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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 883 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR* Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
September 20, 1920 
EXPERIMENTS WITH FLAX 
ON BREAKING 
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By 
CHARLES H. CLARE, formerly Assistant Agronomist in Charge 
of Flax Investigations, Office of Cereal Investigations 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Flax as a Sod Crop ........ 1 
The Present Flax Area 2 
The Northern Great Plains Field Station 
and the Surrounding District .... 4 
Scope of the Experiments 8 
Experimental Methods . 8 
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Size and Arrangement of Plats and Rows 9 
Preparation of the Land 10 
Interpretation of Experimental Results . 11 
Flax Experiments in Plats 11 
Flax Experiments in Nursery Rows . . 22 
Summary ... 29 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1920 
