FLAX EXPERIMENTS
His Majesty’s Interest SUCCESS IN NORFOLK (Reuter—Letter to “Dominion.”) The King has always shown the deepest interest in experiments, which have been conducted on his own farm, with the growing of pedigree flax. So successful have these experiments proved that tenant farmers of the King’s estate at Sandringham, which covers 7000 acres of Norfolk, have decided to sow large areas of flax next year, developing the crop on an increasing scale. It was found possible during the Norfolk experiment to treble the production of flax and secure a yield, by ordinary processing methods, of 201 b. per ton more fibre than the Russian product. At present Russia supplies 80 per cent, of the flax on which the British linen industry depends. The experiment is under the supervision of the Linen Research Association and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the flax produced next year will be handled by the laboratory factory of the association iu Ulster. / The laboratory work is expected to be a prelude to the setting up of linen production in Norfolk. There will, however, be no capital outlay until the results of the manufacture of linen from Norfolk flax by Northern Ireland linen makers are known.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 124, 18 February 1933, Page 20
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