The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-10-27
WILL DO THE WORK
NEW COTTON PICkER SAID TO BE
an ENTIRE SUCCESS

Claims TIA. It VILE Pick Thoasan
Pucnds an Hour Without Injur
| 20 Bolls or Plant
The practical working OF the Price
Campbell cotton picking machine wa
demonstrated on the plantation Q
Senate. John l. MeLau-ia. oea
sennet.sv!lie ore day last week Il
the presence Of large number 0
o,a,,e S ane o,he. citizens. and I
yaz; is claimed for the new ma
chine IS true, i: can De truthful!
asserted tia, the days o: hand picket
cotton will soon DC thing Of The
past. /; Is asserted tha; the ma
chine picked cotton at the rate OF
thousand pounds an hour. without
iniury 20 the plan: or unopened
bolts. About 80 per cent OF the opes
cotton was obtained at the srs; pick
:pc and BY running the machine ove'
the same rows again. 1t got aooa'
90 De. cent Of the balance. making
90 Der cent There was a CONSIDER
able amount Of trash II the cottos'
picked. bu. many practical farmers
said they had seen lore trash IL
hsad-picksd cotton
A bundred-ae.e seld Of cotton vas
,oash. last summer from Senator
Nc,,av,;a By Theodore T. Prtss OF
Sax York for the demonstration OF
toe machine
No COTTON had eeeo pcSs3 % the
se,d. and the bolls which opened
.srly In the season bad been dsuss-
ed by dust and smoke IN sae ne'c.
and the foliage had become d!y ans
rotten. 50 that the cotton Naturally
made a poorer appea ance than Il It
had been picked soon sitter open
ing. Some Of the cotton was sinned
and submitted to buyers here. WHO
c,assed It as low middlias TO strict
low middl;ng. They said they had
bought a great deal OF cotton esss
season which was not as good as that
picked by the machine.
Upon the invitation OF ar. Price
a number Of Northern capitalists
aue down and witnessed g private
test OF the machine. They saw
bale os cotton picked in an hour anc
then Ssnaed. The party included
Y. Ernest Macy. Marshall P Siade.
". 4. Lotus. " F. Carpenter. Geo.
". Baxter. Rudolph H. H!sse!. George
e + as.r and E,wood HenIr!ck. 0:
New York. Herbert z. Wainsley aoc
se-ber. z. walms!ey. u. OF New
Bedford. Masa-: Stephen G. Lowe. E.
p. Sheldon, Frederic S. Goodwin. G.
{. Hathaway. F. ". Perkins and 0.
D. Hammond OF Boston. S. Il. NC
x,bbon and George P. Gordon OF
a.,,sbu-g. and Joel Hurt OF Atlanta
rhey were fully convinced that the
machine Is a success
The machine is driven by an auto
mobile engine. and tie driver sits
IN rroat and steers the nachta"
ss.r.de q row OF cotton Il moves
over q row SIS fast as a man can
walk. picking abou, an acre an hour.
rhe projecting noses run aaeac
IF the machine. on each side OF tie
row. and III, up the limbs that are
al gathered up and pressed into
space about a foot wide While the
stalk Is thus held. small steel spin
dies reach through + from ooea
sides. reaching every inch OF space.
IN one side OF each spindle IS a row
~ small teeth. SO short that Ley
vii, no. catch hold OF anything ea-
sep, the cotton aee7.
These Spades are revolving rap
;t,y and when lock OF cotton 10
j. is cauSh. and wrapped
around the spindle. The spindses
then move ou. Of the plant. stop
and the cotton IS tasen
OF BY ribs similar to the breast OF
a gain. Il falls. on cooveyoTs. ~oicn
empty it Ia bags at the rear OF rue
machioe. a SOY sits on the 4cs. OF
.se mach:as aod packs the cotton 10
,,e bags. zoe boy would rot be
needed il the bags were lsrse enough
70 hold a round without packing
Very ssw pieces OF locks are let.
IN the nu.rs The cotton let' is
usually in Whole bolis or locks. The
soinaIes esthe. miss them or else
ara already iesded when they come
IN een,ac. with them. "een .
.p:na,e engages g lock. It usually
-,vis,,s Il ell out. Running the ma
.hine owe. J TOW the second time
,emons,ra,ed the fact tha, practically
III the cotton could be gotten the
s-se time by uoubIinS the capacity
Il tie machine. which can he doae
..v ,eaF: >ea!ng .he battery OF spia-
les.
Angus Campbell. OF Pittsaurs. the
Inventor Of the machine. saw ta'
machine work. he has been Work
ing a, &c eish, or ten years 1t sa'
also been improved by other inSea
tors working uader tae direction o.
Mr. Price. who has thrown bis whole
sou, and energy and vast anancla
resources Into the development o
,he machine. He does not even reae
the cotton msrke, reports wired Z
him at Benne,.sv;!!s. so inteuse.'
Is be- ensrossed In the tests OF IN
oicker. Hs spends each, day out q
Senator McLaurin's plantation. an
"a usually accompanied BY MIS- Price
vho Is w;xh him at the Mccall nose
a. Seancttsvilis.
Launch Party Missing.