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NATURE 



[August 19, 1920 



other causes not so much in evidence. Many of the 

 cotton mills are quite extensive in their buildings and 

 equipment, and almost without exception are con- 



6f education and educational institutions alike iByi 

 Canada and in the States. In the province of Quebesc^ 



there is to be found well-equipped agricultural schools \ 



Fig. I. — The Arlington mills, consuming 200,0:0 lb. of greasy wool per day. 



trolled by British or British Canadian managers, 

 some of whom received their training in Lancashire 

 textile schools or in those of the States. It is a 

 unique feature of Canadian mills, as distinguished 

 from those of Lancashire and York- 

 shire, that every operation from the 

 yarn to the finished cloth, even in- 

 cluding the dyeing and printing, is 

 carried out in one and the same 

 factory, which obviously makes it 

 much more interesting to visit than 

 that \of a similar works in this 

 country. The woollen industry is 

 mainly centred in Ontario, and is 

 far less well organised than that of 

 cotton, but the hosiery mills are in 

 evidence in every textile district of 

 the Dominion, and a great future 

 lies before the industry, since the 

 equipment and staff of workers are 

 of the most efficient character 

 (Fig. I). 



Referring to textile manufacture 

 in the States, Prof. Barker remarks 

 that fine wool yarns are now spun 

 there which cannot be beaten in 

 any European country, but that 

 neither in Canada nor in the States 

 did he see a fine cotton yarn ap- 

 proaching that produced by Lanca- 

 shire mills. On the other hand, he 

 visited a mill in New Jersey which 

 produced finer and better finished 

 dress fabrics than Bradford, and in 

 New York he was shown worsted fabrics impossible 

 to exceed in beauty of texture and colour. 



Much space is given in the report to the subject 

 NO. 2651, VOL. 105] 



and agricultural research stations designed to serve; 

 the farming interests, whilst in Montreal, the largest' 

 city of Canada dominated by industry and commerce, \ 

 there is the splendid McGill I'niversity, with its 



Fig. 2.— Lowell Textile School. 



magnificently equipped engineering school ; and in 

 Toronto, the capital of Ontario, there is the Univer- 

 sity, beautifully situated in the park-like centre of the 



