. 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. 226 COTTON. [cirAi'. IV, dance. The mote board sliould be perfectly siiiootli, otherwise motes tend to gather and gradually choke up. Gins are most frequently used of sixty to eighty saws each, ten-incli or twelve-inch diameter, and the highest speed that a twelve-inch saw cylinder ough
. 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. 226 COTTON. [cirAi'. IV, dance. The mote board sliould be perfectly siiiootli, otherwise motes tend to gather and gradually choke up. Gins are most frequently used of sixty to eighty saws each, ten-incli or twelve-inch diameter, and the highest speed that a twelve-inch saw cylinder ought to be driven for good work is 300 per minute, although they are frequently detri- mentally run up to 400 revolutions per minute and Fig^ HI. £gw Gin ir| Sectiori. Gin Damage. Defective ginning is caused by having the saws too near to the Ijars of the grate so as to rub, by run- ning the saws too fast, or by having teeth too sharp ; when newly sharpened the teeth have a square edge which ought to be somewhat rounded off by running some old cotton loaded Avith sand through the gin. An experienced judge of cotton can detect the results of bad ginning by an examination of the cotton in the 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. & F. N. Spon, limited; [etc. , etc. ]
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