Show SHORTAGE IN INDIAN JUTE CROP MAY SEND PRICES UP production of gunny sacking anc burlap limited to small section of india washington the malay rubber ball having bounced its highest leap in the stock exchange according to reports jute another english product s mating a bid for rubbers place in public attention A shortage in the indian jute crop mav hae the un result 0 requiring america to spend on increased costs ot potatoes cotton shirts linoleum and the money it expects to save athla spring at the automobile tire agency says a bulletin from the headquarters of the national geographic society the emergency probably will braug the word jute into commoner usage in the united states this immigrant from india has been trav ellae alto up and down our land as gunny sack and burlap jute Is more a resource than a product mature has put jute in one place almost in the ienner she re anthracite coal to a tiny pocket of pennsylvania or cached iron ore north a european Euro pein war debt in the masaba mesaba district of minnesota india can no more help being the sole large producer of gunny sacking and bur lap than colombia can help being the worlds chief producer of emeralds jute Is a plant and not a mineral but successful production of it seems to be limited to the double delta of the ganges and the alv ers since the state of bengal en compasses the delta it has become famous for jute as well as tigers although jute Is constantly pa ing new work to do in ameika it will never acquire the myriad of uses as signed to it in india there it Is string and rope a baglole net or wood or hay on bullocks a stuff or tying cotton and cloth bales a ham mock for the baby a swinging shelf rug brush underwear bal and stage hair incense stick a muzzle tor cattle etc america Is most familiar with it in the guise of gunny sacks for carrying innumerable things to mar let the south goes half way around the earth for jute a fiber to wrap an kotlier fiber cotton in bales for mar let jute Is alie base for linoleum in the litchen aad very often the rug in the dining room it Is the dounda alon of upholstery and auto tops natives datives da tives sow jute seed in april the favorite location Is an alluvial sand baal the fate of a flood hangs over the crop in the early stages but later it can withstand very heavy water in august plants are cut tied in bundles and anchored in creeks soon the bark Is sufficiently rotted and the fibers loosened native workers laboring knee deep in the streams strip each piece with a peculiar swift movement the dry shredded fibers go in bales to calcutta the main market |