Show NEW iv TREATMENT Fort FOR RAMIE FOUND Quick Q Process for ming Plant Discovered The problem of ot ramie fibre rapidly and In commercial quantities a athing athing athing thing which has defied the best efforts of inventors for a long time appears to have been solved according to Consul Rose E. E E Holaday who is at Manchester For some time a quick and cheap method method meth math I od has been sought by British experts In the hope of finding find lUg in ramie or China grass an important auxiliary I material for the British cottO goods in in- in Mr Holaday has forwarded to toI the bureau of foreign and domestic com corn commerce commerce I merce an excerpt from the Manchester Guardian which describes the uses to which ramie by the new process process process pro pro- cess has been put The excerpt shows that In addition to having been found very acceptable as a surgical dressing ramie has been been I spun into yarn that is described as asand lustrous and surprisingly strong and durable The Inventor of the process claims that this yarn can be used in the manufacture of a range of fabrics in which these qualities are I requisite Of the itself the excerpt ex excerpt ex- ex from the Guardian has this to say In part 1 The Tho other day In n the cO course of a a ge gea de demonstration est I n given to a Manchester Guardian representative he the in inventor inventor In- In 1 produced a completely deI de- de gummed and bl bleached ached fibre in less than I If his claim that t the me process Jiu cao two iwu hours UV 11 1110 t S two iwu UV 11 1110 t i dc does s not t dest destroy y th the nature tur iJ t of r the the I fibre can be substantiated it is manifestly manifestly mani mani- toward the solution of festl a long step the whole problem Moreover he claims mani-I mani that his method Is equally as aa effective with the tho lower grades as with the high high- er Among the difficulties that are faced I in preparing r c Consul ramie f If Holaday fibre a for riS is spinning sf the ni fact i iI that the bark must be removed by hand I After he asserts the gum still remains to be extracted The im imI importance im- im of this process can be gau gauged ed from the fact that the best grades contain contain con con- I tam tain 10 it per cent and the lower grades 15 to 22 per cent of resin |