Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers - Compiled and Issued #233925

Starting out, however, with a consideration of the fibre itself and of the changes it undergoes under varying conditions of heat and moisture: noting the effect of its changes in dimension and conformation as affecting the setting of rolls, as affecting the tension of stock passing through machinery 111 the different processes, as affecting the traveller pull in spin ning, and as affecting the strength of the yarn itself in many operations which it undergoes — the parts that temperature and humidity play in manufacturing are strikingly apparent, and the advantages to be gained by maintaining those conditions as nearly uniform as possible, go without saying.