Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-03
ooTToY NAcHIYE -.

IL IS two yezrs since sua0unesme-t
wss made Of The lnveniscu q e EAchins
20 plek cotton. southern planters AsEled
t. with ziadress, ard high h0pes were
held oas inst s; last the great s1ste q
coitor caused b. lack Of men 10 gather It 4
as il mstured would be O5Tizted. TIE I
cotton Harvester wss given tTizl, sud f.
~ lrTeztor sud the men whom h had
interested ia iss manufacture pronounced I
The sest satisfactory. A iitass change 10 . I
uheel OF cog here and there was neces-
sary 10 make Is 20 smoother, then j;
would be al right, and farmers should
have their next crop gathered BY msehin-
ery-saAt Is, As much Of IL Is eOuld be
gathered By the hsryesters thas could be
made IN time. It would Be Impossible u
supply TIE demand for q gear OF two, aud
those planters Who gave me hrst orders
+ would be served earliest. IN order to get
the benent Of prompt sEFply many farm
ers were In great haste to send their or
ders in, and made 10 other provision for
the gsshsring Of their cotton. But the
wheels 4nd eogs stin remained uasatis-
factory, and they are nOt yet put in good
working order. Two oTcps have been
gathered In the old way, to-wIt, by negro
manual labor, and the outlook is that
several more will have TO be taken care Of
. in the same way.
The New Orleans Ficayune recently
printed an article descriptive Of = new
Harvester, in which all the old promises
, were repeated with the same pEofuseAess
/ and confidence with skieh they were put
! forth two or three years ago. The Pea
. yuns's harvester IS thus described and
! eztoued.
some Of car cotton EasrckEass AID planters
MO base heen The mosg shepiie1l a. TO the
sucesss Of the new c0fsoH hasvester are nov
thssonghiY convinced q i;s practie4onitT after
q careful stu8y OF go mechanism 2at TIE prtn-
eiDles thas are used Ire taing rat seems 70
siAzgsr aSst everyone IS bow q Il tat The ma
chine has powers % diszriusl sa;ior bat this Is
: yeEy elziiy understood WhsB thesrzsu picker
sreaas are seen The cotton gin With Is large
. cylinder separates the liEi fEoE the seed. re
r cotton harvester with It's slxu eFiiAders sepA-
d, rates The seed cotton from the solis and stake
= Ine gAn ana harvester are very E1Gh alike IN
E lheir p HeiPles. As the gia separates the lint
2 fron ne seed without doing then 4ay iniary
20 VIII the harvester separate ne szed cotton
from " oolls and si2Iks without iuiury TO
: them.
{ After reading this, faint suspicion
J. comes over one that there Is an odor Of
r the counuHg-Oflce shout it, that it was
d inspired By, say, 50s per line. What fol-
b lows IS eounrmaiory Of the ars, sas-
o picion
: The sfockhSiders Of the company owning this
machine are scattered all over the cotton states
, ard, a. the president Of tae eompAuy s,aiea
: that In furnishing m2chineS - planters prefer
. enee VII be shown 10 those who oWE stock,
they VII be fortunate In tWo Ways-la belns
able 10 gci maehlncs nrsf, and In lie enhanced
J. vslEs o. their siotS.
e Oi course, Il stockholders are 70 be
{ served nrsi, planters will rush in snd
b take up the stock
q THE GAZETTE doesn't place much con.
a ddenee in cotton hSgyesters, except OF the
( old style the style that charges 70 cents
e hundred pounds, and board. The
Z farmer who relies on any Improvement
upon this machine win be left There
may be q successful cotton harvester
made some time. but no satisfactory eyl.
dence has ever been given that the ex.
:, penments 80 far made viii be successful