The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 130
day in a good field; some Fig. 12.—Sections of Cotton BollA, Cross section, b, Vertical section along line shown in a gather 300 lb., but others mayonly bring in 100 lb. Every daythe pickers go into the fields,gathering the fibre as it ripens. At the close of each day the pickedcotton is gathered… … NEGROES PICKING COTTON IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF NORTH AMERICA COTTON 89 Mechanical Picking.—There are many difficulties in the way ofthe inventor of a mechanical picker. The pods do not all ripen at
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