Abstract
IN an address delivered by invitation before the Manchester Textile Institute on May 28, Mr. E. C. de Segundo discussed the interdependence of the cotton and the cotton-seed industries. Until about 1860, cotton-seed from the plants yielding the cotton imported to Lancashire was a waste product. The value, to the United States alone, of this once waste product was, just before the war, with an average cottonseed crop, from twenty to thirty millions sterling. Some 95 per cent, of the seed now utilised retains, however, residual fibre to the extent of from 2 per cent, in lightly fibred Indian seed to 12 per cent, of the seed-weight in American Upland, Uganda, and other woolly varieties. This residual fibre includes, besides the “fuzz” proper, some “staple” which has escaped the gin and other fibres too short to be included in “staple.” Some part of the residual fibre which is not “fuzz” has long been recovered by saw-linting machines, as “linters,” mainly marketed in Germany.
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Cotton and Cotton-seed Industries . Nature 103, 414–415 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103414b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103414b0