486 USES OF WOOD PULP. 



true to the extent claimed or not, I have not been able to verify; but 

 I do know that the forests are cultivated upon well-defined principles 

 all over Germany, this being a business in itself. 



The way of treating the spruce for manufacturing cellulose is as 

 follows: 



The wood, after the bark and branches have been removed, is cut 

 into small pieces and subjected to treatment with a sulphite liquor 

 under pressure in large iron digesters. The adherent liquor, which 

 contains all the incrusting matters in solution, is then washed out 

 and the cleansed fibers mashed in beating engines to insure complete 

 purification. The resulting mass, cellulose, is packed or pressed 

 into the most suitable form for transportation. For the fine quali- 

 ties of paper, the cellulose is bleached, and when lint or gunpowder 

 is to be made it is prepared chemically pure and free from gummy 

 matters. Cheap wrapping paper is made from the knots and waste 

 wood, the latter often being made by the same mill. 



Probably, the largest manufacturers of this cellulose in the world 

 are located at Waldhof bei Mannheim, Germany the "Zellstoff- 

 fabrik. " Their sulphite mill has an output of 140 tons of dry pulp 

 daily, and after the completion of another factory, now being built 

 in Russia, this company will have a total output of 200 tons of dry 

 pulp daily. In answer to my question as to exports to the United 

 States, they say: 



In former years, we sent a good deal of our pulp to the United States, but in 

 the last two years the exportation to your country has fallen off heavily. Now, 

 we export very little pulp to the United States, and only the finer qualities, these 

 not being made there. 



Another large cellulose-manufacturing concern is that of Richard 

 Wolf, Schwarzu, on Saalebahn. 



Two prominent manufacturers of wood-pulp articles are Gebrue- 

 der Adt, Forbach, Lorraine, and Com. Rath. Harras, Boehlen, 

 Thuringia. 



VERNE E. JOY, 



SONNEBURG, November 22, 1898. Consular Agent. 



STUTTGART. 



There are only three factories of wood pulp in this consular dis- 

 trict, viz: 



(1) The Papier und Zellstoff Fabriken (joint-stock company), in 

 Unterkochen. 



(2) The Simonius'sche Cellulose Fabriken, in Wangen, Allgau. 



(3) The Papier, Cellulose und Holzstoff Fabrik, in Baienfurt. 

 The first informs me that what is known in America as chemically 



