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Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Volume 29.cMrs Frank Leslie

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Author: Mrs Frank Leslie
Page Count: 450 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236228475
File Name: Frank.Leslie's.Popular.Monthly.Volume.29.pdf
Download Link: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Volume 29
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...six months. Many are also got by the chase and killing of the ostrich, but no hunter needlessly kills a bird. The very best white natural plumes are plucked from the live bird soon after the new plumage has CURLING-KNIFE. matured, but very few are got in this way from wild birds; and those from the ostrich-farms in Texas are not quite so fine as others from the deserts of Africa. Feathers are assorted and tied in bundles of about 400 each for export at Cape Town, and it sometimes happens that small sticks, stones, lumps of clay or other useless but weighty materials accidentally find their way into the bundles. These are profitable to the exporter, but a loss to the importer. The bundles are packed in cases of about 50 to 100 pounds each. The manufacturer buys in quantity and such quality as may be wanted to fill orders for certain styles of goods, tips or plumes, good, fair, medium or best, in many grades to suit the market. The first work is to string the feathers in clusters of three, tied with a strong twine, fifty on a string. Usually about ten pounds are handled at once. From the beginning the skill and individuality of the workman shows itself both in the quantity and quality of his work. They are ready for the wash, which is a thorough laundry process, with plenty of soap and water, a liberal use of the scrubbing-board, and unlimited steam-heat for boiling, with a final rinsing in six or seven changes of clean water, and a final bath of ammonia, diluted, but strong. Ten pounds of feathers lose in weight by washing from an ounce to a pound, which depends on the purity of the raw feathers. The bleaching is a chemical process which requires many hours, usually all night, after which another thorough washing and then a bath of thick starch, when the &qu...

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