Excerpt from The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Systematically Investigated, and Illustrated by 150 Original Figures, Engraved on Wood and Steel; With an Introductory View of Its Comparative State in Foreign Countries, Drawn Chiefly From Personal Survey Description of tire Preparation Processes of 0 Cotton M ill. Section I. Cleaning, Picking, Scutching, Blowing, and Lapping Machines. Were cotton wool delivered to the spinner in the same state as it exists in the pods of the plant, it would be found sufficiently Open and clean to undergo imme diately the carding operation; but, as we have shown in treating of the husbandry of cotton, the wool has to be compressed so strongly in bags, in order to facilitate its transport from the place of its growth to that of its manufacture, as to cause a matting together and entanglement of its filaments in tufts, which must be carefully undone before it is presented to the teeth of the cards, which would tear the matted filaments asunder, and ruin the staple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.