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...Flax. The nation was enormously rich, enormously productive. Employment was at a record 60 million level. U.S. farmers paid off their mortgages, rolled in money and contemplated more fine crops, more high profits. In Dutton, Mont., a farmer outbid professional buyers for $93,000 in municipal bonds. In California's Imperial Valley, a flax farmer bragged of a profit of $84,000 on his last crop...
Last week a TIME correspondent visited 59-year-old Adolph Barke on his 200-acre farm in southern Minnesota near the Iowa line. Barke raises cattle, pigs and sheep, keeps 350 chickens. Besides pasture land, he expects to have 60 acres in oats, 30 in corn, six in flax (which the Government is subsidizing...
...Farmer Barke was not too worried. The rain would stop some time, and the flax and corn would get in all right. He had bred 25 sows for fall farrow to make up for his spring shortage...
...Flax Fiber..... 6,500 None...
...brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated...