. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. uch apractical result as to produce any effect upon the market, though some fabricshave been manufactured, and much good anticipated. One of the plans thatpromises the greatest results is breaking the texture of flax-straw by the ex-pansive force of steam, by which the woody substance that makes the shivesof the flax-dresser is lo
. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. uch apractical result as to produce any effect upon the market, though some fabricshave been manufactured, and much good anticipated. One of the plans thatpromises the greatest results is breaking the texture of flax-straw by the ex-pansive force of steam, by which the woody substance that makes the shivesof the flax-dresser is loosened from the fiber, and that is left in a conditionvery much resembling coiton. This is cflected by filling a large gun withflax and saturating it with steam, gradually raising the pressure to ICO inch, when the gun is discliaigcd, and the contents blown across a largeroom, in a great, fleecy cloud of cottony lint. The same ])rocess produceslint from many substances that if not a substitute for cotton in all its useswill be for many things for which cotton is now used. For instance, thecommon reed-cane of the Southern States will blow into a lint that is exceed-ingly well adapted to the manufacture of paper. Il?8KCTS ISJIVBlors ti>™e CoTTOZ? .. PLATE XXT. (Page 942.) This, like Plates XVI. and XVII., is one for careful study. Theinsects that often nearly destroy whole crops in the cotton-growingStates, both cotton and corn, are here placed before the reader insuch a Tperfect fac-shnile of life, that any one may learn to distinguishthem; and from seeing them as here pictured, he will naturally be-gin to study their character and devise ways to counteract theirwork of destruction. Some boy or girl may be incited, by lookingat this picture, to enter upon the study of Entomology. In onecase, at least, a man has grown from just such a small beginning asthe study of this plate to be an eminent writer upon the science,and has done much to instruct others in the history
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