This Gopál dealt in jute; and being a man of great daring, he speculated so successfully with Shám Babu's money that, within three or four years, he amassed a fortune of two lakhs (£13,333).

"I have started as a broker in jute and oil-seeds," was the reply.

I am sorry to say that my brother has lost heavily by speculating in jute and is, in fact, a ruined man.

The after-dressings succeeding best are those of slightly caustic and astringent agents, preferably in the form of a powder, and held in position by carbol-jute pads and linen bandages applied with a certain amount of pressure.

In addition, every important branch of this wide industry is liberally illustrated, and the description, although not severely technical, is sufficiently so to enable students, or those with no previous knowledge of the subject, to follow the operations intelligently, and to become more or less acquainted with the general routine of jute manufacture.

ASSORTING AND BALING JUTE FIBRE.

BREAKING UP THE SOIL OR "LADDERING" 3. PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF CROSS-SECTIONS OF A JUTE PLANT 4.

NATIVES CARRYING SMALL BALES OF JUTE FIBRE FROM BOAT TO PRESS-HOUSE 5.

ADJOINING JUTE SEEDS IN DUNDEE HARBOUR 7. HARBOUR PORTERS REMOVING BALES OF JUTE FROM VESSEL SHOWN IN FIG.

DRESSING MACHINE FOR PREPARING TWO WARPS SIMULTANEOUSLY 32, SIX DISTINCT KINDS OF TYPICAL JUTE FABRICS 33.

THE JUTE INDUSTRY FROM SEED TO FINISHED CLOTH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

Apart from the above-mentioned efforts, the introduction of the jute fibre into Great Britain was delayed until 1822, when the first small consignment reached Dundeenow the Western home of the jute industry.

At this period Dundee was a comparatively important textile centre in regard to the spinning and weaving of flax and hemp; it was, in consequence, only natural that the longer, but otherwise apparently similar and coarser, jute fibre should be submitted to the machinery in vogue for the preparation and spinning of flax and hemp.

When we say similar, we mean in general appearance; it is now well-known that there is a considerable difference between jute fibre and those of hemp and flax, and hence the modifications in preparation which had ultimately to be introduced to enable the jute fibre to be successfully treated.

When we say similar, we mean in general appearance; it is now well-known that there is a considerable difference between jute fibre and those of hemp and flax, and hence the modifications in preparation which had ultimately to be introduced to enable the jute fibre to be successfully treated.

Attention meanwhile had been directed to the possibility of manufacturing jute goods by machinery in Indiathe seat of the cultivation and growth of the fibre.

For several years before the war, the quantity of raw jute fibre brought to Dundee and other British ports amounted to 200,000 tons.

The growth of the jute industry in several parts of the world, and consequently its gradually increasing importance in regard to the production of yarns and cloth for various purposes, enables it to be ranked as one of the important industries in the textile group, and one which may perhaps attain a much more important position in the near future amongst our national manufacturing processes.

Other varieties are recorded, e.g. the Corchorus Japonicus of Japan, and the Corchorus Mompoxensis used in Panama for making a kind of tea, while one variety of jute plant is referred to in the book of job as the Jew's Mallow; this variety C. Olitorius, has been used in the East from time immemorial as a pot herb.

The above two varieties of the jute plant vary in height from 5 to 15 feet, and, in a normal season, reach maturity in about four months from the time of sowing.

In some districts the stems of jute plants are sometimes rather dark in colour, but, in general, they are green or pink, and straight with a tendency to branch.

While many attempts have been made to cultivate jute plants in various parts of the world, the results seem to indicate that the necessary conditions for the successful cultivation of them are completely fulfilled only in the Bengal area, and the geographical position of this province is mainly responsible for these conditions.

The rain and melted snow swell the two great rivers on the east and west of Bengalthe Patna and the Brahmaputraand the tremendous volume of water carries down decayed vegetable and animal matter which is ultimately spread on the flat areas of Bengal as alluvial deposits, and thus provides an ideal layer of soil for the propagation of the jute plants.

The cultivation of land for the growing of jute plants is most extensively conducted in the centres bordering on the courses of the rivers, and particularly in Mymensingh, Dacca, Hooghly and Pabna, and while 90 per cent.

1 where a field is being ploughed as a preliminary process in jute cultivation.