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little doubt, but that they would be amply compensated. 

 The same remarks are applicable to the barley crop, though 

 of this there is more raised. 



The present price of rye in our market is thirty cents. 



FiiAX. — A new era is about commencing in the cultivation 

 of this valuable crop, since the discovery of the manufacture 

 of flax-cotton. Should the anticipation of the inventor, and 

 others engaged in the manufacture be realized, our farmers 

 cannot commence raising it too soon. There is no doubt 

 that our soil is well adapted to the cultivation of it, the cer- 

 tainty of which will be tested during the coming season by 

 the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth, President of our society, who 

 contemplates seeding several hundred acres with flax, the 

 result of which may be presented to the Board in some sub- 

 sequent report. 



Grasses. — It is surprising that so little attention is given to 

 the cultivation of tame grasses for winter fodder. The actual 

 value of hay in wintering stock is almost incalculable, with 

 which fact most of our farmers seem unacquainted, or if fa- 

 miliar, are too dilatory to avail themselves of its advantages, 

 dependence being placed chiefly upon corn fodder, straw, or 

 natural grasses. 



We suppose that one prominent reason why it is 

 not more generally grown is, that it does not yield abund- 

 antly ; but here in many cases the farmer is in fault, either 

 for want of proper culture, or too apt to be a want of seed. 

 We have known instances where but three quarts of seed 

 were sown to the acre. Such a course of farming is a bur- 

 lesque upon good husbandry. 



Several experiments having been tried within the few past 

 seasons in the seeding of grass lands, we are disposed to fa- 

 vor the most successful, i. e.: that of sowing in autumn with 

 the wheat crop, as is practiced with universal success in all 

 eastern States. Sowing grasses with wheat is productive of 

 many advantages. The varieties usually sown being meadow 

 cats-tail or timothy and red clover. The presence of the 



