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Show ' product may be u.cd is Its fiber In the manufacture .of dlrfcrent kinds of linoleum. From the flax seed fiber Is made the foundation of the best quality of linoleum. The veteran flax grower states that the crop is as easily grown as sugar cano, corn or other like crops, and ho has no hesitancy in saying that the soil ef Utah is as gooc as any in the world for Its growth. He says the crop may be raised on irrigated or dry farm land, the better crop coming, of course, from Irrigated lands, the same ns other crops. The gentleman is enthusiastic en-thusiastic over flax culture and he thinks the timo will come when It will be one of the rnout profitable I crops in Utah. farmers interested in Us culture, but not until now bave I succeeded in getting any one to believe that It H feasible. We have organized a company com-pany to be known as the Utah Flax Seed, Cake. Fiber and Linoleum company, com-pany, and It looks as though a number of acres of land will be planted to flax In the spring. The planting will bo done In the month of May and the harvest completed In August, this being be-ing ample time for ihe crop to mature and yield ahundantly." Mr. Wright went on to say that flax will be most valuable in the making of a kind of cake that will be used i for the fatteu'np; of stock of all kinds. It operating much the same as the carrot as a cream and butter fat producer. pro-ducer. The crop Is also valuable for medical medi-cal purposes. It being used in the making of linseed oil that readily sella for ucarly $5 a gallon and the dross I from the oil taken from the seed is used extensively In the making of paint For the latter use it Is worth about $1 per gallon. The third use to which the flax FLAX INDUSTRY li DAVIS COUNTY "In lCD I raised about twenty bush, els of flax on my farm at Farming ton," said William Wright of Farm ng ton. yesterday, "and I raised a few-sheaves few-sheaves again this year for the purpose pur-pose of placing them on exhibition at the Four-State Fair nnd the Fair at Salt Iake. I wanted to show the people peo-ple that flax can be raised In this country, and that it will be a profitable profit-able crop. "Since the first year that I raised flax, I havo been trying to get the |