Mechanical Extraction of Fibre 571 



As the head of this firm has had considerable 

 experience in tropical commerce and agri- 

 culture, and was for some time in India, 

 Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements, the firm 

 is well able to gauge the class of machine 

 required to do the work on the one hand, and 

 to suit the men using it on the other. The 

 machine illustrated seems easy to handle, 



[ The Fibre Machinery Co. 



THE MILLING MACHINE, TO CLEAN AND CLEAR THE FIBRE. 



requiring no skilled mechanic to work it, and 

 two good points in its favour are the extremely 

 small number of stoppages it necessitates, and 

 the low cost of repairs. 



Now we come to the spinning of the 

 ''combings," and to do this the fibre has to 



