The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-11

appears that the business Of ginning 70,
toll gives an ample profit, and will pres
| emily lead 10 Improvement rs it becomes
apparent that additional profit may be
made by improving the condition OF tho
cotton. A model cotton ginning ca.
tabiishment, With capacity OF handling
5000 bales of cotton in q season of IO1j
days, or thirty bales day, can be con.
etructed with all the requisite buildings
for the work and for storage, with three
eighty saw gins for common work and
Two roller gins for extra staple, suitable
cleaners for cleaning dirty cotton in the
seed, an exhaust blower to lift the cotton
from the wagons and distribute it, q cot
ton seed huller by which the bulls can be
separated from the kernel, and all other
regulate machinery, ct a cost with twen.
ty.five per cent added Cor conuugencies)
Of less than $4,000. In such an estab.
lishment the purpose would be either to
gin cotton for toll or to buy cotton in the
seed to hull the seed, burning the hulls
for fuel unless IL vas found that they were
moro valuable for other purposes; send.
ing the kernels TO the nearest oil mill for
the oil to be expressed, the cake to be re-
turned to be ground at the gin staud and
distributed as cotton seed meal, according
TO the demand. There would be one ele.
ment of profit now wasted in such an es.
tablishment, to wit : the saving of what
are technically termed notes" being
Immature seed with much fibre attached.
These notes constitute from one to four
per cent of the weight of the cotton and
are most excellent paper stock.
CHvNCE For NoRTaEn, MEN.
/ have never investigated any subject
in which so large profit appeared to be
within reach on so small an investment
as this, and desire to make fresh start
in healthy upland country among the
southern farmers 10 benefit themselves
while benefiting the neighb0rhood. It
may be worth your while to observe how
small on investment Of capital would be
required 10 treat the whole cotton crop in
q scientific and akilful way, provided only
true 5eginning can be made. l have
aaid that G model establishment of the
capacity Of 5000 bales in the season
would cost less than $4,000. Two thou
sand such establishments scattered over
the vast area Of the cotton country-each
treating 5000 bales in the season-would
prepare 100000 bales of cotton, aud
would represent o capital of $24,OO0. 600.
But even this amount 10 not necessary.
Cotton in the seed can be kept, if prop.
erly stored, for an indefinite period with
out injury. If arrangements we're msde
end the custom introduced for purchasing
cotton in the seed the ginning season
might be extended to cover two hundred
days instead of one hundred. The es.
tablishment named uould then work G..
0G0 bales in the season, and the capital
required for the treatment Of the whole
crop would represent only $4,000, 900.
It seems almost absurd and visionary
to say that by means of such an invest.
ment saving Of nearly $50 900 900 more
in waist of labor and in other why's, might
be saved. Yet think such ~ the only
Legitimate deduction from the facts dis
closed at the Atlanta exposition and by
Investigations since made. can con.
ceive of no branch OF industry 80 likely
to become very profitable as the organ
iz.tion Of large concern with 100000
capital, of which 0ne.half may be in.
vested in twenty model ginning establish
ments scattered through the upland coun-
try, in q healthy climate. among the pro.
gressive farmers who only seed the in
centive of personal interest 20 10 led In
the right direction the other half to be
used MS the working capital in purchasing
and disposing of the cotton.
A COMING NECESSITY.
Whether or not such an undertaking
ehall be begun depends upon others, and
not upon myself. My function in the
matter has been to make complete inves.
tigaticn and to report upon the facts.
The facts will be submitted to the gen.
tlemen at whose cost the recent investi.
CATION has been made, but who only con-
templa.ed little work on THUR own &C.
count, being Individual manufacturers,
who did not contemplate this larger un.
dertaking. think the time may come
Within 6 short period when it will cease
to be a matter of choice on the part of
northern manufacturers whether or not
they will establish branches of their own
factories to gin and prepare their own
cotton. The present tendency to worse
depreciation and to more bad cotton than
hps ever been seen will 90 on for several
years louger. There is reason 10 suppose
that the very sandy and falsely packed
bales, Of which we have heard so much
in Consul Shaw's report and in other
ways, sre not to be attributed to any in.
territorial fraud or even to the adverse
conditions of bad season, but that they
ere the necessary result of the present
method of treating the farmers cotton
which has been exposed for weeks TO the
rain and mud. In general it may be said
that the improvement of the cotton crop
except it be undertaken by special en-.
terprse or special methods indicated in
this report-can only proceed with the
general improvement in the conditions of
society in the southern States. How
rapid or how allow that improvement may
be you can judge % we'll as myself.
There are already very large planters
with whom northern manu- facturers could.
if they chose, enter into contracts for the
delivery Of cotton Of given quality.
prepared in any manner which they
choose to pay for. On the other hand,
the cultivation of cotton in Texas and in
upland regions of the south is steadily
working in the direction of small farms. in
which cotton will be the surplus or
money crop: This will be ginned in
neighborhood gins, and the improvement
in the quality will proceed In Just the
measure of the increase of intelligence
and the means Of communication between
the farmer and the manufacturer. Tho
ultimate contest for supremacy in the
production of cotton will be between
these two systems. Ny own judgment is
that in the long run the small farmer will
lead, as he will subsist himself on other
crops, and it will be difficult to say that
his cotton costs one year more than
another. 1t will be his surplus or what.
ever II brings. Each of these processes
viii take considerable period to work
themselves out, and in the meantime
there is reason to expect consistent, repu.