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Posterity's Debt to New England and the Flax Discovery
An August 1910 essay traces Napoleon-like shifts in U S agriculture. It notes ten million tons of flax straw burned yearly, praises Whitney's cotton gin for elevating the South, and highlights Benjamin Cushing Mudge's flax to linen process turning waste straw into fabric in 24 hours. It predicts a new national industry boosting American commercial power.
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Ed Whitney
Liverpool
Whitney
New England
Benjamin Cushing Mudge
West
Mudge