Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . e is a large demand forlinen carpet-yarns; the shoe manufacturing industry of the L^nitedStates calls for an immense amount of linen thread, and in the pro-duction of these two articles the American manufacturers are market ia towrls and towelling is practically unlimited, and Ameri-can manufacturers are engaging largely in the production of thosegoods. The readjustment of t
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . e is a large demand forlinen carpet-yarns; the shoe manufacturing industry of the L^nitedStates calls for an immense amount of linen thread, and in the pro-duction of these two articles the American manufacturers are market ia towrls and towelling is practically unlimited, and Ameri-can manufacturers are engaging largely in the production of thosegoods. The readjustment of the tariff in 1897, rendered it possible for them I go TEXTILE INDUSTRIES to compete with the foreign production by reducing the duty on such yarnsas are required in these special lines of goods to a revenue basis, andincreasing the duty on the manufactured articles. Several large cottonmanufacturing establishments are engaged in this industry and consume1,500,000 pounds of linen yarn annually. Besides the above there were in 1905, fifteen establishments engaged inthe manufacture of linen goods with a combined capital of $6,293,878;employing on an average, 3,811 persons; value of products, $5,856, OF THE UNITED STATES IQI HEMP, JUTE AND KINDRED FIBRES While the term hemp should properly be applied only to the bast fibreof the plant Cannabis sativa, it is applied indiscriminately to the fibres ofwidely differing plants; so generally is this done, that it would often be mis-leading to use the word without a prefix, such as Russian hemp, sisal hemp,sunn hemp and scores of others that relate to entirely distinct kinds offibres. Cannabis sativa is an annual herb, having angular rough stems andaltcrnate-lobed leaves; it belongs to the same natural order as the hop, and,like it, has both male and female plants, a circumstance which necessitatestwo gatherings of the same crop—the male ripening and dying earlier in theseason than the female. The height of the plant varies accord
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