Explosives . ill he has got money enough to release them by pa\ _ k principal and interest ; well knowing that hewill set no more advances, and will, besides, be put out of caste by his cmate- if he does not, at all event-, pay the original advance. If. on the con-trary, he makes more -altpetre than will cover his advance, and he haeparticular ceremony going on. he will clandestinely sell his partially refinedBaltpetre to other petty pare! - Irnnk while the money lasts, and .MANUFACTURE OF SALTPETRE 59 ask contemptuously, What, am I a poor man that I should work ? Thetrade is too hazardous a o
Explosives . ill he has got money enough to release them by pa\ _ k principal and interest ; well knowing that hewill set no more advances, and will, besides, be put out of caste by his cmate- if he does not, at all event-, pay the original advance. If. on the con-trary, he makes more -altpetre than will cover his advance, and he haeparticular ceremony going on. he will clandestinely sell his partially refinedBaltpetre to other petty pare! - Irnnk while the money lasts, and .MANUFACTURE OF SALTPETRE 59 ask contemptuously, What, am I a poor man that I should work ? Thetrade is too hazardous a one, and the petty advances spread over too widean extent of country, to make it worth the while of Europeans with capitalto attend to ; in consequence it is almost wholly in the hands of the largehouses above named (who are connected with Calcutta native firms, and Mhoin turn have their small branches in every petty town in the district). The industry is conducted on the same lines now as then, except that it. ¥ig. 4. Evaporating Liquor from Percolator. is not as remunerative as it used to be. Hooper x made analysts of a largenumber of samples of the earth collected by the nuniahs : the amount ofnitrates in them varied from 1 to 27 per cent., but as a general rule they con-tain 3 to 5 per cent., also several per cent, of sodium chloride and Bulphate. Adescription of the process of extraction has been given by Leather and 1 Agricultural Ledger, 1905, Xo. 3. - Bulletin No. 24 of the Agricultural Research Institute. Pusa, 1911 ; 1912, 110and 130. 00 KXILOSIVKS The niiiiiah builds an earthen charifeer called the kuria or kothi with wet mud, which is allowed to dry. This chamber (*ee Fig. 3) has eithercircular walls some 5 or <i feel in diameter, or oblong Malls, and a floor whichalopee slightly from hark to front. In the front wall is a hole at the level ofthe bed, which allows the nitrate liquor to drain away into a pot. Above thebottom of this earthen chamber a
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