Probably to ensure that cotton fibres in the atmosphere cannot catch fire and cause an explosion.
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.
Cotton mills, corn mills, etc. where built along streams and rivers to use water power to run the machinery. When steam-engines took over, the factories and mills could be built anywhere.
Waterwheels once commonly drove the machinery in corn mills, cotton mills, etc, and are samples of using water to create energy. In a modern hydro-electrical generating plant, water is piped through turbines, which turn generators, and so produce electricity.
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.
Not much difference between the two crops. Cotton grows into a bush that gets flowers that turn into bolls that has the raw cotton. To get the cotton off the plant the bush has to die. To kill the plant a agent is sprayed on the plant or salt water. Once it is dead the raw cotton can be picked with a cotton picker. It is sent to a cotton gin, cleaned, and put in large bales.
using water to power mills
Polyester dries quicker than cotton, as the polyester fibres don't absorb as much water.
Mortimer Gilbert Burford has written: 'Industrial waste surveys of two New England cotton finishing mills' -- subject(s): Cotton finishing, Factory and trade waste, Pollution, Water
The Embargo Act, passed by Congress on 22 December 1807, hindered the Colonies trade with foreign countries. The United States had plenty of cotton, plenty of labor, and available water sources to run the spinning mills.
Cotton is spun into yarn at a cotton mill and woveninto cloth on looms or knitted into jersey with knitters. These industries are located in many parts of the world.Now that power is easily obtained from electricity, mills no longer have to be near running water. I imagine that more than two thirds of the countries in the world have some sort of cotton industry.
Cotton is not water resistant.
Water is sprayed on fruits and vegetables in order to wash off dust particles, excess microorganisms, and possible pesticide residues.