Pubdate: 1856
Source: 34th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 12. Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1855 - Agriculture
Author: D.J.B.
Pages: 238-239

FLAX AND HEMP.
CULTURE IN RUSSIA.

Next to the culture of Cereals and the rearing of domestic animals, the culture of flax and hemp, both as textile plants and as oleaginous grains, is the most important branch of Russian husbandry. The gross value of these products amounts, at a very moderate estimate, to about 55,500,000 of silver roubles ($43,500,000); and both soil and climate are exceedingly favorable to their culture, throughout a great part of the empire. As their production greatly exceeds the wants of the home manufacture, the extension of their culture essentially depends on the facility with which they find an outlet in the foreign markets. Flax and hemp have always formed two of the principal exports; and, if to these we add oleaginous grains, which consist principally of the seeds of hemp and flax, we shall find that the export of these three articles, taken as a whole, exceeds in value that of any other product.