Sharp County record., 1881-06-02
|RAPHS
Int Culture in Louisiana.

w., lutte Culture in Louisiana.
-Ds.rST 1878. the amount paid for jute inn
a into the United States was S4,-
av oc,,,- M. IN 1880, for the year ending
ELo,r.TS ; "a II was S7,OOO,OOO; and this
lie will in all probability, reach the
is nail, a sum of S10,G00,00O. Jute is an
%, Paq ,el nlant of the order 6ltaceG, and
Trar. u ,e cen;u, corch0ruS capSulariS. Its
"'''erla i Is from one-half inch to one inch in
man in,,,aterl orows to the height of ten or
TICK: Eve feet, is very straight anu
ual'nak ches only at the top IL mas snarP-
~ srrated, lanceolated leaves, about
men ninches long and nearly two inches
tom and !. The flowers have five sepals
lctical /, five METALS. The stamens are nu-
ous. but they have only one pistil.
faJlon. hark il fibrous, like that of hemp
rortb ar and il is the fibre that is used.
be rat. more soft and silky than either
iss "'I or hemp and is very fine-that is,
,ble of minute subdivision-and its
ce cs oet8sg SO fine and of such great length
CIuFcl 3es it to be sometimes woven Win
ASA: ashs tA' in cheap fabrics. The seed Is
sTlng In in March and April and 1t may oe
OeseeS in June, July and August. 1t IS
Prty Tbii to cut it when it begins to blossom
lphia. he fibre is then better than when
wouldDt plant is older. After being cut the
90 @as are stepped in water until
thing.~II fibre separates easily from
stems. 1t is then prepared
moo o.,. the loom in a manner similar to
r;.a-j in which flax is prepared, only
for tts ,s'@ stems are not dried and broken, as
hot %.5 the flax stems. In Egypt and Syria
bos % n,n corc],oraSS oIioriu8 is cultivated as
vo5 ,a5 uu.l W herb. The American linden or
swood, sometimes called linn
hg 0Om)d.n is the most familiar representa-
ecoraet, of the order to which jute belongs,
the rea the renowned honey of Lithuaniais
the Vale from linden blossoms, and the
op and shlv-prized Western honey comes
Chr0Rnn apiaries which are located near
his; GREAT Eastwood forests in the West.
81 ute is used to make coarse cloth,
5l 5llg, @ttings, cheap carpets burlapS, coarse
i," tbe IL, ,ging, gunny, rice bags, coffee sacks
EbW like articles 1t is not good tor
ed sotnes. as it cannot stand the weather;
n" our hemp ropes are frequently adul-
we're stGated with jute. When the waterfall
Avenue the head was in fashion many were
BILE hil switches which were made OF jute
he sid;tead of flax, as was often said.
be cent, ,sunny is the name of the coarse cloth
|re bpid to Bale cotton. The yield of this
am p,rtr's cotton is set down at 5000, 900 to
Are 10000 bales. Each bale takes about
nger en yards of gunny, hence 100000
= ..yes of cotton alone require $4,000, 600
ut an IDS of cloth made from the fibre OF
the d7s iute plant. This is one item and
lie itns largest, but to it we must add the
yging for the increase in rice crop, and
- wheat and coffee and pepper until
in Rjs whole catalogue is filed.
There is now no question but that we
lon &uld supply this demand ourselves and
thegosper by the production of jute. 1t
ny dina settled fact that many of the South
,er atgn States have splendid jute-growing
pre- The ads. california, realizing the benefit
city, its culture, has been bagging her
Of th1n products from her own soil for sew
tiles nal years, and it is said that a jute man.
in quS actory will soon be started in this
e casey. The jute plant is considered a
defau, re crop in Louisiana. tits no harder
own, q, raise than corn, and the time of
It lies birvesting comes just about the time
hill Of aen the cotton planter could cleverly
the SElt his farm force to the cutting of
theNte, and thus few extra hands would
COM, needed. Tocultivate it is light labor,
pne VI 9 rank growth causing it to over
ct Of g,adow everything else in the field, and
Comnle yield is, to say the least, wonder
trane I. The ends of the stems are used
,orhar making paper, as are the old sacks
cemtld bags. The stems may be used for
well arden fences and coarse baskets, and,
the Ike the willow of Delaware and Mary
ant find, they make a good charcoal for
cent lunpowder. These are some extra uses
ealhy, which the waste is put, as the fibre
|m, A the Important point of the plant
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