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fetch fifty pounds per acre. If the feafon proves 

 wet, much weeding will be neceflary, which, 

 tocrether with the price of the feed, will be 

 found very expenfive. I ana of opinion that a 

 confiderable faving might be made by depofit- 

 ing the feed in drills s for by that method the 

 land might be kept in fuch a ftate as to be ea- 

 fily made ready for wheat -, efpecially as flax is 

 fo foon off the ground. A crop of flax is often 

 followed by a good crop of wheat. 



At prefent flax is weeded by hand ; and that 

 expence, as it depends fo much on circumftan- 

 ces, cannot be afcertained to any tolerable de- 

 gree of certaiaty. The pulling is worth half a 

 guinea per acre. If flax is intended for white 

 line, it fhould be pulled when it jufl: begins ta 

 turn yellow. This is abfolutely neceflary to be 

 done when the crop is too ftrong and roid» 

 otherwife it would rot at the bottom and fpoil. 

 The pluckers Ihould tie it up in handfuls, fet 

 them up till perfedlly dry, and then houfe them. 

 Flax pulled in the bloom proves whiter and 

 (Ironger than if left (landing till the feed is ripe; 

 but then the feed will be lod. 



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