ited States entitles it to consideration as one of the stand of plants, uniform in size, for it is well-nigh most interesting of the nation’s newer fields of activ- impossible to make good fiber from a mixture of staiks It is a slow process, requiring skill as wellas str@gth, of various sizes. ity.… … proved and the breaking and cleaning ren- PISTILLATE PLANT, SMYRNA TYPE. dered easier by a process of sweating or fer- mentation which the stalks undergo when in to fifteen feet, and when cultivated for fiber produces stack. only a few small branches near the top of the slender An essential process…
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