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Excerpt from Marketing and Utilization of Cotton Mill Waste A mill's waste factor-its proportion of waste to total production depends largely upon such variables as grade and quality of cotton used; age, condition, and adjustment of processing equipment; and the relative importance of carding and combing to the total milling operation. Waste factors may range from less than 10 percent for certain carded yarn operations to over 25 percent for some combed yarn mills. The most recent survey indicates an average of approximately 13 percent, excluding bagging and ties. 1/ At one time little or no use was made of the waste from cotton mills and cotton gin processing. In recent years, however, increasing uses are contin nally being found for these fibrous byproducts; in 1965, approximately 581 million pounds of cotton mill waste (with an estimated value of entered u.s. Marketing channels. 2/ This does not include use of cotton waste in the mills where it originated, which in 1950 was estimated at approximately 13 percent of the total domestic production, 3/ Some trade sources believe that this figure is now considerably more than 13 percent, because of increased combing Operations which have resulted in greater supplies of spinnable comber noils and also because of growing mill interest in using spinnable waste in their own manufacturing processes. 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.