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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90591-x

✦ Synopsis

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[Jour. Frank. In&., as flax, hemp, jute, and other of a similai nature, by enabling producers to deliver t,hese several fibre,, in a c&An, straight, long-line, marketable shape, at low cost. lJnlike cotton, which is comparat~ively a delicate plant that can only be grown profitab!y in the Southern and Southwestern States, flas and kindred plants may be groan readily throughout our entire country-Light soils arc more suitable for its development, but good crops may be gathered from strong and clayey gronnd.

Hitherto the operations of breaking and 5sx~ut&ing hare been largely performed by hand. Where machine? has been used, each operation required a distinct and separate machine.

linde in &?sign and imperfect in performance, they have, even in flax-growing districts, scztrcely supplanted the primitive methods, while in this country they are almost) unknown.