Abstract
THIS latest addition to the Library of Useful Stories, written by the director of the Textile School at Bolton, gives a clearly expressed and popular account of the chief cultivated species of the cotton plant, the pests and other injurious agents which molest them, and the methods of cultivation in different countries. The processes of picking, ginning and baling are described, and the plans for manipulating the cotton in carding, drawing, &c, dealt with. The early attempts at spinning are passed under review, and pave the way for an account of the modern spinning mule and the other processes in the spinning of cotton. The little volume, though perhaps not likely to be widely read, should be very popular in Lancashire.
The Story of the Cotton Plant.
By F. Wilkinson Pp. 199. (London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898.)
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The Story of the Cotton Plant. Nature 59, 76 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059076d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059076d0