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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1909 



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deeply and thoroughly prepared. A mellow 

 seed-bed is required in order that the plant 

 food shall be readily available. If grown 

 for fibre, weeds must be carefully avoided 

 as they decrease its value. For this reason 

 it is well to follow some inter-tilled crop with 

 flax, and avoid the direct use of barnyard 

 manure. Nitrogen is the controlling ele- 

 ment of fertility, so it is good practice to 

 follow clover or some legume with flax 

 unless too many weeds are present. Plant- 

 ing on new or fallow land is desirable, to 

 avoid weeds. Most thorough use of the 

 harrow is the main essential of success. 

 Insufficient harrowing cannot be overcome 

 later on. 



WHEN TO SOW SEED 



Sow the seed as soon as the ground has 

 settled and begun to warm up, which is 

 usually in May in the Northern States. 

 When grown for seed, sow one-half to three- 

 fourth bushel to an acre which will give 

 the stalks room to branch and produce 

 more flowers and seed. For fibre produc- 

 tion it is best to sow one and one-half to 

 two bushels of seed, so that the plants will 

 be closer together and produce single 

 straight stems instead of branching stalks. 

 Broadcasting and light covering by the har- 

 row is practised for fibre crops. On light 

 soils it is essential to follow with the roller. 

 For seed crops drilling will be most satis- 

 factory if the seed is not planted too deep. 



If the ground is clean, the crop requires 

 no further culture; but if it is grown for 

 fibre and weeds are numerous they must 

 be pulled out when the flax is but a few 

 inches high, else the damage by trampling 

 will be greater than the injury done by the 

 weeds. 



For seed the crop should be harvested 

 with a binder when the seeds are plump 

 and full. For fibre it must be pulled either 

 by hand or machine. The time to pull is 

 when the straw is beginning to show a yellow 

 color and the lower leaves drop. 



The yield of seed per acre varies from 

 ten to fifteen bushels and the price varies 

 from about 80 cents to $1.75. The principal 

 use of the seed is in the manufacture of 

 linseed oil; and the linseed meal which is 

 left after the oil has been expressed has a 

 high value as a concentrated stock food, 

 being rich in protein. Flax is sometimes 

 cut just after blossoming and cured for hay, 

 making a very desirable fodder. 



DISEASES TO GUARD AGAINST 



A fungus disease, flax wilt, which is com- 

 monly known as " flax sick soil," often 

 attacks and ruins the crop. It is trans- 

 mitted by the seed and may be controlled 

 by treating the seed with formalin as de- 

 scribed for smut of oats and wheat in The 

 Garden Magazine for October, 1908. 

 When soil has become badly infected the 

 only remedy is to employ a crop rotation in 

 which flax does not occur oftener than once 

 in five or six years, and thus starve out the" 

 fungus. As with other grains, it is impor- 

 tant to sow only clean, plump, heavy seed 

 for best results. 



Pennsylvania. F. E. B. 



