273 
centimes per kilo. (about 85 shillings per ton). In Tonkin it could be 
done for even less than this 
It will be noticed that the Fleury-Moriceau process follows somewhat. 
on similar lines to that of the Favier process of 1882. In this latter 
the stems were steamed for some time in a close fitting cylinder. The 
former is, however, gon iit. and requires absolutely no skilled 
labour, nor any plant e idt an open tank, large or small, according: to 
the circumstances of the grower. 
The inventors of the Fleury-Moriceau process are evidently of 
opinion that wherever cheap labour is obtainable it is in every way 
preferable, in the production of Ramie 4 mo „to the best machine, 
After all, placing the Ramie s ili nly 
the old retting process practised so long b» the Chinese, and by means of 
which probably the China grass of commerce is still uced. In any 
case the Fleury-Moriceau proces sirve s to be artfully considered, 
and especially in its applicability t the behind ces of India. There the 
ryots might grow Ramie in small areas, prepare the ribbons and sell 
hem to Mer ned for export, or to a neighbouring factory or usine. 
The steaming process of M. Favier, designed for use under similar cir- 
Wofür "filled no doubt on account of the restrictions laced on the 
eareful consideration wherever labour is sufficiently Seine to perinit 
of ribbons vid produced at a price that will compete with machine- 
cleaned ri 
The siete value of the several machines, and of the Fleury- 
Moriceau process, tried at Paris in 1889, may be gathered from the 
following tables :— 
TABLE 1.—Frast Series of TRriars. Green stems, without leaves. 
Weight y Dy Sie 
Machin aa = of Green| Time ha Hla produci 
A o Stems. |employed. > in a day of 
employed. (Kilos.) produced binii 
$ (Kilos.) (pounds 
Avoir.).* 
Armand-Barbier - 2 10 6m 1:300 96 
Favier (No. 1) - 2 10 4} m. 2:820 216 
Michotte  - - 2 7 1m 1*000 TB 
De Landtsheer (large 2 36 2} m 10*000 763} 
machine). 
Fleury-Moriceau pro- 2 18 46 m 51600 161 
cess. 
* In preparing this estimate the wet ribbons are calculated to yield one-third of 
their era of dry ribbons, and the kilo. is taken as equivalent to 2*204 pounds 
+ "This large yield of ribbons must be reduced about 20 per cent. on account of 
the pith and wood lightly adhering to them. 
