PAPER MANUFACTURE
VALUABLE DISCOVERY (Rec. April 29, 9.5 p.m.) New York, April 28. In view of Australian scientists’ search for an. Australian or New Zealand wood suitable for the manufacture of paper, an announcement of the United States forest product laboratories, from Afadison, Wisconsin, of the discovery that excellent and valuable paper pulp can be made from the milanthus tree is significant. Half a cord of milanthus wood was developed into high-grade book paper, also fit for use in the manufacture of lithographic and fine writing papers. The milanthus used was originally 'Drought from China into Pennsylvania and New York, whore it is rapidly becoming a weed and a menace, as in New Zealand. The laboratory officials indicate that milanthus should produce 25 tons of wood from each acre every three years.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 184, 30 April 1924, Page 7
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134PAPER MANUFACTURE Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 184, 30 April 1924, Page 7
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