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"The Villamore ee made by Krajewski i hig 35, Broad- 
way, New York; requires a 15-horse power engine a the services of 
two men and a boy. ie eanes 6,000 lbs. fibre per As of 10 hours. 
llars. 
. The Weicher machine, constructed by J. J. Weicher, 108, Liberty 
dw 
pe fo 
water on the fibre as it is being cleaned, and is claimed by “th e inventor 
to lose but 14 per cent. only, as the leaves are fed into the machine 
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of Brixton, England, requires a 3-horse power engine to drive it ata 
velocity of revolutions per minute, and washes the fibre when 
leaning * Weicher," the leaves are fed into the machine 
endwise. Capacity 250 lbs. [?] of dry fibre per day of urs 
With the exception of the E and Barraclough all the other 
machines are automatic; they rasp the pulp from the fibre on the s im 
principle as the Raspador. T heir wheels being smaller, require a veloc 
of 500 revolutions to the minute to give good results. Beyond Aio 
à greater number of leaves they do not appear to do better work, as the 
per-centage of loss is as great in the one as the other, and the fibre is 
equally as clean 
Engines and Boilers.—The engines used were from 6 to 80 horse 
power, manufaetured by Marshal and Son, London; Appleby Bros., 
London; Fawcett and Preston, Liverpool; Watts, Campbell & Co., 
Newar k, N.J.; H. M. Sciple, Corner 3rd and Arch Street, Philadelphia. 
The estates running GO to 80 horse power engines have two boilers, 
using them alternately every 15 days. 
ress.—Most of the small estates use small screw presses, baling fro 
3 to 8 bales daily. The large estates, baling 16 to 30 bales daily, use 
hydraulic presses, constructed by Appleby Bros., London, and Fawcett 
and Preston, Live erpool. 
Locomotive, "amway Rails, &c.—The locomotive cars are made o 
wood, 20 feet by 4 feet. The rails are of iron with gauge 3 feet, and 
sleepers of wood 2 feet apart. 
amway trucks are of iron or wood; they are 12 feet by 3 feet. 
Rails and - eepers of iron with gauge 2 feet 4 inches, and ron ta 
fee 
gne and tram cars with rails are ee by Charles 
Wood, Tides dk Works, Middlesbrough, Englan 
CULTIVATION OF THE ÁGAVES. 
= The Estates. —There are 200 Henequen estates in Yucatan, varying 
from 5 acres in extent, having a total number of 105 05,000 — 
acres under cultivation, employing 12,000 Indian labourers. 
‘The largest and best estates are on the rocky gravelly lands, and they 
e valued from 100,000 dollars to 500,000 dollars ad CERE, estate is 
managed by three principal men e attorney, the manag 
a 'The largest of dic employ locomotives for hauling in the 
crop from the fields, others using tramway trucks or carts drawn n by 
mules or oxen. 
stakes with less than 800 acres under cultivation erect one ea. 
for every 100 acres. Those of 1,000 acres use the large automatic 
machines. 

