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Show cakp, Mr. Cox says : "After ray experience wiih tbfa oil', cuke I have uo heftltatioB iu pronounc- j in-: it the best and liohitwi of ad extra i fill in 'tie Mini," of iftuiu tat mttcti j uivis, 1 iiivvu do n-i- .; 1, cunil 1 v, f j have bad unik ami ereaXO of BQob quality aud quantity as when tins cake was used. Besides, 1 believe l that if stock were fed with oil cake tu- bercu.'osis would be shortlived among cattle. One advantage tnis cake has, it can be packed and kept an iudeii-niue iudeii-niue time, as it will not deteriorate. I remember very well how anxious people peo-ple were to get the oil cake in those dajs, and a good market could now be found for it, and 1 have uo hesitation in saying it would fetch the highest price of any stock food now being fed, pound for pouud." FLAX RAISING PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. One of the test crops being grown this season on tlie Guunison experiment experi-ment farm is that of flax. While a uew product in this section it is found that flax thrives wbil even on our clay soil and will yield abundantly with comparatively small attention after deed is once started through. A by-product of the article is linseed lin-seed oil, as well as the oil cake made from the crushings, commodities of trade that are quite extensive. . If when matured the experiment farm's test in growing of flax proves at all satisfaotory-and at present writing there ia every indication it will-our farmers would do well to obtain seed and plant next season. An attempt was made in the early days of Utah, says the Deseret News, to foster the growing of flax, and a mill was lilted for crushing the seed and extracting the oil, but for some reason the venture was not successful and the attempt was abandoned, A company will shortly be I orm-d in Salt Lake City for the purpose ol raising flax and handling the seed so as to extract the oil, which, as everyone every-one knows, is linseed oil. Mr. A. Ogle, who liven at 346 north Ninth West, Salt Lake City, considers consid-ers that there is every requisite for success here in spite of the former failure. He says he came from Missouri, Mis-souri, where he has had about twenty years experience in raising flax. There he says they planted nearly 1,000 acres of flax, which produced from 17 to 25 bushels of seed to the acre in the poorest seasons. He considers that better results ought to be obtained obtain-ed here in Utah because the climate i3 more adapted and there is the advantage ad-vantage of irrigation. He also says that the dry farm lands in seasons like the recent ones would be very favorable to the flax industry, Edward Cox of Sal Lak , who came to Utah in 1860 and who helped to construct the flour mill of Heber C. Kimball, says that the lower part of the mill was constructed -expressly for the manufacture of linseed oil, the j cnaehiue y being brought from Eu-. rope. Regarding the value of oil |
