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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 259 
The following table gives the yields, as well as the yields of the 
same in California for a rather unfavorable season and of which 
they report: “These yields, although small, must be accounted 
fair when the late planting and the condition of the soil are taken 
into consideration.” 
Our seeding was done June three, and the flax pulled August 
twelve and fourteen. The Yellow-seeded and White-flowered 
French were first ripe and pulled on the earlier date. 
Rate oF YIELD PER ACRE IN POUNDS. 
CALIFORNIA. New York. 
Straw. Seed. Straw. Seed. 
White-flowered, from France... 4092 1276 | 1792 618.2 
Royal, from Germany.......... 3689 987 | 2858.6 493.4 
uassian, irom, Pskoff :.)::0.,.... AM 3381 884 | 2563.6 5380/2 
Yellow-seeded ................. 2713 706 | 1497.4 499.1 
Our crop has been small, but if this could be made the thin 
end of a wedge to help rebuild an industry which will give 
employment for moderate pay to a part of our farms and work- 
men, it will have served a useful purpose. 
ON RAISING SCRUB STOCK. 
It has appeared for several years as though farmers were losing 
money in raising common scrub stock in the usual way for prices 
which prevail for such stock. It does not pay to keep poor stock, 
nor would it pay to poorly keep good stock. Cold barns and 
housing in cold yards are equally unprofitable methods. Stock 
toughened by exposure in raising is stunted at the expense of the 
owner's pocket. The other extreme of pampering stock, much less 
often met, may also be too expensive practice to follow. Better 
stock, better fed and cared for, should be the general aim in order 
to raise the rate of growth and in that way decrease the cost of 
production per hundred weight for what will be worth more per 
hundred weight. 
~ In 1888, with a small stock of unregistered and “native” cattle 
on this farm, it was decided to raise the calves for that year and 
- pursue a middle course with them to compare cost of growth with 
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