certainty of the weather during harvest time 

 in England the farmer stands a chance of 

 losing a considerable portion of his crop from 

 damp and mildew. To overcome this detriment 

 a corn cover was conceived, which is made 

 from Kraft in the shape of a miniature roof 

 capable of covering ten or a dozen sheaves. 



The numerous objects mentioned above are 

 only a few of the many things that can be 

 manufactured from Kraft, and suggestions of 

 further ways in which this extraordinary fabric 

 can be put to work are constantly being brought 

 to light. Each year witnesses new names on 

 the already long list of manufacturers of Kraft, 

 and that Canadian paper producers are well 

 aware of the value and importance of this 

 product is attested by the rapidly increasing 

 output. 



Canada's Opportunity in Flax Fibre 



By G, G. Ommanney, M. I.C.E., Investigation 

 Engineer. C. P. R. 



"There is apparently little buying in linen. Pur- 

 chasers demand lower prices and producers are un- 

 willing to concede them. Nothing, apparently, could 

 be more anomalous than is the situation in which 

 the whole linen industry finds itself. The source of 

 its raw material is drying up. Russia is out of the 

 list of producers altogether, whilst most of the others 

 report crop failures and diminished production. Any 

 serious buying movement is bound to send flax up. 

 Then line, too, will have to go up." 



The above announcement, quoted from a 

 recent issue of the Standard Daily Trade 

 Service, has a special significance for Canada 

 as affecting the future of the flax fibre industry. 



There is a tendency in some quarters to 

 quote the present temporary stagnation in the 

 flax market as reason for curtailing Canadian 

 activities in fibre production. We believe that 

 the temporary conditions of depression (which 

 at the moment apply to almost every other 

 class of industrial raw material as well as to 

 flax fibre) should not be allowed to affect the 

 broad policy of future development of the 

 industry. Canada's opportunity today is unique. 



A clear conception of the tonnage produced 

 by Russia before the war, and no longer avail- 

 able, must show that the moment large scale 

 buying of linen and its allied commodities is 

 resumed and the demand on spinning mills 

 again becomes active an unparalleled world 

 shortage of raw material will be experienced. 



Russia produced from 300,000 to 600,000 

 tons of fibre per annum, or about 76 per cent 

 of the world's supply. Competent authorities 

 think that it will be fiftv years before Russia 

 can return to large scale fibre production. 



Irrigation Produces Superior Fibre 



Consider that a fair average acre yield of 

 fibre is 200 pounds and we see that the Russian 

 area under flax must have comprised the enor- 



mous territory of at least five million acres. It 

 has been conclusively proved that irrigated 

 lands in Western Canada will produce a flax 

 fibre superior to the average Russian product. 

 Ontario grows a fibre which has been sold in 

 competition with Belgian line; Quebec and 

 British Columbia have lands and climate 

 eminently suited to this crop. What other 

 country in the world with suitable conditions 

 has to-day the necessary acreage available to 

 meet the vast Russian shortage ? 



Further, Canadian brains and energy have 

 accomplished more towards the perfection and 

 invention of labor-saving machinery for pulling 

 and handling and preparing flax fibre than 

 has been done in any other country, a fact 

 which will place Canada in a pre-eminently 

 advantageous position for the cheap production 

 of fibre in competition with other countries. 



For the above reasons it would seem that 

 a clear realization of the situation and a proper 

 understanding of the relation of present tem- 

 porary conditions to the future possibilities of 

 this industry should result in immediate pre- 

 paration for more extensive Canadian flax fibre 

 production in readiness to meet future shortage 

 and keen demand. And further, when that 

 time comes, Canada should be ready to spin 

 her own flax in her own mills and thereby to 

 reap the full benefit of the advantages which 

 she will hold. 



New Capital for Canada 



The most frequently recurring word in 

 Canadian economic converse is "immigration". 

 It is continually on the lips of the country's 

 statesmen and legislators; it is to be found 

 every day in the editorial columns of Dominion's 

 journals; business men find in it the mirror 

 which reflects the general trend of commercial 

 affairs. The term suggests the history of 

 Canada's wonderful growth in all respects 

 since Confederation; in all that it signifies 

 lies the Dominion's hope and expectation of 

 a development surpassing even this unprece- 

 dented record in the next half century. 



Canada's interpretation of the word in 

 her national economic life, however, admits 

 of a wider significance than the entry into the 

 country of foreign peoples, and includes the 

 introduction of foreign capital. In agriculture 

 and the successful settlement of the Dominion's 

 vast, uncultivated tracts of fertile land lies 

 Canada's fundamental of progress and future 

 greatness. There must, however, be a cor- 

 responding industrial growth with the de- 

 velopment of mineral, forest and other natural 

 resources and expansion in the field of manu- 

 facturing. To this end capital is needed and 

 the attraction of this necessary factor to national 

 development takes second place in the Domi- 

 nion's endeavors only to that of increasing 



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