BY-PRODUCTS OF LINEN FLAX
New Zealand and Australia are interested in the utilisation of byproducts, from the wartime manufacture oJ\ linen flax. Huge stacks of tow alongside some factories in both countries await the opening up of new avenues of usefulness and J a payable market.
The extent to which these byproducts may be economically used as stock fodder can be estimated from tests carried out in Northern
Ireland where the residue of broken and light seed remaining from the dressing of home-produced ilax seed is known as "feeding linseecl" and contains a considerable amount of weed seeds, and other extraneous matter. It contains from 23 to 28 per cent, of oil ? as compared with 35 per cent, for linseed and lias a fibre content of 9.6 per cent. Its feeding value is assessed at about five-sixths that of pure linseed. Flax chaff has a feeding value slight-* ly less than that of good meadow hay but better than poor meadow hay or oat straw. Other products from the proceeding of flax—broken waste tow or dust, from winnowers—have no feeding value.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 58, 20 March 1945, Page 7
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181BY-PRODUCTS OF LINEN FLAX Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 58, 20 March 1945, Page 7
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