Fibrilia: a practical and economical substitute for cotton ..Together with a history of the growth and manufacture of wool, cotton, flax, etc., in Europe and AmericaWith illustrations from microscopical examinations . od. Second, threshing the strawin a macliine, if need be, instead of rippling it, orbeating it with sticks, when great care is rendered necessaryto keep the straw straight, and from getting , by avoiding the old-fashioned and tedious process ofrotting, which, though indispensable in some form for spin-ning long-line flax, is of no value, but rather an injury, inmak
Fibrilia: a practical and economical substitute for cotton ..Together with a history of the growth and manufacture of wool, cotton, flax, etc., in Europe and AmericaWith illustrations from microscopical examinations . od. Second, threshing the strawin a macliine, if need be, instead of rippling it, orbeating it with sticks, when great care is rendered necessaryto keep the straw straight, and from getting , by avoiding the old-fashioned and tedious process ofrotting, which, though indispensable in some form for spin-ning long-line flax, is of no value, but rather an injury, inmaking a perfect article of fibrilia. These changes, in favor of the cost to the farmer inRaising flax, will enable him to afford the fibre to the manu-facturer at such a rate that he can produce a better articleof commerce than cotton, at the same or even a less price. The great value of Unseed in the United States for oiland oil cake, together with the fibre of flax, will render acrop of that plant one of the most profitable that can beraised in the Northern, Western, or Middle States. Theprincipal value of the old method of rotting the flax strawas now used, in some of the Western States, for manufac- POitr FIBRES OF FLAXPARTLY ELIMINATED Ihcwietcr imufiidird 2ltl J-E^Buffords LuK 313 VJasliirLrfton St_Soj FIBRILIA. 9 turing fibrilia, is in the great reduction of weight of thestraw, which is quite an item where the same has to becarted ten or fifteen miles to the mills. This uselesstrouble and expenditure for carting so much waste woodymatter can be avoided, by breaking the flax on the farm,under the new process ; although the farmer says he can nowraise flax at great profit to himself, over raising some othercrops, though the present price of the straw is very low,from the fact of the inability of farmers to supply them-selves at once with the proper brakes for the thus supplied with brakes, which can be turned byhorse-power, and which can be used with more fa
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