The quantity is likely to increase as the use of machine brakes
increases.

The hurds may be baled in hemp-fiber presses, with partial burlap covers
like those on cotton bales, or possibly chip-board covers.

It is estimated that the farmers may deliver the bales on board cars
profitably at $4 to $6 per ton.





THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER FROM HEMP HURDS.

By JASON L. MERRILL, _Paper-Plant Chemist, Paper-Plant Investigations_.


=INTRODUCTION.=

The purpose of this paper is to report upon preliminary tests which were
conducted to determine the paper-making value of hemp hurds, a crop
waste of the hemp-fiber industry.

The search for plant materials capable of being utilized in paper
manufacture is a comparatively recent but world-wide activity which has
for its object the husbanding of present sources of paper-stock supply
by the substitution of new materials for some of those which are rapidly
becoming less plentiful and more costly.