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or about 4s. per day for each machine; and for, say, > HAN kilos. of 
dry stalks the proportional out-turn would be as follow 
50 kilos of extremities, or 5 per cent. of the wits weight. 
190 kilos. of an; or 20 per cent. of the whole weight. 
570 kilos. of wo 
100 kilos. A pellicles, and 
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90 kilos. 
Yet the wood, extremities, and pellicles may all be utilized. 
ing the working o f 20 of Favier’s machines, which would require 
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sereis 10 horse-power of steam, the expenses and profits result as 
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Cost of i installation, 120,000 pesetas, or francs, each machine costing 
6,000 fr., with the eee: capital of 60,000 fr 
Actual cost of stalks of Ramie (in Spain), 100 pesetas per 1,000 kilos ; 
each machine decorticates 216 kilos. per day 
Expenses. 
Pesetas c 
4,320 kilos. of stalks - - - - 432 00 
7 é “ $ - - 108 00 
Incidental expenses - - - - 122 00 
Total - - - 662 00 
Products. 
5 per cent. of extremities 10 80 
mepe cent. of sitsaiaieatie stalks, or 864 kilos 
f fibre 4 00 
57 per cent. of wood - = - 50 
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10 per cent. of pellicles - - - he 
9 per cent, of loss. 
Total - ~ - 953. 50 
Total products - - - ~ - 953. 50 
Total expenses - - - - - 662 00 
Clear profit - perday 291 50 
or 117,150 pesetas per annum of 300 ho of labour, which represent 
approximately 48 per cent. of the capita 
vier machine has the advantage of extracting the fibre and 
making the threads clear of gum, for in the raw Ramie which comes 
from China amg India there is so much gum that it is most difficult to 
cleanse. These machines, as I said before, are not yet within the reach 
of saviculteiets. 7 that of M. Favier being used = the inventor, and 
that of M. Billion having ceased to work in ici 
(Signed) poe WOOLDRIDGE. 
—RAMIE—(continued), 
[K. B., 1888, pp. 273-280.) 
The subject of the atiliention of the Ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea, 
Hk. & Arn.) is one which has been closely followed at Kew for many 
