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Experiments With Ramie

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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French experiments with ramie are now reported as showing that a ton of its stalks amd leaves, wuen properly treated, will yield about twenty-flvc pounds of the chemically degummed fibre fit for spinning - about the same, in fact. as the result of experiments in this country. This quantity of fibre means the product of a ton after the fibre has only been cleaned upon the machine, but has likewise passed through the subsequent processes to fit it for spinning. It also appears that mere stripped bark costs for trpatment about $65 more than China grass, ton for ton, of the degummed fibre, without considering differences of quality in the same grade of ribbons. It is well known that a stalk of ramie either grows rapidly and rankly when there is an excess of moisture, or it is stunted and of slow growth when an opposite condition prevalĂ­a. But where one of these conditions follows the other in the same instance, the fibre is adversely affected, for in the after processes to fit it for spinning, treatment necessary to reduce the hard or stunted growth to the condition of spinnable fibre may wholly disintegrate the structure of the fibre in the softer or freegrown portion of the stalk, and great wastage and loss ensue.

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Ann Arbor Register