. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAl'. I.] CENTRAL AND SOLTJI AMERICAN COTTONS. 63 varieties of tins cotton. — I'eruviaii Sea Island, Peruvian Rough, and Peruvian Smooth. The Rough Peruvian ( Fig. 27) is the most important commercially on account of its great suitability for mixing with wool, because of its long, hars
. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAl'. I.] CENTRAL AND SOLTJI AMERICAN COTTONS. 63 varieties of tins cotton. — I'eruviaii Sea Island, Peruvian Rough, and Peruvian Smooth. The Rough Peruvian ( Fig. 27) is the most important commercially on account of its great suitability for mixing with wool, because of its long, harsh, wiry fibre. Rough Peruvian varies from one and one- fourth inches to one and one-half inches in length, and from .0()0() to .(>()08 of an inch in diameter. It is usually used for warp yarns from 40s to 70s, one German authority giving 80s as possible numbers to be made from it. Some of the Rough Peruvian is very "high colored," and some of it," Red," is. Fig. 27. Rough Peruvian Cotton. Longitu- dinal views to scale To'on iucli between parallel lines. raised on copper soil. Tlie Smooth Peruvian, an exotic from American seed, is of much shorter maximum length of staple, and more generally resembles Orleans or Gulf cotton, and is used for somewhat similar numbers. The Peruvian Sea Island, so called, is grown on the mainland from American Sea Island seed, and ranks almost equal to the Florida Sea Island. The length of staple is about one and one-half inches, in diameter from .0004 to .0007 of an inch, and is used for 100s to 150s yarn, usually for doub- ling purposes. It is not quite so clean as the so called Sea Is- land cotton from other Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brooks, Christopher Parkinson, 1866-1909. New York, Spon & Chamberlain; London, E.
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