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s machine in its present state possesses no merit whatever. It is 
dion to realise under what circumstances it could have been entered 
for trial. 
DE LANDTSHEER MACHINES. 
M. de Landtsheer exhibited tw rien The small machine was 
very similar to that exhibited + him in 1888, but meanwhile it had 
received some slight heditieasion rites to accelerate its movements. 
It was driven by steam power and required two men toattend to it. It 
about five-sevenths of their length, and by a reverse action (operated by 
a long handle pushed by the workman) they were then withdrawn and 
the other ends put in and cleaned. It will be noticed that each lot of 
stems, under this arrangement, had to be presented twice to the machine 
before they were cleaned. This involved a considerable loss of time and 
reduced the daily out-turn of ribbons. Inthe Favier machine, as also in 
the de rv. ig es large machine, this difficulty has in a great measure 
been overcome. The de tandike small machine was used for green 
stems in the fecond trials only. In these 24:400 kilos. of stems, with 
leaves, were passed through the machine in 10 minutes. The yield was 
6:500 kilos. of wet ribbons of good quality. This would be at the rate 
of 390 kilos. of wet ribbons Per day of 10 hours ; or 286 pounds (avoir.) 
of ay ribbons for the same period. 
In the first trials this hee was used by de Landtsheer to complete 
the sewed of ribbons previously passed through the large machine 
In this instance 15 kilos. of partially cleaned and wet ribbons were 
i min The 
Sse te . 
of excellent fibre worth, according to the opinion of experts, about 70 to 
80 centimes per kilo. 
The large machine of M. de Landtsheer, like the Favier machines, 
Aiak se ready for drying. kas isan important point gain ned. Indeed 
this the principal impro t noticed in the machines preseuted at 
the Paris trials of 1889, and in all in which it had been adopted there 
was a marked increase in the out- turn of ribbons. M. de ei s 
side, 
weight and price of this new machine were not le It was 
ven by a two-horse power engine, and required two men to feed it 
and remove the ribbo 
In the first trial, 36 kilos. of stems without Aari ae? passed through 
the machine in 24 minutes. They yielded 10 k of wet ribbons, 
but these ribbons had a e TERS ANE of arg and wood lightly 
adhering to them, and in one instance the amount of wood and pi 
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