Show NATURE SPEEDED TO OVERCOME SHORTAGE Necessary Supply of Flaxseed Grown In Porto Rico Brought Back to This Country In Time for Spring Planting Superior Planting Superior Quality of Flax Produced From Selected Strains Prepared by the United States Stales Department Depart Depart- ment meat of or Agriculture When an nn Improved variety of seed Is Isery very ery badly needed to make up n It national shortage of a commodity the natural increase is not always rapid enough One way In which an un un- 1 speeding speeding- up may be secured is s shown shown by the work work- of the United States department i t of agriculture with Foreign supplies of at flax coming Into the United States were severely reduced during the war and an increase of of flax flax acreage became imperative A I large rge number of pedigree pedigree gree selections and Increase plats pints of ot the best varieties were grown during the summer summer of t 1918 18 at the experiment stat staton station on at East Lansing Mich In the fall tall of that year selections of seed of ot various arlous strains were taken to Porto PortoRico Rico and an Increase crop was grown during the winter The Increased supply of ot seed thus thus produced was brought bac back to the Hie United States In 1 r P 1 i x t 4 i. i Tl t I 2 I t r. r 1 x V 1 l 1 c f x s. s dt mt I 1 s f i j J N u r W c f l E W f y l ifil f t fj t. t l f f t iY l j i iy J y Y A Y A 4 o J kt j t V ik I y f. f fRA RA i 4 d J i t j i ty t- t y 6 s 1 l h N li r Y H t y N I I S 'S l k Z n I r tI f.- f. o M o i 4 jt 1 t b Flax In lii Porto Port Rico The Rico The Excellent Showing Made by a Small Plat of Fiber Flax in the Winter of 1916 17 Has Resulted In More Extended Plantings There to Secure Increased Quantities of Seed of Improved Strains time for planting In the spring sprin of of 1919 1010 In the fiber al flax x regions of ot Michigan and Oregon These stems developed by several generations of selection produce flax reports the chief of ot the bureau of plant Industry that is decidedly decidedly decidedly de de- de- de superior to fiber tIber flax grown from commercial seed of elther recent or i remote emote importation The cultivation cultivation tion of fiber flax has become an established established es es- es Industry In eastern Michigan Michigan Michi Michl gan and the Willamette valley In Ore gon gOD In addition the crop was cultivated dur during ng the past season In western vestera west vest ern era Washington southeast southeastern rn rn Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota southern Wisconsin and western vestera west vest era ern New York |