THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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KAGLE COTTOX GIN. 



18-49 the e.\i)ort rose to one niillion five hundred 

 t'lonsand bales, which amunnt was increased in 18o2 

 and 1853, the Mhole croj) in tlie L'nited States being 

 about three nulliou five hundred thousand bales. 



AmoniT the curiosities at the C'rysta! I'alace in 

 New York, is one of the machines made \n- the late 

 Ki.1 AViiiT.\f;Y liimself, at New Haven, under a con- 

 tract with the State of South Carolina. This gin is 

 in the possession of Messrs. ■ 13 atk.s, IIvdk &: Co., of 

 liridgewater, Mass, l)y whom it is exhilited. They 

 aie extensive i.ianufacturers of the Eaiile ("otton (Jin, 

 represented in our engravinir. which, although modi- 

 fied by improvement of various details and woiicman- 

 ship, still remains sulxstantially the same as in the 

 original invention. 



In the year 171)2, while re:flding in Oeorgia, INIr. 

 WiUTNKv iiad often exiiibiied his pe^'idiar talents, Ity 

 various inventions, to gnstify the lady in whose hou.-e 

 he was a guest, liy her he v,a.. inlrotluced to joveral 

 plaiiters as a fit penson io give value to tlieir cottcjii 

 crops, by inventln'r an exjseditions method of cleaning 

 it. He saw luiw desirable it wa^. and Iclt that he 

 c.:)uld accompU>it it. Having provided liim.-elf with 

 a fjuantily of cotton in the seed, v.liich until then he 

 had never seen, and making his own tooly, lie shut 

 himself up, until, aftei- several nuMilhs of seclusion, 

 he emerged v.ilh "the Cotton Gin to testify to the 

 success of his prulons^ed exertions. 



Most gins have about sixty circular saws, not un- 

 like those used for sawing v.-ood, in one maehir.o, 

 which, being driven with peat s])eed by hurs( -power, 

 cut the lint ofT the seed, atid separa'e the U\v — the 

 cotton being thrown out, as in jiiik'r.g cotton or 

 wool, and the seed falling under thu n acliine. Gre; t 

 improvements have been made on tlie gins iiiveiiled 

 by WuiTXKY since his tine. 



There is nearly as nmch land planted in cotton 

 in the. United States as there is sown in wheat ; and 

 these great stajilcs are of al)out cciua! value, talce one 

 vear with aiiotlier. 



A'EGKTABId: VITALITY. 



OxR oT the disputed points in vegetable vitality is 

 the al'eged deterioration of j)lants jiropagated by 

 liuds and bulbs. Our ow n views on this subject have 

 Ijcen often givcii to the jjublic. They aie strongly 

 « orroliorated hi the following arlicle copieiVfiom the 

 London Gardeners' Chronicle, and understood to be 

 from tlie pen of its learned editor, Profe^isor Lindlky. 

 AVe commend its facts and arguments to our friend 

 T)r. Bkixkxie, of I'hilauelphia, and Major Townley, 

 of Wisconsin : y 



■Tie species of p'an'.s, like tho.'^e of animals, ap- 

 pear to be eternal, so far as anything n.undanc can 



