Cellulose from wood pulp is now made into a large variety
of useful articles of which a few examples are here
pictured 121

Plantation rubber 160

Forest rubber 160

In making garden hose the rubber is formed into a tube
by the machine on the right and coiled on the table
to the left 161

The rival sugars 176

Interior of a sugar mill showing the machinery for crushing
cane to extract the juice 177

Vacuum pans of the American Sugar Refinery Company 177

Cotton seed oil as it is squeezed from the seed
by the presses 200

Cotton seed oil as it comes from the compressors flowing
out of the faucets 201

Splitting coconuts on the island of Tahiti 216

The electric current passing through salt water in these
cells decomposes the salt into caustic soda and