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d action of nature, has found a new use for cotton, in which, 

 without doubt, a very large amount will be employed. We 

 allude to the mattresses now coming so favorably and extensive- 

 ly into use, in preference to any article heretofore tried. The 

 writer of this has used one for six months past, and has found 

 it to possess every requisite and desirable quality of a mattress, 

 without the objections so frequently urged against moss, curled 

 hair or husks as the husks moulding from damps, bad smells 

 from the curled hair in summer, and the lumpy matting of the 

 moss. The cotton felting, prepared by a patented process, has 

 none of these annoyances, is always elastic, and will, with 

 ordinary care, last a lifetime. Our friends, ' way down on the 

 old plantations/ will please make a note of this, and consider 

 that the invention is a feather in their caps or rather money 

 in their purses as the demand for the raw material at home 

 will, doubtless, materially increase the price. We feel sure 

 that if the real qualities of this mattress are ever made known 

 to the public generally, five hundred thousand bales a year 

 would not satisfy the demand for its manufacture. The article 

 having been thoroughly tried on the principal steamships, and 

 approved by their owners, as well as by physicians who have 

 tried, and strongly recommend them, we doubt not the 

 patentee will make a fortune on them. The agents for this 

 city, and the Union generally, are Messrs. Doremus & Nixon, 

 21 Park place and 19 Murray street." 



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MR. JONES : Being a reader of the Southern Cultivator, I 

 have noticed several articles on the subject of the manufacture 

 of cotton bagging, from cotton ; and having some practical 

 knowledge on the subject, I avail myself of the invitation 



