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Report of the Flax and hemp commission (1865)

United States. Dept. of Agriculture · [Washington · leaf 59

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rame, with gills on the middle under rolls, and with top rolls fitted likethe top rolls of the railhead, doubling the slivers at the draughts, which shouldnot exceed one inch into fom\ From the drawing frame the stock should bemade into condensed and untwisted roving on a Taunton speeder, arranged… … good yarn can be had from one as the other, it is indispensable that the framesshould have largo rings or flyers designed for coarse spinning only, as the kindof stock we are treating of cannot at present be made into liner yarn than num-bers ranging from six to ten, (cotton gauge,) and it is…

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