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press down with the clamps. Open the sides and again 

 press down about two inches more. Sew on the cloth 

 sides with a sacking needle and twine, and then draw. 

 Deliver the bale to the fourth man, who will complete 

 the sewing of the sides and store away. The press 

 should be run down until the cloth will lap at least one 

 inch on eaeh side of the bale, and the cloth should 

 be evenly but not too tightly drawn, and sewed with 

 short, even, lock stitches, causing the strain when the 



FIG. 117. DETAIL OF HOPPER. 



-4, A, Space occupied by furnace (shown at of, d. in Fig. 115) with surrounding wall. 

 On this wall rest the main supports, B, of hopper, and smaller supports, C. 

 To these supports are nailed iron laths (covered with plaster), making the 

 structure practically fireproof. 



bale is loosened to come evenly on all the stitches. After 

 being removed from the press, the ends should be 

 sewn in at once before the bale commences to sweat. 

 A number of styles of presses are used. Large plants 

 employ power presses, which do away with tramping 

 the hops and save breaking them. The two presses 

 at Pleasanton can each turn out 80 to 100 bales a day, 

 extraordinary capacity being necessary to handle its 

 crop of over 3,000 bales. 



