5,—1845. ] 
f four cows, has pei id double his Seni by ap epia 2 saei noas n eTO and that the loss of substance a the | à we are willing to pay him whatever he can make of his 
; d John Gilliland has paid more y 1 18 actua nnd EFE than with a corn or Potato ortion, net money, more than we a. of ours, if th 
| -zih an h resent, said he could | Since the ME» Js . 1 sae 
EB, | rent. Samuel Loudon, who is p hi l Apo s aE Mr. Blacker has Pye the fol- | | Society will pay us in like 3 manner , shoul we ake more 
a Py one years rane ien i what sold off hi oming eter from, D akas ajeg ft ply er nans aju der mr = poron SHER wta is ; and 
vegà by his grain; a the soil by -|in or ard against any unnecessary se in 
ering i an year, said 43/. worth, oda adele what he T the as Fla F preparing Paa Flax = market, it is prop that 
the m ssid. have, from these statements, Pn : Ee that you ipe noticed the subject of the |a person be mutually chosen to superintend and re- 
bomi; persuad rs to limit the quantity o true thatthe ripen oe the seed of Flax, as itis important | | gulate such expenses. If the Society accept this 
Sa one-tenth of their farm. It s; aie rue that farmers should n AR into the e error ofe ext ten nding rallen, nge we will engage to afford eve y facility in our 
se i charge against the Flax crop, of gical Arr i. per limit. n grassing and watering the cro op, or properly 
wii strictly a fact; for the seed of the 2 is grown for its dees the “ligneous tissue being for wee | preparing ¢ the land; and further, we are willing to bet 
ter olg ing for cattle, and the Flax- r is a maa re 5 air and water, the exhaustion of the soil may be | any sum not anaeeding 10/., that we shall make as much 
Tet hot then I have found it impossible to persuade people counteracted by restoring to the soil, by means of the of our half as the person from the Society will make of 
nin to take the trouble of availing thems elv ves sof thes e capa: Flax x water, ys tat we an ald hi op bey en Flax | his—the Flax when dressed to be taken to the same 
grown for food, or or seed—when this see is se a- market, and bu s appoi 
i 2 mpna this, in mall kre gr to the | rated byr rippling, th fo cles ts acto Pinca ae 
ed o rare on this tate, rena I o not thin zE there H sigt | crop. The formation of the seed takes from the soil nitro- (Signed) “ SAMUEL BYE RS, 'Drumgeare. 
ks, dy an half a dozen persons who have been induce g Wy AMES M' EAEE dilh Cornecrew. 
over eas in this particular, wha I then recommended ; | be r “to the soil. Hence the econ oy the “19th December, 1844 
ney oy Pat in the present day old prejudices are much shaken residual Fla products. as manure refers to Sty crop as Many other gentlemen present expressed their will- 
liad by the numbers of new things which have been brought | grown for fibr re, and d 1 for | ingness to |; and the Chairman said 
eda forward, and which, contrary to expectation, have been | food o pats ; these, like Wheat or Potatoes, s should pay =L think I may say for his lordship, i in his absence, that 
i proved to be useful improvements; and I , there- tedanendeatis for the good they take out of ate lan 
tom fore hopes, that if ctor Kane, ho e the The Flax x-chaff is rtainly in itself very intr ry and as they seem so determined on carrying this 
ature of this crop a subject of laborious and scienti but not When steeped, “al that calog into “wa I think he will join them i in their 
research, shall be induced to us know ult | is o 5 is dissolved out; and the dry cha f, when 
of his experiments, that a suitable impression will be asa lhe up wa ral with fermenting stable-dung, wil 
made upon all present, ~y the e ee an remarks into a good m ould, The chaff is, however, of little —well i ee that the pa tat pa of sting all dis- 
be duly appreciated. If we were to bird, and the Flax- eg kiet h cer Reva putes about the best mode of treatment of the crop w as 
find the sto mere og of in, we: should naturally holds dissolved nine-tenths of all that the plant a by bringing it in this manner to the pro oof— who coul 
© conclude that it lived upon t 00 n like manner, | fro egr a T Kan realise the most money out of the 
when we find certain a anoe in hed d -water, we con- | “t To Willam Blacker. , Esq.” treated. He hoped that, thus supporting his lord- 
T clude that these substances have necess ary t the| Mr. Byers, of Mowhan, being called on, said—Sir, pve s tenants, neither his lordship! ner himself would be 
' existence of the plant "What these substances are it be alth viele you might have selected some other pe rson | accused of doing or saying anything to disparage the 
longs to science to inform us of, and after hearin su ject t than Belfast Flax Improvemen t Socie ety, c or to underva lue the 
Dr. Kane what science points out, we shall then come | I can be expected re do, yet, notwithatandin ng, th 
with more advantage to the ee act dge of the system goes, pr vation and mana; age ement of the Fla rop. His o 
ge and w steps we ought to take ‘There B's | submit them to ag meeting. It is pee I have for a age was, there was something likely t A be fined pi 
ime since, aioe ies of years past been a Lys actical peed of Fla ax, the challenge, let who would win it, for it wo 
pie papers as to the aver age produce of this crop per 
d insure 
5 and 
gile sides 
statute measure, in which a calculation of m 
cree would be established, which 
possibly be made. | 
e, | and when the sei rset = the i. po jer wh of | would be a great 
that td ont, was a fair es ae a was frequently signed | Flax” is named, it stim a desire either to give or eat ried bBo ast be eriden t there was no use in 
ave made many inquiries | receive instruction on this a -important subject. The | attempt uct, n the people fe be tangit 
o ascertain whether f: Kal bee correct or otherwise, | growth and a tion of ve EN: ela nd has given rise denied the capability of res sent to teach them, He 
wd X obs er er : reason ito believe that it comes as near | of late to nume rous, and, as in vou ald, in the ntime. | call on those who any ex- 
had a 
the seed for cattle-feeding, or 
of which 
T a ko request your perena atten- | . years back, by people Brittani 
may kind Next 
the vo ey manure, to state the results of their 
experi Epa 
tion to aa observations as Dr. Kane be from Holland by the old Linen Board. 
enough to Belgian friends, great deal has been paid eg Mr. “We H Anprews, of ip fm ae. said—In th 
c CKS said that he felt great pleasure in accedi ing | ten about their eaebiatid system. Their instructions | preron sry I had 14 bushels of Flax eed sown on 3. 
psti to Mr. Blacker’s request that he sho uld endeavour, to bave been held out as a grea at boo n to Irish EDE and | f land, Irish plantation meas i or thereabouts, 
p explain to th bolis amounted to 65 cwt. Last season I had 
: the employme est ks Flax crops, as manu re, | them c redit; but when they proc à | 22 of bolls, which I made into meal, and gave to 
e pre pey ee tt t is really imple; and he felt satis- scraping, I think that it is not the Elion of i rmers— | six pigs, three calves, and two horses. The meal given 
cl ed that 1, where so much activity | itis quite enough for them to grow, handle, and scutch | to the horses I mixed with Potatoes, Eight calves were 
i and intelli igence was Satu to the i improvem ent of a gri- | well, and lea ve fh ners, who make pounds where far r- also fed wit àt till May, or ee e ne tong 
i culture, it only required that s y | mers only m pence, to dress and prepare it The pigs were fed from the lst of 
: Factice should be shown in order that it adoption in | like t themselves, URS they can do as cheap, or cheaper | oa till the latter end of 7 Thistles pulled out of 
u practice might be secured. oer farmer present | was | than f the fa armers. Th he Flax Improvement So- | the different crops, boiled along with the Flax-seed 
aware that crops exhausted the soil ; geq y of im | meal BPS g Cabboge, also boiled, 
y oe of the groun ted er ot be als i fi the fi in thi try ; but, | without fn assistance of a’ any Coet, I sold f 
$ ae tor Similar material t round, lined dit thi the pigs in Tanderagree market e 24th of Novem- 
which r keep up “its fertility ; $ ereina, the manure ae I will make a a with, or send out a challenge | ber ts tor jo des and the etic hex T re> x brieda 
f dee vee armne® puts in with or before his seed, is, in a | for the sum 52. or 10/7. to the Belgian or| ing [ to feed a great ma this 
f ‘nad Ad erial of Nich the grown crop is to | Belfast arent ia uch -is not the fact; and a Ad si AR more of the Flaxseed aa for 
l itself, woot as much a part of the plant as the seed | to test the matter, let us compete from a plot of ground | that purpose. I d ma eia it to b vpi tood that 
‘ ont ne the farmer sells and sends away his grown | equally divided r can raise the mos he stock were fi -seed m ia it was 
i he af used for food, as in the case of Wheat, or | best Flax at the least which I call the good old | used to render inferior feeding palatable, pag the quantity 
bon or Potatoes, he therefore sends away and sells the | way ; i and to the KARR illustration of this “ good old | I- have sa wed this year is the best proof that I am well 
c Fon he man which he had put into the | way, Twill produce a sample of Flax grown by my- | satisfied with the cena ent. 
Hit is exh, and, as he thu gets poia for the manure, when | self, in the years 1843 and 1844, handled according to| Mr. Wit ser Kine, of Corromannon, then rose and 
ji eje usted, he mus: put as much more for the | my own old Iri stem. [Two bundles of very | fine | said — Respec cting the näin of Flax- -water I have had 
‘| “Fae rop, Which is toL 2 dealt with in the same way. | Fiax were here produced, amid heering.] and found benefit by it. I had re 
1B ed a vin ax; is aaa system called the airera system, and a more | of two- year-old lea, which I got flooded with Flax-water, 
l n invention could not be ose It is, to pull the | and I had a do ar eed of Oats on it the next sea- 
he ‘uteri ws way, whilst it re ha Flax and to stack it by for ne first geer water it then | son, compared with its usual podu for fifteen years 
Same materials as Oats or | and stack it by to the next, and so on for a number of previous. i porte season I had a d of about two acres, 
t is really a (ay exhausting crop, if| years. I wou uld just inquire, How c ould f p , I dressed o re 
g of it. ut the Flax crop | thi ; tl with about alae “barrels of | lim e, and procured 
this, that the value of Oats | from such a a process? Suppose a farmer would gro Plaz- wat ater for the rema inder. The portion to which the 
rops, depends on what they | quantity of Flax worth 6s. or 7s. a stone, ced adopt ‘the | Flax -water was applied carried the best crop, by 30s., 
, Whilst the valuable part of | above system, it could not remunerate him. Besides} and if we count the cost of he twenty barrels of lime, 
or thread, which has taken | it is im mpossible, almost, for the farmers ays to ascer- | and the labour attending its sppiieation it ae amount 
If you burn away a ity ofl tain, when the Flax is in a green state, whether it will be $o abou t 30s. more. Wi th r ect to fur -draining, 
e behind a large quantity of ota good, middlin a bad quality. I would, then twelve 
t of the different ca ia invite the farmers to follow the old plan, with every im- rn in ope Trae of its wet and spou tye condition, 
he ground. Bat, if in a | and h fi ross-drains, ser: attempt to dry 
of well-dressed Flax, it will leave no proper state, ridges as rie as ‘possible, &c. “Take every | it was considered impracticable. I hav » ho owever, r, tried 
e t ashes? They | pai s to hav e it we ell gr own, and siapin handled ; but a and 
carried óff with the oe rts of | t is now dried sufficiently to bear a good crop, having 
dre They thrown | is, in my opinion, the * l 
he aater which the pont i do not ar the farmer better than any er i am much| Mr, SAMUEL Lovpon, Hamilstonbawn. — When E 
sand which should be e given back to | mistaken. s a prac- fad nea into a the use of Flax-water, my 
P up its fertility. To the prac- | tical poer of Flax for the - 30 ta he ays Byers ro ae tuated on the top o; hill, I thought 
of the greatest importance to | then handed in the follow wats t be Asean k try the experiment, and Tg 
the fibre or valuable part of | hallenge. Poker earea great many people in this Fe einem the water t0 as ne portion of ground, 
e exhaustion of the soil, but | EEan y the Be l- off which I had taken a crop o èn rt 
the plant takes out of the soil | fast Flax Soc ing m neS ted th f ix R ee nhe en the e advadtage of 
e steep-water and in the chaff, and that, | their mode of culating the Flax | plant, t, and eae the Flax apparent, the portion gi“ tie 
d to the soil, they will restore its fer- | going round ic aif instract ron in the new | field = wich it had ney applied bei eat ie 
lax crop ay be r ndered o e We onfess » we a of the number of those who Nor the effec J onfined to the Pota! 
tous to th ground, and most re bts of An iscernible a seal 
am aware that there are he matter fairly to trial, we challenge hp Be!- season 1 was more particular 
it 
ly put over a part of 
of Oats, produci 
s to the pra a man to our farms, wan care 
th 8 herefore, rest ie gt when we will make a fair division ofa roe of | 55 ies 
ue Stated the principle on w ur Flax land— the one-half thereof to be cultivated as 
n be rendered ae yy as a other half we will cultivate | was only 96 
use of its residues a e; | acc ording to our o m—or, we will fair | m 
ess these rola om division of a setae T our Flax crop when growing, | siderably, 
e of the most severe | should the jerisi from the Flax Society prefer it: and | opinion i 
