The Flax Industry; and Its Importance and Progress: Also Its Cultivation and Management, and Instructions in the Various Belgian Methods of Growing and Preparing it for Market ... |
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Page 65 - Britain with little labour, and that, too, upon soils where hardly anything else will grow. The accomplishment of an object so truly desirable as that of the extended cultivation of Flax, would be attended with the most salutary effects, by affording employment for an increased population, and materially lessening our dependence upon foreign countries...
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Page 149 - ... are ready to receive the flax just pulled, the handfuls being placed diagonally, and bound up in a sheaf. The sheaf is laid down at the right hand of the rippler, and untied. He takes a handful with one hand, about six inches from the root, and a little nearer the top with the other. He...
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Page 137 - After sowing, cover it with a seed harrow, going twice over it— once up and down, and once across or anglewise ; as this makes it more equally spread, and avoids the small drills made by the teeth of the harrow. Finish with the roller, which will leave the seed covered about an inch — the proper depth. The ridges should be very little raised in the centre, when the ground is ready for the seed, otherwise the crop will not ripen evenly ; and, when land is properly drained, there should be no ridges....
Page 150 - In fine seasons, the bolls should always be dried in the open air, the seed thrashed out, and the heaviest and plumpest used for sowing or crushing. The light seeds and chaff form most wholesome and nutritious feeding for cattle. Flax ought not to be allowed to stand in the field, if possible, even the second day; it should be rippled as soon as pulled, and carried to the water as soon as possible, that it may not harden.
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