Flax Culture; an Outline of the History and Present Condition of the Flax Industry in the United States, and a Consideration of the Influence Exerted
Flax Culture; an Outline of the History and Present Condition of the Flax Industry in the United States, and a Consideration of the Influence Exerted

Author: Edmund A. Whitman

Publisher: Barber Press

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1408646862

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Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

Flax Americana
Flax Americana

Author: Joshua MacFadyen

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0773553959

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Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada’s first and most important industrial crop. Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonites and other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business in the late nineteenth century as multinational linseed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills. Flax cultivation spread across the northern plains and prairies, particularly along the edges of dryland settlement, and then into similar ecosystems in South America’s Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen’s detailed examination of archival records reveals the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northern Great Plains. He demonstrates how international networks of scientists, businesses, and regulators attempted to predict and control the crop’s frontier geography, how evolving consumer concerns about product quality and safety shaped the market and its regulations, and how the nature of each region encouraged some forms of business and limited others. The northern flax industry emerged because of border-crossing communities. By following the plant across countries and over time Flax Americana sheds new light on the ways that commodities, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.

A Report on Flax Culture for Seed and Fiber in Europe and America (Classic Reprint)
A Report on Flax Culture for Seed and Fiber in Europe and America (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles Richards Dodge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781528400503

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Excerpt from A Report on Flax Culture for Seed and Fiber in Europe and America It is believed that a statement of the circumstances under which the facts presented in the following pages were obtained will be of special interest to those interested in the Subject as affording evidence that unusual opportunities were enjoyed and availed of in gathering the information on which this report is based. The writer Spent six months in Europe during the season of 1889 under a commission from the Department of Agriculture which, among other things, required him to make a special study of foreign practices of methods of fiber culture, chiefly of flax and hemp, and to investigate machinery for the cleaning of these fiber plants, as well as the important machines or. Processes for the decortication of ramie, Being officially connected with the American commission to the Paris Exposition, many facili ties were afforded to the writer in the pursuit of this undertaking which might not otherwise have been available, and by means of which much valuable information was secured. After the close of his work in behalf of the American commission, the inquiries were continued under an appointment as Special agent of the Department, an appointment continued after the writer's return to the United States in November of that year, when a special line of investigation was entered upon in this country in Order to secure a knowledge of the status of the flax-fiber industry in the United States with a view to its reestablishment here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.