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BRAZILIAN COTTON 



shuttles at the rate of one per hour ; bobbins were also being made. 

 All this work is new and has been started owing to tlie delays in 

 delivery from Europe. Brazil has a store of magnificent hard woods 

 and there is no reason why shuttles and bobbins should not be made 

 there. Caustic soda, which is so much used in bleaching, is now 

 often produced in the mill in vats which were cast in Brazil. 



Cotton Mill near Petropolis 

 (Rio de Janeiro) 



As mentioned before almost every mill aims aj providing social 

 comfort to their workpeople, but it is especially in the direction of 

 schoohng that a good deal of work is done. In one of the mills 

 which has a large printing department, special art classes were held, 

 besides ordinary educational classes. Some excellent original work 

 had been done by these young students who were qualifying as designers. 



