The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

euces me pest seamless bags for the price
in the United States.
1t may not be amiss to give briefly the
reason why southern cotton goods which
are manufactured direct from tie hnt as II
comes from the gin are superior to those
made nom the same cotton after it has been
compressed. The most important factor i'm
determining the quality of cotton is the
length of the staple. When cotton is com
pressed, 1t is subjected to such immense
pressure that all the fibres are interlaced
and formed into a solid body. The method
OF preparing cotton from the bale for the
earning machine IS to first pass it through
the opener, by which the fibres are to a GER
tam extent separated, and thereby many of
them broken. 1t is then passed twice
through the heater and the lap machine.
Eaeh machine having two or more heaters
which are straight bars OF steel, revolving nj
/ 1000 revolutions per inmate around an axle
| to which they are attached and striking the
cotton which is pushed up to them over the
edge OF a steel plate, and so timed that the
staple OF cotton gets three blows i'm every
one-slXteenth OF an inch in the length of the
hbre from each beatcr, or twelve blows ON
every. one-sixteeuth Of an inch altogether,
/ This is done to break up the leaf and heat
out the dust, OF course it breaks the larger
part OF the llbreS. The slightest examina-
llon OF INT cotton as it comes from the gin.
ana the Snme as it comes from the Ian mn.
chine, will show the injury that has been
zone. There is u machine by which the
cotton is delivered direct on thelap machine
without being touched; il is therefore mt its
best estate and uninjured. This is the chief
reason 10 Tor the superior quality of southern
HEALTH.
! think there is not state in the Union
"a ! a rhal III
Texas. Whilst on bottom lands subject TO
overflow, we have chills, yet the great body
OF the state is admirably drained; n very
large portion OF it high rolling praire
blessed IN the summer with the gulf breeze,
and in the winter by the norther which
sweeps malaria clear away. SO lar from re-
garding the norther as q curse, esteem it a
blessing. Pulmonary diseases are scarcely
know|l, and with proper Safeguards see no
reason why yellow fever should ever prevail
throughout the state, although of course it
1t is notable fact that during the two wears
IN which yellow fever ragged east OF the Mis-
slsSlppi, we had not one case in Texas.
fermlt me to conclude this already too
much extended paper with the suggestion
that in, the year 1879, with all the adyan-
tages OF careful culture, cheap labor and
improved machinery, the average cash
Vtuue OF the principal crops per acre in New
York, $l4l5 while in Texas, with all the
manifold disadvantages of new homes,
crude culture, and the inability to purchase
machinery, the average cash value of the
crops was $l4,69. These figures are from
the last report OF the United States statis-
tician. But il we should assume that Texas
is no more fruitful than New York, the
amount of wealth which will accrue to the
nation from her development amounts to
duced in the year 1873, 1886, 142, 5O2 of agri-
cultural products; the six times greater area
OF Texas would yield $l53G,S55,6l2. Here
lies in compact mass the richest natural
resources and blessings which kind heaven
has vouchsaied to any portion of our great
country, and as patriotic duty invoke
the science and aid OF your honored organi-
cation in subduing and developing them to
the needs OF man and the enrichment of oul
national wealth.