The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-22
Chicago Indnstria1 Io..1

! ~ ilas Deen the misfortune of the
southern States that too much ar
trntfon has been paid to the cult;va
s'S.a q cotton, TO the exclusion a
other crops, and NOT enough though
mas been bestowed upon devi>ins
/ some means for the most economical
and therefore most profitable man.
uiactufe OF that cotton within the
region of its growth. True, some
cotton factories are established in
certain localities which are running
with profit to the owners and the
surrounding working element of the
community. But they are few com.
pared with the great necessity for
more; where they can be counted
on the fingers they should exist by
the hundreds. The South should
be the great cotton factory of the
world; with an abundance of relia
bic water power, a desirable climate
and cheap building material, and its
thousands of idle men and women
and half grown boys and girls who
are idle and poor because there is
no opportunity for respectable re-
munerative labor, it would seem as
if Nature and Fate had united to
urge upon its people the value of
present opportunities.
Under the common system of
gathering the cotton ef6p, ginning.
comprising and baling it, upon the
supposition that for the great bulk
there is no market for its manufac-
ture within shorter distance than
thousands of miles from It's place
OF growth, there seems no imme-
dlate prospect of a change in the
old methods. The cost of ginneries
necessary to prepare the last cotton
crop Of six million bales is esti-
mated by good authority at $50
900, 700 and the congresses at one
third that amount. The amount
which it costs to place that crop on
the market is thus estimated:
Ginning baling and ties, at
$3.50 per bale.........s......:.$ $4,000 ODD
Two aud uhe-half per cent.
commission for selling the
same Of cotton is worth 10
, per pound ,)................... 1900, 900
brokerage, at IS cents per
;, -oaie '..'............s "a: - 4ssOoooo
Freight, to nearest CITY or
complies, at $3.50 per bale 1000, 900
At least two drayages, 10
cents each ........ ..... I.2oo, 900
Loss IN sampling, two pounds
per ba.e at 70 centsttsts:.:. 100000
Deductions tsohl weights, two
pounds ......... 100000
Storage and insurance fo1 one
day and not exceeding one
: month, at Is cents per bale 100000
COMPRISING rs cents per
ea'e.:.......;.. ........,:.. 100000
Loss from dryage, averaging
twenty pounds per bale. at
10 cents. .................... 100000
Freights and insurance to
New England factories, /
cent per pou'1dA.m........... 10000, COO
Should the eot:on De carried to
Europe, there are additional serious
expenses, and to this might be added
the damage done to the cotton
staple by standing sixty days in
compressed state, estimated and de-
clared to be by the International
Cotton Exchange of London, in
August, 1870, more than one grade
on class This could not be less
than I cent per pound, or S. per
bale.
The item of speculation, ore Of
eleven expenses, LOSSES, etc. omitted
in the above, was, in 1873. about
500 900 900 gross, and likely Melted
the spectators about Sos 100000,
for on that crop the producer re-
ceived about an average of s cents
per pound, while, after March, the
manufacturer paid an average of
I29 cents per pound,
Amos Lawrenee,of Boston. Mass.
writing on this subject, says: Last
crop (1SoD netted the planter at his
glnhouse 10 cents per pound. ItI
cost the manufactures at the North
twice to three times that money"
The invention of the cotton oin
was an inestimable blessing, and
the distance to be traversed renders
the compress a necessity, but it is
an undeniable fact. that the mode
of preparing the cotton for tra~s-
portation is an injury to the fibre.
detracting very seriously from its
alternating qualities, and the dirt
and waste matter is a great injury
to the delicate machinery of the |
factory.
What has been needed is an adj |
vance upon these old methods: some
mode OF treating the fresh cotton
which would overcome the evils re-
sulting therefrom. Some few wears /
since great sensation was pro
iuced in the South by the report
hat new device had been patent-
I'd which, in time, would result not
only in revolution of the cotton
rade. but also be of inestimable !,
benefit to the producer and the |
whole industrial element of her
people. This was the Clements
ttachment, the history of which
loosely resembles that of many other
notable inventions
Lewis Tresband Clements. of
Rutherford county. Tennessee,i is the
inventor of this new process of con
'erting seed cotton directly into