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KENNIES AGRICULTURE. 



Advantages of 

 Growing Flax. 



soil. There is a cash market at a price considerably 

 more than wheat. 



Flax rots sod better than the common method 

 of plowing in spring and back-setting in autumn, 

 and it is not so liable to get frosted as spring wheat 

 or oats. After the flax is harvested, all that is 

 necessary is to cultivate or disc and harrow the land 

 for wheat the following spring. 



If labor were more plentiful there would be as 

 much money realized from the fibre as the seed, and 

 this would make flax growing a very profitable 

 business. 



140. BROADCAST SEEDER. 



Semi-Arid 

 Lands. 



In the West there are dry districts which require 

 special treatment in order to grow crops of grain 

 successfully. Shallow cultivation must be adopted 

 in order to keep all the vegetable matter on the 

 surface so as to conserve and retain moisture in the 

 soil. This is in accordance with the laws of nature. 

 Earh- in the spring the land should be gang-plowed 

 shallow, then rolled, and harrowed with a spike- 

 tooth harrow. Presuming that the surface is now 

 fine and mellow after this preparation, sow a mixture 

 of oats and peas, one bushel of each. (Vetches may 



