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tliis, we may remark, that the adoption of this improvement 

 obviates the necessity for the machinery and labor of packing the 

 cotton in bales on the plantation, and the willow, the devil or 

 picker, one set of the spreader and beaters, the preparation or 

 breaker card of the factory, by which not only the labor of work- 

 ing them and the power required to run them is economized, but 

 such cotton as it wasted in the process of packing, of sampling, 

 or is thrown out and broken up by the willow, the devil, the 

 spreader and beater, and the breaker cards (whose employment is 

 excluded by this process) must be also saved. 



On examining the laps from both the dirty cotton and the clean 

 cotton, we observe, in consequence of the exclusion of this 

 machinery, the fibre is not stringy, tufted or convoluted, but lays 

 open and loose, leaving for the finishing card obviously lighter 

 manipulations to complete the carding, than is required of the 

 cards by the factory process. And the result is, as the fibre passes 

 by this process immediately from the lap continuously to the cards, 

 drawing, roveing, and to the spindles, avoiding the use of those 

 machines necessary in the factories to open and disentangle it, 

 which are very violent in their operations, the yarn must neces- 

 sarily be made of longer and less broken staple, and be therefore 

 a stronger and better yarn 



As to the cost of the machinery, it of course will be lessened 

 to the extent of the portion excluded. The labor saved will be 

 the hoisting seed cotton on the plantation into the second or third 

 stories of gin houses, (as this machinery will be arranged on 

 the ground floor,) the labor of packing the cotton bales, the labor 

 of sampling, the labor of attending the machines of the factory, 

 which are excluded, and also the power those machines demand, 

 which is, altogether, a material figure. 



Another important advantage which this improvement presents, 

 is that the danger of fire, now so terrible at the cotton gin house, 

 from lint cotton in it, is removed, as no lint cotton of any conse- 

 quence will ever be in this spinning room; and also the danger 

 from the burning of cotton factories is in a great measure, almost 

 entirely, removed, as the devil or picker, which is here excluded, 

 is the machine that occasions the most of the fires at the factories. 



