THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



^Jmion as a farmer, lie co 

 ^bir a m rtk? e n ?o de r n ow n 

 llr. Rowan, by his visit to 



W0 been previously as to its beinsj an advai 

 -op for the agriculturists of Herefordshire t 

 jlKae impressions were now much stronger th 

 j^d ever been. The growth of Flax was t 



Wild," I q«ite agree t 



Hodge* of Belfast t 



Down, and even to most parts of Armagh, where the 

 Sunt Flax in Ireland is produced. About two years 



tiire, South Wales, and Herefordshire, and I made it 

 m business during several days in the city of Hereford, 



of Flax ; in my opinion they should 1 

 Oder deep obligation to Mr. Rowan, wh 

 ducribed the object of his visit to this 

 most result in benefiting the agricultu 



. 



Flax, its Culture and Manufacture.— Although Fla: 

 have received deposites left by the occasional over 



I, and scattered broadcast. ( 

 the seed evenly, and the eart 



greater tendency to shoot up in long slender stalks ; and 

 a the same number of fibres are usually found on each 

 plant, these will of course be finer in proportion. When 

 the crop grows short and branchy it is esteemed more 

 valuable for seed than for its fibrous bark, and then it 

 • no- 5at h red till the seeds are at full maturity. But 

 if the stalks grow straight and long, then all care of the 

 seed becomes a secondary consideration, and the Flax 

 ia pulled at the most favourable period for obtaining 

 pwd fibres. Experience has shown that when the 

 Moom has just fallen, when the stalks begin to turn 

 yellow, and before the leaves fall, th< " 





the cost of an acre of Turnips amounts to shillings instead 



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savs, "'costs as much as the crop is afterwards worth." 

 1 am sorry his farm is so unprofitable, or perhaps the 



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