Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1870 — Flax Culture and Threshing. [ARTICLE]

Flax Culture and Threshing.

Flax growing has become an interest o magnitude in some part's of the country, and is extending to new sections. Nearly a million acres were grown in the interior States last year (1809). Its culture is found profitable, and is likely to be greatly stimulated, now that there is a market, not only for the seed, but for the Jtber, and also an economical method of threshing and saving the seed. In addition to numerous oil mills which consume the seed at remunerative prices, many flax mills for the manufacture of the fiber or tow into bagging, are in operation, of which Ohio has thirty-four, Indiana ten, Illinois six, and Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, lowa, Mis souri and Kentucky one tq three each. On*impedipient to flax culture heretofore has been the incapacity of ordinary threshing machines to thresh it economically, owing to the tendency of the fiber or tow' to catch and wind on everything it comes in contact with. Tins difficulty, however, seems to be overcome by the Aultman <fc Taylor Thresher, made at Mansfield, Ohio, which is said to handle flax with as little trouble as any other gram. It appears that the same features which give this thresher an advantage in wet and>ad conditioned wheat, oats, eta.,—viz.: the entire absence of revolving shafts, beaters, pickers, raddles and rollers from the straw passage, and the peculiar and effective method employed to thoroughly shake the grain and seed out of the straw—enable it to take through the hitherto troublesome flax tow without hindrance, and turn out the seed with remarkable rapidity, fit for market.— Industrialist.

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