Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . y, it may either be stacked so that the rain willnot penetrate, or taken to the barn, and allowedto remain until after harvest, when the sjeed istaken off, and it is either dew or water-rotted dur-ing the fall. The seed may be taken off duringthe winter, and the rotting take place the follow-ing spring or summer. It may remain 2 or .3years, if kept dry, and free from mice. Variousmeans are employed to remove the seed; someusing the rippler already described; some, whatis called a bee
Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . y, it may either be stacked so that the rain willnot penetrate, or taken to the barn, and allowedto remain until after harvest, when the sjeed istaken off, and it is either dew or water-rotted dur-ing the fall. The seed may be taken off duringthe winter, and the rotting take place the follow-ing spring or summer. It may remain 2 or .3years, if kept dry, and free from mice. Variousmeans are employed to remove the seed; someusing the rippler already described; some, whatis called a beetle, which is a block of wood about10 inches long, and 3 or 4 square, into which ahandle is inserted, though frequently the handleis a prolongation at an angle of the head, madesmall enough for the hands to grasp, by such an 34 FLAX CULTURE, ETC. instrument the seed can be beaten out. A moreexpeditious way is, to pass tlie seed ends through rcdlers, driven bjhorse or otherpower, as describ-ed on page 76 ofthe American Ag-riculturist, for1863, and illustrat-ed by fig. 29. Seedtaken ofE in thisway, after the. 29.—ROLLER FLAX-THRESHER. Btraw has been thoroughly dried, does not requireto be spread out to dry, but simply to be winnow-ed like any other grain, to remove the chaff. Zrd MetJiod.—It is beginning to be the custom•where flax-mills are erected, for the proprietorof the mill to purchase the flax standing on theground when in flower, or after it is pulled andstacked, either before or after the seed-bollsare taken off; this I think will be found topay both parties the best, as the manufacturerwill then have skilled persons to take chargeof it, and can produce a more uniform andbetter quality of fibre, than each farmer can byrotting his own. A system something like this is carried on inBelgium, which involves a division of labor, andno doubt contributes, in a great measure, to theexcellence of the flax produced in that farmer lias thus but to produce the crop
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