99

17. Drawing Frame, showing eight slivers entering, and
one leaving the machine 103

18. Intermediate Frame (Bobbin and Fly Frame) 108

19. Twist put in Cotton by the hand 115

20. Jersey spinning wheel 117

21. Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny 124

22. Arkwright's Machine 130

23. "The Hall ith Wood" 136

24. Crompton's Spinning Mule 141

25. Portrait of Samuel Crompton 145

26. Mule Head showing Quadrant 148

27. Mules showing "Stretch" of Cotton yarn 150

28. Mule showing action of Faller Wires 154

29. Mule Head showing Copping Rail 159

30. Ring Spinning Frame 161

31. Combing Machine 170

32. Sliver Lap Machine 173

33. Ribbon Lap Machine 175

34. Reeling Machine 179

35. Bundling Machine 180

36. Quick Traverse Winding Frame 182

37. Ring Doubling Machine 184

38. Engine House, showing driving to various storeys 186

THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND CHIEF CULTIVATED SPECIES OF COTTON PLANT.

In the frontispiece of this little work is a picture of a cotton field
showing the plants bearing mature pods which contain ripe fibre and
seed, and in Fig. 2 stands a number of bobbins or reels of cotton
thread, in which there is one having no less than seventeen hundred and
sixty yards of sewing cotton, or one English mile of thread, on it. As
both pictures are compared there appears to be very little in common
between them, the white fluffy feathery masses contained in the pods
shown in the one picture, standing in strange contrast to the strong,
beautifully regular and even threads wound on the bobbins pictured in
the other.

From cotton tree to cott