The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-02-03

nesses have been eliminated. Instead
Of muI power it uses automobile pow
er. It stands to reason that the Price,
Campbell people have made labor
scarce and high-priced at least. Every
unfavorable condition for machine
picking has changed for the better.
General Industrial development has
made labor scarce and high-priced
The old crop which yielded S30O,OOO,-
900 is now replaced by crop yielding
annually sSOO,000,O00. A former sur
plus of labor is now replaced by high
price and deficiency of labor. Nobody
can ever say when al invention is
perfected" By perfected I mean
when it has reached the point where
it may be practically and profitably
oparated. Nothing but dividends will
prove that point. When I saw the Ma
son machine operate, I thought 1t
might, with very, little Improvement,
be proftably operated after two years
further experimenting Looking back
now, I can see that the economic con-
ditions were then unfavorable and
these grew worse. I still think the
Mason machine might have BEEN per-
fected il the machine alone had been
considered. The following testimonial
shows that this same conviction about
the Price Campbell machine was in
the minds of a representative body
of planters in Marlboro county, S. c.,
in 1909:
"Bennettsville, S. c., Oct. IS, 1909.
eve, the undersigned, residents OF
Marlboro county, S. c., have today had
the opportunity to see the Price-Camp-
bell cotton picker in operation, and
take great pleasure in endorsing it as
a complete mechanical and commercial
success. 1t picks cotton at the rate
of 600 pounds an hour and does not
injure the plant or bolls: W. W. Nc
Kinnon, A. L. Breeder, T. J. Breeden,
per W., Harrie Bristed, G. g. Exum, F.
Moore, J. H. Evans, A. T. David, W. S.
Mowry, F. E. McColl, S. P. Wright, w.
S. Brown, B. F. Moore, J. D. Stanton,
II. O. Weatherby, ". N. Smith, Ernest
Richards, J. NJ. Jackson, J. T. Breeder,
F. S. Darby, J. T. Carroll, J. R. Hub
bard, John L. McLaurin, R. c. Terrell,
A. J. Matheson, J. A. Pate, A. P. Bree-
den, J. J. Hackhart, H. R. Townsend,
J. D. Moore"
Nobody yet knows whether The
Price Campbell machine has reached
the point of practical development
where it may be practically and pro-
fltahly operated. In his pamphlet Mr..
Price states that there are on file in
the patent office more than $50 patents
ON cotton pickers. Which one of these
will be worked cut to a finish, nobody
yet knows. The Masons, at the time,
looked very favorable but it transpired
that conditions having nothing to Go
With the economical operations of the
l.acnine affected us succs,. Mr.. Lowry
Of 5rstoL. had ] 2lachine in Charlotte
which m"ny think would have sue
ceeded if Mir. Lowry had not insisted
in inventing an automobile to carry
his machine as we'll as the picking
machinery itself The picking appara-
tus did we'll, but the automobile was
far behind the art of automobile build
ing. Here again, possible success was
interfared with by one of the factors
of a machine which was wholly irrele-
want to cotton picking, except as an
adjunct, and which might have been
bought in the perfected state to begin
with. Mr.. Prices pamphlet gives
abundant testimonials, but Mason got
these, and Lowry got them also. Most
Of them were evidently given without
consideration as most testimonials are
given. Perhaps the most important OF
all the testimonials given in Mr..
Prices pamphlet is the one by far
mer's wife, who after her husband
had spoken favorably of the machine
added, eyes, and you don't have to
cook for it, This is really a very i'm
portant elennent in the whole business,
because in the cotton picking season
and where cotton picking labor is
scarce and hard to hold, you not only
have to cook for the pickers, but you
have to handle them as tenderly as
babies, to keep them from quitting and
going away.
Accepting the term perfected" as
meaning practical and profitable op-
ONO +ion hova a Iva yS believed that