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Show Human Hair Strain. Oil; Other Kinds Also Useful Human hair, able to with-atanT. with-atanT. Pressure of si ton. per Square inch. ha. an Important place to American industry, declare, a writer in the Washington Star. Tactically .11 the cottonseed oil used for culinary purposes is gained through pres. cloth made to cottonseed oil mills a meat- fl Srough the cloth. The product UpSdintoasetUingtankandaent t0eeof'hair cloth for wrapping extracted by pressure comes down from olden times. For many years, long-flbered goat hair and wool were used. Afterward, European manufacturers learned that the Asiatic camel hair was better on account of its length and stretching qualities and adapted it The camel'. - hair cloth wa. the first press cloth used in the United States. In 1906 the Boxer Rebellion in China almost cut off the .upply of raw material, and manufacturers were compelled to resort to goat hair, llama hair, cow tails, horse tails, cotton, and. finally, human hair. The Oriental disturbances which cut off the supply of camel hair provided a source of almost unlimited un-limited supply of raw material tor the manufacture of the new type of press cloth. After overthrowing the Manchu dynasty, the Chinamen proclaimed pro-claimed their new-found liberty by j cutting off their queues. |