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Show FABRICS PROM WASTE PLANTS. Sotantlate Look for Important Com-merclal Com-merclal Possibilities. Scientists in many fands have been gllvng an Increasing amount of attention atten-tion to tho probldm of producing from the plant world substitutes for the fibers and fabrics now generally In use. To find a new cotton plant or a new fax straw or a fiber which shall toko tho place of wool or silk, or to put among commercial possibilities a new material from which to manufacture manufac-ture fine paper, ore among the alms. Four Inventors have recently reached what they claim to be success, each In his own particular search, and descriptions de-scriptions or their products showing how widely varying results are being attained are printed in the Technical World Magazine. Prom ramie, a ncttlo which came originally from China, but which grows well In various countries, it made n fiber which rivals cotton fot usefulness, and has some of .the beauties of silk. From the htiRe cactus cac-tus leaves of our1 American deserts a kind of fabric called cactus-leather l manufactured, which while not a substitute sub-stitute for cowhide Is useful for many of the purposes for which genuine leather is used. Pine needles are also being made to furnish a fiber which Iwb qualities of usefulness In cloth-making, cloth-making, even clothing being successfully success-fully manufactured from It. And, finally, the Guaytile shrub has been found to contain rubber to an ex-tont ex-tont which makes It commercially worth fanning. |