ISBN: 1130726266

[EAN: 9781130726268], Neubuch, SHOLTO PERCY,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a fre… More...

[EAN: 9781130726268], Neubuch, SHOLTO PERCY,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: . . . approaches most nearly to the potatoe, may, if produced in too large a quantity, be preserved in the same way as figs, or the meal may be separated, as it resembles rice most nearly in composition. Each root-stock throws up from six to eight or ten steins, each of which must be yearly cut down, and will yield from three to four pounds of the fibre fit for textile fabrics, for rope-making, or for the manufacture of paper. As the fruit already pays the expenses of the culture, this fibre could be afforded at a cheap rate, as from the nature of the plant, consisting almost only of water and fibre, the latter might be easily separated. One planter calculates that it could be afforded for 91. Lis. id. per ton. Some very useful and tough kinds of paper have been made from the plantain, and some of finer quality from the same material in France. All the plants which have been already mentioned are devoid of true bark, and are called endogenous in structure. Simple pressure between rollers, and washing, would appear to be sufficient for the separa. tion of the fibres of most of them. But the following families of plants are all possessed of trne bark, which requires to be stripped off usually after the stems have been steeped in water, before their respective fibres can be separated from the rest of the vegetable matter. The flax plant abounds in fibre, but this is too valuable to be converted into paper. India, however, grows immense quantities of the plant on account of its seed (linseed), which is both consumed in the country and exported in enormous quantities, bnt nowhere is the fibre turned to any account. This is no doubt owing to the climate not favouring the formation of soft and flexible fibre; but the short fibre which is formed, and might be easily sepa. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1130726266

[EAN: 9781130726268], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers … More...

[EAN: 9781130726268], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: .approaches most nearly to the potatoe, may, if produced in too large a quantity, be preserved in the same way as figs, or the meal may be separated, as it resembles rice most nearly in composition. Each root-stock throws up from six to eight or ten steins, each of which must be yearly cut down, and will yield from three to four pounds of the fibre fit for textile fabrics, for rope-making, or for the manufacture of paper. As the fruit already pays the expenses of the culture, this fibre could be afforded at a cheap rate, as from the nature of the plant, consisting almost only of water and fibre, the latter might be easily separated. One planter calculates that it could be afforded for 91. Lis. id. per ton. Some very useful and tough kinds of paper have been made from the plantain, and some of finer quality from the same material in France. All the plants which have been already mentioned are devoid of true bark, and are called endogenous in structure. Simple pressure between rollers, and washing, would appear to be sufficient for the separa. tion of the fibres of most of them. But the following families of plants are all possessed of trne bark, which requires to be stripped off usually after the stems have been steeped in water, before their respective fibres can be separated from the rest of the vegetable matter. The flax plant abounds in fibre, but this is too valuable to be converted into paper. India, however, grows immense quantities of the plant on account of its seed (linseed), which is both consumed in the country and exported in enormous quantities, bnt nowhere is the fibre turned to any account. This is no doubt owing to the climate not favouring the formation of soft and flexible fibre; but the short fibre which is formed, and might be easily sepa.<