presented in Table I in all essential detail.

TABLE I.--Data on cooking hemp hurds.

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| | | | |
| | | | Cooking | Yield of
| Caustic |Strength of | | | bone-dry
| soda used |caustic soda|Causticity+--------+-----------+ fiber
Cook |(percentage| (grams per | of soda | | |(percentage
No. |of bone-dry| liter). | solution.| Time |Temperature|of bone-dry
| hurds). | | |(hours).| ( deg.C.) | unsieved
| | | | | | hurds).
------+-----------+------------+----------+--------+-----------+-----------
293 | 20.6| 100 | 75.3| 3| 166|
294 | 21 | 100 | 75.3| 3| 166|
295 | 21.6| 100 | 75.3| 3| 166|
296 | 20.3| 100 | 75.3| 3| 166|
301 | 21.9| 100 | 82.5| 4| 166| [3]
302 | 24.4| 100 | 82.5| 4| 166|
303 | 24.2| 100 | 84.3| 4| 166| 44.1
304 | 25 | 100 | 84.3| 4| 170| 39.5
305 | 25 | 100 | 84.3| 5| 170| 39.4
306 | 27.8| 107.5| 84.3| 4| 166| 36.5
307 | 26.7| 107 | 84.4| 5| 170| 38.1
308 | 26 | 107 | 84.4| 5| 170|\_ 37.3
309 | 27.3| 107 | 84.4| 5| 170|/
310 | 27.1| 107 | 84.4| 6| 170| 37.0
311 | 27.2| 107 | 84.4| 6| 170| 36.8
312 | 28.3| 116.5| 85.5| 5| 170| 35.9
313 | 29.1| 113.1| 84.9| 5| 170|\_ 35.2
314 | 29.1| 109 | 83.9| 5| 170|/
315 | 29.4| 109 | 83.9| 5| 170| 34.9
316 | 30 | 109.5| 84.9| 5| 170| 37.2
317 | 29.6| 109.5| 84.9| 5| 170| 37.0
318 | 29.6| 107 | 84.8| 5| 170| 37.7
319 | 29.4| 107.5| 84.2| 5| 170|\_