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The [official] nome which have been asked for will probably not 
appear, so I hear from Mr. Berger, till some time next een 
Ih 
(Signed) sie e CROWE. 
[Enclosure.] 
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, 1889. 
Concours de Décortiqueurs pour la Ramie. 
First Prizes. 
A. Favier, Société la fe: Se a 14, Rue Saint-Fiacre, Paris 
[tor machines for treating Ramie stems 
Norbert de Landtsheer, 2; Place des Batignolles Paris [for machine 
for treating Ramie stems]. 
Second Prize. 
Ch. Crozat de Fleury et A. Moriceau, Villiers-le-Bel, Seine-et-Oise 
{for process for the treatment of green Ramie stems in the fie eld]. 
In regard to M. Favier’ P. eae which were awarded a first prize 
for cleaning green Ramie ms, this g entleman, well known ving 
evoted during the last 10 acca much time and henuda = the develop- 
ment o mie industry in France, Spain, and other countries, has 
forwarded her particulars of his machines to omeni those 
already given in Mr. Morris’s Report :— 
M. FAVIER TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Paris, 14, Rue Saint-Fiacre, 
SIR, llth November 1889. 
VE duly received a copy of the Kew Bulletin of miscel- 
laneous ee mation, which you have been good enough to send me, and 
I beg to thank you for the complimen 
Sin oade trials upon which you have reported I have added some 
mere ents to my machine, es prevent the ribbons from — en- 
pot Pe aos rollers, and on the 23rd October I carried out further 
an aca in the presence of numerous people pisos in the 
sud) 
passed through my machine, with two workmen, 100 kilos. of green 
stems, more or less with leaves, in 12 minutes. This is equivalent to 
5,000 kilos. of green stems (a and assuming the rate of yield at 5 per cent. 
of dry akae) to about 550 pounds (avoir.) of dry ribbons per day of 
900 kilos. of green stems, and 
give a noan equivalent to 775 pounds (avoir.) of dry ribbons per day 
of 10 h he ribbons, as you saw at Paris, are perfectly free from 
pith Prg 
The intricate nature of my machines to which you allude is only 
apparent. ey a Paco! of psig ge of similar parts of crushers 
and rollers, weighing 10 or 12 kilos, each, so arranged that they can be 
easily taken in and out. e work of putting up these machines is very 
simple, and they can be easily regulated by anyone. 
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