A short Popular Mechanics item describing the "Cotton Temple," a large structure built from 510 uniformly sized cotton bales for the Tri-State Fair in Memphis, Tennessee. The bales were made, hauled six miles, and the temple erected within a few days. A photograph shows the temple-like building with columns and a rounded roof.

A one-page item from Popular Mechanics describing a recently introduced wheeled machine for spraying cotton plants with insecticidal poison in liquid or powder form. A photograph shows a tank on a wheeled frame with a spray boom and compressed-air apparatus; the caption says liquid is forced through nozzles by compressed air and powder is blown onto damp plants. The text is cut off after the opening sentences.

A short Popular Mechanics article describing new European attempts to pull flax mechanically instead of by hand. It explains how a comblike device grips the flax stems and plucks them from the ground, with weeds sliding through, and how the flax is then bound and shocked like grain. The machine, hauled by horse or tractor with a driver and an operator, is said to harvest about 10 acres a day. A photograph shows the machine working in a field.

A short Popular Mechanics item describing a Texas inventor's cotton gin with two sets of saws, claimed to double capacity while needing only about 20 percent more power. The upper saws turn faster than the lower set, which lets the machine handle long-staple cotton that had previously been ginned with rollers. Includes one photograph of the machine.

A short Popular Mechanics item describing an English machine that opens and cleans raw cotton by subjecting it to rapid vibration in an air current. It explains the perforated drum, the small rotating brush that turns the drum and keeps its holes clear, and the rotor with spiraled blades that agitates the cotton. Air blown through the drum carries the opened cotton to a condenser, and an exhaust fan removes the dust. One illustration shows the machine opened up.