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feeders, which move slowly from the platform or scaffold 

 to a receptacle above the gin-stands, from which the cot- 

 ton is fed to the gins. 6r represents the ginning-room, 

 where four or five gin-stands are placed side by side, pro- 

 pelled by an engine that is located directly underneath. 

 C represents a small apron which conveys the cotton seed 

 from beneath the gin-stands to 0, an oil-mill, in immedi- 

 ate connection with the spinning, weaving, and ginning- 

 mill, where are all the necessary appliances for extract- 

 ing the oil from the seeds, pressing, clarifying, and barrel- 

 ing it. Immediately in the rear of 6r, the gin-room, is L, 

 the lint-room, into which the cotton passes directly from 

 the gins. Underneath the lint-room is a powerful press 

 and packing-box, capable of compressing four hundred 

 pounds of lint cotton into a space a little larger than 

 twenty-seven cubic feet, or a cubic yard. 



A press, capable of doing this, was patented in 1860, 

 by P. G. Gardner, and is more fully described in the first 

 part of this Treatise. It is twelve feet in hight, very 

 strongly made, very hard to break or put out of order. 

 It can be worked by hand, horse, or steam power, according 

 as rapidity and economy of human strength is desired, 

 and will compress four hundred pounds of cotton within 

 the space of a cubic yard. 



Of course, bales made in such a press and well bound 

 with iron hoops would require no further compression at 

 shipping ports, and might be carried from the remotest 

 plantations to Boston, or to Liverpool, without losing half 

 a pound in waste. 



D and D are large double doors on rollers, at the rear, 

 where the floor is on a level with the top of a wagon bed, 

 so that the bales, or the manufactured cloths, can be 

 loaded with the greatest ease at one door, and the barrels 

 of cotton seed oil at the other. The openings, KK KK, 

 are windows. 



The first story or basement of the part marked B and 



