THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



the family until he is recruited. Just so with your 

 land ; all the animal principles peculiar to your horse, 

 or your ox, are common to your land, (except loco- 

 motion,) and require the same attentive care and 

 nursing, to render it profitable. 



Flax is generally considered a poor crop, and with 

 poor husbandry it is correctly estimated ; but with 2, 



3, or 4 ploughing^ and rich manures, flax will produce 



4, 5, or 6cwU to the acre, with 8 or 10 bushels of 

 seed ; this is no mean crop ; say 5cwt. at 12 cts. $ 60 



10 bushels seed at 1 dollar, - 10 



$70 



If your land is suitable for flax, the season favoura- 

 ble, and you manure with 10, 15, or 20 loads of well 

 rotted, rich manure, and dress, and harrow in with 4 

 or 5 bushels of fine salt to the acre, or 1, 2, or 3 

 bushels of plaster, and sow clean seed, three bushels 

 to the acre ; you may always expect 4 to 6cwt. to the 

 acre ; whereas even two would pay you handsomely ; 

 6cwt. of flax to the acre, have been raised fronr five 

 pecks of seed, after hemp five years in succession, 

 with about 13 bushels of seed ; this proves that hemp 

 and flax are not incompatible with each other, and 

 that flax is no mean crop. 



Gypsum. Soils. 



From the experiments made upon Gypsum, as a 

 manure, by Mr. Holbrook, of Derby, it clearly ap- 

 pears, that it answers best upon both grain and grasr* 

 grounds, (if sown in the spring,) to be sown in this 

 month. His reports to the New-Haven County Agri- 

 cultural Society, have given full demonstration of thir, 

 lact, as has been quoted. One of the objections to 

 Gypsum as a manure, has been, and continues to be, 

 that it will not answer upon but few soils, and those 

 of a sandy, or gravelly loam. This objection is now 



