The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-18


farmer, but as class and combination,
with the facilities of telegraphs, tele-
phones, cotton exchanges, etc, price the
farmers cotton, also.
1t is well known in the South that the
| average production of cotton does not
exceed four bales weighing 500 pounds
each, to the hand; that it requires ,5OO,-
600 able field hands twelve months to pro-
| duce and gather the last crop of 6, 600 900
bales, which, at $50 per bale, would be
worth $500, 900, 600. But few in the
South know it only requires $50, 900 oper-
| atiyes (mostly women, boys and grs1
! the same length of time to convert this
cotton, by the old process, into yarns,
thereby doubling its value; that it only
rsquires 100000 additional operatives, the
same length of time, to convert these
yarns into textile fabrics. thereby enhanc-
| ing their value as much more, equal to
200 per cent on the value of the crude
cotton, or, say $500, 600, 900 for the cotton
crop OF the South, when converted into
the coarser quality of the textile fabrics:
that the labor of $50, 900 operatives, man.
ufacturing our great staple in New Eng
| land, is worth as much as the labor of
| 5000, 900 able-bodied men and women in
the cotton fields; the first (many of whom
are boys and girls) in comfortable build
lngs, at easy, pleasant work; the last, in
| the open field, exposed to the vicissitudes
OF heat, cold, sun and rain; and lastly,
still smaller number have maturely con-
! sldered the important fact that, TO the ex-
| tent to which cotton produced in the
| South, Is manufactured in the South by
| Southern labor, the whole of the gross
/ prohtS upon that cotton, from its first to
Its last state, remains in some form within
the South for the benefit of her people
The South surely has every facility pos
sessed by the Gorth for manufacturing
her great staple, and in addition, cheaper
land, food, fuel, labor, building material,
| shorter and milder winters, abundant and
| more reliable water power; hundreds of
! thousands of INDECENT women, BOYS and
| girls, unable or unwilling to take the field
| III competition with the negro, are con-
sumers and non-producers; idle for lack
/ OF such industries as cotton mills. And
| the South also has a full supply of fresh,
unchanged seed cotton on every farm.
With such material advantages, we
should not be surprised to learn the fact
that although the South Only manufac-
! tured in 1867, 127, 189 bales, vet in 1879
so they worked up 221 1897 bales-an in
crease of nearly 80 per cent. per annum;
or that the Southern mills, during the last
five or six years of great pecuniary dis
treSS, have almost without exception run
steadily, paying from 10 to 20 per cent.
profits, whilst Northern mills were either
suspended or running on short time, pay
ing little or no profits; and the mills in
| Great Britain, still further from the cot
| ton fields, were in a much worse condi-
| ton. Nor shall we be surprised that the
average net profits Of the cotton mills of
South COrOlina, as per report reads for
last years business, averaged 219 per
cent.
Clement Attachment on q 36-inch
Welman fat top card, with the necessary
drawing frames, speeder spinning frames
reels, press, cleanser of seed cotton,
grinders, shafting, pulleys, hangers, watts,
cans, etc. AL of best quality, latest improve
mentS, etc, and embracing everything in
the machinery line, except motive power,
can be had of Bridesburg Manufacturing
Co, (office No. 65 North Front St., Phila-
delpia, Pa, for 81, 900. 1t will require
seven horsepower steam, or six horse
power water to drive it, and seven girls,
boys or women to attend it; also an ex-
pert manufacturer to supervise and keep
| the machinery in order, and will daily
! convert 700 pounds seed cotton into 200
pounds of yarn Nos. s to 16.
Three attachments on the same kind
of cards will cost from 80 900 to $4,000
at the same shop, and would require
twenty horsepower engine to drive it
and eighteen operatives to attend it, and
would convert 2,l00 pounds seed cotton
daily, into 600 pounds of the same Nos. of
yarn.
In a mill of three or more cards, by
using the railway trough and drawing
head 800 per cent more dOublings
could be had without additional cost.
The attachments have lately been tested
on the Foss and Peevy undertiat cards,
resulting in the production of 800 pounds
| good yarn per day for each card.
This is 80 per cent. more than we have
! been able to obtain from the Wellman top
| fat cards of the same size. The two
! cards cost about the same, but the FOss
| and Peevy underfat cards would of
| course require 80 per cent. more spindles,
/ reels, etc, few more operatives and adj
/ ditiOnal motive power.
/ The attachments suitable to the Foss
and Peevy underfioat cards or to the
| worker and Stripper cards, with feed ia
! bic, chute, etc, can be had of l. r. SchO-
| field, Macon, Ga, and the attachments,
| etc, for the Wellman top fiat cards can
/ be had of the Carver Gin and Machine
| CO., Memphis, Tenn, but the Memphis
| and Macon shops do not make other cot
/ ton machinery, whilst the Bridesbury
Manufacturing Co. make every thing in
/
| There are new process mills running at
! Elizabeth City, n. c., byS. S. Fowler;
at Windsor, N. c., by G. T. Harden; at
Orangeburg, S. c., by Geo. H. Cornelson;
! at Williston, s. c., by Paramount Manu-
| featuring Co.; at Westminster, S. c., by
! Westminster Manufacturing Co.; at Mt
| Pleasant, Fla, by T. j. Davis & Co.; at
| Senaia, Ca, by A. Bonner; at Tuscum-
| bia, Ala, by Henry Habberter; at Cuero,
| Texas, by G. L. Stadtler & Co. Mills will
| be sted in the next 80 or 40 days in Tyler
Co, Texas, by Rasarer and inflow & Bro;-at
| Richburg, S. c., by o. Bomber, and at
| Suffolk, Va, by Thos. G. EIarrs.
Machinery has been sent or is ready for
| shipment to Louisiana, Alabama and
| other points, and Others are preparing in
| every cotton State to put up mills this
| fall.
The Bridesburg Manufacturing Co. is
| some three or four months behind their
| orders, which has delayed the starting of
| several mills.
l would advise persons wishing to in
| vest to go and see some of the above
named mills, and Judge for themselves.
Cornelson's mill at Orangeburg, S. c.,
| is the largest. 1t has five attachments,
and runs day and night. The little one
| cord and attachment mill at Westminster,
| >. e., has been running steadily for four
years, paying 40 per cent. net profits each
year. Its machinery is mostly second
handed; is owned byJ. V. Strebbling and
others-farmers who grow their own seed
cotton. One of the proprietors' sons
superintends the MILL and / heard that
six or seven of their children are the
operatives. The mill is driven by six
horse water-power, and the entire cost
| of the whole property was only So, 100
They only make about los to IT'S pounds
of yarn per day.
The mill at Tuscumbia, Ala, owned by