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the Sisal Hemp plant or Henequen, An account of one of these 
mac hines, known as the Weicher Fibre Extracting Machine, now on 
~ in this country, is given in the last article. Another machine 
ntioned was the Prieto machine. Of this Captain soar Stuart 
aro the following brief particulars :—“ The Prieto machine is manu- 
“ factured by Puig and Ne egre, giorno pra It requires 16 horse- 
“ power engine and the services of t en and a boy. Capacity, 
ollars. 
following letter received from the makers of this machine, it will be 
noticed that they claim that the machine will clean 1 aoe -A 
Thes 
that are not based on actual trial. In fact, it is impossible to attach 
any value whatever to such figures unless they are checked by some one 
having a oe knowledge of the subject and perfectly unbiassed in 
his judgmen 
[ Translation. } 
Señor ROMAN ROMANO to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Calle Fontanella 10, ee 
DEAR tam November “12, 1892. 
PUIG AND NEGRE have sent us the grini report by 
Captain E Jerome Stuart, of the Bahamas, as well as your favour of 
the 2nd instant. 
These pone meres were the first makers of our Sere nie for extracting 
fibre of Sisal and Henequen, but afterwards we set up in this city our 
works for making them, having already sent about 40 eas) ines, “ Prieto 
Hermanos” system, “to the State of Merida de Yucatan (Mexico), 
where they are working perfectly with favourable results for the farmers 
who purchased them 
We have no photographs or drawings to send to you, but we forward 
an account of the wo siy ip does compared to the old grating wheels, 
power required, and of the machine here for cas 
Hoping that this information will be useful to you for the Henequen 
plantations in the Baha 
n, &e. 
Ir 
(for komaso EPORA Y PRETO) 
D. Morris, Esq., F.L.S. ROMAN ROMANO. 
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of the difference between 12 of the present 
SCRAPING WHEELS So and the LA VENCEDORA MACHINE, 
system “ PRIETO HERMAN 
People saat in 10 hours’ work. 
La Vencedora. 12 Raspadoras. 
for the feeder 20 scrapers (men). 
» Carrying leaves. 7 carriers of leaves. 
» receiving the fibre. 
» Carrying it to drying room. : B88 a carry to drying room. 
» Collecting the waste. o collect waste. 
total people employed. 38 total people employed. 
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ic difference in favour of the La Vencedora machine is therefore 
men, 
