Jute
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Jute. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a textile fabric obtained from to the natural order Tilaceæ (lime or linden). The jute plant is a native of tivation is carried on, especially in Benthe warmer parts of India , where its culgal, on an extensive scale. It is an annual plant , growing to height of 12 bark of the plant, and possesses in an or 14 feet. The fiber forms the inne eminent degree the tenacity common to the bark of the plants of this order. The fiber is fine, and has a shining surand hence is not well adapted for cordage face; it is injured by exposure to water, and canvas, but is in extensive use for making bags, and in the United States and Great Britain serves many useful purposes, being mixed with hemp for cordage, and with silk in the manufacture of cheap satins; its principal for bagging, and in making the foundation of inferior carpets, mats, etc. In Bengal, jute has been cultivated, and its remote period. The headquarters of this branch of industry are at Dundee. use is in the manufacture of coarse cloth fibers woven into various fabrics from a BOGK (-bok), a town in the Prussian JÜTERBOG (yü'ter-boG), or JUTERprovince of Brandenburg , 39 miles by rail S. S. W. of Berlin. Cloth, cigars, Jüterbog is Dennewitz, where the Prusand wine are manufactured . Near under Ney and Oudinot, Sept. 6, 1813. sians under Bülow defeated the French Pop., about 8,000. of Guatemala, bounded on the N. by JUTIAPA (Höte-ä'pä), a department Jalapa and Chiquimula , on the S. by the Pacific Ocean; on the S. E. by Salvador, on the W. by Santa Rosa; area 1,563 square miles; principal industries cattleraising and coffee and sugar planting. Capital, Jutiapa. formerly comprising the whole conti-
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
jut, the fiber of a tall herb of India. The jute plant looks like hemp, but, though an herb, it is a member of the basswood family. Its bark yields a fiber, comparable to the inner bark of the basswood, often twelve feet in length, from which gunny-sacks are made. Jute makes a strong rope, subject, however, to rapid decay. A heavy gunnysack trodden underfoot rots much sooner than a light cotton sack. The United States imports immense quantities of jute for sacking. India raises 2,250,000 acres of jute. India sells more jute than rice, the export of jute being second to that of cotton only. The plant seems to do well in the Gulf States, but we lack the cheap labor and facilities of India and can import our gunnysacks more cheaply than we can make them. Jute is used also in the manufacture of carpets. Genuine Afghan curtains, Smyrna rugs, and the tapestries of Teheran and Herat are made of the finer qualities of this material. The inner bark may be divided into a fiber so fine and flossy that it is used in a mixture with silk. Dundee, Scotland, is noted for jute weaving. See Flax ; Hemp ; Ramie ; Sisal ; Esparto