GENERAL COTTON REMARKS 



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The driving arrangement of most of the ginning factories in the Interior. 



(A mule drives the machinery, the velocity of the gin depends, of course, on the speed at 

 which the mule walks round the " holandeiro " as this contrivance is called.) 



quite a common thing to finrl that the saws had not Ix-en touched 

 for four or six years. When one considers that these saws should 

 be filed twice or tliree times a season, one will readily recognise that 

 the existing Brazilian gins must damage the fibre. In order to demon- 

 strate this fact I liad one and the same quality of cotton ginned by 

 a saw-gin and by a small hand roller gin. The lint turned out bjr 



One and the same cotton, the one on the right is from a saw-gmned 



sample, and the one on the left from a sample passed through a 



hand-roller gm 



