The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-14

tine time the war began. and that it still has supplies that will last it for years. He says many of these dyes are being replaced hy those made in America, and that the company has created little dye plant of :ts own, where it is making some special colors, one of which is dead black.
 It is long journey through the Amos keag mills from the cotton bales to the olive drao shirtings which are shipped to the factories, where they are made into clothes for the army. The mills here altogether have 137 acres of floor space, and the whole of this is filled with machinery of the most intricate nature. It is run by electricity and the most of it goes at dynamic speed.
 I despair of giving you accurate pie lures of all the processes through which the fibers so on their way from the baie to the shirt. As the cotton comes from the liantation it is of different va rieties. Some of it has fibers longer than others, and the bales have to be opened and the different kinds of cotton mixed together, so that the product will be of uniform quality which the govern ment requires.
 The cotton has to be torn loose by machines. which pull it apart. It is beaten up by other machines, and the duSl, leaves, SUCKS ana UlFI are DlbWl out. It IS then run over great cylinders or rollers, called openers, and so treated than wien it leaves them there is not a stick, leaf or grain of sand ill it. The lint is now as soft as swans down and whter than when it was picked in the field
 The flores, however are all mixed together. They are turned this way and that and across and recross one an other. They must all be laid the same way before they can be spun into thread. This work is done by the card ing machines huge rollers covered With little wire teeth, which brush and comb the flores as they pass through much as we comb our hair. The teeth are so fine that there are more than 100 on a space as big around as cent. The cotton goes into the carders in q wide fleecy sheet. The teeth straighten the flores and roll them over and over so that when they come out they are almost all laid the same way, and they are in the shape of a thick rope of soft cotton yarn. This rope is known as a broom handle, and it seems thick enough to make a dozen of the fine threads used for weaving. It is not thick enough to make one The slivers next go through drawing machines. Wuelt ct lulltDSI Cl tHSnl are ConDlneu and come out as one which is more uniform in thickness than those which go in and where the fibers are still more nearly parallel. This is called drawing. The ropes then pass through the slubbing machine, in which the sIivers are still further drawn out, and are wound upon bobbins. They are now ready for the spinning machines, on which the threads for both the warp md T, 4l., a.. now of uniform thickness and are ready for weaving
 The term weaving covers the proc esses of putting the threads together az you find them in the cloth of the shirt The cloth is formed by two sets of thread Those which run length wise are known as the warp and the others. which cross the long thread at right angles going over and under them from side to side, are the wool. To fit the threads for these processes they