The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-08

twelve shours, using six boys whose capacity by hand would be about sixty pounds per day each, or. one-third of q simple and can be operated by an av- craze plantation crew. The expense for running for gasoline setc.s does not MT. McLemore. who has had excellent opportunities for judging the work of the machine, says:
 ''The Lowery cotton picker has been time, and has picked thirty five bales of cotton. GThe capacity of the six boys used on tine machine islRncreased five times what they could average by hand, and 1t fs very light work
 "The machine is simple, Durable and inexpensive to operate.
 Mir. Lowery Himself says that the machine will pick every day 2,0oo, pounds of cotton without any special urging on the part of the operators. The machine is q cotton chopper as nhasis Tsai sI has been iaid upon the machine as cotton picker because time proves It's use as practical tests have proven it, 1t will mean more to the South than any invention of the last fifty years. But the machine has inter- changeable parts at the lower arms The teeth-st0dded belt can be removed and revolving disc blows can be at-
 This feature of the machine. too. has been completed. Tn fact 1t was com pleted before the last experimsaents ne on The cotton chopper is operated in prac- | ttcally the same way as the cotton picker with. the exception that less la
 ExpIains Cotton Chopper. i T started to work first or .he cot. ! ton picker" said Mir Lowery. "AB was getting the invention In shape and success was promised me, had a num- ! Der of well known planters to come out and see 1t at work. W. E. McCurdy and M. c Scott were among them and s l 1t. They told me: Your cotton picker alone won't be much of Q money saver to us on the big plantations. It re- quires as much labor to chop cotton out as it does to pick cotton. Even with the cotton picker we would have to keep negroes on our places throughout the winter to get the benefit of their labor during the cotton chopping sea- son. Now if you would put up a ma- chine which would have us labor both the cotton picking season, that would save us money and double the value of your machine,
 ''rhat set mo to thinking and went to work on the cotton chopper It was an eaFier undertaking than the picker I perfected it last spring. l started out with 1t and chopped my way through Texas from Dallas to Okla homa. At Fairweather. Ok, the Agri- cultural School authorities were so taken with 1t at their request left the machine with the BcnOOi. Ine ma chine chops cotton to a stand the first time.
 'Tsike the cotton picker 1t is seml- automatic, Maybe ought to say It is with only little direction and aid from human assistants. ."
 Mir. Lowery, who had a national rep utation as an. inventor before he un- dertook to make a cotton picker, is of Scotch Irish extraction. He Is a large man of particularly attractive address During his stay in Montgomery in the past two years he has won a large number of friends. They have com piete faith in his last invention, which they regard Rs the most important thing he has achieved.
 cry amassed a considerable fortune and even if hls cotton picker had not suc- ceeded he would not be bothered by any wolves at the door.
 It is said of him that when he first began experimenting with a cotton picker, he had never seen . field of open cotton. His first experiments in Boston were conducted with a number ofs cotton stalks bearing open cotton which he had had sent him from the South. But Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin was New Englander
 Speaking of his inventions MT. Low
 1T am am not a technical man. never received a technical education. I have to keep men with me to do the technif cal work.
 "The technical man is never an in- ventor. He Is hedged in by his tech- nical learning. He is shut in by wall of books. He can not reach over those