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Ä Area: FidoNet - Marijuana Chat ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Msg#: 1694 Date: 06-09-93 22:27
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From: Northcoast OH NORML Read: Yes Replied: No
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To: All Mark:
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Subj: Fairbanks Comp. #10
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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[...continued from previous posting]
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[From Niles' Register]
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IMPORTANT INVENTION.
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The Editors of the New York Statesman have recently seen in operation in
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that city a most ingenious and valuable machine for spinning flax and hemp,
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invented by Dr. Bell and Mr. Dyer, two intelligent and highly respectable
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gentlemen from New England. The following is a description of this machine, as
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far as the editors have been permitted to speak of it.
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"It is constructed on an entirely new principle, having no analogy to the
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process for the cotton, woolen, worsted, or other manufacture. The quality of
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yarn produced is pronounced by competent judges, to surpass other linen upon
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the present improved machinery, are superior to those wrought by hand. The
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size of the thread can be varied to any extent, from that of cambric to that of
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the rope yarns used in the manufacture of cordage. In the degree of velocity
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its operation is limited only by the quickness which the spindle's fliers are
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capable of supporting.
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The instrument now in operation produces about the same quantity of thread
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pr. spindle, fineness being equal as the throstle spindle in cotton
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manufacture. The whole formation of the thread from dressed flax is complete
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at one operation. The material laid on the machine is wound upon the spools
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ready for the loom, without the intervention of any assistance; the whole being
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effected by the rotary motion communicated from drums. Indeed all the motions
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of the instrument are of a circular kind."
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In relation to its advantages the editors remark: "So far as our
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observation of knowledge extends, this invention is entirely original, and
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nothing of the kind exists in the work-shops of the United States or Europe,
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where fabrics from flax are entirely wrought by hand. The manufacturers of
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linen will now be placed upon the same ground and enjoy the same facilities as
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cottons. It has been estimated that upon moderate calculations two millions of
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dollars may be saved annually to this country by the reduced expenses of linen
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fabricks, effected by this invention. If it be not introduced abroad, and
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foreign prices thus diminished, the products of our own looms will supply our
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markets and prevent importation from maintaining competition. -- Such is our
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impression of the importance of this machine."
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-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
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[From the Vergennes Aurora]
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MANUFACTURE OF HEMP.
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The Spinning Machine erected here under the direction of an ingenious
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English artist, opens a fair prospect for a home market of hemp and flax, for
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the protection of American industry, by the exclusion of European linen
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fabrics. This curious piece of mechanism is so constructed that by first
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separating the flax into small parcels it is then drawn out with a slack twist
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and fitted upon spools which are removed and placed ready to receive a
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compressure from several pairs of rollers, which is at last received upon the
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flyers and is formed to that size and twist the manufacturer chooses. The
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frame is constructed with thirty-two spindles, that require the attention of
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one girl to tend three frames, and one person will rope upon the machine as
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much as three persons will want to run through the day. Yarn enough to make
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fifty yards of four quartered cloth can be spun in one frame in day, and this
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is all done by the labor of one girl, from the flax. -- Much prosperity may be
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anticipated from manufacturing of linen.
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The following letter from Gen. Barnum to the compiler, dated 3d of August
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1829 will correct any erroneous reports which may exist as to the present state
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of the hemp business in the vicinity of Vergennes.
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"DEAR SIR -- I have received yours of the 29th ult. and in reply have to
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inform you that the Hemp Machine erected at this place last season (after the
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Model of Hines' patent) was kept in operation until June, and finished breaking
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most of the hemp raised in this region of country, excepting a few small lots,
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which will be brought in this fall. The performance of this machine has in
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every respect equalled the expectation of the proprietors.
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"Several experiments have been made in this neighborhood to build machines
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less expensive, which it was hoped might perform equally well; and I am sorry
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to add, that the projectors and builders have been disappointed in their
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expectations. The proprietors of two of these Machines reserved a quantity of
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Hemp for the purpose of dressing in theirs. They have both tried the
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experiment, and have since applied to the agent of this machine to have their
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hemp thus reserved, broken out as early as the machine commences operation for
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the fall business, which will be in the early part of September.
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I look for no improvement in the principles of the machine -- Its
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performance is satisfactory on rotted hemp or flax, and none other ought to be
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taken to any machine. A scotching machine, or dresser may be justly considered
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a useful appendage. It can be built with trifling expense, and is necessary to
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disengage the shives from the coat and prepare it in first rate condition for
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market.
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In consequence of the unfortunate error into which all our hemp growers
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were led in this country last season, to wit: the belief that the process of
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water rotting hemp was unnecessary, many of our farmers have been deterred from
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making a further attempt this season. Others who attributed the partial
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failure to the proper cause, have doubled their diligence, and will, I have no
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doubt, be abundantly remunerated. I consider it decidedly the most profitable
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crop our country produces, on lands well adapted to its growth.
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It is true that yankee enterprize and perseverance has overdone almost
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every thing in which they have been spiritedly engaged. With this article
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however, I believe for the next five or six years at least, the increased home
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consumption, the foreign demand, and the falling off of importations will
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afford abundant scope for the full exercise of all their energies.
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Your obedient and very humble servant.
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A. W. BARNUM.
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The following is a copy of a letter from Horace Wheeler Esq. agent and
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proprietor of the Vergennes Machine to A. Emmons Esq. another of the
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proprietors, dated April 22, 1829.
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DEAR SIR, Agreeable to your request I forward you the cost of our machine
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-- the quantity of Hemp dressed per day, the expense of tending it &c.
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Cost of Machine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $1500
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Deduct for Tools, shop to build in &c.- - - - 300
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1200
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Cost of buildings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1000
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$2200*
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*Gen. Barnum in his estimate has taken into the account the right of
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running the machine.
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Our machine works well, and has in some instances dressed one and a half
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Tons of lint per day --say between sun and sun. Much depends on the quality of
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the stem -- middling sized stem, produces most hemp and is easiest broken. I
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have run the machine when it did not dress more than half a Ton a day; but I
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consider a fair average per day -- say month in and month out, from 12 to 15
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hundred weight.
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The number of hands employed in and about the machine is seven and
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distributed thus: Three men at the head of the machine; one boy to take hemp
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off the apron; one man to prepare it for baling; one man to tend drying house,
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and one boy to run on errands &c. I have found this number of hands to be
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necessary in order to work the machine to advantage, whether the hemp be rotted
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or unrotted. A greater quantity of hemp may be dressed after rotting than
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before. Our machine is perfect -- I have run a quantity of dew rotted Hemp,
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and it takes the shives out perfectly clean, except some few which are easily
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divested from the lint by shaking it. It dresses Flax equally well and without
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waste.
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Our business is improving -- All that is wanting, or has been, to make it
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profitable is funds to carry it on. Our hemp is nearly all prepared for
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market, and will be shipped, in a few days; and poor as it is (owing to the
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uncommon wet season -- having all stood for seed to ripen -- and all unrotted)
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will command, as I am informed by Mr. Wells, the great Hemp dealer in New-York,
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one hundred to one hundred and twenty dollars per ton. He writes me that he
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sold American water rotted hemp last week -- rather inferior quality -- at two
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hundred dollars per ton. He quotes it from two hundred to two hundred and
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fifty. We are making preparations for water rotting all our hemp the coming
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season.
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Respectfully yours, *c.
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H. WHEELER."
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A. EMMONS, Esq.
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