The sun., 1899-04-23

placing two or moro bales OF cotton on the
lanper at the same time and unrolling them TO-
With all OF these advantages It seems. re-
marhsble az first thought TIA that IN the o new 4sie
rush or that II should have met. with any seri:
Gus opposition. but this has not been true, and
for by non partisan observers largely because
OF the intimately interwoven financial inter-
ali who mnSe we're UNDER ths old
In the handling OF cotton from the field to the
workshop There are the Rinners, the press.
and the transportation men, They we're not
only personally friendly to one another through
long business association. but were often con
warehouses. com presses and credit connec-
tons and even in ships. railroads or mills:
he was likely to suffer one way or another.
This diiflcuitv has led the American Cotton
COMPANY into an undertaking which. entirely
apart from the new process of baling. seems
destined to cause u revolution In the cotton
trade. It has constituted Itself great cotton
an agreement with the persons using its bal
ing machinery to buy all the cotton baled by
rental Of the machines In conf ection with
this IL has instituted sampling system.
no established method Of determining for once
and all what the comparative quality cf a cot
into the worlds markets.. definitely sampled:
in other great staples this was accomplished
long Shen o9Gs v
experts. dumped into it's appropriate bin and
thenceforth ,oses its Identity and goes forth
With cotton this is all different Each bale
the shipping place. again at the storehouse or
hanjfunti it is not uncommon for bale 70 be
ssaees the milf Each te aD expert mu
be employed 70 do the sampllnG, men to over
lot of cotton Is drawn out and taken to the
sample rooms or wasted. The cost OF this. be
sides the loss OF cotton. is estimated at from 10
to 10 cents for each samplinR.
The American Cotton Company recon m ends
to each OF the lessees OF its machines that two
these and the bale be properly N arked for iden-
tihcaton. and that thenceforth tho bale be for
ples. Both connpanies, making the new bal
ing machines lease them, instead OF selling
cost of balng cottonand is 20 cents for each
hundred rounds put up
now being made are produced are interesting.
In the baling machines OF the American Cot
ton Company. the lint Gotten as It comes from
%ps!, tsr dSs' SSna S"%f
while that which is heavier tails through the
wheel into a dust pan suspended inside. The
wheel presently throws .s the Iint OF by csntri- @
ing whose sides are formed OF belts revolving
over rollers. These belts lead II to the lower
rollers. which set quite close together and
draw the cotton out into a hat OF even thick
ness and Of he width Of the opening. This
dh the Length OF the Eae
forty; ;;eiGht-inch bale and the other thirty
The hnt now passes between two rollers
which are held together by heaTy springs. and
here all the air is pressed out Of the cotton.
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improvements in the system that this pressure
is not produced by two hard metallic faces but
between its face AMI the cotton. This band
now leads down to the horizontal centre Of the
spindle on which the bale is to be rolled. An
other roller sits opposite, with its centre in
limo with the centre Of the first and also with
the spindle. and this is pressed toward the first
ing bale between the two. TWO. The rubber band
to movable tightening roller below
As the end OF the bat Of cotton reaches the
srindle II beGins 10 wind about it and each
aite roller. In the early davs OF this bale II
was found that the centres we're finally g
outer wrappers that the bale would not on
tireIy unwind. This is ohviated now by Civ
ing 2 lighter pressure At first, and the cotton
is allowed to soften up a. The centre even more
by removing the snindle after the bale I,
formed. WheI, the ha:e Is rolled to required
marked. The machines are built double SC
that the hat may run continually.
In the making OF the Lowry bale an entirely
different machine is used. II might best be
described "a a cotton sausage maker and Is
not unlike a modern household meat cutter
II consists OF an iron cylinder of the diameter
Of the bale to be produced. and in the top plate
are n number Of holes radatlng about thf
centre. just under these holes is a revolving
plate turned hy uower That is the whole ma
chine The lint. after heing cleaned by any
suitable device. is OF fall upon the ton CT The
cylinder. Tho colt ou falls through tho holes
and the revolving plate catches il and draw
it in. pressing the air out OF it as the cotton
passes. As the space Nils up. the incominf
cotton forces out that which is compressed ant
this in turn first fls, the cylinder below thu
turning plate In spiral LAYERS and then presses
| forward into canvas bags suspended below
new bag fitted on and go the operation goe
ON endl"ssly like a sausage filling machine
There ia an automatic arrangement for plac
ing the wires In the bales and these have to h
fastened before the bag ia finally sampled
sewed up. weighed and marked.
That tho round bale Ia making its way Int
trade favor is evident. but only time can de
termIne whether the bales now being mad
will be the successors OF the old rectanRlla
bale. or some bale yet to he invented. Th'
Planters COMPRESS Comnany. which control
the Lowry bale. declares that II has In use thi
season every machine that 1t could make II
time. and tho American Cotton Company ha
its machines at work in sixtv-two places II
the South. Out OF the crop OF lO,OOO0W o
12.OOO.OOO pales perhaps 100000 or 35O.O0
may he put up this season altogether by tn
i new process.