The ownership of the bags can thus be shown distinctly by one of the many methods of colour printing, and if any firm desires to number their bags consecutively in order to provide a record of their stock, or for any other purpose, the bags may be so numbered by means of a special numbering machine, also made by Mr. D. J. Macdonald. The last operation, excluding the actual delivery of the goods, is that of packing the pieces or bags in small compass by means of a hydraulic press. The goods are placed on the lower moving table upon a suitable wrapping of some kind of jute cloth; when the requisite quantity has been placed thereon, the top and side wrappers are placed in position, and the pumps started in order to raise the bottom table and to squeeze the content between it and the top fixed table. From 1 1/2 ton to 2 tons per square inch is applied according to the nature of the goods and their destination. While the goods are thus held securely in position between the two plates, the wrappers a sewn together. Then specially prepared hoops or metal bands are placed round the bale, and an ingenious and simple system, involving a buckle and two pins, adopted for fastening the bale. The ends of the hoop or band are bent in a small press, and these bent ends are passed through a rectangular hole in the buckle and the pins inserted in the loops. As soon as the hydraulic pressure is removed, the bale expands slightly, and the buckled hoop grips the bale securely. Such is in brief the routine followed in the production of the fibre, the transformation of this fibre, first into yarn, and then into cloth, and the use of the latter in performing the function of the world's common carrier. INDEX ACCUMULATOR Assorting jute fibre. BAG-MAKING Bale opener opening Baling cloth house press station Bast layer (see also Fibrous layer) Batch Batchers Batching apparatus carts or stalls Batch-ticket Beamer's lease Beaming (dry) direct from bank, Blending Bobbin winding Bojah Botanical features of jute plants Breaker card Brussels carpet Bundle of jute. CALCUTTA, jute machinery introduced into Calender finish Calenderoy Carding Card waste Cargoes of jute Chest finish Clasp-rods Conditioning fibre Cops Cop winding Corchorus capsularis clitorius Crisping and crisping machines Cropping machine Cultivation of jute Cutting knife for jute fibre Cuttings. DAMPING machine Defects in fibre and in handling Designs or weaves Differential motion Dobby loom Draft Drafting Drawing frames different kinds of Drawing-in Dressing and dressing machine Drum Drying jute fibre Dust shaker. EAST India Co. Exports of jute from India. FABRICS Faller Farming operations Fibres, the five main imports of jute. Fibrous layer Finisher card Finishing folding machine. Gaiting Glazed finish Grading jute fibre Gunny bags. Hand batching Harvesting the plants Height of jute plants Hydraulic mangle press.