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Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the Convention of Flax and Hemp Spinners and Growers: Held in Chicago, Illinois, February 25, 1886, With the Address of the President of the Flax and Hemp Spinners and Growers' Association, and the Report of the Annual Meeting
As before stated, Russia is the largest producer of flax, and has in the past exported enormous quan tities of the fibre; but within a few years her people have been large purchasers of English flax machin ery, and are establishing factories in Russia, which will in time take the place of the production of hand spinning and hand weaving.
Evidently Russia intends to supply her home market with linen goods, and also has an eye on the business of the Eastern countries.
This manufacturing in their own country is tak ing the best of their flax, and as a result the poorer\ grades are being shipped, while formerly the best selections of their crop were obtainable.
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