[22] All of these were
described as roller gins; but all were warranted to gin upland as well as
sea-island cotton.[23] By the year 1800 Miller and Whitney had also
adopted the practice of selling licenses in Georgia, as is indicated by an
advertisement from their agent at Augusta. Meanwhile ginners were calling
for negro boys and girls ten or twelve years old on hire to help at the
machines;[24] and were offering to gin for a toll of one-fifth of the
cotton.[25] As years passed the rates were still further lowered. At
Augusta in 1809, for example, cotton was ginned and packed in square bales
of 350 pounds at a cost of $1.50 per hundredweight.[26]
[Footnote 18: _Columbian Museum_ (Savannah, Ga.), April 26, 1796.]
[Footnote 19: J.A. Turner, ed., _Cotton Planter's Manual_, p. 281.]
[Footnote 20: Augusta, Ga., _Chronicle_, Dec. 10, 1796.]
[Footnote 21: _Southern Sentinel_ (Augusta, Ga.), July 14, 1796.]
[Footnote 22: _Ibid_., Feb. 7, 1797; Augusta _Chronicle_, June 10, 1797.]
[Footnote 23: Augusta _Chronicle_, Dec. 13, 1800.]
[Footnote 24: _Southern Sentinel_, April 23, 1795.]
[Footnote 25: Augusta _Chronicle_, Jan. 16, 1796.]
[Footnote 26: _Ibid_.
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