Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 160
more than 3,500,000,000 pounds.This cotton is now grown in the Southern States upon morethan 20,000,000 acres of ground. The mills of America to-day are using more than 2,000,000 bales of cotton per year.In 1793, Samuel Slater started seventy-two spindles to spincotton; in 1893, there were… … THE INTERIOR OF A MODERN COTTON MILL. CHAPTER IV.WOOL. As civilization has advanced, the clothing of man has im-proved. To-day a great variety of material is necessary tomake up the proper wardrobe for civilized man. Our cloth-ing is nearly all fabricated—that is, manufactured from theraw material…
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