Show correspondence txie wize PI flaak SEED SUBJECT lehl leui utah county april oth 1881 flex FLAX SEED CULTURE editor deseret nees news it is an ail acknowledged fact that our farmers should have additional resources by which they would realize greater profits out of their land laud and labor than they do at present the raising of flax seed has never been tried to any ex extent tent in t this his territory perhaps because there was no demand for it this is at present no more the case as the germania white lead works at cottonwood 0 alone use about gallons of 1 linseed see oil per month mouth and many thousands S ads of gallons lions of oil besides are used annual annually y in the territory if our farmers would raise seed in sufficient quantities somebody would erect an oil olf mill in the territory and if not the seed would be prof profitably exported as its value iu in new york is sal san 2 tere per er bushel which would be over 1 here at home the value of flaxseed also has not been leen known linseed oil costs a gallon by the carload car load here in every bushel of seed are arc about two gallons of oil and 40 lbs ibs of oil ou cake the latter is one of the best foods to fatten cattle and is worth in new yord ay lc c per pound which would give two gallons of oil at ido and 40 pounds of cake at goc making a total of v 12 2 per bushel the average g crop per acre in this territory in early days was 30 bushels in minnesota where seed see d is extensively r raised alsed they realize about 15 bushels on land which brings bring s 10 bushels of 0 wheat per acre or one hait hais more flax seen thail than wheat flax can stand a great deal of moisture and could be profitably rais rats raised ed on poor grass land which is too wet for grain it will grow on aar any land where grain grows an and d is an earlier crop than the latter for seed raising alone one bushel is sufficient to seed one acre aar e it should be harrowed in by tying brush behind the harrow so as to cover it thorough thoroughly Iv and it awauld be well to roll it afterwards when the pods containing conta ming the seed be begin in to turn yellow it is ready for harvest and should be cut early in the morning to prevent the seeds falling out else it is treated the same as other small grain and threshed by the threshia threshing machine the linn hun has also some value being used in the manufacture of ropes experience has not as yet taught anyone la in this territory what kind of land is the best adapted to the raisins raising of this seed but a few years trial will determine this my M opinion is that on loamy soil it ai I 1 make a crop without watering A carload of se seed ed is shortly expected to be for sale or to lend respectfully sonn jonn BECK |