Excerpt from Fiber-Flax Machinery and Processing Operations in Oregon A representative of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engi neering Visited several fiax producing areas ln Europe and was instru mental in importing for experimental use some pieces of the most modern flax machinery in use at that time in Europe. Some of this new machinery now employed in Oregon performs with less labor per unit of production than do the old machines. Flax pullers and some processing machinery are manufactured locally. Several pieces of equipment developed by the Bureau have also been con structed-by local machine shops. 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.