Part I of an illustrated 1909 Cassier's Magazine article on the layout and machinery of a modern Lancashire cotton spinning mill. It covers the history of spinning, cotton staple types (Sea Island, Egyptian, American, Indian), and the case for Lancashire and Oldham as the centre of the industry. Most of the article describes the blowing room: bale breakers, hopper feeders, openers, scutchers and lap machines, and feed regulators, with illustrations from Asa Lees, Dobson & Barlow, and Howard & Bullough. It ends with mill dimensions, spindle counts for fine and coarse mills, and the card room arrangement.

Second instalment of W. H. Booth's series on the modern cotton spinning factory, covering the preparatory machinery after scutching: carding, combing, drawing, and slubbing and roving. It explains how roller and revolving flat carding engines work, card clothing manufacture, the sliver lap, ribbon lap and Heilmann combing machines, drawing frames with their stop motions, and the speed frames with flyers and differential bobbin drive. It is illustrated with photographs of machines from Platt Bros., Dobson & Barlow and Howard & Bullough, and of mills in England, Brazil, Canada and Italy. The article is continued in a later part on the final spinning processes.

Third and final article in W. H. Booth's series on the cotton spinning factory, published in Cassier's Magazine. It describes the spinning operation on throstle, ring frame and self-acting mule, with notes on their history (Arkwright, Crompton, Roberts), twist calculations and mule action. It then gives machinery lists for standard mills (Tables I and II), floor plans and descriptions of several Lancashire mills (Stanhill, Cairo, Curzon, Broadstone, Kearsley, Imperial), and notes on construction, engines, shafting and fire protection. Illustrated with photographs of machines by Howard & Bullough, Platt Bros., Asa Lees and Dobson & Barlow.