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WEIGHT oF ForRAGE PEAS AND OATS. 
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FLAX GROWING. 
The growth of flax for fibre has greatly decreased in the last 
one or two generations, until now there are many people of 
middle age to whom the plant is a stranger. Formerly it was 
commonly grown, and nearly every farm had its tools for the 
manufacture of the fibre into cloth. The growing of flax has 
become a lost industry among us. Recently there has been a stir 
to revive the cultivation of this plant, and the Boyce Fibre Com- 
pany have sent out some circulars to increase the interest felt and - 
secure fibre and improvements of the same in order to re-establish 
this industry on a profitable basis. | 
Here at the Station a considerable plat of land was reserved for 
flax and hemp, but sufficient seed was not received and the larger 
plats were sown to. Japanese buckwheat and Hungarian grass. 
Four small packages of seed were received from the California 
Experiment Station, and were sown on rather poor ground. The 
season has been an extremely unfavorable one for many crops. 
The hard and cloddy soil, with frequent rains late in spring 
followed by severe drought, was ruinous to this crop, as well as. 
some others. 
