Actual cost of stalks of Ramie (in Spin), 100 pesetas per I 
and each machine decorticating 216 kilos. per day. i. 
Expenses. 
Pesetas c. 
4, me — of — - - - 432 00 
eae - «208 00 
psidéobn] Stoeb - - (4.3128 00 — 
Total ^ - 662 00 
Products. 
5 per cent. of extremities - c0 B0 
20 per cent. of decorticated vom or it kilos. 
of fibre 864 00 
57 per cent. of wood = J ai, BL 90 2 
10 per cent. of pellicles - < e i RE. 
9 per cent. of loss. 
. Total - - 953 50 
Total jams isa EUN E - 953 50 
Total expenses - - - - 662 00 
Clear profit - perday 291 50 
or 117,150 pesetas per annum of 300 etim of labour, which represent 
approximately 48 per cent. of the capita 
'The Favier machine has the advantage of extracting the fibre and 
making the threads elear of gum, for in the raw Ramie which comes 
from China and — there is so much gum that it is most diffi 
cleanse. These machines, as I said before, are not yet within the 
of agriculturists, pen of M. Favier being used by the i nven 
that of “= Billion having ses to dier don Spain 
