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Show Sisal 'Good Neighbor' Product Sisal, the fiber made from the henequen plant of Yucatan, touches upon the life of every American. For most wrapping twine around the mail or express package we get is sisnl-madc. And the bread we cat was made from flour made from wheat bound up in the field with sisal twine, for American farmers have never found an acceptable substitute. IT or, with its increased demand for wire and steel products, has forced tirine and rope into new roles of importance, thus creating for sisal the greatest demand in history. f 'A : V , vV; x ; A big sliip unloads 10,000 bales of Yucatan's "green gold," as sisal is known, in the Port of New Orleans, to be converted into binder twine for the nation's "breadbasket." ti. i' 'IiM ii.f Left: A bale of sisal has just been opened in a New Orleans rope factory, and the strands are being fed into a breaker machine. Right: These long, golden strands are about to become yarn. I'-.' -st". cV . fxA i ' ' " u Tis machine is a preliminary processor, which cards out the fibers and lays them parallel to each other. " 'I . - . '. 6 - ir y " ' I Now in yarn form, rolled on bobbins, the sisal is being spun into a small ball of rope by the girl at the machine. Coils of finished rope marie from sisal are about to begin their journey to the far corners of the country. -. . . ; "A,t . - . . i " ' p . - - - i f i iiM ;- - - v -r r.i.A., a |
