The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-10
JUTE CULTURE.

n Great Industry to Which Farmers
In the south ere Giving Attention.
New Orleans correspondence New York sun.
Il In 1878, the amount paid for jute imported
nto the United States, was $4,000, 900: in
hSs0, for the year ending June Goth, it was
100000; and this year it will, in all prob
lbility, reach the round sum of $40 0OO,06.
Juls is an annual plant of the order tiliacea'
Ind Of the genus corchorus capsularls. Its
tenn is from one half inch to one inch in di.
meter, grows to the height of ten or twelve
feet, is very straight and branches only al
Ihe top. 1t has sharply serrated, lanceols,ed
caves, about six inches long and nearly two
inches wide. The flowers have five sepals
md five petals The slsmens are numerous,
ut they have only one pis,i. The bark is
brous like that of hemp or fax, and
is the fibre that is used.
is more soft and silky than
,ther fax or hemp, and is very tne-that is,
fine aud Of such great length causes i. to
b sometimes woven with silk in cheap
hbrics. The seed is sown in March or April,
nd may be cut in June July and August.
is best TO cut it when it begins to blossom,
the fibre is then better than when the plsl {
older. After being cus the stems are
eped in water until the fore separates
h,ly from the stems, II is then prepared
bf the loom in manner similar to that 10
Vhich flax is pr pared, only the stems are
lot dried and broken, us are the flsx stems.
u Eg pit and Syria tie corchorus otorus
cultivated as u pot herb. The Ameri-
ban linden or bass wood, sometimes
allied "liDn wood" is the most familiar re-
resentatve Of the order to which jute be.
ngs. AMI thu raLowne honey of Lilhu,nia
Fmade from linden blossoms, and the highly
Przsd western honey comes from spiaries
flieh ARE located near the great Eastwood
, pests in the west.
lutte is used TO make coarse cloth, mat.
|Igs, cheap carpets, bursps, coarse bagging
|mny, rice bags coffee sacks, AM like
rtcles. 1t is not good for ropes, as il can
OF stand the weather; yet our hemp ropes
10 frequently adulterated with jute. When
be waterfall for the head was in fashion.
hany we're the switches which were made of
Iute, instead Of fax, as was often said.
n Gnny Is the name of the coarse cloth
Used 10 bale cotton. The yield of this yea IA
ptton is set down at 5000 900 to 6 100000.
4 ales Each bals takes abou. seven wards of
|1unny, bcnce 900 900 bales of cotton alone
equre AZ 10000 yards of cloth made from
be fibre Of the jule plant, This is one item
Ind the largest, but to 1t we must add the
Ipaeging for the increasing rice crop. and for
Wheat and coffee and pepper until the whole
catalogue is filed.
a There 10 now no question but that wo
puld supply this demand ourselves and
|rosper by the production Of iute, 1t is a
P!tlsd fact that many of the southern states
ave splepdid ute growing lands.
california. realizing the benefit of it.
nture, has been begging her own products
om her own soil for seve al wears,
hd it is said that a lute mandatory will
pom be started in ,hi city. The iule plant
considered sure crop in this State. 1t is
% harder to raise thsNcorn, and the time of
harvesting comes just about the time when
be cotton planter could cleverly put his
rm force to the cutting of jute, and thus
pw extra hands would be needed. To cult.
hte it is light labor, the rank growth cau,.
II to overshaiow everything else in the
elt, and the yiel is. to say The least.
londerfu. The ends of the stems s'e used
Pr making paper, as are the old sacks ana
hgs. The stems NAV be used for garden
noes and course baskets, and, like the
Pillow of Delaware and Maryland, they
lake good charcoal for gunpowder These
Re so ne extra uses to which the waste Is put,
the fibre is The important part of the
'1lant