Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . oil, any more thancan a good crop of wheat. > — Preparing the Soil.—There is no kind ofgrain—wheat not excepted—for which the soilneeds as much preparation as is required for agood crop of flax, and there is no crop that far-mers are accustomed to raise, that will pay betterfor fertilizing and pulverizing the soil. Not only\riil the seed be better, but the fibre also, whenthe flax is grown on soil that is very fertile, andhas been kept clean by thorough and grass
Manual of flax culture, comprising full information on the cultivation, management, and marketing of the crop . oil, any more thancan a good crop of wheat. > — Preparing the Soil.—There is no kind ofgrain—wheat not excepted—for which the soilneeds as much preparation as is required for agood crop of flax, and there is no crop that far-mers are accustomed to raise, that will pay betterfor fertilizing and pulverizing the soil. Not only\riil the seed be better, but the fibre also, whenthe flax is grown on soil that is very fertile, andhas been kept clean by thorough and grass are not only a nuisance whenthe fibre comes to be rotted and dressed, but willseriously injure its growth, and if the dressedlint, the tow, or the flax, have grass, straw, orweeds in it, tbe value will be greatly own practice In getting the soil ready for acrop of flax has been, to commence its prepara- tion at least three years before, with especialreference to flax. I have alwa3S raised it inrotation, with Indian corn, barley, oats, winter oispring wheat, and red clover. A clover Fig. 6.—FLAX plant GROWnJQ ALONK well manured, is first plowed for Indian corn. Iftbe soil is a heavy, slippery clay, or a gravelly,calcareous clay, it is plowed in the fall. If there 6 FLAX CULTURE. ETC. are any wet places in the field, they at leastshould always be underdrained. The corn iskept clean, and no weeds allowed to go to next year a crop of barley is raised, and asBoon as the barley is harvested, the soil is wellharrowed with a heavy harrow, or cultivatedwith a wheel cultivator, for the purpose of cover-ing the seeds of all noxious weeds, so that theymay vegetate and die before winter. In October,or November, the soil is well plowed; and ifdeep, we use a double team, and a Michigandouble plow. The dead furrows are cleaned out,so as to carry off the surface water. If the soilwere light and porous, and not disposed to bakein the summer, we would never pl
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