FLAX. 



Its Culture and Use in the United States, 



AMONG the articles placed upon the 

 " free list," in the so-called Mills Tariff 

 Bill, is unmanufactured flax in its various 

 forms, dressed and undressed. At a recent 

 meeting of the Flax and Hemp Spinners' 

 and Growers' Association, held this year in 

 the city of Washington presumably for the 

 purpose of influencing legislation, it was 

 unanimously voted that the interests of 

 the flax industry require that the present 

 duty on unmanufactured flax be retained ; 

 and memorials were presented signed by 

 employees and workingmen in flax manu- 

 facturing establishments to the same effect. 

 The present treatise is devoted to a review 

 of the condition of the flax industry in the 

 United States, and an examination of the 



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