The Jute Plant 



The jute is a plant comparatively easy of cultivation, and 

 producing a fiber that has commercial value. The great diffi- 

 culty, is to separate the fiber in such a way as to make it usable. 

 Lack of machinery for doing this effectively has led to the 

 neglect of this plant in America, although it is sometimes 

 grown in the Gulf States. Mr. Burbank has the 

 plant under observation, but it is perhaps 

 of no great avail to develop it unless 

 some one will invent a machine 

 to handle its fiber. 



