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" tifed by the Flanders flax-drefTer, who was 

 " fome time ago brought over by the truftees 

 ; upon public encouragement, to teach us 

 ' their way of preparing their ground, fow- 

 ing of flax-feed, raifing, pulling, watering, 

 and dreffing their flax, and compare it 



our own. 



" The beft foil for fine flax is the tender 

 " and yellow black mould, or any light foil 

 mixt with loam and a little fand, that will 

 not bind with any fudden drought. The 

 lower the ground lies, and the flatter it is, 

 the better, providing it be dry enough to 

 a be fown in the proper feafon. It fhould 

 <c be fallowed, at leaft two winters and a 

 " fummer. The firfh plowing fliould be as 

 c deep as the foil will admit of, and thereaf- 

 a ter plowed with an ebb furrow, fo often as 

 " the appearance of weeds makes it necefla- 

 " ry. In October or November, before the 

 " ground is to be fown, it ought to be well 

 " dunged, and as well dreffed at fowing as 

 a garden mould ; and two bufhels of good 

 feed is fufEcient to fow one acre of ground 

 " thus prepared. We fow commonly four 

 " bufhels, and fometimes a hogfhead on one 

 c .9 ere, becaufe our ground is not prepared 



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