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rr cuiicouay, vuwuci j.?/r Earliest Mentiot 400 Ye First Improved Gin by Can. Wadi Hampton, Father of South Caro lina GoTernor and Senator. The earliest mention of the cottoi plant was 400 B. C., when Herodotai writes of the wild trees of Indii which "bear fleeces as their fruit, sur passing those of sheep for beauty am excellence, and the Idnians use clot! made from these trees." Nearchus, an admiral of the fleet o: Alexander the Great, describes a ma chine used by the Hindoos for sepa rating the seed from the lint, thu mmsm Its soft mellow elow is 1 I fol to iiyi eyes. I Steadier than gas?r I restful than electricii I cheaper than either. Use Aladdin SecurityC fgjjK the most economical li . ?ene ell?for best resul I STANDARD OIL COMP (Nn? JtrMy) j J BALTIMORE. MD )\ : S Washington, D. C Charlotta. MorfcJk/Va. CharlMtoo, V Richmond, Va. - Charlaatoo, 'k figWWW'rgttttttttttWWrerattW;! A Most 1 * i > / The A/* ill ut Abbevi F. E. Harrison, !| President i: v ' ^ Capital ! ! < IS This ye % than youV safer plac< ... . [ We invite: F. E | J. ' I' > 1 j? ' - * ; / , w. i of Cotton ars Before Chris B showing that even in those early daj the progress which had been made i preparing the raw material for wea1 ing the cloth. The Romans used L>iotn maae c i coton very extensively, and its us 3 was well known in China in remol i periods. It was found in use among the Ir * dians in Central America and Mexic 1 when the Spaniards came. Spii ning and weaving were practiced b ? the women of the West Indies whe - Columbus landed in# those island: - Their suspended beds were made o 3 the cloth, and called "humacs," wher the ^^HMHjjK^HHp^^ iting HSNDHHHn| Its. ANY I ' I *B N. C , ^ r. v?. '^B ,*c. / ' Deserving Farmers' Farmers lie County, Abb J. Calvert Thomson, Cashier $75,000.00. Surplus $ l Cents Col ar you'll probably handli e ever handled before. i to leave it than The Fa rou to use this bank on DIRECTORS: . Harrison, P. B. Sp< F. Barnwell, Jas. F. W. H. White, C. C * ?*0^ #;x .. y .. - we have he modern name of hammock. Its early discoveries of the Mesfchacehe, or Mississippi, saw cotton growing in 1726. It was the staple * product of Hispaniola, and in 1753 ? - ... ? . _ * i Jamaica exported two tnousana Dags. ?a It was stated in Carroll's Historical n Collections that experiments were 7~ made on the Ashley river as early as 1670 in the growing of cotton, and >f it was found to thrive well, but for ie some reason it was given up, prob;e ably because of the difficulty in separating the seed. i_ The earliest attempt to plant cot0 ton in South Carolina as a crop was i_ made in 1748, when seven bags were ,y exported to England, bringing three n pounds, seven shillings and sixpence 3. per bag; apain in 1751 cotton was exf ported in small quantities; this did e I not pay, however, and it was not until 1788-90 that it was planted as a market crop to any great extent In 1770 there were shipped to Eu1 rope three bags of cotton from New York, four from Virginia, two from Maryland, and three from North Carolina. In 1785 these exports amounted to fourteen bags; 1786, six; 1787, one hundred and nine; 1788, three hundred and eighty-nine; 1789, eight hundred and forty-two, and 1^90, eighty-one. The first bags of cotton sold in South Carolina in 1784 were purcnas| ed by. John Teasdale from Bryan (5ope. . In 1787, small quantities were sold in Charleston, brought from Orangeburg; principally purchased by ladies for lining bed quilts. . In 1794 an American vessel arrived at iverpool from South Carolina. As part of her cargo were eight bales of cotton, which were seized on the ground that so much cotton could not be raised in the United States. The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney gave great impetus to, the growing of cotton in 1794. At first this invention was cheerfully guarded and exhibited to ladies only. A man disguised as a woman saw the working model, made certain improvements, and so introduced it to the public. N The state of South Carolina paid Whitney the sum of fifty thousand dollars for the privilege of the free use of his gin in the state. The first improved gin was used by Gen/ Wade Hampton, the father of Institution / < > Bank :vile, S. C. , \ J j ' Otto Bristow, Asst. Cashier / \ 17,500.00. Ion I 5 more money | , There's no $ rmers' Bank. $ [1 occasions. | sed, Clinkscales, !. Gambrell. t, - ' 'v^j5V! our late Governor and senator. j In 1793 Gen. William Moultrie j planted one hundred and fifty acres j of cotton on Northhampton planta- i tion, but the crop failed because of a J lack of knowledge as to the cultiva tion. . I Capt. Peter Sinkler, of St Johns, j Berkeley, planted his cotton in hills, j four feet square, leaving two stalks j to each hill after thinning. In 1799 | he planted tnree nunarea acres on i Belvidere plantation in St. Johns, i j which yielded an average production J of two hundred and sixteen pounds I per acre. ] 'He sold most of this crop for 75 | cents per pond, some of it. for 50. Four workings were deemed sufficient for a crop. The seed was planted in drills, and thinned and selected by hand. The daily cask of a man being three and a half acres for the first thinning pe rday, and four for the second. . No manuring of fields or attempt at fertilizing was made; as one field. showed signs of failing, another was selected. / r Before the introduction of machin-! ery the seed was separted from the lint by hand; the average yield was one pound of lint to three pounds of seed. Very little care was taken, as quantity and not quality was the object. v The first gin was a clumsy affair, and was worked by the foot. The greater part of the ginning was done at night or in the early morning. A j | hand doing four or five pounds each time. 1787, two bags of cotton were J sent to England as samples, It was I reported back that it was not worth | producing because of the difficulty in | separating the seed. This, however, j teas before tne invention oz tne gin. j Cotton planting advanced rapidly j after 1794, and finally entirely sup- J planted the culture of indigo, which I previous to that time was the staple I crop of this section of the country. | Col. William Thomson of Orange- | burg county, was the first extensive | planter of tha tsection in 1794. John j Mayrant, in 1797, was the first to j plant cotton in Sumter. Gen. Wade J Hampton introduced it into Richland I county in 1801. He was the first to | use water power for propelling the J machinery of the gin. He gathered a i crop of six. hundred bags from sbc hundred ^cres. | Weaving of cotton cloth was done entirely by the hand loom until 1818. I The power loom was not successful I [until 1822. ./ I The firit'soai island eotton was | planted on SiSlmetfs Island, Geor-1 gia, in 1788, from seed brought from ! the West Indies. Mr. Kinsey Burden J obtained 4tyke-Me&?n<} was the first I to introduce Hi ip$o South Carolina. I His first experiment failed, vut he j persisted in his efforts in the face of, | difficulties. .. a Mr. William Elliott planted a small ! croD on Hilton Head abd met with 1 success. Mr. Burden eontbued fctUr I efforts, and by a careful seleetton of | seeds, noting results obtaiaed,finally | improved the staple, and developed a the sea island cotton as we now know ! it For many years he kept the secret J of his success. In 1825 he sold sixty 1 bags for one dollar aiJd sixteen cents I per pound, and in 1828 for wo dol- | lars. Mr. Burden was the first plant* I er to use Hessian cloth for packing | his cotton. So carefully was this pre cious product put up that f?r a time ! the outer bags were lined with cotton I cloth to protect the cotton from dusjt I and dirt 1 j At first some of the English spin- I tiers complained that the staple was i too long, and used to cut it shorter. - The cultivation of sea island cotton ! increased enormously, and the sea > coast planters grew rich. Many are I the tales told of the wealth and hos- | pitality of these ante-bellum cotton * growers. " ' ? So well known were their branch that often the crop was sold by that, rather than by sample. Of course the civil war brought ruin and desolation to this industry. The seed deteriorated to such an ex tent that after the war the only pore seed known was contained in an ordinary envelope, which was given by Capt. George C. Heyward to Mr. Joseph T. DilL Mr. Dill planted this seed, and it is said that all the present sea island coton came from this small remnant e The value of cotton seed was al- a most unknown, and thousands of ^ tons were annually thrown out into ( the fields and allowed to rot as a fer- < tilizer for the nert crop. For meny i years both the short and long staple a cotton was packed only in bags. The E cotton bale came, later, and then the x on mnrMfi. / r Following are some of. the prices 0 obtained for short cotton in the early days of its cultivation: i 1 1790 T 14% 179 1 26 t 1792 29 1793 ? 32 ,t 1794 33 . 1795 36% ,t 1795 1 36% i izjzizjiirziz^ ifziiuznmaiiuzjitnii I BC I OIL |ST< 5ii \ '" CHI I H|^H I (HT^^ I *2 ! BURNS 99.6 I I iiiiiin?nne?issiiisiiii?? J itv.v.iimi'.'s.vs.w.wMUi: J The Boss, Uke I abundant heat.' 1 I of steady heat. Il I Boss i* a blessing I I ands of busy houw j " v j On busy work < | ing's cleaning?aJ I shopping, when ft | edly?at all tittites j cious and there a f be satisfied qilickl I ate your quick Act j are genuine witho I the front of each s I Beware of imiti 1 the name BOSS oi and is sold in Abl i . f 1 : 1 ' " ' ! Kerr Fu I N-'.' ! M-' Cm i ] iTioin JITCCI I 1797 - a 1798 J 1799 4 1800 2 1801 4 1814 1 1818 S 1824 1 A MILLION DOLLARS. A million dollars is a sum of s y which few are able to appreci md we think of it in a vague sor ray as connected with Rockefe Carnegie and men of corporate ir sts of that class. Yet alK aroun< nillions of dollars are spent dj ,nd in such a way that the ave: nan passes without noticing. ] tot generally known that it cost aillion a day to pay the candy f the American nation. It costs a million a day to run noving picture shows. It costs a million a day to kee] he automobile industry. It costs a million a day to he schools. It costs a million a day to pay ea, coffee rind cocoa accounts. It costs three millions a day ;s9 I . air i OVEjj 6 PER CENT AIR ^ ' ? a gas stove, provided 3 9 rhe Boss is the oil itoVA K t is &lway? ready. The K 'j to thoutand* uponthbu?> IE J iwives all over the world |j lay?after a hard monvr 11 W fter a, long afteraoon's J J | iends djrop in unexpect- I [ ;f i when minites arfc re healthy appetites to I { y, then you,will appreci* {\ f ion Boss Oil Stove. None 11 ut the name BOSS on IJ | itions-?the genuine has [ I a the front of each stove g { | jevill'e county by u& ' I rHE ji I mitureCo. |] Abbeville, S. G. j) I iwziaramMii^^ Jj 17 /pay the liquor accounts. 19 It costs seven millions a day to run : | <4 Vthe steam railroads. jj . It costs three million, s d?jr to im keep the government going. It costs a million a day to pay in- J - terest on deposits in the savings T>anks. . ?:| t It costs a million a day to rua the churches and the missionary organization. y non- ' It costs fifteen millions a day to s. J [ate, the farms. t of It eosts a million a day to support Her, the doctor*, and lawyers. iter- it costs nearly a million a day to A us keep up the army and navy in time "ly. of peace. It coBts half a million a day to t ia ... . , meet tne pensions ox soldiers ana s. * sailors' widows. bill It coets a million a day to pay the interest on railroad bonds. It costs nearly a million a day to ) up take care of the failures and bankruptcies. run It costs six millions a day to pay for the exports from the United ] the States, and four and a half millions I a day to pay for the imports.?Ex- ?