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“...weight.
MACHINERY.
Preston says: The first farm I visited, Chenkj was
running six of DAeths fibre machines, or wheels 50 inches
in diameter, eight inch face and eight knives or scrapers, driven
by a No. 7281,10 horse power, Marshall, Sons & Co. s Stationary
Engine, and each wheel was cleaning the leaves at the rate of
20 to the minute, or 8000 per wheel for a days work; two
men at each wheel, standing between the wheel and rack
containing the leaves, feed the machines as fast as their hands
can move one boy, to two wheels supplies the feeders, and
three others carrying away the fibre to the drying ground
adjoining.
It is the most simple thing possible, requiring no skilled
labour. One fibre machine is required for every hundred acres
of plants.
Pg. 84. The engine is driven by an Indian. Many of the
engines are supplied by Brown & May, and the wheels are
all from DAeth & Allwood, Leicester.
The working hours at this farm were from 4 a.m. to 12
noon, or earlier, it the 8,000 leaves to each...”
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