to grow out of these things, - something definite. I wish there might be a committee of this Association who should make a few simple rules that they all agree to, that should be printed in black and white, and scattered like the leaves of the forest, if you please, among these people, stating just what you want on the part of the cotton-planters. You could adopt such rules as this: "Be sure you do not mix long-staple cotton with short;" and a few other simple rules. If you should spread them there, it would be a capital thing, in my judgment.

Mr. GARSED. It will all follow, if the gentlemen go to Atlanta and meet the planters. I have no doubt these things will come out as you expect them to.

Mr. Granville Nicholson of 71 John Street, New York, was granted the floor for the purpose of calling attention to his steelwire cotton-ties; and he said,

Cotton-ties are now made of iron hoops, and their weight on each bale is about ten pounds, which amounts to 31,500 tons on the cotton crop of last year. Now a steel-wire tie is made; and the weight of those ties would have been only 12,375 tons, a saving of 19,125 tons. The exporter and consumer of cotton buys those ties, and pays for them as cotton, at ten or eleven cents a pound. The saving would have been, if wire ties were used, about $4,000,000 on the crop of last year. It is a question for the manufacturers of cotton of New England whether this tie, or any other tie that can weigh eleven ounces, should be used. It is just as strong, perhaps stronger, and is as cheap, weighing only one-third as much, as the iron hoops. It is a very important question for those who are buying cotton and paying ten cents a pound for iron, when you can use a tie that only weighs one-third as much. I am speaking now of any light tie. This is the one I manufacture. If the cotton exchanges or cotton manufacturers of the country should say to the planter that he must not use a tie that weighs substantially over twelve ounces instead of one which weighs a pound and twelve ounces, a great saving could be made. My tie weighs eleven ounces, and is made of No. 9 Bessamer steel wire, and can be re-used, and for baling other things.

Mr. GOULDING. I rise, Mr. Chairman, to move that this Association tender a vote of thanks to Mr. Hill for his address and explanation of his models.

The motion was seconded and adopted.

MI. ATKINSON.

As a matter of curiosity, geneĖL DETER

they leave may like to look at severa. nomespot praises TE and woven in the Atlanta Exposition. Here & s shirt and necktie; and it is embroidered with var Ex-Governor (now Senator) brown c

trained to spin cotton when he was a poor Georg.

in his youth. This piece of embroidery, given to ne agent of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing-Mazzine Lomman also an example of another application of machine creditabic to New England mechanism. I also CL.. VOLT Ser tion to some very wonderful and thorough y artiste entrust done by the same person, who was in charge of t› Wheek; & Wilson exhibit at the Exposition. One was copie..ER.. from nature, a peacock being tied to a log for a copy. 11. BLOTS and shades of the peacock's leathers being exact reproduce. together with the log and flowers around it. It was done with a sewing-machine, and you would think it is a wok care. Mr. DRAPER. I want to bear my testimony to this 13. — that all those Southern people connected with manufacturing are terribly in earnest. They are bound to learn. every ing that they can about manufacturing, or any thing that they undertake. They seem like new converts, so to speak. They talked with me about machinery, and they are talking a it down there; and I want you to remember what I say, that they are very much in earnest.

Mr. SMITH. We have noticed a number of articles in the newspapers to the eflect that the governor of Georgia and our friend Mr. Atkinson had the pleasure of wearing suits of clothes in the evening made from cotton which they had picked in the morning. Having been a cotton manufacturer for several years, we scratched our heads to know how this could be done; as it must necessarily go through many different processes to be woven in time for the cloth to be colored, cut, and made up, and worn at a reception in the evening. Now, if all this is true, there is yet considerable for us to learn in regard to taking cotton and putting it into cloth. I should like to hear from Mr. Atkinson on the subject. (Applause.]

Mr. ATKINSON. There are two or three little inaccuracies in the statement that has been made about these suits of clothes. I will go back a little in my statement. The suits which were made for the governors before I got there were made in this

way: The cotton was gathered early in the morning for the filling. The warp is in the loom, the same as a satinet warp. The warp is not made at the same time. The warp being in the loom, the cotton was gathered in the early morning, dried off sufficiently to be ginned on the roller-gin by eight o'clock, spun upon the small spinning-frame, with four doublings, as has been stated by Col. Barrows, woven upon a Crompton loom, and, I think, by twelve o'clock the goods went to the dye-works of Mr. Thomas, outside, where they were dyed, and were brought back by two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the measure having been taken by Mr. Goss, the tailor, during the morning. The cloth was then cut, and the sewing done upon the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine. The garments were ready for wear by half-past six o'clock in the evening. The only difference in respect to my own suit is this, that, on the morning on which Mr. Garsed and myself and one of the governors were to have gone out in the field, it was raining so hard that we could not have picked the cotton; and therefore a portion of the previous lot was used for this coat and vest which I have on. This suit, which was made in that way, from the ginned cotton gathered on a previous day, early in the morning, starting at eight o'clock on the gin, was sent to Mr. Kimball's house at half-past six in the evening. I changed my dress, and walked over to the house occupied by Col. Barrows, and made a call upon him, with it on my back. It will be obvious, however, to you, that, if he chose to put the number of hands to do the work, and had a warper there, he could put a double and twist warp, which would not require another sizing, into that loom, and make a jean, with a warp and filling like this, in a day; and, if you stump him to do it, I am not sure he would not do it: but the warp is not made on the same day, the rest is all made on the same day.

Mr. Atkinson alluded to the growing importance of the smal farmers of the South, by means of whose industry and inte 11: gence the cost of raising cotton is being reduced, and said, that while no improvements can be made in removing cotton across the ocean, science having exhausted all its resources in this direction, they were also exhausting science in getting freight brought from the South to the North; but we are getting every year into a better and better position for its working up and if my principle is rightly stated, that the

place where the wages are the highest is the place where the goods are made the cheapest, then you have field enough before you for the rest of your lives.

Mr. SMITH. I witnessed the operations of the Dederick cotton-press, while I was down at Atlanta; and I should like to offer this resolution,

Resolved, That the attention of the Committee be called to the merits of the Dederick press, and that they report to this Association the results of their investigation.

The resolution was adopted.

The meeting then adjourned.

METHODS

OF TRANSMITTING POWER BY BELTS WHEN THE AXES OF THE CONNECTING SHAFTS ARE NOT PARALLEL.

BY NATHANIEL HILL, Esq., LowELL, MASS.

ILLUSTRATED.

(COPYRIGHT SECURED.)

You have, sometimes, occasion to connect shafts which are not parallel, by means of a belt. When there is considerable difference of height, and little power to be transmitted, you make use of a belt without guides, with the pulleys so placed that the belt will keep on the pulleys when running in one direction, as in this model (Fig. 4), where the belt remains on the pulleys at whatever angle I turn this upper pulley; the belt drawing on to each pulley from a point in the plane of that pulley.

But there is always a side or tearing strain on both the tight and slack sides of the belt, at the points where it leaves the pulleys (A, A', Fig. 4); and, if the motion is reversed, the belt at once"runs off," as it no longer draws from a point in the plane of the pulley. When a heavy power is to be transmitted, this tearing strain is objectionable; and you then resort to the device of arranging the pulleys so that the belt shall draw with an even strain on both edges, from the driven-pulley to the driver on the tight side, leading the belt back to the driven-pulley by means of guide-pulleys more or less perfectly arranged. Here (Fig. 10) is a model of an arrangement that has been in use many years, I have been told, at the arsenal at Springfield and at other places. A pulley on each shaft, F, F', may be taken for the working-pulleys, the two others being guides. Of course, it would not be advisable to have the guides, turning, as they do, in a reverse direction, run on the shafts of the working-pulleys; but they may be placed in the line of their present places, either beyond, or between the shafts. This arrangement is somewhat cumber