This industry in Iowa occupies 72.984 acres of land and gives employment to a great many people. But besides this it is one of the prndnets of our soil that is manufactured at home. Oilmills have been built in many of the counties of Iowa. and if unfriendly hands are not laid upon this industry in the interest of the pauper labor of Russia and British India. that. despite the duty now levied. sends us five million seves hundred and twentynine thousand and ninety dollars worth of flaxseed annually. we will only have to wait a few years till the business of growing and manufacturing is so well established that nothing can disturb it. Our people are remonstrating extensively againt the reduction of duty on seeds and oil as contemplated by the Committee of Ways and Means. The proposed legislation will be a repelition of our oxperiece respecting our flaxfiber interest.
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