New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-12
FLAX FIBRE AND TARIFF.
A NEW INDUSTRY CREATED IN THE NORTH
WEST.

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Is NOT TIE ONLY VALUABLE PART OF
CROP OF FLAx-INVENTIoN9 TINT
MAKE 1T EASY TO TREAT
THE STRAW MILL
IL MINNESOTA.
st. Panl. MINI. sept oo-Amorc the industries
greatly aided altogether created by the Republican
protective system are FAX fibre works. the first OF
which has been established at Austin. Mimi. about
sixty miles south OF St. Paul II Is an industry "i
importance to the whole country and could never have
beer made possible were Il for the passage o the
Mckinley bill. 1t means a saving Of many million
dollars year 10 tho farmers Of this country and ut
the time lowers the price Of goods manufactured
from fax to an almost corresponding amount. The
works Austin the result OF ingenious scheme
for preparing fax nbre for the manufacture Of linen
goods and fine paper devised 10y Il chcmi, named PEN
ningon. who has lborcd for years in Nrw-Ycrk per
focng tho plan.
some time ago a subcompany formed the American
Flax Fibre Association. with headquarters I'm New
York and they here for a suitable location. and
finding the required resources beyond their cXpcca-
lions at once about the erection ~ a plant which
Is now completed. and will be put In operation when
this years fax crop Is harvested. There already
a few linen mills In this country. hut The prepared
fibre which they comes almost wholly from Europe.
and the fax growers have been in The habit Of throw
ing away and burning useless the fax stalks. there
being market for anything but the seed The low
tariff on the imported prepared fibre brought II Into
this country at a rate almost too cheap TO permit OF
American competition, and millions and millions OF
dollars have gone up In smoke or been permitted TO
rot every year in the great harvc, fields Of the North
Yves, IN consequence. But at lat manufacturers have
awakened the Of the industry. and the
farmers are beginning believe that IN" seed Is not
the most valuable thing about crop 81 flax.
The seed itself usually brings good price, averaging
about 81 per hushcl. but the value Of an acpe field
when thc fax sowcd for the fibre will be immensely
augmented. and that too at much loss labor than FOUND
necessary before I'm hrcshing the seed from the straw.
The exact plicc which will bc paid for tn" straw
has not Yet been fixed upon, although II VIII range
between ~ and 80 per ton according 10 the hnd ana
| quality. several experiment, were mad" last year
which proved that III. Industry could 10 put on 4
| having basis. and this fall will 500 the min In full
operation and consuming all The fax brought to It
| rom The entire Northwest Another factory may be-
r,tal,l, he'd near ST. Paul or Minneapolis In short
| time rumorS TO that effect being current, but
| nothing la, Yet been given ont 10 the public.
The effect Of this will Of course. be- more than
local. The farmers in the Northwest VIII b" IN" first
TO profit directly by the opening Of tie Industry, but
their brother throughout tho United State will share
the profits with them In The shape of cheaper linen
goods, Then. too II may have th" effect Of startin:
linen and nav mills throughout th" entire country.
and thc industry seems destined 10 become one Of 10"
important ones oi the United state. Tests have been
made already which show that linen Of iis,-qnlty
can be made from the haN grown here. and th" method
employed promises exceed even the most -nneuine
expectations of IT, inventor I'm results. W. l.. Koiicr
NAL Of Sew York. wlo is one ~ the officers OF D."
! company aid to-day
~N,.t II tho flax ccan,, n Europe 4, manipulated
b. hand and IN Russia th, 8, particularly ih" case
where cohNl'r are '"lI'''' QUO ~ ''"' .''-'
system i'm vogue there is lay the naN on ID" ground
/ air M 90
.. .,. r.. %, .t.. .,,it Uni. r...h,l of,an
20 ''i"l',' "'' ',"' ,,. .l. ... ,,.,,,
take, eight week, o. ">I"-rf'. Mlri 'H.- ONE ''"l
car nut TN hap. for d.. NIL ory about twenty -D'"
pounds day. IN rance '''I".'h' "'" s''" ''''
average number Of pounds is llt'i" larger. I'D Iie
land 4 moro liuprovo! u 'hDd IS ado p'.i AZ. ihr
n , mono ,I',o,,-h ,h. O.. r,,tlo.- moe. fh. rii-h
"'A ia, S'',' ,,.,,s ,.r .l..,..,-d
cart, abou, $50 pounds q day. My brother ard Alr.
.,ort nearly rv. year, on the Invention of machine
nt,.t rnl r,- tb. .t-,v l.. r,....d through th.
chemical procc.,. d'dn ana car" '"'o p''''' way
with tbe aid or Twelve mon. Tho, machine, will hr
! -, .. &c., r-, ,i,u. to ,ba MINT Al Nf-flu aui I
hgl, ~ am mn" ,,rr'confl,nt In predicting r,,oll
uo, J." w i i, ,t. elmo IT,, had d., Inr,r,i,,
long H. fn i had ',r heard OF MrKni or DID,,
,a"ou, n' b ,n,.u,i,n f. nia,,Ic"i NJ. mu r..
,,~iag. XIV" SOM, Slow 10 iuon marufarttr,r, ou
The roiilns proc,,, which viii BE- employed 8, "a
strictly natural one, and lrovG', cei,ain nir.l.
/ rating agent, Irr, water can never TOT Han. 40
leaf In ANYTHING liz. reasonable time. The mlrrob,
that are contained I'm tho water therefore fhr lnflu:
t"rre' and c"rin ,,l,'Inc, ar ucc.~.ar, or ia.lr
yi.,,r,t,. crn,yfh and fuulflpsnfion Nh Pennington
Intend, T., supply tho. substance, In proper quantities.
oXnctlv n. frrn,~ add fertilizer. ~ h- ind- wir
they are exhausted or do not contain the necessary
element, Of growth.
II has been found that the water, of certain rlv,~
will not rot haN while other uc' unusually quick.
Thl. ,ad DR. Pennington T. hrcar,. of 20 d.ariA or
plcniIfninr,s Of microi,., in The water.
The reason for plnciug inc factory IN Minnesota T.,
easily pcrceptiilc II + IA. centre o. lafgc naN
'p' t r "'" Th avcr,,c If sttav nrsinrt f. nL,u,