Weicher*s Fibre Extracting Machine. 
This fibre extracting machine is constructed by 
J.J.Weieher, 108, Liberty street, New York. It is now on 
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trial in this country under Mr.Weicher*s supervision at 
the Carlton Works, Printing House Yard* Hackney Hoad, 
London, N.E. The chief interest at the present moment 
attached to the fibre machines is based on their capabili¬ 
ty to clean leaves of the Pi sal Hemp plant so largely 
planted at the Bahamas and elsewhere. This brief report Is 
therefore almost entirely confined to the treatment of 
leaves of this sort. 
Recently, accompanied by Sir Alfred Moloney, Governor 
of British Honduras, I accepted an Invitation to see the 
Weicher machine at work on Agave leaves obtained from the 
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Riviera. The leaves were those of Agave americana. They 
had been cut about a fortnight, and hence they were not 
in the best possible condition for being experimented upon. 
The Machine. The machine consists of a drum fitted 
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with beaters, and a feeding table mounted on an iron frame 
about 14i feet long and feet wide. The whole structure 
is of iron, fitted with beaters composed of a mixture of 
copper, 
