Watson, Kate Heintz. [from old catalog], American school of home economics, Chicago. [from old catalog] · Chicago. American school of home economics · leaf 51
A— Inlet; ^—Undisturbed Water; C— Bundles of Flax. Cold water retting in running water is practiced inBelgium. Retting in stagnant water is the methodusually employed in Ireland and -Russia. The rettingin stagnant water is more rapidly done, but there isdanger of over-retting on account of the… … LAX 47 without any previous steeping. This method of rettingis practiced in Germany and Russia. Warm waterretting and chemical retting have met with limitedsuccess. When the ret-ting is complete,the flax is set upin sheaves todry. The nextoperations con-sist of break-ing, scutch-ing, andhackling…
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