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Show 4 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN pradtice the workers make four cuttings of the branche at regularintervals of three years. Itis considered that th second crop yiclds the finest fiber and therefore suited fo making into the highest grade of paper. After producin bark for twelve years the trees are thought to have serve their usefulness and are uprooted and discarded as the amount of bark fiber produced would not be sufficient t warrant further space and cultivation Again referring to the«Bulletin of the Imperial Institute" we find that shortly previous to the year 1904 th dry papermaking bark annually produced in Hung-hoa Annam,amounted to one hundred and twenty long tons Of this amount twenty-four to thirty tons were used i the village of Phi-dinh; the remainder was distributed a mong the following old papermaking centers: Vu-yén thirty-five tons; Van-phu, thirty-five tons; Yén-luong fifteen tons; Thach-dé, five tons. It must be remembere that this extensive produétion of the Dapne for the bar was more than four decades ago Aside from the cay git, the cultivated Daphne, there i awild plant known by the natives as 2y canf, also of th natural order T%ymelacaceae. This wild species does no grow to the height of the cultivated tree, but the bark i usable and is prepared for making into paper ofa coarse quality. As previously stated, the other materials used i Indo-China for paper are mulberry, bamboo, and straw The mulberry is the Broussonetia pagyrifera, Vent. of th order Moraceae, a papermaking fiber that, like bambo Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |