. European system of flax culture Americanized and adapted to the local conditions of (especially Puget Sound) The American system of flax and other fiber culture . r oftransportation and less bale rope is required. To make thesebeets of good shape and tight enough for safe handling, a roughbox frame or box open at the side and top and closed at the endsjust long enough to hold two bundles apart overlapping in thecenter, can be made, and large enough to hold just the propernumber of bundles without much pressing. When the box isfull of bundles, they can be compressed very compactly. In
. European system of flax culture Americanized and adapted to the local conditions of (especially Puget Sound) The American system of flax and other fiber culture . r oftransportation and less bale rope is required. To make thesebeets of good shape and tight enough for safe handling, a roughbox frame or box open at the side and top and closed at the endsjust long enough to hold two bundles apart overlapping in thecenter, can be made, and large enough to hold just the propernumber of bundles without much pressing. When the box isfull of bundles, they can be compressed very compactly. In filling the box see that the butt ends of the straw areevenly pressing against both ends of the box and the seed endsoverlapping in the center. When the box is full of bundles theycan be easily compressed with a lever or a Mexican windlass, 45 and tied and rolled out. If the farmer is near enough to the millto haul the flax in his own wagon, this baling will not be needed,but if required to ship by train or boat the baling will be indis-pensible. In any case, the extra trouble in making neat beetswill amply be repaid by the more ready sale and better The Seed Ripple and Cleaner. RETTING. This is the most important manipulation in the flax indus-try, and if attempted by parties unskilled in the work may utterlyruin the value of the flax crop. In Ireland, the farmer does hisown retting, and stores the dry retted straw, in stacks, whichare carefully thatched with straw, or rushes in which condi-tion it will keep indefinitely if properly dried out before generally takes it to the neighboring scutch mill, to have itscutched, and sells it to the brokers, who travel around the coun-try, or to the spinning mill, if one happens to be in his Irish farmer generally paying the scutch mill, one shillingper stone, (25 cents per 14 pounds) for dressing it, leaving thetow with the miller. This is objectionable, as the small millscan, and do frequently a
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