Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-16
A NEW USE OF THE LEAVES OF THE PINE.

EUREKA Eureka! !! We have long since
been yearning for a gold mine, or some other
money making machine; and never until
now have we been able to stumble upon the
+" one thing certain" Read Read! And
let our piney uoods be as touched with Sy.
bills wand, converted into one nexhaustable
bank of money, that will, like kobbin Rough.
head, make all the paupers rich, marry all
the old-maids and widows, cure all the sick
and put stop to doctors bills, and, in short,
will turn every thing up side down except
our pockets.
Near Brealan, in Silesia, in domain call.
ed the Prairie of Humboldt, there exists two
establishments as astonishing for their pro-
duce as for their union. One is 7nanufac
tory which converts pine leaves into a sort
of cotton or wool; the other offers to inva.
lids, as curative baths, the waters used in the
manufacture Of that vegetable WOOL Both
have been erected by NJ. de Pannewitz, in.
venter Of chemical process by means Of
which it is possible to extract from the long
ands lender leaves of the pine very flace.
Gus substance which he has named woody
wool; it can be curled, felted and woven.
All the ANGULAR leaves of the pine fir, and
of the confere in general, are composed of
fibill1 extremely fine and tough, surround
ed and held together by resinous substance
under the form of thin pellcle. When by
decoction and the use of certain chemical
agents the resnous substance is dissolved, it
is easy to separate the fbres, to wash them
and free them from all foreign substances
According to the mode Of preparation en-
ployed, the woolly substance acquires q
quality more or less fine, or remains in its
coarse state in the first instance lis used
as wadding, in the second to stuff mattresses.
If the pine has been preferred to other kinds
OF pitch trees, it is on account of their needle
shaped leaves. 1t is thought that similar
result might be obtained from other trees Of
the same species.
The tree can be stripped of its leaves when
quite young without any injury. The opera.
ton takes place when they are still green
A man can gather two hundred pounds of
leaves q day.
It was advantageonsly y substituted for cot
ton and wool in the manufacture OF blankets
The hospital of Vienna bought five hundred
and, after trial of several years has adopt
ed them entirely. 1t has been remarked,
among other advantages, that no kind o. in.
sects would lodge in the beds, and its aro,
matte odor was found agreeable and benef-
cial. The blankets have since been adopt.
ed by the penitentiary of Vienna, the chari.
ty hospital and barracks of Breslau.
Its cost is three times less than that of
horse.hair, and the most experienced uphold.
ster, when the wool is employed in furniture,
could not tell the one from the other.
The article can be spun and woven, re.
sembliug the thread Of hemp for its strength;
it can be made into rugs and horse blankets.
In the preparation Of this wool an ethereal
oil of pleasant odor is produced. This oil
is at first green exposed to the rays Of the
sun, it assumes an orange.yellow tint; re-
placed in the shade, it resumes its former
green color; rectifed, it becomes colorless
1t differs from the essence of turpentine ex.
tracted from the same tree 1t has been
found efficient in rheumatism and gout also
as an anthelmintic in cutaneous diseases.
Distilled, it is used in the prepurtion Of lac
Of the finest kind 1t burns in lamps like
olive oil, and dissolves caoutchouc complete
y in short time. Perfumers in Paris use
it in large quantities.
1t is the liquid left by the decoction of the
pine leaves which has been so beneficial in
the form of bath. The bath establishment
is fourising one.
The membranous substance by filtration
at the tine Of the washing Of the fibre is
pressed in bricks and dried it is used as 4
combustible, and produces, from the rosin it
contains, quantity Of gas sufficient for tile
lighting of tue factory. The production oil
q thousand quintals of wool leaves quaint,
ty OF combustible matter equal in value to
sixty cubic metres of pine wood.-Plow,
Loom and Anvil.
SAN DIST FOR STABLES.