UNSATISFATORY SCUTCHING

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 22 June 1912, Page 18

UNSATISFATORY SCUTCHING

QUANTITY BATHER THAN QUA!,ITT,

■Unsatisfactory work in scutching "isViV continual weakness in the milling tr.Mic, . says a Government expert. This brarieiiKof the work is invariably d.cno under tlio contract system,\ and tlio tendency is So aim at quantity rather than quality.\OhoVr? result-of poor scutching, and the c-d:isc- ; quent bad tail of (lis hanks, is' that, cor-'.;,"■ dage iiianufactiirers exporienea - great •' trouble in spinning,, owing to.. t!:o . pre- • i.sence'of-'.kn-otsfor .-,"toiv-bsils'.'vJtiit'liei?iVn-V 'properly;treated:tails!'S.Tlie : -t;;il:<j£? • 1 ho', hank, it'may be explained;' is the-'tip's of. the'leaves.'-. As this part is filler, than .(haJ;:'' .body of the blade, there Js; .naturally * tendency for, it; to pass lUroAi-aly: tlio : ; .strip-;-per without being.'treated; Tho'-'properiySA treated portion of 'tlio leaf bleaches' nioro'jv"" rapidly than - the ■ poorly stripped ' tip?;*-;';':': which as a result cannot be. effectively "scutched. The waste matter' from tlio hanks being thus held together by. tkn '• rough tails forms into tt knotty mass, or "tow-balls."- Tlio only way to remedy V:'.,' the defect is for millers to place hackle-! on the beaters of tlio Fcutehcr, or clip tlio tails off the hanks before removing from tlie'field, ns some millers arc doing with'.. great advantage to their fibre, Buyers -i'-r: complained bitterly last year of this weak- %:'i ness, which is having a' detrimental ef. : feet on the sales of Now Zealand hemp. . '