The Culture and Manufacture of Flax for Fibre and Seed, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint)

The following world survey of and report on the culture and manufacture of flax with special reference to the establishment of the industry in Oregon, was made by the Department of Commercial and Industrial Service, School of Commerce, University of Oregon, at the special request and under the auspices of the flax committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and is published by the University of Oregon at the committees request. This committee consists of Dr. E. A. Pierce, chairman; William Mc Murray, passenger agent of the O.-W. R. N. Ry.; William Lipman of Lipman, Wolfe Company; and H. B. Miller, director of the School of Commerce, University of Oregon. Acknowledgment is due and appreciation expressed to the United States Departments of State and of Commerce for the great and invaluable assistance rendered in collecting the material upon which a large part of this report is based. Copies of bulletins issued by the United States Department of Agriculture giving details of planting, growing and care of flax will be sent to those who are interested and who make application to the School of Commerce, University of Oregon. EXPERIMENT BULLETINS The School of Commerce of the University of Oregon has copies of the bulletins of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for I reland, giving detailed reports of the experiments of the following varieties of seeds: Dutch, Riga, Dutch Child from Canada, Riga Child from France, Yorkshire seed, Pernau Crown, Rega Child from I reland, Pernau Child from Michigan, United States, a strain seed, which though originally improved by selection for seed production purposes is thought would, owing to its remarkable evenness of growth, yield a satisfactory return of fibre. Small plots of Japanese, Siberian, Canadian Common, and Argentine seed were also experimented with. Copies of experiments with fertilizers in diffe
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