FLAX CUTTING.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of November 10th, Mr Norman Gibbons said, in the Course of a lecture at the Palmerston North Rotary Club, that the present side-leaf method of cutting phormium tenax was originated by Mr Alfred Seifert. This is contrary to fact. I originated the side-leaf method now being used by the most progressive flax millers. Mr Seifert’s method of cutting was to leave three big leaves and the centre leaf of each flax plant. My method is to leave one large leaf on each side of the centro leaf, three in all. Mr Seifert’s method is less favourable than mine to the growth of the plant, and also gives a smaller yield of leaf to the acre. In common with all other progressive flax millers Mr Seifert now uses my method, having discarded his own in its favour. Ho was, indeed the first miller to adopt my method.—l am, etc., GEO. SMERLE.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1180, 1 December 1924, Page 6
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