Flax: The Fiber and Seed. A Study in Agricultural Contrasts

Walter S. Barker

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1917, vol. 31, issue 3, 500-529

Abstract: The old culture and the new, 500. — The two groups of products, 501. — European fiber culture, 504. — Modern flaxseed farming, 504.— Pulling and rippling fiber, 506. — Harvesting flaxseed, 507. — Preparing fiber; retting, scutching, 508. — Attempts to apply machinery to fiber production, 514. — Machinery applied to flaxseed farming, 519. — Migrations of the flaxseed crop, 521. — Attempts to establish fiber production in the United States, 523. — A comparison of productive agencies, 524. — The reasons for separate production of fiber and seed, 525. — The principle of comparative advantage, 526.

Date: 1917
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