Excerpt from Preprocessing Practices and Costs of United States Textile Mills as Affected by the Cotton Bale Package In the first phase of the study, mail questionnaires were returned by Llls which in 1955 consumed approximately four-fifths of the total cotton >nsumption of all domestic mills. The information furnished by these mills lowed that about 85 percent of them cleaned the outer surface of at least >me of the bales consumed and that approximately one-half of all bales con Jmed received some surface cleaning before the cotton was placed in the pro assing machinery. It also indicated that picking or brushing or both were v far the most frequently used methods in the preprocessing cleaning of iles. Of the bales cleaned, nearly one-half'were reported to have been Leaned on all surfaces, and one-third on the heads and one or two sides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.