A NEW INDUSTRY.
Quite a valuable industry is now carried on in France in the utilisation of the different' kinds of feathers formerly treated as worthless, especially those obtained in plucking ducks, chickens, turkeys, and those of wild fowl and other birds killed as game. The plan pursued ' consists in trinring these, particularly the larger ones, off the stump, which may be , thrown away; the plumes being then made use of in the manufacture of a > feather cloth or blanknfc, which possessos the essential quality of being exceedingly light and at the same time very warm. The plumes which are separated from the stalk, are placed in a bag, closed tightly, and then subjected to rubbing between the' hands, as in washing clothes. In a few minutes the fibres are, by this means, separated from each other, and form a perfectly homogeneous and very light down, applicable by simplo operation to the production of quite a variety of
coverings and other household objects al a reasonable cost,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167A NEW INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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