The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
A NEW COTTON PICKER.
The Stalks TO be Cut Down and the BOlis
to be Picked in the Gina Ouse.

to be Picked in the Clubhouse
From the y o. Democrat
The following letter concerning new
mode Of harvesting the cotton crop,
will be read with interest throughout
the South Mr. Cockerell, the writer,
Is an experienced planter and ought to
know whereof he speaks. His ma
chine to pick the cotton from the boil
by iron fingers, after the stalk has been
cut down is certainly novel, and, if sue
cessful will work great change in Sc
curing and preserving a full crop:
Pine BLUFF, Ark, -, 1881.
THOMAS j. SPEAR, New ORLEANS:
DEAR SIR-In the Cotton Planters
Journal Nicksburg, | notice a state
ment from you on the value Of the
''cotton stalk, in which you allude to
a statement made twenty years ago. |
have been cotton grower in Alabama
and Arkansas for forty years, and this
portion Of the plant has escaped my
notice till this year, 1880.
Since the war / have given the sub
iect Of harvesting the cotton crop with
machinery much attention, and have
now reached the conclusion it can be
done. In short, that the cotton crop
can be gathered and made ready for the
Gin without human fingers. Mules and
iron fingers can do it.
The plan or process leads to the ques-
ton which you have started-haye the
stalks Il value You have answer,
Eyes
As this value can now be utilized as
the machinery is completed for picking
/ wish to obtain from you what has been
done toward putting the fibre" bark,
cotton iute or cotton MANILA into shape,
to ascertain its value.
The plan for using the machines to
pick the crop is this, and success is GER
tain:
No. 1. The cotton stalks are pulled
ND in October and November, when
the cotton is open, and hauled out to a
proper building or she'd
No 2. The clippers are used to cut
off the limbs, and then cut off the bolls
No. 3. This machine is ''hull sep
arator," and takes the cotton from the
bolls.
No. /. This machine takes out all
the leaf, dust, trash, and sends it 30 the
gin clean.
You have there the stalks, every one
that grows on the land. You have the
limbs with the bolls cut off: The stalks
and limbs are then ready to 60 to the
vat, to be made ready to have the jute
taken oil.
The bolls are also ready to 90 to the
paper mill The seed cotton is clean
and goes to the gin, Or, which is
preferable. to the Clement attachment
cotton mill, to be spun into v"'ri, "V-'fh
CSst5n picking with human fingers is
dispensed with.
The machinery is nearly ready to be
offered to cotton planters.
[ find the MANILA fibre, on the
roots of tbe cotton stalks, to be thick,
strong and good. Hence the plan of
pulling up the stalks instead Of cutting
them down. The roots will give good
per centage Of fine cotton manila.
This division Of work is the keynote
to success. | would like to sell the pa
tent for the State of Louisiana, or for
certain parishes of Louisiana, to this
combination OF machinery.
l am cotton grower, but aiding the
inventor in raising funds to 90 on with
this combination of machinery, which
is to be worth millions to COTTON grow
ers of the whole South 1t includes
this new profit 10 the cotton planter,
which you discovered twenty years ago
| mean this valuable fibre, found on
the stalk, the limb. the root. 1t win
make bagging enough to tie up the
crop.
This new article must be carried
10 make it ready for the spindle, or
loom, or rope works.
l would thank YOU for any informa-
ton on that subject, as it is now iden-
tilted with the machinery, TO pick cot
ton by mules and iron fingers.
These new cotton pickers may become
of great importance in the labor ques-
ton.
am yours respectfully,
S. r.. CocKRELI,
Vice President for Arkansas in the
Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters As
ISOLATION at Vicksburg.
Could you send me sample of THU
fibre from the cotton stalk? c.
PINE BLUFF, ARK. Jan. 8, 1881.
Thos. J. Spear, New Orleans:
DEAR SIR--Yours of the 9th inst.
covering samples of cotton stalk, okrs
and iute fibre received to-day.
am much pleased with these speci
mems, especially that of the cotton
stalk.
This new mode of gathering the cot
ton crop is of great Importance to al
the cotton countries in the world Thi.
evidence furnished by you of new
profit from the cotton stalk is Just il
time to be made useful. You have my
consent to make use of letters in YOU
circular.
am confident that you are not mis-
taken in the value of the cotton stall
fibre.
The cotton stalk is cultivated for tn,
lint cotton and seed and you propose t,
deveiope the value of the fibre. Thel
1T will yield;
Cotton lint, oil cake, cotton MANILA
seed hulls and bolis.
The seed hulls, in demand for adding
TO Iubricating compound for railroad en-
gines and cars, the bolis for paper mill
brown paper.