In Chapter Four you read about it. Now here is The USDA’s Bulletin No. 404 to read for yourself. The following pages, reproduced from the original brochure, have been slightly abridged for the sake of brevity.

This bulletin is printed on paper manufactured from hemp hurds

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BULLETIN No. 404

Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry

WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief

PROFESSIONAL PAPER

Washington, D.C.

October 14, 1916

HEMP HURDS AS PAPER-MAKING MATERIAL

By LYSTER H. DEWEY, Botanist in Charge of Fiber-Plant Investigations, and

JASON L. MERRILL, Paper-Plant Chemist, Paper-Plant Investigations.

CONTENTS

	Page		Page
The production and handling of hemp hurds		The manufacture of paper from hemp hurds,
by Lyster H. Dewey:		by Jason L. Merrill:
What hemp hurds are	1	Introduction	7
Pith, wood, and fiber	2	Factors justifying an investigation of hemp hurds	8
Character of hurds affected by retting	2	Character of the material	11
Proportion of hurds to fiber and yield per acre	3	Character of the tests	12
Hurds available from machine-broken hemp	3	Operations involved in a test	13
Present uses of hemp hurds	4	Description of tests	16
Present supplies of hurds available	5	Comparison of tests and commercial practice	21
Bailing for shipment	5	Physical tests of the papers produced	24
Cost of bailing	5	Conclusions	25
Summary	6

In preparing the report on the manufacture of paper from hemp hurds it became eveident that a short discussion of the agricultural aspects of this material should be included in the publication. Such an article was prepared, therefore, and the two reports are here presented together.

THE PRODUCTION AND HANDLING OF HEMP HURDS.

By LESTER H. DEWEY, Botanist in Charge of Fiber-Plant Investigations

WHAT HEMP HURDS ARE.

The woody inner portion of the hemp stalk, broken into pieces and separated from the fiber in the processes of breaking and scutching, are called hemp hurds. These hurds correspond to shives in flax, but are much coarser and are usually softer in texture.

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