ECONOMIES IN HEMP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 2

ECONOMIES IN HEMP.

A NEW MACHINE. y MAY. REVOLUTIONISE PRESENT " ; METHODS. It wa& natural that the recent Ecare period through: which the hemp industry lias , passed 1 should direct the minds of the most progres-., sive millers to a . search for ways to economise. Mr. Seifert may be - classed" among '. these,' and his search took him to. Auckland," where apparently:lio has found a prize.'.' " Our 'Manawatir correspondent telegraphs . ' that Mr. A. Seifert, -who lias just'returned . froiu stated ]that ho visited- Messrs. Suttie Bros.'.flaxinill at Waharoa, where.a ' ,new.'mhcWne' for , treating the flax is'.being Rested :m' a most' exhaustive; manner.' ; Tho machine ! is .Messrs. Suttie Bros.' own. invention, and has been in use in their mill for a' number of years. So. far, it is- claimed that it has gjven every satisfaction. _ It combines a stripping and ; washing machine, the fibre ' . being caught on a travelling rope. as soon as it leaves the stripper and taken to, thewashing machine, from which it is put into a shuttle. It is claimed for tho machine that ;it : effects a great saving, and that tho fibre does not need to be picked in the ordinary way. All that is necessary is to put it out ' on tho lines,and dry it, and it can be.taken .in on.the clay following. , This in itstelf is a considerable advantage, especially to millers whoso paddocks are subject to floods.'. Under the present conditions the fibre has sometimes to bo: left in. the paddock for fourteen 'or fifteen days, and if a flood occurs during that time tho, Ices niay easily run into huh- " .dreds 'of pounds. It is also clAinied for tho machine that by ( its usp it'is possible to,put out a moro even quality of fibre, and that it takes less raw material to turn out i ton'of fibro than under the ordinary, process. Mr. Seifert contemplates', installing -'one or two similar machines at Miranui. •