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IV. SEED-PROCESS, i. The time of footing, 

 May. 2. The preparation of the foil. Much 

 depends on the ftate of the foil at the time of 

 lowing. It ihould neither be wet nor dry ; 

 pnd the furface ought to be made as fine as 

 that of a garden-bed. Not a clod the fize of 

 an egg fhould be left unbroken. 3. Quan- 

 tity of feed ', two buihels an acre. 4. Covering 

 the feed. Sometimes the furface is raked (after 

 being firft harrqwed) with garden or hay- 

 rakes. If, at the fame time, the clods an4 

 other obftructions, which could not eafily be 

 reduced, were drawn into the interfurrows, 

 the operation would be ftill more complete* 

 A light hand-roller uied between the final 

 harrowing and the raking would aff.ft much 

 in this intention. 



V. The VEGETATING -PROCESS depends 

 chiefly on careful weeding-, an operation which 

 ought to be performed with great fcrupulouf- 

 nefs. Hence land which is fown with flax 

 fhould be made as free from weeds as pof* 

 lible ; othcrwife the expence of weeding, 

 or the injury to the crop, becomes confi- 

 derable. 



If, through a droughty fetfon, the plants 

 come up in two crops 5 or if by any other ac- 

 cident, 



