The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-26
THIS MACHINE
 PICKS COTTON Demonstration of a New
 Invention. WITNESSED BY A CROWD Special Train Took Party to McLemOre Plantation.
with DirigibIe Arms Negro Boys De- m0nstrated That Mir. LOwrys
 Machine is a success-One
 Hundred Persons Present.

 went to Mitylene on special train yes terday afternoon to witness the opera tion of the Lowry Auto Picker in a field on the plantation of Moses McLemore. The demonstration was revelation to the spectators, and many successful farmers in the crowd de- clared that the machine would reyolu- tionize the handling of cotton at har- vest time.
 'The principle on which the machine Is based" said Jesse c. Adams, Chief Clerk in the State Department of Az riculture, who was in the party, is the correct one. MT. Lowry seems to have solved the problem of picking cot ton by machinery. His machine, when perfected. will be of the greatest ser vice to cotton growers"
 M. B. Houghton, President of the Agricultural Association of Montgom- cry County, was equally enthusiastic in his praise of the machines utility, and others expressed great surprise at the success of the invention.
 George A. Lowry. of Boston, Mass, inventor of the machine. and Jerome Hill, well known cotton merchant of Memphis, Tenn, who Is interested with Mir. Lowry in its exploitation, conduct e1 the party to Mitylene. A special train consisting of one coach and an engine, was provided to transport the party.
 Some Members of Party. The special train left the union rail- way station at 2:S0 o'clock yesterday afternoon and returned to Montgomery at 4:30 o'clock. Some of those in the party were: Governor Cunningham Charles L. Matthews. W. A. Henderson Charles T. Pollard, Joel Barnett. pr. Shirley Bragg, J. K. Jackson, J. E. Worswick, w. B. Fisk, F. F. John stone. T. T. Charles. W. M. Marks Gen. John w. A. Sanford, s. A. Solo, mon. William Berney, Fred Ham mond, W. M. Hudson, W. A. Gayle George F. sedberry. J. H. Faunce Walter Brassell, Barrie L. Holt, Chas c. Abercrombie, Robert Tait, George H Halls, Dr. W. T. KendriclSI M. P. Le' Grand, G. S. Emerson, Frank H. Mil | Ter, J. I. Mckinney and W. M. Selden. At. the McLemore place the party was Joined by Nose W. Stuart and w T. Robertson, who had gone out in Mir Stuart's motor car.
 The cotton picker was ready for op- eration when the party reached Nifty lene. It was standing in field thick with snowy cotton about one hundred yards from the station, Several trapi drawn by handsome horses were await | ing for tired members of the party, but most of the men from the city showed a preference for walking, as the after noon was crisp and cool.
 MT. XIII Made a Speech. Arriving at the cotton picker, where several negroes were ready to put tho machine into operation, Mir. Hill made brief address to the crowd He sait that the gentlemen had been invited to witness the third performance of tho machine, the first having been made al Albany, Ga. and the second on tho plantation of W. H. Vaughn in thi: county.
 eve claim" he said, that this ma. chine has solved the greatest agrlcul' turaI problem of the South. As thu grain harvester developed the grea West to feed mankind, so will this ma chine develop the South in its provision for mans clothing.
 ''Please remember that this machine is but a hurriedly. constructed type o a splendid machine that we have under construction now at the factory. I will be perfected before the end of thi; season and we propose to aid in har' vesting the next cotton crop.
 We claim that a half grown boy after a weeks use of this invention will pick as much cotton as five growI men. The little defects that you will notice have all had careful considera | ton, and provision has been made t' eliminate them. We know that it hal been considered an impossibility t, pick cotton by machinery. We nov I know and assert that this is in realit! a successful picker and has come tt | stay"
 Demonstration of Picking. When Mir. Hill concluded. the ma chine. which is propelled by a four horse power gasoline engine. began t, move slowly down the cotton row. | followed by the crowd who watch ed it with eager interest
 Five negroes were employed on tn, | machine. One cared for the engin, and guided the picker while the otheri sat in iron seats using the arms fol | picking the cotton.
 The machine ''straddled'' one row O. l the open cotton, which was completel, picked, the arms reaching out ant gathering cotton from one side of eacl row or either side<of the machine. IT other words the machine gathers tn, | cotton from one row and two hal rows.
 As the picker efeeps along the row the negroes sitting between the arm, anu "AlA DAAG AAA GdCl AAttLlAAs places then quickly against the cotton, which fl drawn quickly into receptacles bacl | of the negroes and over their heads. The complete invention rests in thes, arms. or pickers. They are dirigibll and may be handled by a child. The, are really travelling rollers of cart cloth. These cards grasp the cottol and the rollers convey it to the recep
 tacle. Before entering the reeeptacI
 the cotton passes underneath a coars
 brush which arrests foreign matted an, casts it aside.
 The simplicity of the idea was i'm | pressive% It was surprising. however taht the card rollers seemed to gath CT all of the cotton from the boil an that the waste was minimized. Every person who expressed fimsel was favorable to the machine Inventor Lowry Talks. | We have" said Mir. Lowry "gOttel
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