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American System 5 



Abutilon Avicennae 25 



Another Fundamental Principle 18 



Asclapias Milk-weed Fibers 26 



Asclapia Cornuti 2 7 



Belgium 14 



Canada 17 



Cost of Growing an Acre of Flax 54 



Cutting or Pulling Flax 42 



Flax for Oil 10 



Flax Seed 34 



Flax and Hemp Brake 56 



Flax Culture as it Affects the Farmer 53 



Fiber Flax 19 



Fundamental Principles 9 



French Bounty Laws 1 7 



Grassing 52 



Hemp 19 



How the Crop Yielded 59 



Irish and Belgium System of Retting Compared 51 



Langer, Stanka, and Lamach Report 11 



Legumes 28 



Luppens and Deswarte's System 48 



Mr. F. Barbour's Report (Epitomized) 57 



Ordinary Results 59 



Pool Retting and Stacking 47 



Previous Crop 1^ 



Prof. Otto Lugger's Great Discovery 30 



Prof. Snyder's Important Work _ 32 



Pulling Flax 39 



Puget Sound 1' 



Results of the War 7 



Retting 15-46 



Rippling 44 



Roselle Hemp ^^ 



Russia j^ 



Russian Silesia -■-- 1^ 



Rotation of Crops l'*'^'-^!? 



Scaffolding, or Landern ■;^_ 37 



Scutching ^^-^L 



Scutching Board ^' 



Scutching Mill at Marienberg l^ 



Slime Retting 15 



Soil and Soil Rotation ^^ 



Sowing ■; - :-•■" ,, 



Stinging Nettle (Urtica Gracilis) ^7 



Thornton's Systems of Hemp Culture 20 



Uncultivated Bast Fibers ^^ 



Urena Lobata ^^ 



Varieties of Flax .^ ■--_ -^ --^ » 



Various Nationalities — Practices Compared 55 



Weeding ^^ 



