Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04

oil Is necessary to make it q success
~hiie with that grown in the lowlauds
both oil and chemicals mus: be used. IL
is said that moths attack WOODEN goods
for the oil in them. This, il it he q fact.
is an argument in favor OF fabrics made
from manufactured fiber in which no oil
is used. A Philadelphia firm has lately
maze 'two-ply osrpets'' from ramie,
ana Is sufficiently satisfied with the re-
SUITS TO order large quantity OF it.
ihey are fo at work on tapestry carpets
uaoe from the same material. The
manufactured ramie colors we'll,
oeing like wool in that particu-
Jar. 1t has been proved by experiments
at Pawtucket, 4. 1. that single dip
OF the ramie in the die is better than
three dips OF cotton, while the colors are
much richer than those obtained In the
| cotton. feature o: the fiber 10 its
| smaii depreciation in manufacture COM
pared with fax, cotton and iute, being
| III the proportion of oue-half Of per
cent. for the ramie to 405, Is and 20
per cent of the other three, respeot-
! lively.
A machine for decorticating ramis,
nemp and various other bbrous plants is
IN use in Bradford, England, and i, ia
~ is tHhI the Ory
rane stalks will yield 25 per cent. Of
noer by this method. However, Provl-
oence, Il. l., manufacturer, while in
England short time ago, made a |
thorough study of the subject of ramis |
manufacture, and in his Judgment the |
making of ramie cloth has not reached |
so advanced stage in that country rs
IN france. He AYERS, Furthermore
that 1t Is trifing for manufacturers
III America to say that they can
OBTAIN satisfactory results from the
ramle hber. He Gays that 1.-the thing
most necessary TO the development of the
plant III this country is capital with
when TO make experiments, - and is
conhdent that with capital he could i'm
prove the machine in his factory to a
wonderful extent. And yet he believes
That, TO make as good an exhibit as the
French have done, 1t would be needcul
10 send skilled mechanics to Francs TO |
make careful examination of the ma
chlnes now in use there in manufacturing
rainie goods. In this connection, it NAV |
Do said that the cloths for men . cuttings !
made from ramie are SO like the suitings |
made from wool that 1t is difficult to dis
'lnsuish the difference. aud cotton, ,
linen and silk have also been most sue !
initiated.
The Belgian government, in an official l.
'eport, states that the "culmboo'' of
he state of Vera Cruz is possessed of a
hber much finer and stronger than =
Tx, and of similar luster, - and fur d,
her ADDS that experiments have shown | +
TO be essentially different from cotton. q
emp and ramie, in that the plant COW n
ring is around the fiber instead of being q
nterlaced with il, and also in that it =
reduces an excellent food as we'll az :.
Der. Leading American investigators ! h
re OF the opinion that ramle can be pro- Il
uced a. the rate of one ton to the acre | NJ
nd that in a field of 100 acres by the 10
me the last acre was cut FIRST would be
Ist about ready for cutting again Some ~
'aintain that the factories for reducing n
he dry ramie stalks into shape ready G.
'r the textile manufacturer should bs
flacent TO the fields and not q number
miles away, aud that when the fiber
shipped from the field it should be n
lady for the garnet.
An exhibition of the fber in its various ~
ages, from the dry stalks to the finished &c
brics of all descriptions, is soon TO be Oh
aced in the agricultural department at az
nshIngton. The eXperimentors are all 10
reed that when the obstacles 10 easy m
I'd economical decortication have been AZ
lily overcome the plant will bs extern IN
yely cultivated in the Southern states. ye
d the ramte clot&industIv will become an
e 9tsk6e principa may afacturing IN mi