Littell's Living Age/Volume 149/Issue 1921/Increased Flax Culture in America

A gentleman from Marshaltown, Pennsylvania, reports that a single field of forty acres in that State has produced six hundred and seventy bushels of flax this season. This is a yield of almost seventeen bushels per acre, which is nearly double the average of former years. The Chicago Tribune remarks: "All the reports show that the present crop of flax is immense—the largest ever raised in this country. The cultivation of flax-seed has grown very fast in the past few years, though the increased acreage this season is due largely to the prices that were obtained last. The crushers will probably not find it necessary to loan seed to the farmers next spring to encourage flax culture, and it is doubtful if they will care to do so again anyway and bind the farmers to deliver the new seed to them at a fixed price. The fixed price was not on the right side of the fence this year."