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It will be noticed that the best results obtained in 1988 were s the 
rate of 120 pounds of dry ribbons per day of 10 hours. This was with 
the De Landtsheer small machine. In 1889 this machine, with i proves 
ribbons) the returns of dry ribbons would be at the rate of over half a 
ton per day. 
OTHER MACHINES AND PROCESSES. 
Before closing this report it is uae to pass under review a few of 
the machines and processes not represented at Paris which have recently 
h In the absence of 
ome into ice in 
carefully arranged public trials under the control of men thoroughly 
conversant with the subject, it must be understood that it is impossible 
to express an authoritative opinion as to the merits of such machines 
h r 
furnishing a more or less complete record of Ramie experiments which 
have been undertaken during the present year, and of affording infor- 
mation that otherwise would not be available to persons interested in 
the subject in India and the Colonies. 
Tar Dory SYSTEM. 
system -e Ca by Peng d Foster eof of the Doty 
light)” is based o e assumption sae ecorticating machine, 
however Leer will fully meet the seinen of Ramie 
planters, who are obliged, with the aid of ‘unskilled 1 labour, to deal with 
a large quantity of green Ramie stems within a short time. Captain 
Doty is of opinion that where labour is cheap women and children 
either to be reate 
tral factories or usines, firstly by a process of dirt and 
soeg y by chemical cleaning and washing to produce filasse 
y for spinning. 
“ Nothwithstanding,” says Captain Doty, “ the failures of all previous 
“ attempts to deal with this fibre by fermentation it is almost self 
* the problem. No mechanical process can will ever 
* eliminate the gum by which ee T are cemented together, and 
* without the elimination of the 1 the division and sub-division of 
* the fibres necessary to err dun a delieate filasse can never be 
* obtained." 
A trial of the Doty system recently took place near Rome, and a 
report thereon was prepared by Signor G. Trombetta, Secretary to the 
Italian Ministry of Agriculture, and published in the Bolletino di 
gummy substance in the Ramie ribbons is exposed by an acid fermenta- 
tion. The ribbons are first ‘of all tied up in bundles and som 
fermenting vats, where they remain for about a week. They are then 
taken out and washed. Afterwards they are boiled with. ines 
