| Show correspondence IRON COUNTY from eider elder james II 11 martineau to lt gen well weli PAROWAN july 1856 not long iong since Tin ticks band stole samuel lewis horse a few of the brethren went after it surprised the indians and retook the horse without much difficulty and no bloodshed though the indians were very mal mad our corn potatoes beets ac are n nearly nearis ead used up by the worms and much of tile the late wheat is covered with a kind of lice though there is a considerable almost reay ready to cut some rye has been already harvested weare we are not cast down for we know it is the lords business to provide for his saints and he will do jo so general health and peace prevail FLAX ITS CULTURE AND manufacture the importance of the cultivation of this plan plant t is more frequently admitted than understood there lre ire are two varieties the spring and close elosa flax the latter is most moa commonly grown has longer smoother boother stein whose capsules give out their seeds eeds only when wilen thrashed early flax is u usually sown la in april or early in may alay late flax is bown sown in ju june ne this plant blossoms in jl juno uno une or july and ripens its seed in september the tile best ground for this pl plant nt is an open somewhat friable clay mingled with sand saud and mould tila the seeds ought to be sown thick illicit whereby the stalks are forced to grow more slender and thus the fabres fibres of the bast basi or harl barl are not only bould smoother and finer but more uniform in length should be sown lu in rows iu in this country for irrigation if it the ral rai raiding ing of the seed bo be the principal object the seed feed should be more thinly sown when the flax is ripe which is shown b by y the bottom of the stalk becoming yellow hind find nd the leave leaves beginning to drop off it must be immediately pulled up by the roots the seeds in this tills state are still immature fit merely for the he oil press and not for sowing when the seed crop is the object the plant must be suffered to acquire its full fall maturity in which case the fabres fibres are less fine and soft the next duty is to carry the tile flax flix off the fields in bundles to bo be rippled or stripped of its seeds which is done by drawing laby ibby handfuls through an iron comb with teeth eight inches long fixed upright in a horizontal beam when wilen the seeds are mo moe e a fully ripened they may by separated by the threshing mill the future operations in manufacturing this highly valuable fibrous plant I 1 reserve till another time when I 1 shall explain the structure of its stern stem the different processes of retting or rotting viz iz water retting dew retting and mixed retting also the different processes of breaking ha hading cling bleach bleaching hv spinning weaving ac blean Alean timp I 1 as ask k who ho would not exert Illi himself to grow this plant knowing that of it aro cro made thread and linen for many dlf dif different ferene uses sacking sheeting canvas ac already much seed beed has lias been imported and grown here and hundreds of bushels can be era fra gathered in the ilia south couth growing naturally near fort harmony washington IlIg ington ton and aud other places meantime let our farmers look out and prepare for forborne home manufactures our mechanics awaken to improve and invent ma chinery andoor chemists be diligent in their researches s for the different sorts of bleaching powders among other things tilo THOMAS lla ALA S D BROWN |
