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INDEX 



Schopper's fibre-testing machine, 7 

 Scotland, New Zealand hemp cul- 

 tivation in, 197 

 Scutching of flax, 106 ; of hemp, 



119 



Sea Island cotton, 52 ; botanical 

 source, 1 1 ; cultivation in Brazil, 

 70 ; cultivation in Peru, 69 ; 

 cultivation in West Indies, 94 ; 

 prices, 75 

 Seed-cotton, 12 

 Shieve, 106, 119 

 Short- stapled cottons, 14 

 Sida carpinifolia, 153 

 Sida rhombi folia, 153 

 Sida urens, 153 



Sierra Leone, banana fibre, 165 ; 

 cotton growing in, 84 ; Furcraa 

 cubensis in, 184 ; Hibiscus 

 esculentus (" awkraw " or 

 " okra ") fibre, 146 ; H. quirt- 

 quelobus (" kowe ") fibre, 149 ; 

 Honckenya ficifolia fibre, 151 , 

 jute growing in, 143 ; piassava 

 exports, 206 ; ramie growing 

 in, 143 ; Sansevieria guineensis 

 fibre, 187 ; Sisal hemp in, 179 

 Silk-cottons, 209 



Sisal hemp, botanical characters, 

 1 66 ; characters and properties 

 of fibre, 177 ; climate and soil, 

 172 ; cost of production, 176 ; 

 cultivation, 172 ; cultivation in 

 Australia, 172 ; cultivation in 

 Bahamas, 169 ; cultivation in 

 East Africa, 170 ; cultivation 

 in Fiji, 172 ; cultivation in 

 India, 169 ; cultivation in 

 Mauritius, 172 ; cultivation in 

 Mexico, 167 ; cultivation in 

 Nyasaland, 171 ; cultivation in 

 Papua, 171 ; cultivation in 

 Philippines, 170 ; cultivation 

 in West Africa, 179 ; cultiva- 

 tion in West Indies, 172 ; dura- 

 tion of life of plant, 1 74 ; extrac- 

 tion and preparation of fibre, 

 175 ; harvesting, 173; planting, 

 *73 * poling, 1 66, 174 ; prices, 

 178 ; use in paper making, 216 ; 

 uses, 156 ; yield, 173 

 Sisal refuse, utilisation, 178 

 Somaliiand, Sansevieria Ehren- 



bergii in, 186 

 Sorghum vulgare, 208 

 Spain, production of esparto, 219 

 Spanish reed, use % in paper 

 making, 222 



Spharella gossypina, 35 



Stipa tenacissima, 219 



Straw, use in paper making, 220 



Stuffing materials, 3 



Subwe fibre, 154 



Sudan, cotton growing in, 88 ; 



papyrus in, 222 

 Sunn hemp, 122 

 Sylepta derogata, 41 



Tambookie grass, use in paper 



making, 222 

 Tampico hemp, 207 

 Tepezintla, 180 

 Textile fibres, 2 

 Tiliaceae, 131, 145, 151, 153 

 Tinnevelly cotton, 65, 68 

 Togoland, cotton growing in, 78 

 Tow, flax, 107 ; New Zealand 



hemp, 195 

 Transcaucasia, cotton production 



in, 71 

 Transvaal, Spanish reed 



(Arundo Donax) from, 222 ; 



Tambookie grass (Cymbopogon 



Nardus var. vallidus] from, 222 

 Tree or perennial cotton, 1-2, 31, 



69, 70 

 Trinidad, cotton exports from, 



96 ; Fur era; a cubensis in, 184 

 Triumfetta cor di folia, 153 

 Triumfetta rhomboidea, 153 

 Turkestan, cotton production in, 



Uganda, cotton growing in, 90; 

 elephant grass from, 222 ; 

 Sisal hemp experiments in, 172 



Union of South Africa, cotton 

 growing in, 97 ; flax growing in, 

 in 



United States, cotton consump- 

 tion in, 50 ; cotton production 

 in, 49 ; imports of Sisal hemp, 

 1 68 ; methods of cotton cultiva- 

 tion in, 19 



Uppam cotton, 65 



Urena lobata, 154 



Urena sinuata, 155 



Urtica dioica, 130 



Urticaceae, 124 



Vegetable curled hair, 213 

 Venezuela, cotton production in 



71 



Viilebrunea integrifolia, 130 

 Vonitra palm, 204 



