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...JOSHUA D. MACFADYEN Abstract A new thirst for paint and color in cities made extensive flax production profitable in the northern Great Plains and Prairies and contributed to the cultivation of the most fragile grassland ecosystems. The production of flax seed for linseed oil became an early spin...

... Prairie farmers responded to GM crops such as Roundup Ready wheat, canola, and Triffid flax. Indeed, the book centers on a historical problem. Following the federal government s permissive attitude to GM and what it calls plants with novel traits, the biotech sector quickly developed and approved...

... as wheat and in a whole host of others. The adoption and then rejection of GM is also puzzling in the case of flax, a small oilseed industry that has been centered in the Prairies for as long as wheat. Unlike canola, GM flax was rejected four years after its approval, and although Eaton presents...

... environmental and productive systems within an overarching transnational interpretative framework focused on borderlands, commodities, and ecologies. The chapters touch on a wide variety of agricultural products, including wheat, henequen, cattle, flax, citrus, chile, tomato, pecans, cotton, sorghum, sugar...

... at the University of Kansas. Joshua MacFadyen is associate professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent (2018), and his new research focuses on the history of biomass energy and agriculture...

... crops such as Roundup Ready wheat, canola, and Triffid flax. Indeed, the book centers on a historical problem. Following the federal government s permissive attitude to GM and what it calls plants with novel traits, the biotech sector quickly developed and approved several GM organisms (36). Beginning...

... be listed as having an occupation only if they were paid for it. Schedule 5 reported wool, flax, and cloth production; Schedule 6 listed "industrial establishments." If fabric was listed in Schedule 5, it should not have been listed in Schedule 6, and vice versa. We added the production reported in both...

... interpretative framework focused on borderlands, commodities, and ecologies. The chapters touch on a wide variety of agricultural products, including wheat, henequen, cattle, flax, citrus, chile, tomato, pecans, cotton, sorghum, sugar beets, and hops. The themes treated by the authors range from environment...

... to create new opportunities for those who processed linen, flax, and wool. Her second chapter follows through by focusing on early developments in the textile industry. Most of the Men and Machines featured here will ring a bell Kay and the flying shuttle, Hargreaves and the spinning jenny, Arkwright...

... for harvesting his oats. Each year until Schipull sold his equipment in 1952, he recorded the expenses for equipment repair, twine, threshing machine costs, and custom combining charges for a variety of crops, including soybeans, flax, and clover seed.9 Schipull's records detail the significant expenses...

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... was destined for Europe. Haiti entered the sisal market, too, but not on a scale that could supply the quantity needed for North American farmers. Many in the cordage indus? try investigated flax, the fiber used to make linen and that grows so well in the northern plains, as an alternative. International...

... History Summer blocked shipping channels. Fish could be poisoned by rotting flax. Flax was kept under water exactly for this purpose, tomake the non-fibrous parts of the plant rot away. Fishers, flax cultivators, and linen producers quarreled about the proper use of thewater.19 For those concerned...

... because it becomes part of the soil solution almost immediately, making it readily available for uptake by the root system of plants. In an economic context that promoted the extension of acreage under flax (prices were rising due its demand as raw material for linen production), animal urine together...

... , “Scottish Networks and Voices in Colonial Australia,” in A Global Clan , 150 – 82 ; Tom Brooking , “Weaving the Tartan into the Flax: Networks, Identities, and Scottish Migration to Nineteenth-Century Otago, New Zealand,” in A Global Clan , 183 – 202 . Two studies of Highland immigration...

... human uses. The Maori, migrants from eastern Polynesia, learned at some time in the past eight hundred years tomake a sweet and highly nutritious beverage from juice care fullyextractedfromthemature flowersT. hey filteredthisthrougha finelywoven kete or flax bag to ensure itwas free from plant tissue...

... the planting of mulberry trees in order to promote the production of silk. In a more practical vein, the local press featured writers who instructed farmers to diversify their output to include wool, flax, and root crops, or provided advice on how to increase the production of items such as cider and honey...

... mixed with fish and horse manure produced excellent effect. The breeds of cattle and sheep are of a mixed kind while arable farming included grains of all kinds . . . potatoes . . . turnips . . . hay and pasture . . . [and] flax. Deskford, therefore, replicated many of the more widespread...

... as the harbingers of northern progress, able to modernize agriculture on the broad mountain plains of the eastern Sierra Madre.2 Indeed, the Old Colonists had often embraced new innovations. During their sojourn in western Canada, between 1874 and 1922, the Old Colonists had embraced commercialized wheat and flax...

... could materially benefit the Indian people and strengthen the economic underpinnings of the Indian empire.9 Howard energetically tackled a number of sequential problems: advising Bihar wheat farmers on the flax dodder plague; classifying wheat, tobacco, linseed, gram, fibers, and other crops...