Author: United States. Works Progress Administration (Or.)Publisher:
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Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Flax in Oregon
Author: United States. Works Progress Administration (Or.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Flax Industry; and Its Importance and Progress
Author: E. F. DemanFlax in Oregon
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. OregonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Flax Americana
Author: Joshua MacFadyenPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773553967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Flax Culture
Author: Edmund A. WhitmanPublisher:
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Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Flax Industry. Its Revival and Importance
Author: FLAX INDUSTRY.Flax Culture for the Seed and the Fiber, in the United States
Author: H. KoelkenbeckThe Flax Industry; Its Importance and Progress: Also Its Cultivation and Management ... With Extracts from the Annual Report of the Royal Irish Flax Society, and a Word on Chevalier Claussen's Invention of Cottonizing Flax
Author: E. F. DEMANReport to the War Industries Board
Author: American flax fibre and linen corporation, New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Flax Culture
Author: Edmund A. WhitmanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484766272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Excerpt from 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 on It by Legislation This volume aims to be brief, readable, and pertinent to the point at issue; name ly, that a duty on imported flax is unneces sary, and a hinderance to the development of the flax-growing and linen-manufac turing industries in the United States. The facts and figures upon which this study is based are taken almost entirely from publications of the United States Government, and the object has been to tell the story, so far as is possible, in the words of the government experts. Pre quent references have been made for. 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.