The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-10
FLAX IS GOING
+. TO new LANDS
About the Usual Acreage of
Barley to be Sown in
the Northwest.

Linseed company is distributing and is
ABOUT to distribute quantities of fax
SEED or selected stocks throughout fax
raising districts of the country. Mon
tana appears to be the coming state
where ~faxseed raising may be quite
INDEFINITELY spread. Experience in
Montana In flax production has so far
new and has been little visited by flax
disease. The full crops that have
been raised and the high prices that
nave been obtained have brought
large profits to the parties who have
ventured In this direction. Idaho too,
IS starting in with flax as a crop to be
to much extent and 1t is
claimed will soon become a thriving
INDUSTRY particular interest in this line
q very acceptable guarantee Of prices
is onered to growers. Much atten-
ton Is now being given to investiga-
IONS IN the department of utilizing
Ia wastes. Where attention has been
palo IN a scientific way to utilizing
the fibre prospects are favorable.
Flax is ordinarily sown along after
apout May 10 and followed up nearly
to June l. The breadth that may go
into n GROUND in North Dakota,
age has been and very likely will be
this year. is not determined vet, but
Will depend very largely on conditions
hereafter to arise. Flax seeding area
is dependable very much on the suc-
cess OF the seeding of other crops. 1t
being a late seeded crop it ordinarily
X the land that for any cause is
ie1t TOO late to be used with cereals.
In the Netherlands.
consul Cen Soren Listoe. Rotter-
dam-The prices of linseed fiuctuated
during the greater part of last year.
me market became firm for a time,
based on unfavorable crop reports.
american importers came into the
market and bought not only the avail
abe supply Of seed and oil. but con-
tracted for future shipments. The
prices paid for linseed were 1886 to
siso Tor h La Plata. and $751; to
4isS Tor the Bombay per 1920 pounds.
me total receipts of linseed in Europe
during the last year were 5,O61, 900
quarters. Of which Argentina furnish
ca 1:s4S,500 quarters. British India g..
45l,OOO quarters. and Russia 661,5O
quarters. Conditions in the Dutch oil
mills We're unsatisfactory, owing to
fuctuation in seed prices. The high
est and lowest quotations for linseed
oil last year were $22 and $14, re-
sp~ectively, per 220 pounds. and the
closing price for the year wal SIG.
The trade in rapeseed was steady
throughout last summer, as the de-
mand was fully met by the British In
dian product, but owing to the un-
favorable reports from the Danube
and other sections the quotations were
frmer, and the ear closed with the
relation between the market quota
tions of seed and oil out of proper
ton. The failure of a Spectator at
Antwerp caused forced sales of large
quantities of oils and seeds at Paris
and Berlin. and this contributed to
disturb the market,
Little Barley Seeded.
SO far as has been made OBJ
servable about the usual e Of
barley is probable to be sown in the
northwest this season. There is dis
enlargement in result of the 1911 crop
as SO great a proportion Of it came
u as low quality grain, especially as
relates to the terminating Of it. The
range of prices of the last crop is ex-
tremely wide. While some Of it sells
at about zoe, other brings as high as
$3.50 with daily sales ranging at all
prices between these extremes.
1t has been very difficult all the way
through the season for users to obtain
sufficient OF desirable mailing barley.
AS to whether there may be a greater
preadth or a decrease it Is too early
yet to form anything approaching re-
liable estimates. The high price of
suitable seed with a large quantity Of
it necessary is discouraging to a large
acreage. On the other hand prices
have been very satisfactory and when
a good crop is raised the results were
profitable.
Seeding in some places is begun but
no very great progress is so far made.
Suitable weather would induce larger
acreage to be planted than with the
reverse or unfavorable weather for
the work.