. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 265 rate of 100 to 120 feet per minute. The drums of these stripping machines are driven at the rate of 1,000 to 2,000 revolutions per minute, their diameter being from 14 to 20 inches. After passing through the strippers, the partially cleaned fiber is hand washed in bundles of about 20 leaves; these bundles are suspended in water and are allowed to soak for about two hours, the fiber is then spread out on the bleaching ground for a tim
. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 265 rate of 100 to 120 feet per minute. The drums of these stripping machines are driven at the rate of 1,000 to 2,000 revolutions per minute, their diameter being from 14 to 20 inches. After passing through the strippers, the partially cleaned fiber is hand washed in bundles of about 20 leaves; these bundles are suspended in water and are allowed to soak for about two hours, the fiber is then spread out on the bleaching ground for a time, which varies according to the weather, and then hung on lines to dry. It is then either scutched or hackled, or both, packed in bales, and pressed for shipment. When the stripper is in good order, and the fiber has been fairly cleaned, the loss in scutching amounts to from 3 to 5 hundredweight per ton, and in hackling from 2 to 3 hundredweight. In the warm-water dressing the same operations are gone through with, with the exception that the fiber is washed and placed to soak from six to twenty-four hours in tanks filled with warm water, which is kept heated by means of either fire or a steam pipe. In a report to the State Department by United States Consul Connolly the follow- ing note occurs: "To imperfect machinery and careless- ness in the selection of green plants may be ascribed the apparent coarseness and the inferiority so often complained of in the flax exported from certain portions of New Zealand. But with improved flax-dressing machinery and proper care exercised in the selection of the raw material, a very superior article can be produced. The fiber of Phor- mium tenax is susceptible of a much higher degree of preparation than has been be- stowed upon it up to the present. This, however, is not altogether the fault of those who are engaged in its manufacture; it is for want of the necessary machinery. The hand-dressed article prepared by the natives is as fi
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