THE CUBA REVIEW 



of the weight of the cane he dehvers at 

 the mill, in sugar, or, in other words, about 

 half of the sugar produced from his cane, 



as in round numbers it is generally con- 

 sidered that the result in sugar is 10 per 

 cent of the weight of the cane. 



Ilenequen leaves being delivered at the mill. 



The Henequen Industry 



Raffloer, Erbsloh & Co. of Havana have 

 erected a large stone cordage plant at Ma- 

 tanzas, where the firm has 2,600 acres de- 

 voted to the cultivation of henequen, the 

 raw material. 



The process of defibering the great spiny 

 leaves is as follows : They are fed into 

 the machinery sideways and first pass 

 through two corrugated rollers or man- 

 glers ; then between two large protected 



wheels, having a series of knives, which 

 strips the pulp from the ends. They are 

 then conveyed to another cylinder which 

 removes the pulp from the central part of 

 the leaf, and the fibre issues clean and 

 white, with all the pulp removed. From 

 the time when the leaf enters the machin- 

 ery to the time it emerges as fibre, probably 

 not more than twenty seconds are con- 

 sumed, and a continuous stream of the fibre 

 is being carried to the drying racks by the 

 men waiting for it. 



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