INDEX 



ANTIQUITY of flax cultivation, 1 

 Artificial manures, 31 



or warm water retting, 115 



Automatic scutcher, 141 



BACILLI retting, 110 

 Buffing and cleaning, 134 

 Butting machine, flax straw, 126 



CHARACTERISTICS of the flax fibre, 9 



Charlock, 55 



Chemical composition of flax fibres, 



9 



Cleaning and buffing, 134 

 Climate, 21 



Conditions of prepared soil, 39 

 Conveyer belts and oscillating comb, 



ripple, 92 

 Corn marigold, 55 

 Crop production, environment and, 



24 

 Crops, rotation of, 30 



DATA, tabulated sowing, 44 

 Deseeding, 84 

 , Artificial heat, 85 



dry straw, 92 



Dew retting, 113 



Diseases, flax pests and, 61 



Dock, 57 



Dromara Fibre Corporation, tank 



retting, 116 



Drying after retting, 123 

 Dutch flax seed, 19 



EARLY sowing, 42 

 Exhaustion of soil, 28 



FARMING experiments, 78 

 Fibre, ultimate length of, 9 

 Fibre and seed, saving, 78 

 Field bindweed, 55 

 "Fiddle," 45 

 , details of the, 46 



, operation of the mechanism, 50 



Flax, conditions of sale, 148 



cultivation, antiquity of, 1 



culture, a national industry, 64 



dodder, 55 

 - fibre, the, 6 

 , characteristics, 9 



fibres, chemical composition of, 



Flax marketing of, 146 



, " base " marks, 147 



, basis of sale, table, 148 



- Belgian, 146 



- Flemish, 146 



- French, 147 



- Irish, 146 

 Russian, 147 



- Walloon, 147 



- pests and diseases, 61 



- plant, the, 1 



- prices, market equivalents, 

 148-149 



- producing countries, modern, 4 



- productive results, 151 



- pulling, 65 



- by hand, 66 



- machines, 68-72 



retting, idiosyncrasies of, 110 



seed germination, 11 



- purity, 13 



, relative sowing value, 13 

 , removal of, 86 

 -, separated into different 



weights, 98 



- for sowing, 11 

 , sources of supply, 19 

 , testing for germination 



value, 13 

 , moisture, 17 



-, weight, 16 



, uses of, 4 

 , weight of, 12 



straw butting machines, 126 

 Fluted breaking rollers, scutching, 



128 



GAITING, 124 



Germination of flax seed, 11 



-, testing value of, 13 



Grubbing, ploughing and, 40 



HAND and machine sowing, 46 



" Morston " ripple, 91 



. "pulling," 66 



scutching, 125 

 Harrowing and rolling, 40 

 Harvesting flax possibilities, 63 



practices, 80 



Horner's skeleton drums scutching, 



130 



IMPORTED seed, theory of, 79 

 , experimental results, 79 



153 



