills. These mills are
away from the Gotten fields IA
tween 20 and so degrees NORTH Is'
titude, and received our COTE 's'
compressed bales.
The Clement Attachment Or
process is the combination oftbaW
and card for converting seed co,.s a
directly into silver, which nsS.; ON
through the usual drawing frag
speeder and spinning frame is ca
verted into yarns. The inven,oo11'
name was Clement, and it worIJ =
better understood if called CO.
ent's new combination of the =:
and card. There is nothing ntw gu
the gin and card, but the comb;raa
ton is new, and new
suit is produced, that is w..
produced from seed cotton
it comes from the field. Is ~.
an improvement, and is it the tr~ H."
policy of the the South to adont :,
There are eight mills now runn;r.
east of the Mississippi river at Il.
following places: West Minstsr
Orangeburg and Williston, s e
Windsor and Elizabeth City N r.
Mt. Pleasant, Fla, Senoia, Ga Tn,
cum bia, Ala, etc. All these mill,
report very large profits on n.
sums invested. The ADVANTAGE
to the South are partially enum,r
ated thus:
Ist. 1t will do awav with the q.
pense of one hundred ginhouss
and presses, bagging and ties.
I'D. 1t dispenses with some thou.
sands of middle men, now suppor.
ed by the cotton growers, in weigh.
ing, marking, sampling, insuring
COMPRISING, and clipping between
the field and the foreign mills.
I'D. 1t will double the value Of
the crop without increasing the
quantity.
4th. 1t will give employment to
women and children whose labor
now is without value.
9Th. 1t Will attract capital from
Old England because they are com.
PEELED to use compressed gin cotton
and can not get seed cotton becaua
it isl too far away.
9th. 1t will draw the spindles and
looms from New England and Old
England, as the cotton climate is
immovable but the spindles are
moves ble.
9TH. 1t dispenses with ten pieces
of machinery, now used in the Old
proceS>, and makes a better warn
than any compressed ginned cotton.
9Th. 1t gives a better yield to the
spindle than the old process. The
spindles in Europe turn off 4
pounds each, in the United Stals
6S pounds, but the new process turns
off, I45 pounds to the spindle, and
the yarn is from one to two centl
pound higher in the market than
any compressed cotton, and is
double as strong as cotton from
hydraulic press. Seed cotton in
proves by age, whilst the ginnei
cotton loses in weight and elasticity.
Is it not the policy of the South
to spin first and sell arms and let
the North weave and dress the
fabrics?
Spend the money for machinery,
and not in buildings, set the ma
chinery on the ground, build in the
shape of cross and put the engine
in the center, and sell the yarn at
$50 bale and double the income OF
the cotton States without increasing
the quantity. This new combina.
ton has great promise in it. Old
England and New England are cut
off from competition with US, but
they are not in the old process OF
working ginned compressed cotton,
Is not this a material advantage.
This applies to spinning alone and
not to weaving, hence | suggest the
spinning by the new combination
of seed cotton.
| know of no mills West OF the
Mississippi but there may be a teWJ
which makes yarn from seed cotton
To prepare for weaving requires
much larger outly for the ma
chinery than for spinning alone
Philadelphia has a large number Oh
weaving mills which do not spin :
thread. Let the South spin anu
the North weave, print, bleach anu
dye. Then the freight on the thFeaa
would be the only charge from INC
cotton fields to the mills.
The Clement attachment is SIM
ply combination cotton spinner o.
seed cotton. Very little skill ie
CURED, and not much capital &c,
CURED. Set the machinery on 'n'
ground in wood or brick buildings
one or two stories high. The nc"
combination cotton picker, by nor.
or steam power, strengthens Wv
fibre on the seed and makes 1t PEI
fectly clean, ready for the ne" gu
and card in this new process :.
making thread. The new gin run.
slow, and indeed the roller gin may
be adopted in the Clement atts'n n.
ment; if so, we gain an advan'aSJ
of value in our thread that Woui"