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INDEX 



LAND, " clean," 57 

 - -, preparation of the, 39 

 Legrand's warm water retting, 118 

 Liddell's automatic grip, 138 



MACHINE scutching, 131 



sowing, hand and, 46 



Machines, flax-pulling, 68-72 

 Manures, artificial, 31 



Manuring in Belgium and Holland, 34 

 Manurial experiments, 35 

 Marketing of flaxes, 146 

 Modern flax -producing countries, 4 

 Moisture, testing for, 17 



PERIOD selected for sowing, 41 

 Pests and diseases, flax, 61 

 Plant foods, 28 

 Ploughing and grubbing, 40 

 Pond retting, 110 

 Preparation of the land, 39 

 Prepared soil, conditions of, 39 

 Prevention of weeds, 60 

 Principle of scutching, 132 



and operation of automatic 



scutching, 144 



Pulling flax, 65 



by hand, 66 



by machines, 68-72 



Purity of flax seed, 13 



QUANTITY of seed per acre, 43 



REDSHANK, 55 



Removal of flax seed or bolls, 86 



Retting, 101 



-, artificial and warm watej, 115 



- bacilli, 102 

 , Chemical, 105 

 ,dew, 113 



-- , drying after, 123 

 experiments, 103 

 , functions of, 101 

 , idiosyncrasies of flax, 1 10 



- in sluggish rivers, 111 



-, Legrand's warm water, 118 

 pond, 105 



- practices, 105 



, The Dromara Fibre Corpora- 

 tion tank, 116 



, The Rossi Process, 121 



, twice, 113 



Ripple conveyer belts and oscillating 

 comb, 92 



-, Greeve's Reels, 96 



machine, 87 t 



- rotary, 89 

 , the, 86 



, the hand " Morston," 91 



ling, 86 

 Rolling, harrowing and, 40 

 Rotation of crops, 30, 61 

 Russian flax seed, 19 



SEED, quantity per acre, 43 

 , saving fibre and, 77-78 

 , theory of imported, 79 



Scutching, automatic, 141 

 -, automatic grip, 138 

 , breaking rollers, 128 



, the dry flax straw, 127 



, flax straw butting machine, 126 



, fluted breaking rollers, 128 

 ---, hand, 125 



-, Homer's skeleton drums, 130 

 - machine, 141 

 operations, 125 

 , principle and operation of auto- 

 matic, 144 

 , action of mechanism, 132 



wheels, details of, 134 



Soil, 22 



, exhaustion of, 28 



Sowing data, tabulated, 44 

 , early, 42 

 , flax seed for, 1 1 



, , relative value of, 13 



, hand and machine, 46 

 , period selected for. 42 



Spreading, 123 



Stable manures, fresh, 34 



Stacking flax windrows. 83 



TABULATED sowing data, 44 

 Testing flax seed for value, 13 



weight, 16 



Theory of imported seed, 79 

 Thistles, 55 

 Twice retting, 113 



ULTIMATE fibre, 9 

 Uses of flax, 4 



VARIETY of growths, due to various 

 causes, 24 



WAR& water retting, 115 



, Legrand's, 118 



Weeding or cleaning, 60 

 Weeds, 53 



, detrimental effects of, 58 



, prevention of, 60 



Weight of flax seed, 12 



, testing for, 16 



Weights, separation of flax seeds into 



different, 98 

 Work of the sower (" fiddle,") 48 



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