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Fiber Wars, Chapter 7: The New Deal
The experience of the defeat of gasohol woke the chemurgists to the political realities they were facing and led to the formation of the National Farm Chemurgic Council in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1935.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 8: Hemp Under Attack
Only one among many useful crops cited by the chemurgists, hemp was valued as much as a potential source of cellulose for the nascent plastics industry as for its traditional fiber applications. A Popular Mechanics article in 1938 raved hemp as the source for 50,000 products, essentially plastics, and called it the “Billion Dollar Crop.”
Fiber Wars, Chapter 9: Denouement
While the chemurgic uses of hemp were being entangled in Treasury red-tape, the replacement of linoleum by vinyl, a petroleum product, was a further blow to the linseed industry, which was struggling to hold on as its other markets shifted to water-soluble paints, also made from petroleum sources. Flax and hemp were juxtaposed dominos in the general historic toppling to synthetic, petroleum-based materials.
Fiber Wars, Hemp As Weed Control
Weed control is a recalcitrant issue in crops grown for organic certification. One approach is the prior use of a competitive crop. In his textbook, Modern Weed Control, A. S. Crafts cites as potential weed smothering crops: millet, Sudan grass, sweet clover, sunflower, rape, barley, rye, reed canary grass, crested wheatgrass, sorghums, buckwheat, soybeans, alfalfa, cowpeas, clovers, hemp, Jerusalem artichoke, and ensilage corn. Of these only one, hemp, can be taken seriously as an adequate weed controlling mechanism. The historical testimonials to hemp’s ability to control weeds are numerous.
Fiber Wars, Table of Contents
Fiber Wars’ by David P. West, Ph.D is a historical record of the hemp industry. Dr. West introduces hemp and its early importance to mankind, and defines hemp’s political struggle in the 20th century. In brief, “Fiber Wars” covers the rise of cotton and its monocultural effects on Southern economics; the chemurgy movement headed by Hale and McMillan; the New Deal and Southern politics; and the influence of the petrochemical industry on US government.
Fiber Wars, Winona Republican Herald
Two hemp processing companies brought to Winona in 1937 a new industry here for which the promoters see a good future development bringing an increase in jobs for Winona employees and a new and profitable cash crop for Winona area farmers.
Hemp Textiles
As the first vegetable fiber ever harvested for the purpose of making fabrics, hemp has always been valued for its durability. Materials made from hemp fiber have been discovered in tombs dating back to the 8th millennium (8,000-7,000 B.C.). Hemp has long been an industrial fiber because of its steady availability, strength and versatility.
Man Made Fiber
The late 1920s and 1930s saw continuing consolidation of power into the hands of a few large steel, oil, and chemical (munitions) companies. The U.S. federal government placed much of the textile production for the domestic economy in the hands of their chief munitions maker, DuPont.
Man Made Fiber - Correction: Rayon
Rayon is not nitrated cellulose. It is cellulose acetate which is in no way an explosive.
Market Analysis for Hemp Fiber as a Feed Stock for Papermaking
In an attempt to develop alternative crops for midwestern farmers, industrial hemp is being evaluated as a fiber source for the paper industry. This simplified analysis shows that hemp could profitably be used as a fiber source for the paper industry and that Wisconsin farmers could meet the demand for fiber by the fine paper manufacturers of Wisconsin. In contrast to the past utilization of hemp, it is essential that the whole plant be used to make paper and not just the long bast fibers.