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Hemp Hurds as Paper Making Material

Catalog # SKU2912

Publisher TGS Publishing

Weight 1.00 lbs

Author Name Lyster H. Dewey Jason L. Merrill

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Hemp Hurds
as
Paper Making Material

by
Lyster H. Dewey
and Jason L. Merrill

Hemp hurds are used to a limited extent for barnyard litter and stable bedding, as a substitute for sawdust in packing ice, and, in rare instances, for fuel. They are not regarded as having a commercial value for any of these uses, though they are doubtless worth at least $1 per ton on the farm when used for stable bedding. They are a waste product, without value for other purposes which might compete with their use for paper stock.

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Excerpt:

The purpose of this paper is to report upon preliminary tests which were conducted to determine the paper-making value of hemp hurds, a crop waste of the hemp-fiber industry. The search for plant materials capable of being utilized in paper manufacture is a comparatively recent but world-wide activity which has for its object the husbanding of present sources of paper-stock supply by the substitution of new materials for some of those which are rapidly becoming less plentiful and more costly.

The abstract idea of utilizing that which is at present a waste can play no important rôle in such activities, the successful commercial outcome of which must be based on the three fundamental factors-market or demand for product, satisfactory raw material, and cost.