Show FINGERS OF STEEL they A are re to supplant Sup those of tho the kf fc gr ato lit in picking cotton tho the essential feature is three hundred and thirty fingers or spindles projecting through and from a hollow cylinder these fingers bays baj s the new york sun tire lire ten inches long and have lit at tile end a brush or tip of line fine wire find and set in fit four grooves Is if borbo hair clipped fco bo it projects from the fingers about one anc twelfth tw elf ali of an ail inch tile the tip ill anti and the hairs on the hido hide being thu the means of getting tile the cotton from tho the bolls tile fingers or spindles aro arc given ii a whirling motion by a system of cog pear gear within tile cylinder moving forward tins the cylinder revolves tile alio lingers fingers conic in contact with if alio cotton the whirling notion motion of the fingers en 01 itin gIcs tile cotton lint and it is picked then carried upwards and backwards until cleaned from the fingers by bru brushes find and thrown into receptacles holding biety pounds of heed feed cotton the i revolutions evolutions arc am so bo timed that tile fingers which project at the spokes of a wheel M heel strike the plant without a raking motion lotion for that would maningo tho plant no injury comes to the leaf and boll from running tho the machine over the plant mth avith a width edth of four feet length beven feet and height of five tind and one half feet the machine ma cliine complete M weighs caglis about twelve pounds und is of easy casy draught for t two 0 mules in the morning when tile cotton was slightly damp clamp a gathering from one row made by tile machine weighed n little more than alian thirty pounds the waste knocked on oil the ground by the machine was as picked up lip by hand und weighed iho five ounces in the afternoon with etli tile tho cotton perfectly dry the cotton picked weighed over twenty t enty eight bight pounds and tile waste vasto picked up lip weighed nearly three and one halt pounds pound llie time mado made was about live pounds a minute or three hundred pounds an hour allotting time liberally for emptying the receptacles stopping for repairs ic palis meals and so on tile tho machine could easily work ten hours a day anti and would gather three thousand pounds ut at a total expense of not corb moro than three dollars per lay day making the total c cost oat of the picking for each balo bale one dol dollar lar and fifty cents at present prices tho cost I 1 is fully sixteen dollars dol lais |