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[I.]Origin, Growth, and Chief Cultivated Species of Cotton Plant[9]
[II.]Cotton-Plant Diseases and Pests[34]
[III.]Cultivation of the Cotton Plant in Different Countries[39]
[IV.]The Microscope and Cotton Fibre[64]
[V.]Plantation Life and Early Cleaning Processes[72]
[VI.]Manipulation of Cotton in Opening, Scutching, Carding, Drawing, and Fly-Frame Machines[82]
[VII.]Early Attempts at Spinning, and Early Inventors[112]
[VIII.]Further Developments—Arkwright and Crompton[126]
[IX.]The Modern Spinning Mule[146]
[X.]Other Processes in Cotton Spinning[160]
[XI.]Destination of the Spun Yarn[176]
Index[189]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIGURE PAGE
1.A Cotton Field in Texas[Frontispiece]
2.Bobbins of Cotton Thread[10]
3.The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary[13]
4.Gossypium Barbadense[24]
5.An Indian Cotton field[53]
6.Microscope in position for drawing objects[65]
7.Transverse and Longitudinal Sections of Cotton Fibre[67]
8.Indian women with Roller gin[75]
9.Self-acting Macarthy Cotton gin[78]
10.Bales from various Cotton-growing countries[80]
11.Cylindrical Rolls of Cotton[81]
12.Bale Breaker or Puller[87]
13.Double opener with Hopper Feed[89]
14.Scutching Machine with lap at the back[92]
15.Two views of the Carding Engine[95]
16.Lap, Web, and Sliver of Cotton[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.