to adopt new systems ‘which invo 
sei uncertain results 
price of Wheat in 
d that the Belgium has 
been, on the EPAR of the 
ng 10 years, about 52s. 
ich we imagine the majority 
armers ey not expect to realise for their 
next 10 years—and yet the Belgians 
red the Flax as their ae crop, 
and looked to it for greater profit than from the 
Wheat sata Why should not the English Ton 
e? What advantag 
Belgium gen 
of fine Flax. A 
been produced y Sota N Still, in pial 
of the N r. Warnes and other zealo 
ad vocat p fhe cultivation of Flax has extended ied 0 
e reasons seem kthy 
2 . 
has 
little i untry. 
So 3 S ‘te growth of Flax en 
not only the trouble and risk pre ste . 
sowing, weeding, pulling, housing, and threshing ou 
the seed, 3 o this and Veen other ah an but 
also the ing, dying, and scutching—n 
and ved English farmer 
that il | bchind che Pleming, 20 that tee is Hide. d. doubt he 
ust |c was pena good a crop Bu 
Was de 
e er y | upo; 
estions which | labourers, 
mills 
Mg of eus, which aight bi profitably c pated 
4 
e and count 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
e impro a whit 
id had vibe entrust ee Aragi etalk 
of steeping the separa e fibre to their 
rough hands, he had little chine of producin 
article which could 
the st str. eshed, eth at te Ar the 
all l and ` — K — ean ed t at of 
ul ran: dev 
is no reason t 
Igian in the pe ce of 
ot We 5 te trom Gloucester, o 
fan eyes 
ax r scutehing, ee rr Bre 5 Wat e ey er 
pater 
customed 
e of 
pa: — ave a 
t growing cheaper corn. Anything therefore Which 
could increase the pr rofit of high e in this 
— 8 which he has n pail 0 or 
if he ever eee he pro- 
E gave up, p, disgusted at the trouble and | 
C agema Ma fetter d means of executing 
mich attended e hi 
t 
Flax-grower 
patented system . — Flax in 
water 60 which is Psa pias nn 
of Noy. 11, 1848, and as og abundan 
which 
ria may 5 obtained by application to the Flax 
Improvement Societ land) Flax ma 
fe 
Agricultural Gast ad 
W. 
„other times, only once for Asm or Peas, 
| after e sentim 
| lent Norfolk farmer, with . 
bys and encourage its extension, is well worthy 
the paky anise not only of the owners and occupiers 
of land, but l persons interested in the advance- 
ment of weir country. 
Hitherto farmer 
pp. some of our 
extensive manufactures to betes J. C. H. 
NOTES OF FARM PRACTICE IN 1776. 
F MANAGEMENT, &c.—As Mr. 
= i 
woul 
would not sow Ire Barle owed, I 
would plou often as I could 40 it it RE. but at all 
or Wheat, 
These are onito? an excel- 
Do 
acl that I introduce frequent 
* He told me that many 
to which they are 
are ac 
can explain to 
Nor ie it that kind of 
‘ Ses a’ advantages which he might have done at 
a great 
and he is now to sustain a y removing | 
March 4 — Having met with a man who told me of a 
_— farmer in Suffolk, who had ere a deal of 
ved to see his farm, which lies about 
30 mi miles from Yarmouth, on the east co. hig no 
recom to Mr. Howlet, but ra 
land 
in P. 
year 100 acres of Nas of of which E fe abe about 2000 
acres. His rent is § tithe free. The 
Wi 
n ac- 
yid 
n te, but 
ý has introduced sowing before Mite and got very 
has devot ed his Say 
2 prevented foggi 
a — mpi 
yo pense profit of 
learned by long and attentive qp 
experience w which 
has laid more than 2000 1 loads of sand, to mak 
hs harvest peopl, an for manure. 
pecks 
a good 
Mr. Howie s assiduity, | 
has not been absent from bove 
takes very 
ard that he pays his 
oo Pie I wa Iked to e a 
worth. rred to —.— road Leeder 
had a Suffolk farm h — 
and gave me all 
strong wet country n 
than 6 feet, which is calle 
er Turnips, they plough f five times, and choose to give ‘the 
er 00 
first furrow befor winter. 
here, aah sowing them Mr. Ewel 
good Turnips. 
March 7.—In the morning I went out with u 
Ewel ** see the stock taken care of. The first 
does is and bring a load of arm ghee — — — ; 
these ro — on pa 
ey n 
— it is 8 er it will be — 
new doct me, bu 
it was undoubtedly — case; pe farther, i it 
in the pasture land 
b 
ear they kept the yard 
quite dry, eg the cattle, ‘tee getting a bellyful of 
Turnip withou tely lie 
prs n to lick 988 but “this year the yard is so 
dirty that the cattle do not lie down till they are tired 
of cave ase. 
DUCE, Rents, AnD Prorits. Norfolk, July 10.— 
The ae da is the valuation of the crop on a little 
farm at Plumstead, and may give a better Sion of things 
than è 
Wheat, 7 coombs per acre, at 173. ae ig 
Deduct for harvesting Wheat crop. 0 7 
Barley, 8 coombs, at 9s. 6d, . 
Deduct for harvesting Barley ro 
Peas, 6 coombs, at 12s, wee a, £3 
Deduet for harvesting Pea crop „ 
2 5 0 
Harvesting is by the season or 
piece. Day work is — known at that time, — 
Wheat and it is so. When the crop is about one- 
one-half 
o a harvest man 
rotation : 
— 
888 
SSS 
EXPENSES, 
Four — to * with ane: £0 1 
Twice hoei 
ndr ian 
Seed, . bushels ae sre 
Reaping and carryi siir 8 
Clover seed ove ous — 
Making hay and carrying” sis 
— ploughing to Wheat.. ae dee 
l= Seed, 3 bushe is 55 
aping and carrying vee vee os 
Rent for four years ere pee 
Tithe and town charges 3 
Dung bought besides the produce s, i 
Four years’ expenses or. 
Four years’ produce ,, 
Four years’ expenses. 
ge de 
2 2 2 
7 + 
— — 
SSA S K 
* 
