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The Story of the Cotton Plant

By Frederick Wilkinson

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THE LIBRARY OF USEFUL STORIES
THE STORY OF THE
COTTON PLANT
- BY
- FREDERICK WILKINSON, F. G. S.
  - WITH THIRTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
- WITH THIRTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
- NEW YORK AND LONDON
- D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
- 1912
  - Copyright, 1898, 1902,
- Copyright, 1898, 1902,
- Printed in the United States of America
- PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT.
CHAPTER I.
- ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND CHIEF CULTIVATED SPECIES OF COTTON PLANT.
CHAPTER II.
- COTTON-PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS.
CHAPTER III.
- CULTIVATION OF THE COTTON PLANT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
CHAPTER IV.
- THE MICROSCOPE AND COTTON FIBRE.
CHAPTER V.
- PLANTATION LIFE AND THE EARLY CLEANING PROCESSES.
CHAPTER VI.
- MANIPULATION OF COTTON IN OPENING, SCUTCHING, CARDING, DRAWING, AND FLY-FRAME MACHINES.
CHAPTER VII.
- EARLY ATTEMPTS AT SPINNING, AND EARLY INVENTORS.
CHAPTER VIII.
- FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS—ARKWRIGHT AND CROMPTON.
CHAPTER IX.
- THE MODERN SPINNING MULE.
CHAPTER X.
- OTHER PROCESSES IN COTTON SPINNING.
CHAPTER XI.
- DESTINATION OF THE SPUN YARN.
INDEX.
- THE END.