News Advocate | 1923-07-12 | Page 3 | French Urged to Grow Flax

FRENCH URGED TO GROW FLAX increased acreage government asked for will mean much to ti the tie e national wealth french farmers are belair urged to i increase the acreage ft el flax on the 00 S bluds oi that it wl wilt additional ad nt and that more tone tons of flax could be annually thus at home borne millions ot of francs paid to foreign countries tu to keep french linen mill mills in operation in addition the utilization of the fed need for oil and and the straw for paper would prove an important dource of revenue in IW the french flax fax acreage was 43 acres in 1813 1913 acre acs ac s and at tit the outbreak of the war it had ema grown to about acree acres vice consul D B levis reports that ht the present time the amount of land devoted to flax growing chows shows a shrinkage of CO 50 p cent from the highest prewar acreage wh while ile the french linen mills can bonsu consume to the output of acres their annual requirements being metric tons of raw flax notwithstanding the difference in price french flax spinners pin ners are bald said to prefer th the home brown product to that of