attening cattle on cotton-seedhulls and cotton-seed meal at the plants, and the prep-aration of a stock food made by mixing the meal and hullsin suitable proportions and putting the product on themarket as an article of general merchandise. Before the war cotton seed was a waste product; eventen… … COTTON AS A FACTOR IN PROGRESS. of cotton is the cost of picking the raw cotton from thestalks in the field. The exercise of ingenuity lookingtoward lessening this heavy expense has not been neglec-ted. During the last few years, numerous patents havebeen issued for cotton-harvesters, many of which…
Cotton manufacture
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