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or cotton to avoid the loss of moss by the wind, while the bottom is made 

 of galvanized chicken wire similar to that used in indoor drying rack. 



After the moss has been dried, no matter in what way, it is stored 

 loosely in bins, if the quantity is large, but in small Chapters pasteboard 

 cartons have been found convenient and usually sufficient for storing the 

 excess of dry moss. 



Equipment of a Sphagnum Workroom 



The equipment for making sphagnum surgical dressings need not 

 necessarily be elaborate. The ideal condition is to have three separate 

 rooms conveniently located with respect to each other, one for sorting, 

 one for drying the moss after it has been sorted and one for making the 

 pads. The room space might be reduced by having certain days for sort- 

 ing and others for making the pads so that these two processes might be 

 carried on in the same room. In such a case the same tables, a convenient 

 type of which is shown in plate 43, Fig. 2, could be used for both. 



In the drying room one of the methods of drying described above 

 should be installed. The racks (plates 36; and 43, Fig. 1) have proved 



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Passing the completed pads through a clothes wringer run by electricity. 



