Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . the plot, so thathe will be sure that no strip will anywhere besowed too thick or too thin. How TO Cover the Seed.—I never wouldallow a team of any kind to pass over the field,after the seed has been sowed, for the followingreasons: If the soil is at all light and porous, ateam will, with their feet, bury much of the seedso deeply that it will be several days behind, andnever be able to attain an equal growth with therest of the field. Another reason is, when theseed is buried so dee
Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . the plot, so thathe will be sure that no strip will anywhere besowed too thick or too thin. How TO Cover the Seed.—I never wouldallow a team of any kind to pass over the field,after the seed has been sowed, for the followingreasons: If the soil is at all light and porous, ateam will, with their feet, bury much of the seedso deeply that it will be several days behind, andnever be able to attain an equal growth with therest of the field. Another reason is, when theseed is buried so deep, the flax will pull muchharder. Flax seed requires but little earth tocover it deep enough to vegetate in a short time,and by depositing it all on a smooth surface,where several seeds will not be gathered into de-pressions in the soil, it will all vegetate alike, willstand evenly on the ground, and pull easily, maybe cut with scythes, cradles, or horse moweis, closeto the ground, and the straw and lint will be of auniform length, and quality. My practice hasbeen to bush iu the seed by drawing a brush-. Fig. 8.—BRUSH-HARKOW, barrow by hand. With a suitable brush, one mancan bush in four or five acres per daj, and do thework well. Such a harrow covers a strip aboutfive feet wide, and an active man or a strong boycan cover the seed nearly as fast as he coul 1 doit with a team, and much better. To Make a Hand Brush-Harrow.—(Fig. 8.)Procure a piece of hard-wood scantling, or • PRIZE ESSAYS. 9 round stick, about five feet long, and three byfour inches square, for the brush head; put twothills into it, and bore two sets of three-quarterinch holes through it, for receiving the but-endsof brush whicli are fastened in the holes withnails. Brush about two feet long should be se-lected, and after the holes are filled with them,another course may be nailed on each side of thebrush-head, if necessary. This will be found amost complete implement for covering flax eflectiven
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