Fiber Flax and Flax Fiber
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A 1931 trade-journal article by G. A. Lowry on growing, harvesting, retting, and processing fiber flax, with emphasis on cost compared with cotton. It uses USDA fertilizer-yield tables for cotton, oats and corn to argue that flax would also respond to fertilizing, and compares water, dew and chemical retting (degumming) and several scutching machines, including the Grant or Farmer's machine. It gives test yields and per-acre and per-pound cost figures, and argues that degummed flax spun on cotton machinery could compete with cotton.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1931
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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