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E, is occupied by the engine, whicli is tinder the gin-room, 

 and by the packing screw ; and the rear portion, with 

 bales ready for market. F F are the boiler and smoke 

 stack. Directly above it, the second story commences at 

 the front with the ginning-room, back of which is the lint- 

 room, and in the rear of that the carding and spinning- 

 room. The third story is devoted to weaving, and also 

 to the carding and spinning of a small amount of wool, 

 sufficient to make twenty thousand yards of linsey-wool- 

 sey in the course of the year, enough to supply the neigh- 

 borhood with all the plain woolen clothing they require. 

 In the attic, or fourth story, there are arrangements for 

 spinning and weaving into coarse bagging all the very 

 much stained and inferior cotton which is brought to the 

 factory. 



With cotton at its present prices, (1867), considerably 

 over twenty-five cents a pound, this would not be advisa- 

 ble ; but eventually, when cotton falls, as it may, to about 

 ten cents a pound, and the lowest grades to six and seven 

 cents, it would be true policy for each neighborhood to 

 make its own bagging. The article thus manufactured 

 from the refuse and trash would be much closer and 

 stronger than the ordinary Kentucky hemp Bagging in 

 use, and beside, the superior protection afforded to the 

 bales would be valuable for various purposes after it had 

 reached the end of its journey and been stripped from 

 the package. 



There is space in the gin-room for four large gins of 

 eighty saws each, which, running steadily, would turn off" 

 forty bales per day, and thus the entire crop of the neigh- 

 borhood or township, amounting to five thousand bales, 

 could be ginned out, packed, hooped, riveted, and branded, 

 between the first of September, when the gins begin to 

 run on the new crop, and the first of January. 



What now are the advantages of a system like the one 

 here proposed ? In the first place, the planter needs no 



