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For Cambric and Fine Laxcn. 



The ground should be a rich, light, and dry soil, sufficiently 

 pulverized by repeated ploughings when in a dry state, or 

 after potatoes ; and if near a wood, it will save trouble. The 

 seed should be sown before the middle of April, about double 

 the quantity usually sown for flax or lint. The ground should 

 be rolled, if dry, and weeded when it is three inches long ; 

 after which forked sticks (about 1^ inch thick) should be set 

 at four or five feet distance, poles laid along these forks, 

 about six or seven inches above the lint, and distant from each 

 other two, three, or four feet, according to the length of the 

 brushwood that is to be laid over them. This brushwood 

 ought to be laid close and even, rising all about eighteen or 

 twenty inches. 



The lint should be pulled as soon as the seed is formed, or 

 a few days after it is out of the bloom, before the lint turns 

 yellow. If any be coarser than the rest, it should be kept 

 separate. It must be pulled above the brushwood, and every 

 handful laid upon it four or five hours to dry, if it is fine wea- 

 ther. Spread it out four or five days, putting it into a barn 

 at night, and taking care that it get no rain, which would 

 make it turn black. If it get wet it is better to leave it on 

 the grass till dry, than to put it in wet. The bundles must 

 be opened in the barn, or made very loose, to keep them from 

 heating. 



The pit for watering should be made long before it is used, 

 and will be the better if it has a clean sward on the bottom ; 

 if not, some straw may be put under it. A small rill of clean 

 water should run in and off the lint while in it. The pit may 

 be six or seven feet broad, by three deep. Along the surface 

 of the water, or a little lower on the two sides, run poles fixed 

 down by wooden hooks of this figure, 7; and other poles across, 

 with their ends under these, to keep all the lint down three 

 or four inches under the surface of the water. The time of 

 watering depends so much on the weather, and on the softness 

 or hardness of the water, that no certain period can be fixed. 



