| Show n GOOD CROP 11 dt best soil Is sandy loam sufficiently damp that irrigation I 1 to unnecessary the beat soil oll for flax tax li Is a bandy sandy I 1 oam aich Is I 1 lamp thai that it t does not need to ba irrigated ilow however it must not be too wet flax can be grown on ground that la Is drier it it ie Is of such texture that it will nc bake when irrigated II 11 the ground bakes it Is a almost impossible to bather gather the flax without breaking the fiber hemp will do well on oa moat most any kind ot of soil where wheat will thrive write writes willlam wadley in field and k farm the ground sho ald be well fertilized and then plowed deep this should be done in the fall the next spring the th ground hould should be well harrowed and worked down very fine ane the object of 0 hating having the ground rich and in good condition ta Is to the plant plants grow taller and hence produce more lint if only the seed Is I 1 desired poorer ground can be used the seed shoua hou J be planted alter after all dancer of frost is past it can either be drilled in or eown sown bro cast the aeed teed should be well covered with soil if it merely raising th the plants for the seed a bushel to the tb acre will be suM indent clent when the fiber Is wanted more seed should be own sawn the thicker the crop the finer tb th fiber will be if 11 the ground to daup anoush enough so that irrigation Is not required to further care la in necessary until the crop Is in ripe it must however e ter be surrounded rounded eur by a good fence fenc t to a keep all animals out as the diaze plant are practically spoiled it if broken or tangled up when the crop ie Is ripe rive it hould should be pulled very cry carefully and andi tidd in small bundles about a good double handful in each bundle these thesis should be thoroughly dried and then placed in n a large shock on an a calv a d A band should be tied around this thin large hock shock to hold it upright then the heads beads should be carefully can fully pounded to loosen the eed seed now 41 take each mau bundle and beat the this seed out of it it the eed seed can be 4 cleaned by a aleve 1 or fanning mau great care must vaunt be taken dot not to break the etalka stalks the plants should then b be placed in some clean water and I 1 left for about ten days or until they are ar sufficiently rotted that the int kint will readily leave the talk stalk great care bould should be taken to keep the plant plants clean during all this thin process as its the whiteness of the fiber aber defends o 0 cleanliness when the stalks are rotted they should te be taken out and thoroughly dried utter which they should be placed in a dry room no so that they will not get got wot wet again be fore they are used of 01 course in these times the lint would be taken and worked up into linen rope etc by machinery hence the old band hand process which we used in early day days would perhaps not be of interest now I 1 am not acquainted with the machine process |
