Show F BRANCH lOf Of NEW NY INDUSTRY t- t i OPEN TO f r I Decent c Experiments in Flax I Growing Prove It Practicable Practicable in Utah l' l foie lie growing rowing of flax flar in Utah is ono one the industries which is now being ked ed into by Utah farmers with the tho thein theo ther thod r the indusi indus o d' d in view of introducing on on n a large scale This year for the I time timo crops o of flax will be seen on onions onions n ions ious farms of the valle valley and 1 in inI I t i cr er parts of the state and if success I many hundreds of acres of the soi soil ho state will next year blossom Mi with the beautiful flax plant Y who to try mon men n the farmers are arc u crop rop to a limited extent this year S. S M ML Serl Seddon on who has a ae are rOI 1 re e farm near Garfield lie He has coo con tedD a. a portion of his ground to the thet t of flax B. B of East WI I 1 Creek will bo be another and several i in Granger will take up tip the ex ox mint With the tho successful growth Hie e plant pleat to maturity no doubt the of flax growing rowing will be he added addo he the farmers farmers' routine and the manni mann mann- i hire fire tre of various kinds of flax arti arti- I such as linseed oil flaxsEed rope 1 flaxseed cake for cattle will be bein be be- in Ultimately the tho result will be the theon theBon Bon oon of a linoleum factory here io ie idea which has caused the farm farm- to try the growing of flax was in- in ID peed by J. J II Riley who has beene been t e ested in the flax industry in in n vari vari- van van- I arts ants of the country He He lie with t I r people camo came here several years veers Il and nd made tests of the soil an and ana the mate ate and the they reached the conchi- conchi 0 that the flax plant would prosper as well wen as it does docs in North Dar Dal Da- Da l where it is one of the leading Cultural r and manufacturing pro pro- Pas t I. I 5 After fully determining this Eilcy Miley got ot the farmers farmerR interested as a result many maDr of them arc are fling ning on planting the flaxseed withe with with- e next few weeks The The planting for the seed is between May 1 l and 1 1 The harvest time comes in Authe Au Au- lin in the Dakotas and und as the climate it t t a great deal di different here from the tho tame saute season is is pro pro- tl Ii teed iced the best for the local crop Successful I year at the experimental station Logan ogan Prof E. E D. D Ball had some W planted and he reported that they ew w. and matured successfully Ho lIo Utah could grow flax lo to o good lf and he is advocating advocating its th by Utah farmers because of act that it is easy to grow and is a product lio o o present plans of those who are jing ting ing the industry are aro to show to the tho ther r ers that the crop can be bo grown and then to boom the ins in in- s y v. With With the production of suf suf- quantities of flax it is the inon in in- Jon on of Mr Riley and others to toa toi i a company for the making of seed oil and for the manufacture cake This factory will bee bo be bod e Eed d in the center of the flax grow grow- and will pay prices similar oso paid by the eastern exchanges will amount to more than the arc are getting for many other Ip which now occupy their lands e year pear After the tIle gets fets ex- ex 1 ex- ex exye ye ve enough there will vill be a good goode I. I e ng ig here hero for a linoleum factory ii 11 will make a a. good grade grado of oil oili i m as well as the flaxseed oil and f Cake alte The average price a-price price paid for the flax livered in Minneapolis or Duluth is isM isper Sli M per pounds which is no small ure iother ther authority on tho the flax indus- indus who 10 has been in in the west and north- north 1 t n n tho the last few years and who says at ho plant can bo be grown very easi- easi easi- easi ere iere is Prof II L. L Roller Holler of the thet it Dakota colle college e. e Hoin Ho He Hoin t in n a recent bulletin Farmers ider er that the tho flax crop is the most ing g crop in in North Dakota especially I ue c raised upon new breaking and an 1 her her types of new land North Iata Data Da- Da ta is is now the leading flax growing i ito a of the union The Tho northwest ii n produce the plant in as long fibre td d as strong as any country in the ii Jr The Tho seed crop in in areas areas new to It has always been a paying I all ele else of tho the crop has allowed to go to waste op Practicable i Wherever I have havo gone either cither in or in America and have havo asked ou the best variety of flax for fiber reply has always been the common i e blossom is the best says the ol T e regions in which the tho flax crop crops I s been cen successfully grown rown either for forber fore foro o e ber r or for seen seed form a wido wide lat- lat latt t 1 ind ad n are are found upon various large largo ie lC i within the tho tenth and tho the sixty sixty- t parallels of north latitude The h sand sandy y soils are very well adapted ho cultivation of the highest grades r d s fiber ber In various various' parts arts of Europe P found tho the peasantry cultivating lar large e ezi zi of flax year after year Tho The crops ot any more exhausting to the theo o jund d than han any ordinary farm crops d. d did 3 j d a it has been shown by the ex ex- of our chemist and ap alist and by our own e experiments flax plant is less radical in its if upon the soil toil than wheat corn or Of ts There ou ought ht to bo be large areas in tho the ito Ita fiere of af Utah Utan that produce as fine seed seeds x as s any taco ithe in the world L Thea The a for such flax can be worked into vf and tho the better qualities of this ke Iko very satisfactory crash toweling ging and other articles I under under- nd nil that there is a reasonable able f sale alo same Tho The harvest of flax is nilar to wheat and oats It is harsted harsted har har- s sted d with a a. binder and shocked an and |