The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-10
THE COTTON INDUSTRY
By Frederic J. H.sLin.

features connected with the produc.
 ton of cotton and cloth Id the uti.
 iization of the byproducts. Where
 cotton seed was once dumped on the
 ground as waste that was Ersatiy
 In the way, and that was fenced
 was considered a great poison, fl
 now forms the chief feed supply of
 hundreds of thousands of head of
 stock. The meal from the seed fer ulizes the land from which t was
 once Erown, and the oil. hes become q product that has netted millions to
 the manufacturer. The cotton adher- Ing to the seeds has been carefully autaway and has added thousands of bales annually to the bsies direct From the gin house
 Then came the utilization of the waste from the mills. There was no waste in the olden days when the spinning and weaving were household industries. Nor was the cloth they produced what ft is today. The mill of today is rich In odds and ends of cotton waste dropped from the opener machines. from the doffar cards. from hobbin wastes and spinning machines. This waste is sathersd and either consumed in home mznufactories or is exported, tire amcent seat to fer- sisn faetories varying in the past three years from nineteen and a half million to thirty -seven and 6 half million pounds annually. Ger many uses most of the ss per cen of exported waste. spinning 1t into coarse yarns. making 1t into toweIing, imitation wooden goods, wadding for surgical purposes or jewellers pack ings. into guncotton. twine, wicks for lamps and candles. and intoi mats.
 blankets and table cloths. Tn this
 country 1t is used chiefly in making
 coarse yarn that is used in the
 manufacture of heavy socks and un- derwear.
 A recent writer shows that with out cotton modern war would be ai- most impossible for even as gun cot- ton produces the high explosive that causes the worst wounds, SO these wounds could not be healed without
 the cotton bandagea for the antisep-
 tic dressinga nor could the ecldiern fight In certain climates unless ciofh- l ed In kahalki cloth made from the staple plant of the American states. The cotton mill which in It's ad- vance has invaded the South until North Carolina and South Carolina stand now as fair rivals to New Eng land wifh it's eentury-old monopoly og the industry, has given work to the woman. from the small farm. and hae become . peculiar factor In the uplift work among her people. Her mother and grandmother before her had spun the cotton and then woven 1t inko cloth for the family wear. She fnds
 that as the min has emancipated her from that task it has given her worix
 that will pay her enough. not only 10
 buy this amount of cloth that her an- cestors made. but to buy what 10 her
 had heretofore been luxuries. She
 finds. too. that through the influence
 of the mill her family is being elevat-
 ed Intellectually and industrially be-
 yond the old status. and though the
 rapidity with which manufacturing
 has developed in the South has swept
 her children too Into factory life. it
 ig only a temporary aervitude that fs
 disappearing with the manufacture og
 labor-saying machinery and with the
 marked advance of modern phiian- thropy.
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