. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. uo farmer's hand-book. average eight feet in height, the acre will yield eight hundred weight of hemp, each foot in height corresponding to a hundred weight of the lint. Hemp exhausts the soil slowly, if at all ; and nothing cleanses and preparea the earth better for other crops than hemp, especially for small grain or grasses. It eradicates all weeds, and, when it is taken off, leaves the field not only clean, but smooth and even. FLAX. Varieties. — The most important species of this plant — the only on
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. uo farmer's hand-book. average eight feet in height, the acre will yield eight hundred weight of hemp, each foot in height corresponding to a hundred weight of the lint. Hemp exhausts the soil slowly, if at all ; and nothing cleanses and preparea the earth better for other crops than hemp, especially for small grain or grasses. It eradicates all weeds, and, when it is taken off, leaves the field not only clean, but smooth and even. FLAX. Varieties. — The most important species of this plant — the only one fonn- ing the subject of cultivation — is the common flax, which has been applied to the making of cloth from time immemorial. Fig. Soils. —The soils best suited to the growth of flax are those which con- tain a large proportion of vegetable matter in their composition. Strong clays do not answer well, nor soils of a gravelly or dry, sandy nature. If the soil be too much enriched by the application of manures, the flax will grow too luxuriously, and produce a coarse fibre; and if it be deficient in fertility, the produce will be scanty and unremunerative. Soils of the alluvial formation are peculiarly adapted ; also land having a black, mossy surface, or what is called gray land, and where the lower part of the soil is clay, resting on a retentive subsoil. Crops of flax of considerable value have often been reaped from land on which the produce of oats v/as inferior. In the preparation of the soil for flax, it is of importance that it should be reduced to a fine tilth, and be free from weeds. When the previous crop has been grass, a single ploughing only is given, which is to take place early in winter; when the period of sowing arrives, the land is to be well hap. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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