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essary in any mill, as the quantity of thread pro- 
duced per spindle is small. For instance, a mill 
with 10,000 spindles manufacturing No. 20 yarn, 
will produce in a day from a third to four-tenths of 
a pound of thread per spindle or from 3000 to 4000 
pounds total output. Yarn cannot be woven, 
cloth cannot be manufactured, until spindles first 
spin the lint into thread. The steady increase in 
number of spindles throughout the world is set 
forth in the following table : 
Countries 
1861 
1875 
1890 
1900 
Great Britain . . 
30,300,000 
39,000,000 
43,750,000 
46,000,000 
Continent of Eu- 
10,000,000 
19,400,000 
24,575,000 
33,000,000 
338,000 
1,100,000 
3,270,000 
4,400,000 
United States . . 
5,000,000 
9,500,000 
14,190,000 
19,475,000 
world's consumption of cotton 
The average consumption of cotton throughout 
the world may be estimated at fifteen million bales 
annually. The leading centers of cotton manu- 
facture are not at the source of supply, but 
are thousands of miles away, where population 
is dense and labor abundant, trained and efficient. 
The consumption of cotton for several periods of 
manufacturing development is shown in the table 
following : 
Country 
1875 
1890 
1900 
1,500,000 
3,384,000 
3,269,000 
280,000 
3,630,000 
4,576,000 
290,000 
920,000 
1,000,000 
300,000 
2,350,000 
3,640,000 
