Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material

Name: Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material
Author: Lyster H. (Lyster Hoxie) Dewey

by Lyster H. (Lyster Hoxie) Dewey, Jason L. Merrill

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United States. Department of Agriculture. Farmers' Bulletin No. 404

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by K.D. Thornton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-02-25

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Hemp Fiber plants Paper industry

About the authors

Lyster H. (Lyster Hoxie) Dewey

1865–1944

A pioneering American botanist helped shape early U.S. research on fiber plants, especially flax and hemp. His work blended practical agriculture with careful plant science and left a lasting mark on the study of useful crops.

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Jason L. Merrill

An early 20th-century paper chemist, he is best remembered for a 1916 U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin exploring how hemp hurds could be used to make paper. His work sits at an interesting crossroads of agriculture, industry, and materials science.

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