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against fire, will give it preference over
rope, which must bring it into general use.


My views as to the utter inutity Of Cotton
Presses for represeing cotton is fully concur
red in by Mr.. Dunbar. This is entirely an
unnecessary expense OF one dollar bale to
the planter.


l hope soon to see the day that these inn
portant subjects will no longer be neglected
either by the Legislature, the press or the
people Of Mississippi.


am your obd't serv't,


L. ABBEY.
.A1EDD.~


AReNDo, JEFFERSON COUNTY Aug. 81, l84I.


R. ABBEY Esq.


Dear Sir am chargable with ina
tention in not sooner replying to your IN
teresting letter of the 5th, ult. on the sub
ect of Agricultural improvement in our
State, a subject which has been so long SO
culpably neglected. The wild and reckless
spirit of speculation and financdering which
has prevaded the whole country for several
years past, seems almost to have extinguish-
ed the good old fashioned system of industry
and economy practised in days of other
times; indeed many of our most staid and sub
santial citizens have been deluded and
drawn into the vortex and few have es-
capped unscathed. But sincerely trust and
believe that the scales have at last fallen from
oul eyes, and that we are now at the dawn
of prosperity; and if we are true to our
selves, and will perseVere in a udiCious
system of economy, by producing every
| thing for our own use and consumption thai
/ DrOAnoo tO oJxyoV ~ l., :
far distant when Mississippi will no longer
be by word among the OF her States ofihe
Union, and "Mssissippian" will cease TO be
a tenn of reproach.


1t is highly gratifying to me to hear that
the substitution of hoop iron for rope in ba
ling cotton is so favorably received every-
where. and having the utmost confidence
in IT'S advantages, entertain the most san
guine hope that in few years, it will be
generally, if not universally adopted in ali
the cotton growing States.


| In regard TO your suggestion of 'using
the same hopes several times, and whether
or not they would be subject to injury by
rust in sea voyage" &C., want of expert
ence will only allow me 10 offer an opinion
on the sbbect by comparison. We know
tha iron bound casks of liquor are frequent
! y carried on long sea voyages, anG som.
| times kept for years in damp cellars in the
same hoops without being much corroded by
rust; and we frequently see dry vessels hound
with iron hoops, brought from the NOrthrr
| cities and even across the Atlantic wlrh
| scarcely a speck of rust on them, and b
iron which is generally more exposed, Is
very little rus:ed by sea voyage. If proper
care and attention is used, cotton oughl to
! be put on shpbOard dry and in good order,
when causes of rust could not act to any
great extent; have therefore no doubt that
the same iron may be returned and used TWO
or three times a; reduced cost, provided it
can be taken from the bale without iniur,
this think can be done by cutting the rivet
with fine saw, and if not, the band could
be cut at the rive: hole, which would re-
quire the next bale on whGAit is put.to be
reduced only one inch smaller in the ANA
than tue preceding.
fully concur in your views on the sub
ject of expense of baling, or rather the cost
of covering GAcotton bales. 1t is undoubt-
edly an expense, although a necessary one)
which is always incurred by the Planter and
for which he never receives any remunera-
ton: Fo although it weighed and paid
for as cotton by the purchaser in our markets,
yet the price is always so regulated as to
make full allowance forz1NNLin foreign
market, which in Liverpool is four per CT,
and | believe is considered sort OF pGrquis-
ite to the manufacturer, and the value there
6fGS is so much clear profit to him.


~ My information on the subiec of improve
ment in the Cotton Press is limited, not hav-
ing examined any of those that have lately
been introduced. L was pleased gsiiIt--she
"Newell Press iron screw on its FIRST M
PRODUCTION, and have used II ever since, il
being of simple construction, is less aabIe .
get out of order, and occupies but little room
in comparison TO most others. 1t is neces-
sary, however, that it should be well built
and put up with mathematical precision, for
if there is much unevenness of pressure
when on strain, either the screw or the nut
is apt to breek. have had two or three
broken from that cause. My bales reduced
to % inches in the press, average over 400
lbs. of nett cotton, but finding it too hard
strain on the press to reduce them SO small,
| II is my intention in future to make them
larger by one to three inches.


The necessity for represslng cotton origi-
| mated, and still continues, in the careless
ness OF tieing and afterwards the stretching
Of the rope, and consequent enlargement Of
the bale, but if bound with iron, well draw
ed on, there will be scarcely any enlarge
ment and consequently the necessity for re-
pressing will be entirely obViated. Nearly
If not quite all the cotton that is purchased
IN New Orleans for the Northern Manufac-
turers is shipped without repressing, and
have seen many bales thus shipped that