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in this manner, be very much reduced, if not quite 

 abolished. 



After the principal part of the crop has been thus per- 

 fectly prepared for the market and shipped, it is proposed 

 to throw the power of the engine for the remainder of the 

 year upon the machinery in the second and third stories. 

 During the months of January, February, March, and 

 April, the spindles and looms are to be kept running upon 

 the sixty thousand yards of Lowells and Osnaburgs, 

 which are required for neighborhood consumption. 



During the latter part of the summer, the machinery is 

 employed in making up twenty thousand yards of Linseys, 

 which are required for the winter wear of the population 

 represented in such a factory ; and, as before stated, the 

 worst of the cotton, say fifty bales in all, could be, during 

 the same time, spun and woven into bagging. 



It is not to be supposed, that the above plan of having 

 for every planting neighborhood, a ginning establishment 

 capable of preparing nine-tenths of the crop for market 

 in the most thorough manner, manufacturing the remain- 

 ing tenth into all the cotton and linsey clothing required 

 by such a community, and converting two-thirds of the 

 seed into oil, will be found practicable, or even desirable, 

 everywhere. In some regions, there would arise a diffi- 

 culty as to fuel. In others, water power would be found 

 cheapest, and in that case it might be best to enlarge the 

 working capacity of the factory, and send many thousand 

 yards of sheetings, muslins, and calicoes, annually to mar- 

 ket. In others, the prime objection would be, that a good 

 gin-house is now standing on every plantation, and there 

 would be no economy in hauling the cotton in the seed 

 five miles, when the facilities for ginning it at home are 

 equally good. But with regard to those parts where 

 the gin-houses have been destroyed in the late war, or 

 where they are old and ill arranged ; or in freshly opened 



