In a most every village pass nowadays, I hear the wh sound of the cotton ginning machines." These machines are made in Japan and have a wide -ale here. They are worked by foot power I have been asked at times whether any machine of ple construction had been made, that could be worked by man power, to do the same for the spinning processes as the Japanese machine does for the ginning of the cotton. On making enquiries, I have found that such a machine has been invented by a Chinese. but that it has not proved very satisfactory in working. I have recollections years ago of seeing the first cotton-spinning machines made by rk. wright; these were very small, but con-talard the necessity part of the modern spinning frames. It should not be difficult to make machine on those lines that e"uld be used in the country districts; the gr-atest difficulty would probably be' in making repairs, when the necessity arose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.