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and very well sized, by giving no more care to the tritu- 
ration than in working on rags. 
M. Felix Vospette has also made paper with the stalks 
of corn by a process analogous to the preceding; but in 
place of ten per cent. of the pulp of rags, used in the 
experiment made by M. Hudelist, he made use of 
twenty per cent., and has obtained, with but little trouble, 
the same proportion of piper. If, in the place of using 
his corn pulp moist, that is to say, immediately after it 
had been pressed, he had let it dry before turning it unto 
paper, it would have been necessary to boil it to resoften 
it, and submit it afterwards, as we have above mentioned, 
to the successive action of lime water and of the cylin- 
der. The paper made by M. Vospette is pliant, close in 
texture, very solid, of a pale shade, and made without 
other odor than that of the stallx from which it was made; 
itis naturally sized, for, in writing on it, it is impenetrable 
to common ink. 
The quire of twenty-five sheets weighs one pound six 
ounces; consequently the ream, which has twenty quires, 
gives a weight equal to twenty-seven pounds. The pulp 
of the stalks loses by desiccation nearly two thirds of its 
weight. ‘T'wenty pounds of this pulp, very dry, pro- 
duced twenty pounds twelve ounces of manufactured 
paper. ‘There would then be an advantage in making 
cornstalk paper with the moist pulp, which would be 
impossible in a large manufacture, where the mass of 
matter to be worked up should be dried in order that it 
might be manufactured as it was wanted. For the mili- 
tary service, cartridges have been made with this stalk 
paper, and it has been proved that it resists humidity 
