SAVING THE FLAX SEED 



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each of the three given methods will be sufficiently matured 

 and dried to permit of the rippling or deseeding of that 

 portion of the flax which it is desired to ret, dry, and scutch 

 immediately. 



76. Final Stacking " Windrows." The remainder of the 



FIG. 39 

 DRYING UNDESEEDED FLAX ROUND GAIT 



flax, however, will not be sufficiently dry to build into a large 

 stack. The final stacking must be approached very cau- 

 tiously. A very good plan is to arrange the beets partially 

 dried as above in " windrows," as illustrated at Fig. 40. This 

 is a photograph of such a windrow in course of removal to a 

 " Dutch " barn or more permanent stack. Any other similar 



