hot pressure, two and one-half gallons are not enough to satisfy the sellers of the "strictly pure."

The quality of linseed oil depends as much upon the quality of the seeds from which it is made, as upon the manner in which the oil is expressed from the seeds, and upon the way in which it is afterward stored and cared for. The seed of the flax plant is a laboratory in which we find working:

1. Albumen (plant flesh), the growing

principle.

2. Mucilage, starch, and sugar as elements

for nourishment of the embryo flax

plant.

3. Oil, "which may be changed into sugar

and starch and used as plant food."

Space does not permit us to go into the effects of climate and soil upon the quality of  the  flaxseed;  the ill effects of frost and