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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...to locate these gin plants at the railway stations or in the country villages instead of on the plantations, and to use more improved and expensive machinery, so that a modern outfit of this kind may cost as much as $10,000. It also appears that ginning is now largely done for hire, rather than by the actual cotton grower, the bagging, usually of burlaps, in which the cotton is placed, being sometimes furnished by the planter and sometimes by the proprietor of the gin. The density of the flat or plantation bale is about 12 y2 pounds to the cubic foot, and 25 such bales, weighing some 12,500 pounds, are about as many as can be readily placed in a standard box car. This form of bale is quite bulky and otherwise unsuited to long distance transportation. It becomes therefore practically necessary to further compress the greater part of the cotton, and for this purpose the plantation bale is taken from the gin where it is made, sometimes by wagon but generally by rail, to some point more or less remote where its bulk is greatly reduced by the use of powerful and expensive machinery and the condensed bale more securely fastened. The plant employed to perform this operation is called a compress, and the process of reducing the size of the plantation bale is the process commonly spoken of as compression. The machinery alone for such a plant costs from $20,000 to $25,000, and the entire compress plant, including the land, building, etc., costs on the average according to the testimony something like $50,000. Some of them cost more than twice that sum, but the figure named is believed to be a fair estimate. There appear to be about 240 of these compress plants located at various points in the cotton growing sections and representing an aggregate investment of not les...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154052756
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154052753
  • Publisher Date: 09 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 440 gr


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