90 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



able for faving the feed, I flacked up the flax, and, 

 from the produce of what I have already beat out, I 

 am difpofed to think I (hall have from twelve to four- 

 teen hogfheads of good feed, and probably 240 ftones 

 of flax (i61b. to the flone), worth in the whole i8o/. 

 from eighteen bufhels, fown on little more than five 

 acres, which certainly is a very good return. I have, 

 indeed, often heard it aliened, that flax is an exhauft- 

 ing crop in the extreme , to prove what truth there is 

 in that aflertion, I caufed flax and barley to be fown 

 on alternate ridges, m a field laft year, which I defign 

 to fow with oats this feafon, expecting the crop will 

 ftiew the difference if there is any, and fatisfy me as to 

 the propriety of perfifting in the culture of flax." The 

 refult of this experiment was, that not the fmalleft 

 difference could be perceived between the oats pro- 

 duced on the alternate ridges of barley and flax. 



Mr. Gracey, of Lecale, informs me, that feven pecks, 

 equal to three and one-half bufhels, is the ufwal quan- 

 tity fown in his neighbourhood. A curious circum- 

 ftance, refpedYing fiax-feed, occurred to Mr. Cowan 

 in this parifh of Annahilt: he obferved, when the firft 

 breaking was giving to fome flax of his, after it had 

 been fteeped and grafted, that the feed, -which came 

 from the boles, feemed quite frefh; in confequence of 

 which he had it gathered and carefully laid by. This 

 occurred in the harveft of 1800; in 1801 he fowed this 

 and had a crop equal to that produced by feed 



imported. 



