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The bormi proceeds to state that dn 
“ The first operation is to sift the dist in and reject all the sand and 
taken to be winnowed, and this o eT ae is repeated until it has all 
been sifted to the requisite degree of fineness. ree sizes are 
duced, the coarser ones being E UN to constitute the brick, while | . 
the finest dust is only used as a facing. The dust having been properly — j 
sifted the next step is to prepare it for pressing, and this is si 
exposing it to the action of steam for three minutes, and it is this e 
steaming that pie re tea of its scent and flavour, and for vidis "t 
remedy i Is eager] 
“ The old fern native apparatus consists of six iron boilers 
by charcoal and having spaces above, which are fitted with rattan covers. 
When the dust is to be steamed it is spread out on a sheet of co tton. 
dierum wedged down. It is then pres p 
or Msc to cool. Each brick Kouli weigh one catty rd By 
d all thone that do not come - to the proper standard of weight or 
stones moved by a horizontal wooden bar and working in a o 
where the condemned bricks are thrown, and crushed as the wheels pass 
over them. Having again become dust, the operation already described. 
is in all its details repeated. The ha nd press turns out 
day with 25 per cent. failure bricks, while the stream press ger rt 
baskets a bed with only five per cent. of bad work, and the saving by | 
inery amounts to one e tael oc abo 
60 baskets a 
bricks are prepared entirely by steam machin vid oe 
by * The egi tea facris it their bovis Are e or TE 
