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Summary of Contents:—Mechanical Cultivation or Tillage of the Soil.—Plucking or Gathering the Leaf.—Tea Factories.—The Dressing, Manufacture, or Preparation of Tea by Mechanical Means.—Artificial Withering of the Leaf.—Machines for Rolling or Curling the Leaf.—Fermenting Process.—Machines for the Automatic Drying or Firing of the Leaf.—Machines for Non-Automatic Drying or Firing of the Leaf.—Drying or Firing Machines.—Breaking or Cutting, and Sorting Machines.—Packing the Tea.—Means of Transport on Tea Plantations.—Miscellaneous Machinery and Apparatus.—Final Treatment of the Tea.—Tables and Memoranda.
“The subject of tea machinery is now one of the first interest to a large class of people, to whom we strongly commend the volume.”—Chamber of Commerce Journal.
“When tea planting was first introduced into the British possessions little, if any, machinery was employed, but now its use is almost universal. This volume contains a very full account of the machinery necessary for the proper outfit of a factory, and also a description of the processes best carried out by this machinery.”—Journal Society of Arts.
FLOUR MANUFACTURE.
A Treatise on Milling Science and Practice. By Friedrich Kick, Imperial Regierungsrath, Professor of Mechanical Technology in the Imperial German Polytechnic Institute, Prague. Translated from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement. By H. H. P. Powles, Assoc. Memb. Institution of Civil Engineers. Nearly 400 pp. Illustrated with 28 Folding Plates, and 167 Woodcuts. Royal 8vo, cloth
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“This valuable work is, and will remain, the standard authority on the science of milling.... The miller who has read and digested this work will have laid the foundation, so to speak, of a successful career; he will have acquired a number of general principles which he can proceed to apply. In this handsome volume we at last have the accepted text-book of modern milling in good, sound English, which has little, if any, trace of the German idiom.”—The Miller.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
A Manual of Practical Instruction of the Processes of Opening, Carding, Combing, Drawing, Doubling and Spinning of Cotton, the Methods of Dyeing, &c. For the Use of Operatives, Overlookers, and Manufacturers. By John Lister, Technical Instructor, Pendleton. 8vo, cloth