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be bought and sold at I2S. per cwt. Land for flax-growing 

 may be rented from the farmers, who will do all the work, at 

 2 to 2 los. per acre. - The writer had the above information 

 from a native who a few years ago was trying to get up a 

 company to erect scutch mills and prepare fibre for the home 

 and European markets. 



Flax is also grown for seed at Pudget Bay Sound, State of 

 Washington, around Idaho, California, in Argentina, North 

 Dakota, and Ohio. In most of these regions the straw is 

 burned or used for stable bedding, or sometimes for forage 

 where there is a scarcity of hay. A small portion of the flax 

 straw produced in North Dakota is used for paper stock, 

 and in a few localities in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Ohio, 

 it is made into upholstering tow. Of recent years flax-binder 

 twine has been made to some extent from mechanically cleaned 

 and unretted flax straw. Patents have been taken out in 

 Canada to scutch unretted flax straw, and the results obtained 

 are not discouraging, the fibre produced being of sufficient 

 quality to spin twine yarns. 



