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Cotton from seed to loom (1878)

Dana, William B. [from old catalog] · New York, W. B. Dana & co. · leaf 34

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nyfleece. This contrivance was early introduced into Georgia,from India, and its use in Georgia gave rise to the term* bowed Georgia cotton,^^ a term then and still applied incommerce, although it is now more than half a centurysince any instrument of that description was xised in thiscountry. The… … One can easily see that with such rude machines forpreparing tlie staple for market, any large increase in thecotton crop of America was almost out of the question; - See Bains History of Cotton jVIauufacture, iiages 66 and 67. 25 COTTON FROM SEED TO LOOM. and yet the manufacturing industry had…

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