Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of Mexico and Yucatan.
Defn: A Mexican name for theSisal hemp (Agave rigida, var.
Sisal in Yucatan and Isla Mujeres of Quintana Roo are in this Scrub zone.
The species was common at Sisal where it was often seen in small mixed flocks with Snowy Plovers and Wilson Plovers.
Birds of this species were ubiquitous in the scrub west of Sisal between 10 a.
This species was relatively common at Sisal where several flocks of 30 to 40 birds were seen.
This species was abundant in the coastal scrub west of Sisal where some breeding activity was noted.
Sisal is a miserable little town, standing on the shore, with a great salt-marsh behind it.
Sisal hemp and Sansevieria have been experimented with, but without any distinct influence upon the trade output.
Several fiber plants are receiving attention, particularly the Sisal Hemp (Agave Sisalana) and Sansevieria or bow string Hemp.
The Sisal plant will grow and flourish on lands that are too dry for any other cultivation.
I didn't think it was wrapped, didn't have in mind the manila type or sisal type.
Henequen or Sisal hemp is one of the principal of Mexico's agricultural products, and its producers are among the wealthiest people in the country, especially in Yucatan.
The principal port, Progreso, is an open roadstead where no shelter is obtained, the old abandoned port of Sisal being superior.
Hemp is used mainly for cordage, and the use of ramie, jute, and sisal hemp is confined mainly to the manufacture of very coarse cloths and rugs.
The essential feature in the economic production of sisal hemp is machinery for separating the fibre from the pulp of the leaf.
Sisal hemp, or henequen, is a stout, stringy fibre obtained from the thick leaves of several species of agave, to which the maguey and century-plant belong.
From this point down to the plain below, the green fresh sisal is conveyed by gravity in iron baskets, where it is received by women and spread out on wire lines to dry.
The following is an authentic estimate of the cost of growing henequen and producing sisal or fibre from the same in Cuba.
The decortator, or machine by which the sisal is separated from the pulp of the leaves, is located near the crest of the hill, about a half a mile back of the factory.
These several advantages should, therefore, contribute to make Cuba an active competitor with Yucatan for the sisalhemp business, within the near future.
In this connection it may be noted that at the World's Exhibition in Buffalo, sisal hemp made from henequen in Cuba won the world medal in competition with Yucatan and other countries.
The sisalcultivation yields an annual profit of 95 per cent.
The cultivation of sisalhas only in recent times been prosecuted vigorously; and the extraction of the fiber from the leaves, and the subsequent spinning for ships' rigging, are already done by steam-machinery.
Sisal fiber is often used with other fibers to widen the range of color and utility.
Sisal fiber is derived from the leaf of a plant, much as linen is made from the stem of the flax plant.
In most types there is a thin layer of protective insulation, often of sisal (a tough, white vegetable fiber), between the spring unit and the upholstery.
Sisal is a sort of small oxen striped like a zebra and spotted like a leopard.
Now what under the sun would you suppose sisal was?
I'll never get over the way Mr. Kimball looked at me when he said as how sisal was hemp; and me thinking all the time it was a animal when it was a herb.
I saw in the book that sisal was being grown in increasing quantities in the islands, and I just naturally supposed it was some sort of animal.
Henequen (Spanish jeniquen or geniquen) is a fibre commercially known as Sisal hemp, from the fact that it is obtained from a species of cactus, the Agave Sisalensis, first cultivated around the tiny port of Sisal in Yucatan.
Oiling is also an important process in the manufacture of ropes from hard fibers, as Manila, Sisal and New Zealand.
Manila and Sisal fibers, since the middle of the last century, have largely taken their place.
The development of the self-binding reaper on our western grain-fields has opened a gold mine for Sisal cordage.
Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh.
And I asked him whether he was going just to managesisal plantations or not, because he was mentioning them all the time.
Instead of yielding tribute to the forty Sisal Kings of Yucatan, he will pay no more than the charges of the railroad and the factory.
It sells from fifteen to eighteen million dollars' worth ofsisal a year, and the United States buys it all.
Three-fourths of this money is clear profit; and it is an almost incredible fact that the forty Sisal Kings of Yucatan have a larger net income than the owners of the immense International Harvester Company.
He is in charge of the raw materials--the coal and iron and lumber and sisal and flax.
And Yucatan is the only spot in the world where sisal can be grown in commercial quantities.
For example, the poorest pine lands of Florida will produce without fertilizing a luxuriant crop of Sisal hemp, which yields more profit to the acre than the richest land when cultivated in sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
The introduction of jute and Sisal hemp, in the near future, will also add materially to the wealth of the southern counties of the State.
Cordage is manufactured chiefly from the Manila and Sisal hemps, the former derived from the Philippine Islands, the latter from Yucatan.
Sisal hemp, which has been imported to the value of seven million dollars a year, when prices were high, will grow in southern Florida, and the plant has been the subject of exhaustive study and experiment.
Even in the growth of Sisal hemp in Florida, should it be attempted, the enterprise will only pay when the necessary mill plant for extracting the fiber is able to draw upon a cultivated area of five hundred acres.
The fiber is finer and softer than Sisal hemp, though not so fine as pineapple fiber, and would command in price a figure between the two.
This list is a long one, for in the single genus Agave, to which belong the plant producing the Sisal hemp of commerce, there are over one hundred species in Mexico alone, more than one half of which would produce good fiber.
The reaction toward better prices has already begun, and the future establishment of an American Sisal hemp industry in southern Florida is a possibility, though there are several practical questions yet to be settled.
Only fifty pounds of this fiber can be obtained from a ton of leaves, but, as the product would doubtless command double the price of Sisal hemp, its production would be profitable.
Pineapple culture is already a flourishing industry in theSisal hemp region.
Thousands of acres are planted to sisal in Yucatan and a machine for scratching out the fiber is in general use.
Amaryllidaceæ--The amaryllis family, noted chiefly for thesisal fiber that comes from a species of Agave, which is one of the many different kinds of century plant.
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