tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

• FIG.
• 1. NATIVES PLOUGHING THE GROUND
• 2. BREAKING UP THE SOIL OR "LADDERING"
• 3. PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF CROSS-SECTIONS OF A JUTE PLANT
• 4. NATIVES CARRYING SMALL BALES OF JUTE FIBRE
• FROM BOAT TO PRESS-HOUSE
• 5. NATIVES BAILING JUTE FIBRE IN A
• WATSON-FAWCETT CYCLONE PRESS
• 6. VESSEL LADEN WITH JUTE AT QUAY-SIDE
• ADJOINING JUTE SEEDS IN DUNDEE HARBOUR
• 7. HARBOUR PORTERS REMOVING BALES OF JUTE
• FROM VESSEL SHOWN IN FIG. 6
• 8. BALE OPENER (MESSRS. URQUHART, LINDSAY & CO., LTD.)
• 9. BALE OPENER (MESSRS. CHARLES PARKER, SONS & CO., LTD)
• 10. HAND-BATCHING DEPARTMENT WITH UNPREPARED
• AND PREPARED FIBRE
• 11. SOFTENING MACHINE WITHOUT BATCHING APPARATUS
• 12. BATCHING APPARATUS
• 13. SOFTENING MACHINE WITH BATCHING APPARATUS
• 14. MODERN BREAKER CARD
• 15. FINISHER CARD WITH DRAWING HEAD
• 16. WASTE TEAZER
• 17. PUSH-BAR DRAWING FRAME
• 18. ROVING FRAME
• 19. FAIRBAIRN'S ROVING FRAME IN WORK
• 20. AN INDIAN SPINNING FLAT
• 21. A LINE OF SPINNING FRAMES
• 22. BOBBIN WINDING MACHINE (FROM HANKS)