. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. re therefore mixed together, byhand or by machine, the purpose all the time beingto get a considerable quantity of cotton as uniformin quality as possible. From here cotton goes into a large machine thatmakes the lap, or gauzy film of cotton—firstsheets of fleece three or four feet wide, but sovery thin that sand, broken leaves and other im-purities drop from it of their own weight. Andthis is one of the reasons why the lap is made—torid the cotton of these impurities, else yarn wouldbe of poor quality. Th
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. re therefore mixed together, byhand or by machine, the purpose all the time beingto get a considerable quantity of cotton as uniformin quality as possible. From here cotton goes into a large machine thatmakes the lap, or gauzy film of cotton—firstsheets of fleece three or four feet wide, but sovery thin that sand, broken leaves and other im-purities drop from it of their own weight. Andthis is one of the reasons why the lap is made—torid the cotton of these impurities, else yarn wouldbe of poor quality. Three or four times this lap-ping process is repeated, the second and thirdmachines using the product of the preceding a rule, four laps or films of the first machinepass through the second machine at once. Allthe while it is being further cleaned and preparedfor the carding machines. Up to this point there has been no change inthe form of cotton. It has been opened and theheavy impurities have fallen out, but it remainsstill the white, fluffy, fleecy material—now in rib-.
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