. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FIBER PLANTS FIBER PLANTS 291 from 6,000 tons to 15,000 tons, and the prices have risen from one and one-half and three cents to four and five and one-half cents per pound. Manila maguey. This is a hard fiber similar to sisal, but not quite so strong. It is obtained from the leaves of the Manila maguey plant, Agave Cantula, naturalized in the Philippines and now being cultivated there. Aloe fiber. Bombay and Manila aloe fibers are hard fibers three to five feet long, similar in appearance to. Fig. 404. Lecheguilla leaves and fiber. sisal b
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FIBER PLANTS FIBER PLANTS 291 from 6,000 tons to 15,000 tons, and the prices have risen from one and one-half and three cents to four and five and one-half cents per pound. Manila maguey. This is a hard fiber similar to sisal, but not quite so strong. It is obtained from the leaves of the Manila maguey plant, Agave Cantula, naturalized in the Philippines and now being cultivated there. Aloe fiber. Bombay and Manila aloe fibers are hard fibers three to five feet long, similar in appearance to. Fig. 404. Lecheguilla leaves and fiber. sisal but weaker and more elastic, used to some extent in the manufacture of medium grades of cordage. They are obtained from the leaves of agaves. Maguey fiber. Fiber for domestic use is occasionally obtained from the leaves of the large maguey plants. Agave atrovirens, A. collina, A. Potosina, A. Tequilana and A. vivipara, growing in central Mexico. The intro- duction of fiber-cleaning machinery in the last two years gives promise of the production of Mexican maguey fiber in commercial quantities. The fiber is three to eight feet long, nearly white, elastic, but not so strong as sisal. Several species of magueys are cultivated for the production of the Mexican beverages, pulque and mexcal, but none of them is cultivated primarily for fiber. Zapupe. Two agaves, known as " zapupe verde " and " za- pupe azul," have been planted extensively in recent years for fiber production in the states of Tamau- lipas and Vera Cruz, Mexico. Both have straight, rigid leaves, three to six feet long, narrower, thinner and more numerous than the leaves of sisal or henequen. Zapupe verde, having green leaves, has long been cultivated for fiber by the Indians of the district of Tantoyuca, Vera Cruz. Zapupe azul, with bluish glaucous leaves, is of uncertain origin. In appearance it very closely resembles Tequila azul. Agave Tequilana, but it is not used in eastern Mexico for the produc
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