. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. FLAX FLAX 301 tion Department. In the meantime, it is bargained for by the various firms. The cars are then side- tracked to the mills, where the mill hands unload into their elevators. Once in the elevator bins, the flax is spouted into the hoppers of large clean- ers, which by means of their many shakes and sieves separate the flax from the straw, dust, weeds and other seeds. The foreign seeds are sold for various purposes. The- flax is elevated from the
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. FLAX FLAX 301 tion Department. In the meantime, it is bargained for by the various firms. The cars are then side- tracked to the mills, where the mill hands unload into their elevators. Once in the elevator bins, the flax is spouted into the hoppers of large clean- ers, which by means of their many shakes and sieves separate the flax from the straw, dust, weeds and other seeds. The foreign seeds are sold for various purposes. The- flax is elevated from the cleaner to a vertical system of five large rolls or breaks; the upper ones barely crush the ber- ries, while the lower ones reduce them to a fine meal, which is carried to large cookers that temper it and heat it to 160° to 200°. Some seeds need more moisture, others have too much. The tempering adds to or takes from the grain enough moisture to bring it to a common temper. From the cookers the hot meal is drawn into a conveyor that distributes it evenly in a mould about 12 x 20 x 2J inches. To hold the meal after these moulds are removed,' a camel's-hair cloth is placed around it. The moulds or forms are placed in a hydraulic press and subjected to a pressure of 3,500 pounds per square inch. The oil is squeezed out and. fiows into a small sluice tank to rid it of the finest meal particles. It then goes to the large tank or to the refining tanks. From these the various grades of oil are drawn off into original packages (barrels, etc.) for market. The grades of oil are named according to a sys- tem peculiar to each mill. Thus, the same grade of oil may have two or more names as it is put out from two or more mills. The oils are used for a variety of purposes, from the making of patent- leather shoes to paints. Fiber.— The processes employed in making the various products from flax fiber are- too long to be described in detail. The old methods followed by our fathers and moth
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