Eastman, Whitney. The History of the Linseed Oil Industry in the United States, T.S. Denison & Company, Minneapolis, 1968.

Chapter One: The Raw Material--Flaxseed

Chapter two: Growth and Decline of Flaxseed Production in the United States along with the rise and fall of the linseed Oil processing industry

Chapter Three: the work of the Flax Development Committee and the Flax Institute of the United States