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PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE 



a great deal of dirty abaca hurts the reputation and price 

 of all abaca. 



Drying. After it is stripped, the fiber should be dried 

 in the sun, as quickly as possible. The whitest fiber is 

 made by the cleanest stripping and quickest drying. 



FIG. ioi. Stripping abaci, in Albay 



The characters of good abaca are : first, strength ; 

 second, cleanness and lightness ; third, whiteness ; fourth, 

 uniformity in length ; fifth, length. Fiber almost six 

 meters long has been stripped in Mindanao. 



Use of Waste. The waste from stripping contains a 

 great deal of fiber which is valuable for paper making. 

 If much abaca is stripped in one place, it will be more 

 convenient to get the waste together to sell ; but more 



