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Experiments in hemp-growing were, however, re- 

 sumed in 1922 on the basis of new inventions for 

 fiber-extraction in spite of the earlier conclusion 

 that better use could be made of the land by growing 

 products edible to man or to live-stock. Urged by 

 the large importation of jute cloth and grain sacks 

 from India for sixty years before elevators and bulk- 

 handling of grain was entered on, the jute plant was 

 introduced about 1890 but no one succeeded in 

 getting a good growth in the plant which seemed to 

 demand more strictly tropical conditions. 



