. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 400 TUE AMERICAN FARMER. by the Eagle Cotton Giu Co., Bridgewater, Mass., and is an implement the value of which is too well known to require comment. The power gins are similar in construction, though 7uatle much larger than the hand gin, and can be used with either steam or horse-power, stoam being generally preferred. The machine should always be set firm and level, and kept well oiled. Before using it, the operator should see that all the belts and bolts are ti
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 400 TUE AMERICAN FARMER. by the Eagle Cotton Giu Co., Bridgewater, Mass., and is an implement the value of which is too well known to require comment. The power gins are similar in construction, though 7uatle much larger than the hand gin, and can be used with either steam or horse-power, stoam being generally preferred. The machine should always be set firm and level, and kept well oiled. Before using it, the operator should see that all the belts and bolts are tight, and that every part is in proper working order, being particular to notice that the screen cylinder and compression roller turn freely. The machine should always be started before putting in tlie cotton; the quantity of cotton from the feeder to the gin to he regulated by arrangements for that purpose. It will be some minutes after putting in the cotton before any machine ?will do its best EAGLE COTTON GIN, WITH KEEDEK AND CONDENSER ATTACHED. After the ginning process, the cotton should be pressed into bales ready for market. TUs may be done by either steam or horse-power, and requires comparatively but little time and labor. The press of Dederick & Co., of Albany, N. Y., represented on a previous page, illustrates this process. When the bales are ready for market, there still remains for the planter to decide whether to make an immediate sale, or hold the product for an advance in the market-price. This question must be settled according to his knowledge of the state of the market at home and abroad, the prospect for the future, and his own judgment, guided by expei'ience and observation in the past, together with his financial condition at the time. If confident that the price will be no lower, and that it will advance sufficient to repay for withholding it from the market for a time, it may be well to delay the sale. But, as a general rule in the disposal of
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