Ä Area: FidoNet - Marijuana Chat ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Msg#: 1694 Date: 06-09-93 22:27 From: Northcoast OH NORML Read: Yes Replied: No To: All Mark: Subj: Fairbanks Comp. #10 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ [...continued from previous posting] [From Niles' Register] IMPORTANT INVENTION. The Editors of the New York Statesman have recently seen in operation in that city a most ingenious and valuable machine for spinning flax and hemp, invented by Dr. Bell and Mr. Dyer, two intelligent and highly respectable gentlemen from New England. The following is a description of this machine, as far as the editors have been permitted to speak of it. "It is constructed on an entirely new principle, having no analogy to the process for the cotton, woolen, worsted, or other manufacture. The quality of yarn produced is pronounced by competent judges, to surpass other linen upon the present improved machinery, are superior to those wrought by hand. The size of the thread can be varied to any extent, from that of cambric to that of the rope yarns used in the manufacture of cordage. In the degree of velocity its operation is limited only by the quickness which the spindle's fliers are capable of supporting. The instrument now in operation produces about the same quantity of thread pr. spindle, fineness being equal as the throstle spindle in cotton manufacture. The whole formation of the thread from dressed flax is complete at one operation. The material laid on the machine is wound upon the spools ready for the loom, without the intervention of any assistance; the whole being effected by the rotary motion communicated from drums. Indeed all the motions of the instrument are of a circular kind." In relation to its advantages the editors remark: "So far as our observation of knowledge extends, this invention is entirely original, and nothing of the kind exists in the work-shops of the United States or Europe, where fabrics from flax are entirely wrought by hand. The manufacturers of linen will now be placed upon the same ground and enjoy the same facilities as cottons. It has been estimated that upon moderate calculations two millions of dollars may be saved annually to this country by the reduced expenses of linen fabricks, effected by this invention. If it be not introduced abroad, and foreign prices thus diminished, the products of our own looms will supply our markets and prevent importation from maintaining competition. -- Such is our impression of the importance of this machine." -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- [From the Vergennes Aurora] MANUFACTURE OF HEMP. The Spinning Machine erected here under the direction of an ingenious English artist, opens a fair prospect for a home market of hemp and flax, for the protection of American industry, by the exclusion of European linen fabrics. This curious piece of mechanism is so constructed that by first separating the flax into small parcels it is then drawn out with a slack twist and fitted upon spools which are removed and placed ready to receive a compressure from several pairs of rollers, which is at last received upon the flyers and is formed to that size and twist the manufacturer chooses. The frame is constructed with thirty-two spindles, that require the attention of one girl to tend three frames, and one person will rope upon the machine as much as three persons will want to run through the day. Yarn enough to make fifty yards of four quartered cloth can be spun in one frame in day, and this is all done by the labor of one girl, from the flax. -- Much prosperity may be anticipated from manufacturing of linen. -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- The following letter from Gen. Barnum to the compiler, dated 3d of August 1829 will correct any erroneous reports which may exist as to the present state of the hemp business in the vicinity of Vergennes. "DEAR SIR -- I have received yours of the 29th ult. and in reply have to inform you that the Hemp Machine erected at this place last season (after the Model of Hines' patent) was kept in operation until June, and finished breaking most of the hemp raised in this region of country, excepting a few small lots, which will be brought in this fall. The performance of this machine has in every respect equalled the expectation of the proprietors. "Several experiments have been made in this neighborhood to build machines less expensive, which it was hoped might perform equally well; and I am sorry to add, that the projectors and builders have been disappointed in their expectations. The proprietors of two of these Machines reserved a quantity of Hemp for the purpose of dressing in theirs. They have both tried the experiment, and have since applied to the agent of this machine to have their hemp thus reserved, broken out as early as the machine commences operation for the fall business, which will be in the early part of September. I look for no improvement in the principles of the machine -- Its performance is satisfactory on rotted hemp or flax, and none other ought to be taken to any machine. A scotching machine, or dresser may be justly considered a useful appendage. It can be built with trifling expense, and is necessary to disengage the shives from the coat and prepare it in first rate condition for market. In consequence of the unfortunate error into which all our hemp growers were led in this country last season, to wit: the belief that the process of water rotting hemp was unnecessary, many of our farmers have been deterred from making a further attempt this season. Others who attributed the partial failure to the proper cause, have doubled their diligence, and will, I have no doubt, be abundantly remunerated. I consider it decidedly the most profitable crop our country produces, on lands well adapted to its growth. It is true that yankee enterprize and perseverance has overdone almost every thing in which they have been spiritedly engaged. With this article however, I believe for the next five or six years at least, the increased home consumption, the foreign demand, and the falling off of importations will afford abundant scope for the full exercise of all their energies. Your obedient and very humble servant. A. W. BARNUM. -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- The following is a copy of a letter from Horace Wheeler Esq. agent and proprietor of the Vergennes Machine to A. Emmons Esq. another of the proprietors, dated April 22, 1829. DEAR SIR, Agreeable to your request I forward you the cost of our machine -- the quantity of Hemp dressed per day, the expense of tending it &c. Cost of Machine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $1500 Deduct for Tools, shop to build in &c.- - - - 300 -!!- 1200 Cost of buildings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1000 -!!- $2200* *Gen. Barnum in his estimate has taken into the account the right of running the machine. Our machine works well, and has in some instances dressed one and a half Tons of lint per day --say between sun and sun. Much depends on the quality of the stem -- middling sized stem, produces most hemp and is easiest broken. I have run the machine when it did not dress more than half a Ton a day; but I consider a fair average per day -- say month in and month out, from 12 to 15 hundred weight. The number of hands employed in and about the machine is seven and distributed thus: Three men at the head of the machine; one boy to take hemp off the apron; one man to prepare it for baling; one man to tend drying house, and one boy to run on errands &c. I have found this number of hands to be necessary in order to work the machine to advantage, whether the hemp be rotted or unrotted. A greater quantity of hemp may be dressed after rotting than before. Our machine is perfect -- I have run a quantity of dew rotted Hemp, and it takes the shives out perfectly clean, except some few which are easily divested from the lint by shaking it. It dresses Flax equally well and without waste. Our business is improving -- All that is wanting, or has been, to make it profitable is funds to carry it on. Our hemp is nearly all prepared for market, and will be shipped, in a few days; and poor as it is (owing to the uncommon wet season -- having all stood for seed to ripen -- and all unrotted) will command, as I am informed by Mr. Wells, the great Hemp dealer in New-York, one hundred to one hundred and twenty dollars per ton. He writes me that he sold American water rotted hemp last week -- rather inferior quality -- at two hundred dollars per ton. He quotes it from two hundred to two hundred and fifty. We are making preparations for water rotting all our hemp the coming season. Respectfully yours, *c. H. WHEELER." A. EMMONS, Esq. Help Fight Back - Support Your Local NORML Chapter! Northcoast Ohio NORML Chapter Contact: John Hartman Phone: +[1]-216-521-WEED -!- ! Origin: Amiga University +[1]-216-637-6647 [Cortland, OH] (1:237/533.0)