Excerpt from John Hetherington and Sons, Limited: Makers of All Kinds of Cotton Opening, Scutching, Carding, Preparing, Spinning and Doubling MachineryAmerican varieties are classed in four qualities - good ordinary, low middling, middling, and good middling, south american, three - middling fair, fair, and good fair, egyptian, two - fair and good fair, east indian, three - fair, good fair, and good. Standard samples of these classes are preserved for reference, in case of dispute, in the offices of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association, and it is customary amongst brokers to form a set of the classes in which they deal, and, after careful comparison with the standards, to preserve them for easy reference when required. As, however, the crop of each succeeding year differs in some important respect from its predecessor. These standard samples are subject to considerable modification. According to the relative abundance or scarcity, fulness or deficiency, of special characteristics, the different varieties are classed up or down, as the case may require. Thus, within a limited range, there is a constant ¿uctuation of the standard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.