The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-05
story OF II Seed.

Il man planted little seed.
The sun shonc warm on it, and the rain
came and softcned it, and it soon began to
sprout. Day and night it grew, till it was
high as a mans head. Buds formed all
over it, and one night they burst into bloom.
Beautiful cream-colored flowers they were,
something like morning-glory.
BY noon the sun was too warm. The
beautiful blossoms shut their leaves and
hung their heads, and before night each
cream colored flower dropped off. Where
each one had been was u little germ
This little germ grew and grew until it
was as big Us an egg, when it burst open
and threw ont a long beautiful fluff of cot
ton several inches long.
1t was cotton Seed of course.
! Then mana nVgro-camc and tore
the cotton from its ball, put it into a bas.
kct with others like it, and carried it to Il
room where were hundreds Of pounds of
cotton. In the room was a busy machine,
and into that machine the cotton was
thrown
This cotton, you must know, is full of
| seeds. Very troublesome little fellows they
are, too, for they have no idea of leaving
their comfortable home, and it's very hard
TO get them out.
I'll tell you how the machine does it. As
/ NlN tbNAbl guys III IL CullifS 10 u lOlltI COW
cred with wire teeth. These teeth seize
the cotton and draw it through sort of
grating, 50 fine that the seeds can't get
through, 50 they just stay ON the outside
| As the roller goes around it comes to Il
brush roller, which brushes of the cotton
as nicely rs any brush can do it. Then the
cotton is packed in a bale, and sent to the
cotton mills.
Now the cotton that comes from the little
seed away of in Georgia is by this time
very dirty. and what do you suppose comes
next? a bath? MOI what's good tor BOYS
| isn't good for cotton. 1t gets-a beating.
1t is laid on n sort OF net work. ana beaten
with bundles Of twigs. The dirt falls
through the network, and then the cotton is
| called batting"
But the cotton from the seed I'm telling
about don't stop batting 1t is very fine
and nice, and it goes to the cardng-machinc.
This machine lays all the threads one way
by drawing it through sets of wire teeth.
Ito come, ont on roller, and is taken Off
by still another roller, ON which it looks
like wide hoocy ribbon. BUTT don't keep
that pretty lcoll very long 1t is drawn
through tunnel, which makes it small and
much tirmcr. 1t isn't fine enough We, how
ever, and it goes between another set of
rollers. | wonder if there, anything that
can't be done with rollers,
When it comes out pressed quite firm it
is called rowing, and is ready to be spun.
You'll hardly believe me- hut the spin
ming is done on Il mule
Its a very peculiar mulc, must admit,
made Of wood and iron, and carving TWEEN
ty-two hundred spindlcs So it spins TWEEN.
ty-two hundred threads ut once, and is Il
wonderful machine if it has funny name.
1t spins the loose rowing into a much fin
er thread, slightly twisted. This thread
next runs through gas flame to burn off
the little fuz2, then over brush to take
of the ashes, and then through hole in
brass plate just the size of the thread
Then 1t Is wound in skcins, and put NJ in
five or ten pound bundles.
After all these travels the thread has
little rest before it starts through the last
machinc-the one that makes the soft cot
ton into the the solid strong thread We buy
on spouls to sew with.
The skcinS arc wound on bobhins, and
put on the machine. Six Of the fine threads
star, together.
Look on spool, and you'll read, "Best
six cord cotton" That means, as | said,
that six of these threads are united to make
our sewing thread.
But must tell you how they 60 First
over glass rod, and through little trough
Of water; and then between rollers to press
them tightly together. Leaving the rollers.
obey 20 down. twisting as they 90, + where
1 spool is fastened. There it is regularly
wound on firm smooth thread, while the
spool moves slowly up and down as it winds
50 as to make regular layers of it.
Now the fruit of the little cotton seed has
become a beautiful spool of thread, ready
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