Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
GEO. D, T1LIMAN.
New Process for Baling Cotton.

New Process for Baling Cotton.
Through the inventive genius of
one George A. Lowry, o machine
has been invented that seems
destined to revolutionize the cotton
business. The machine is simple
piece of mechanism that puts cot
ton in round bales and while it is
yet new and untried except the
experiment made by the company,
it is looked on favorably by the
cotton men who have seen it.
General Stephen M. Wells,
president of the Planters Compress
Company, of Boston, was in the
city yesterday with a bale of the
cotton baled by the machine and
photographs of the machine.
The machine, az pictured here,
is attached to the gin and as the
cotton is ginned it can be put right
into the machine and baled before
leaving the ginhouse. The cost of
machine is something under $500
and it may be run by the same
power that runs the gin. The
bales made by this process are
round, and in size they are eigh-
teen inches in diameter and forty
two inches high, each bale weigh
ing $50 pounds. The cotton is
packed in spinal layers, while its
density is forty-four pounds to
the cubic foot, as againsta density
of twenty-five pounds to the cubic
foot IN the bales put up by the
ordinary compress. 1t is not
packed too tightly to be used as
soon as the bale is opened.
In the other round bales the
trouble has been that the bales
have been put around a solid rod
and while the cotton was loose on
the outside of the bale, on the
inside it is packed so tight that it
is perfectly hard. This machine
leaves hole through the center of
the bale through which the wires
thai hold the bale together are
run. The cotton goes in the top
of the machine very much like the
meat is put in sausage machine
and comes out the lower end in a
roll ready to be baled. When the
is perfected it will take
about five minutes to make bale.
A knife that works automatically
cuts the roll of cotton off just the
length of the bale and in five
more another bale is ready.
The greatest advantage of the
new kind of bale is the facility
that it will give the farmer in
handing hiscrop. The bales are
smaller, and being round In form
are easier to handle. Another
great advantage is in the shipping.
The owners of the process claim
that twice as much cotton may be
put in a car when baled by their
process than in the ordinary
bales. The GALES are encased in
cotton duck and held together by
four wires, all of which weigh
not over two pounds. The cost Of
covering bale is % cents. All
it is claimed that the
saving on every bale of cotton to
Ill parties will be between So and
"a per bale.
A company with a capital of
S5,000,000has been organized to
manufacture the machine and
introduce it in the country. 1t is
to organize branch
ompanies in each State with local
capital. The owners of the
machine say that they will have it
eady in time to handle all of the
lext crop and that it will
the cotton business.
This new process of baling
;otton is known as the Lowry
process, from the name of the
inventor. Mr.. George A. Lowry,
Who invented the machine, is
be man who, some years ago,
invented machine for taking
he bristles off hogs. He sold the
INVENTION to the Armours for
100, ,000.-Atlanta Journal.