SOLON ROBINSON, 1849 215 



Potato Pudding. — Take % of a pound of sugar, % 

 ditto of butter, and beat well together ; add one pound of 

 boiled potatoes, (Irish or sweet,) rubbed fine through a 

 collander or mashed ; six eggs, the whites and yolks beat 

 separately, and a wineglassf ul of brandy and one of wine, 

 a trifle of rose water, and cinnamon or nutmeg, as much 

 as you like. 



Rice Bread. — Take six tablespoonfuls of boiled rice, 

 and one of butter; rub them together, and then pour in 

 half a pint of milk ; add two eggs, and six tablespoonfuls 

 of wheat flour. Mix all well together, and bake a little 

 brown; and you will have a very good and wholesome 

 kind of bread. SOLON. 



Columbia, S. C, April, 1849. 



Cotton Manufacturing at the South. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:212-13; July, 1849'] 



[May 6, 1849] 



Answer to M. W. Philips, of Mississippi. — If no other 

 person has done it, I offer the following answer to Dr. 

 Philips' inquiry about a cotton factory, &c., in the March 

 number of the Agriculturist.^ 



First, the Size of Building. — The Graniteville Factory, 

 in Edgefield District, S. C, 12 miles north of Hamburg, 

 contains 9,245 spindles and 300 looms, and all the ma- 

 chinery of the very best kind and modern improvements, 

 for making No. 14 sheetings and drillings. The build- 

 ing is of solid blue granite, 350 feet long and 50 feet wide, 

 two stories high, with a good room in the attic, equal to 

 half a floor or more. The picker room is also stone, sep- 

 arate from main building, two stories high. Store houses, 

 offices, two churches, a school house, 83 dwellings of 

 wood, and all the fixings of the neatest kind, with two 

 dams, and races a mile long, 40 feet head, two turbine 



'Reprinted in De Bow's Review, 7:456-58 (November, 1849). 

 ^ "Cotton Manufactures — Market Wagons," Amei'ican Agricul- 

 turist, 8:93. 



