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)
  23.  Roll Winder for large rolls
  24.  Roll winding machine (from hanks)
  25.  Cop winding machine (Messrs.  Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd.)
  26.  Cop winding machine (Messrs Urquhart, Lindsay & Co., Ltd.)
  27.  A row of modern warping mills.
  28.  Power chain or warp linking machine
  29.  Winding-on or dry beaming machine
  30.  A modern yarn—­dressing machine with six steam-heated cylinders
  31.  Dressing machine for preparing two warps simultaneously
  32, six distinct kinds of typical jute fabrics
  33.  Point-paper designs showing weaves for various cloths.
  34.  Diagrammatic views of the structure of plain cloth
  35.  Weaving shed with belt-driven looms.
  36.  Looms driven with individual motors
  37.  Bobby loom
  38.  Brussels and Wilton carpet loom
  39.  The old way
  40.  The new way
  41.  Cropping machine at work
  42.  Double cropping machine
  43.  Damping machine
  44.  Calender
  45.  Hydraulic mangle
  46.  Folding, Lapping or PLEATING machine
  47.  Crisping, creasing or rigging machine
  48, semi-mechanical bag or sack cutting machine
  49.  Overhead (Laing) sack sewing machine.
  50.  Sack printing machine.

THE JUTE INDUSTRY

FROM SEED TO FINISHED CLOTH

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY