The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-17
HARVEY IS HOST
TO COTTON MEN
Plan of Gathering Cotton
From Open Boil Endorsed,
He Reports,

W, Spence Harvey Friday gave a din
rer party to a number OF Web known
cotton ginners, growers ind min mon
at the Peabody Hotel
MIR. Harvey. Who stopped over IN
Memphis on hls return to his home Ia
Philadelphia, attended the worlds cot
ton conference In New orleans to dem -
. oustrate hts process OF obtaining high
grade cotton from tho green boil, While
Hts claim that the whole system Of
gathering the cotton Cron should be
changed to get u better grade Of staple
and seed Is revolutionary, the delegates
to the New Orleans convention en-
dorsed the Idea unofflcially.
Mr., Harvey has maintained n large
demonstration plant in this city for
several years while quietly working out
his plans and II was Memphis that
made the first bale Of cotton from ar
officially opened bolIs, gathered on the
C%Ottondale plantation at Cottondalc.
Miss, Several bales of this cotton were
sent to mills in New Bedford and yarn
spun from the new grade Of staple was
exhibited. Cloth OF unusual strength
has been woven and according to the
Passalc mills. OF New Bedford, which
produced a quantity OF tire cloth, the
fabric almost equals that produced from
cCmhed Egyptian cotton, b
Many British experts In cotton staple
anu yarn nllNN l'SlN VI the Harvey NNdlt
Of cotton and after ~pronOunClng 1t lln-
usual declared that cotton produced
from green bolts was much superior to
that which had been allowed to upcn
by natural methods in the field.
American min men from Mlssachu-
sets, North Carolina, South Carolina
and other states agreed with the Eng
lish experts, Many ginners have
planned to adopt the Spence Harvey
pt.npngg f4t. IA, 1nul tynn
Opens Green Boil.
MIR, Harvey announced today that his
demonstration plant would w converted
into "A commercial plant as quickly rs
possible in order to help handle the un-
opened hollis and the crop which grow
ers report is being injured by the re-
cent rains in tho vicinity Of Memphis.
The Spence Harvey system Is based
upon the knowledge that cotton reaches
It's fun development both as to length
and strength of staple while it Ia still
in the unopened bolt From the mo-
ment that the green boil commences to
crack and until the time when it IL
full opened the staple In exposed to all
sorts Of weather conditions, most Of
them damaging, Heat, cold. dust and
rains affect the staple more or legs
and from 100 per cent in the boil the
cotton when picked in the field drops
to n lower standard.
Under the Spence Harvey process tho
green hollis are picked IN the field at
the point Of highest maturity. They
are opened by u mechanical and heat
method and 100 per cent cotton Ia OBJ
tanned. The cost OF gathering cotton
is reduced many times since the field
hands can gather three times as much
cotton in tho great boll as from the
opened boil. The grower receives a
higher price for the staple since 1t is
clean. strong and possesses a high lus-
ter. 1t is claimed that the process will
save the immense losses due to frost.
Friends Of Mr., Harvey in Memphis
assert that his process actually has de-
yeloped n distinct type of cotton.