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bushels have been known. Sixteen bushels per 

 acre have been grown at altitudes of over seven 

 thousand feet, and flax from that locality took a 

 medal at the Chicago World's Fair. If cut 

 early enough, often a second growth will spring 

 up, which is valuable for fall feed. If raised 

 for the grain, sow twenty pounds or twenty-five 

 pounds of seed per acre. Where grown for flax 

 fibre, it should be planted thick, using forty or 

 fifty pounds of seed. Sow with a grain press 

 drill, planting one-half inch or one inch deep. 

 Cut when the majority of the seed balls are light 

 brown in color and when the straw is somewhat 

 green. If left too long, it shatters badly in the 

 field. It is best harvested with a self-rake or 

 binder, without the binding attachment. A 

 small amount of flax may be sown with oats and 

 the crop cut and fed in the straw or threshed and 

 fed as mixed grain. Some experiments in Wyo- 

 ming resulted in very fat lambs by feeding 

 ground flax seed, turnips and alfalfa hay. Sev- 

 enteen to twenty pounds of seed fed in this man- 

 ner in a period of ninety to one hundred days 

 made the lambs fat without any other grain. 

 From two to four ounces of seed per day in con- 

 nection with other food is sufficient for a sheep. 

 Small amounts of flax seed fed to horses with 

 grain give good results, especially in the spring. 



BUCKWHEAT Buckwheat is one of the very valuable dry 



farm and short-season crops for the West. It 



