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PEARSON SAYS HE HAS A REAL COTTON PICKER Working on the Principle of the Va cuum Cleaner, New Machine Does Wonders in a Cot Ion Patch. Mr. James T. Pearson, who arrived in Anderson some weeks ago from California, where he moved last spring, made his plans public this morning to the secretary of the chamber of commerce and newspaper men his plans including the introduction of a cotton picking machine to the people of Anderson. This machine, according to Mr Pearson is the nearest thing to perfection in cotton picking that has yet been invented. Being a practical ? cotton man and a man who has al ways lived in the cotton country and who has dealt in cotton practical ly all of his life, Mr. Pearson is naturally acquainted with cotior. and the gathering of the crop. The marine, he says, wpi d>? the work, quicker, better and get claaner cotton than when it is picked by hand. Mr. Pearson became interested an the machine through an article in the Literary Digest and wen*. C3 California to investigate. His investigations have proven to his satisfaction that the machine will do what is needed to be done, to gather a cotton crop, faster, cleaner and better than it can be done by hand. The article which/, attracted Mr. Pearson's attention to the machine was published in the 1 Literary Digest and reads as follows: j Cotton is now gathered in the Im- j perial Valley of California by a device that works on the principle of a < vacuum cleaner. It is asserted that 1 cotton picked by it is cleaner than < j "L i ,1 4-"U?4- u,, , mat jyicjveu uy xiaiiu axiu tiiau uy no : aid an inexperienced laborer can work three or four times as fast as i experts of the old methods. The ma- < chine weighs about 1,000 pounds and!< can be easily moved. Around its light' ] skeleton are a 300-pound, 16-horse ] . power engine, a suction pump for i \ ' . nozels and a centrifugal separator 1 for parting the cotton from the < leaves, sticks and other debris taken 1 in by the nozzles. These nozzle's are five in number, at the end of light, ] LCLCiaCICICICIOCLCtCIOCU JUUUIJIJUMUUMMUU i Bfl WE* U| g s I IC g a 1! 3 J I We c I I ' Sj i I ll I II *" il KfiFffiasaiKire^m 18-foot rubber pipes connected with' , an 8-foot tube running traversely! I over the machine. To quote from an article in the Scientific American (New York, October 19): , "The powerful suction pump on the machinp endeavors constantly to keep the picking pipes in a state of vacuum, wherefore, when the nozzle ] I has passed over a row of bolls, the . | suction picks up the cotton and car- , ries it through the pipes into the i centrfugal separator. Here power- } ful fans with hollow vanes, a depar- i ture in fan construction separates < the cotton from the leaves, sticks and s the motes, which are not desirable, and finally drives the separated mass j to a curved pipe at the rear. The ^ leaves are driven out through per- ^ forations in the top of the pipe. The ? cotton is driven through to a sack I ? or basket at the end. Each of the five sucking nozzles of j rubber pipe are handled by a man 0 and the speed in action depends up- j, on the skill he acquires. A single j, sweep of the nozzle across the white! e row of bl6ssoms is alleged to pick p them clean, the time being that re- j quired to pick one boll. ^ The rate of picking cotton by hand seems to vary from 100 to 200 pound j, per day, the record being made by a f, colored person who, picked 900 pound tl ir. one day, but did it on the run a without attempting to do more than 11] to get the easiest reached. Also ^ cotton pickers are wasteful, the waste tl running as high as 50 per cent, of a; the crop and the amount, according to government reports running into hundreds of millions. It is human nature to pick the bolls m an tip and to let those lying on the w back breaking strata at the bottom jf the bush remain to sleep in the Si southern sunshine. e( The persons running the California th machine described and illustrated ec ;laim that five men with a machine sj :an pick a thousand pounds per man cc per day of ten hours, or 5,000 pounds h per day and that it does a clean job th instead of a wasteful one, because ei the nozzles do not mind being required to get down to the bottom of i e< the plant. I io There remains plenty of woodpiles ai for the Ethopian to hide in, and it, A J_ ZLQQJZLELELELCLELELCLCLELCL UUUUUUUIJUIJUIJUIZ USB S3SW \ ire offering C l/I^coolino To Tiuoouimv/) x u Kimona Sil I Per ( Our Big Line Splendid Line For Cash. Th ladd iiiiiiEi!i!iimiiiininiiiiiiiiii9iiiia nrinnn nn nnnnnnir IMUMMMIJUUMMU1 Jl 1 Jul may be that the machine withou brains ven though directed by hu man hands at the very nozzles wil still not pick with the proper dis crimination, but the fact remains thai this is the first one on record reaching the present stage of hopefulness As cotton authorities allege thai last year, not far from a million persons were engaged in the harvesting ?f cotton .the machine able to do th? % ivork of five times the number of lien needed to operate it and to do it with little labor on the part of the :rew might well be an investion of jerious national need. Mr. Pearson stated that he did not :ave a machine in the east at the >resent time, but that he had one vhich would arrive here in October, ind that he was arranging to have >ne man reserve a whole field of otton to be picked by this machine le is going to give demonstrations if the practical use of the machine r. Anderson county. He said that ie intends to have his machine at very state and county fair that it is ossible for him to attend, and to emonstrate the machine at all of hem. Mr. Pearson said that his son was iterested in the gold mine in Caliornia, but that the great need of he cotton picking machine, and his| ppreciation of the immense value of le machine to Anderson county far lers was in his opinion a bigger ling for the southern farmers thai II the gold mines in the world. Pictures Shown. The company has issued a short oving picture film, which shows the ork of (the machine. This was lown to a small gathering at the' trand theatre this morning. It show-' 1 the machine in operation, and tough the operators were not skui1 cotton pickers, the machine did ilendid work. It also showed the mstruction of the machine, how it is jilt, being high enough to go over i le stalks of cotton, and not heavy lough to sink into the ground. Mr. Pearson is very much enthuak 1 over the new appliance and is anx^ us to get his machine to Anderson tid have it in actual operation.? nderson Daily Mail. V IV repe Meteor ffetas, Silk I ks, Baronett Zerit i of Silks Must ( of Fresh Silksis is an Opportu * \J U11- T P im t' l T? U[JU11 111C9C Argumen YOU, the buyers, are the real builders the final Okay upon the use of certa struetion when you buy a wagon < I refuse to buy a wagon that does not. We \ the Thornhill Wagon is built Upon a pi l we are willing to rest our case. We belie would be your way if you should build a wa$ Full Circle Iron Malleable Front Houn Plato Bolsters Cant Han* In Turn in* w In turning and backing up, with the ordinary circle iron, which is only a half circle, bolsters run off the end of the track and hang. It is difficult to make short turns and back up. The Thornhill full circle iron gives a continuous track on which the bolsters can turn. The gears of Thomhill wagons stay in line for life. Instead of the usual front hound plate, a hound plate of malleable iion is used. It is a metal jacket braced at eight points that 'i.?m ? "? f'ora *ver getting out of line. Starke Abbeville, s/ , Charmeuse. Doplins, Geoi e Satins, Sil Off F ZiG. We will I All New?at 20 inity You Can't / /ilso EfyyytitiHSRfHSfiifiK m?LM gm; l^pjn its We Rest < of wagons. You put For spokes and axles in materials and con- used For hubs and containing them?and This wood grows upo: rant to show you how the Climate severe. I ain statement of facts the strength of oak ani ve tlie Thomhill way Outdoors uncUr shelt ?00. cap ones m i>, giving Trussed Bolsters and M Reacn Plate of Malleable Iron Note ttie Adjustable V9r Brake Lever ^ On the front bolsters of ThornhlH wagons are heavy iron plates running along top and bottom?connected by rivets that run clear through the bolster. Strength and lightness are combined. Rear gears are strongly irnn?<4 Thfr^ ar? hrares on both too and bottom that extend the full length of the hounds. Solid trust bars extend the full length of the axles pivmpr them double strencth. Vehicle Cc ii\ / O 1 O , L,repe de :gette Crepe, k Shirtings or Ca: Dispose of a Per Cent Off Afford to Miss n Co ' V . J j ;\: Our Case ' '- -v tough second growth highland hickory ft felloes the sturdy white oak it preferred. q the mountain side. The ground is hard?^ t has to fight for life. It has pearly twicf^ > i hickory that grows under softer condition*. er it remains for three to five years. *.Th& it a strength tint's kin to atecL WW? Long Wear Beds * *\ {& you examine the beds of Thornhlli Wagons closely you will see at once the > y superiority of the construction. The Knttnms are re-iaforced over front aaS rear bolsters. Come in and examine this wagon tot v. i; yourself. 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