The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

Mr. Wises is well known in the apiculture'
world for his presvering efforts to introdate the
culture of fax into English husbandry, and the gnat
met w which has attended his own puede* en a fax
grower, and feeder of settle on its sad. And. Mr.
WerbSell testimony is ef especial rase at this time.,
when we have heard munch outcry mama fanner%
and so manygloomy predictions as to the future
prospects of avicaltore. Moreover, Mr. Warnes
was at one time a vehement protectionist, and he still
retains so mesh of his old notions, as to lay great I
stress an the supposed importance of feeding settle
on hoese-grown food instead of purchased. Now
this is purely a question of comparative cost. If the
fanner can grow food for feediog purposes cheaper
than can buy it, let him grow it by all
means; but if be ma buy it cheapest, no fanci-
ful notions about home-grown food will induce
him to torn from the cheapest market. But
flax culture on Mr. Waroce plan needs no each
farad or factitious reoommendation. He has shown
most conclusively by the results of his own practice,
that it forms a most valuable addition to the routine
of our farms. Mr. Carnes, in his present tract, says:
"All intelligent landowners and fanners acknowledge
that a more than common exertion is required to up-
hold their position in the scale of society, and are
consequently anxious to redeem the time ." but he
adds, "the number of the bea or flret-class firmer, in
mast counties is smell. . . . but had the greater
number of farms been rendered as productive es the
smaller, more than double the amount of provisions
would hays been raised." And be expressly says the
landowners and occupiers as a body have no jut
cause in complain of free trade in provisions ; or they
most complain " of ourselves, not of our customer.,
who were ever ready to deal with us upon
terms which in the height of prosperity we dia-
-1 dained. Our, was the duty to subdue the land and
to reader it fruitful; drawing our profit from the
1 larger, and not the smaller supply. And this has
1 ever been tte language of the fre•-traders who are
1 practically *egoism' ted with agriculture.
Mr. Warns. deprecate, the sort of antagonism the
protectionists would create between manufactures and
agriculture; but fairly asks, " Can the agricultural
drone be said to live and let live, who, like the dog
in the manger, will neillier cultivate his land for
himself, his dependents, nor the community P" and
adds:

It is to such as these that the manufacturing towns point
as eamberen, sot tillers of the soil. They denounce not good
tenants and liberal landlords, but those only who bury them
Pleat, and would still enforce high prices for short supplies.
With this sentiment every honourable man will accord, how-
ever he may bays neglected to render his own property sub
serviette to the public weal. He also knows that his only
hope of safety hangs upon increased production, and is at his
wits' sad he secure it profitably—a desideratum that, I fear,
cannot be attained, either under the old routine, or modern
priheiples of fsrminp. Indeed, I should have despaired for
myself were my land not devoted to the culture of other
crops than corn, gram, or turnips. Bat after more than forty
years' experience as an agriculturist, of which the last tan
have been directed to the consolidation of an original system,
I enjoy a comfortable persuasion of successfully competing
with foreign importations. I place my dependence upon the
exclusive annual returns of my farm, sad not upon any indi-
rect aid, which would only tend to delude.
By his system of growing flax, and using the
seed, in connexion with other produce of the farm to
fatten cattle in boxes, summer and winter, Mr. War-
We says the farmer will be rendered independent of
extraneous cattle-food and manure; that he may
have twice or three times the number of .cattle
usually kept,—and we most recollect that Mr.
Wanes is writing from the well-farmed county
of Norfolk, where cattle-feeding forms a part
of the ordinary routine of husbandry—that he will
keep his land up to a state of high and profitable
productiveness, afford much employment to the popu-
lation of all ages and both sexes, with the incidental
advantages of lamming the rates, diminishing crime,
and promoting industry, frugality, and contentment.
Having seen Mr. Warne.' establishment some years
ago, we can speak decisively in its favour, and we
know that his plans are of the greatest value to the
farmer and the labourer. The following account of
the money malts on his own farm, a small one, are
worthy of all attention :

Thelmatumble flax plant has been introduced imam-
fully into every rotation upon my turn during the above
period, sad will, this year, be cultivated in the following
order, via. wheat, flax, turnips, barley, gram. The re-
fuse wheat and barley, with the whole of the turnips,
grass, hay, chaff, straw, and linseed, with the broken bolls,
stalks, to., to be sossamet as usual upon the farm. Thus,
morale' to past ssperisask I sat entitled to expect a return
of about 9711 , sal a sot prat of about 3761. from. hundred
and ten soros rod lasi. My own occupation is not quite
so large, bat, for tionvindemas of calculation, I adopt that
quantity ; therefore I should sell
20 acres, or (00 states of 162 fibre, at 6s. per Moue, for £240

And tow for_ •

20 acres, or 790 bushels of wheat, at 5e., for l9O
20 awes, or 920 bushels of
barley, at 2s. 9d. foe
salad by 100 bushels of flax
20 sores of tunips, seed is the shape of 40 bat
10 wags of grass, locks al 101. each above 400
their eon
10
um
of bay. I appropriated tooart horses, &o
10 mares of pasta:age' OAP aad soak is the paws' oat, 0
• • • .

071

For ft:labour £l4O

~ farm ditto 2OO

rest
. tithe
~ peer NA °dub rams
„ rielemsa% bOb 26
„ In
mud
selms
in
mei libuss 10
„ seed baby
~ pan mi. I

£595
The manore being obtained from the rams of the term,
I wasider inseparable from the soil, and Wide in the rent.
The ream for pigs and poultry, with UN aiimusodation of
• good ditelliag•home,_&e. &a, I plem eggist incideatal
expensea thither do I regard the inlemihr capital sr
ployed, Mee the Miami of 3761. formly mete every de-
mand, sad lama a volt Imola my Mier me
i of farm-
Ing extaat—a result es corm, to th• statamaats fa .ogee,
that I fear it will be regarded as fictitious. Therefore 1 Min
the reader's attention to the fact that Kr. Ilsh wane nay
meet at Lade, sold for me, Met year, 14 mares of Rai. for
2661. 16e. 6d. Tr wow crop produced ass 7 toss of
Unmet, 6 Me 6 cwt. of hub equal to bay, 26 cwt. of tow,
Melia matey leads et mhos for [Marisa curs. The briar;
swelostehlo miles et the meg w 271. per sore. It will have
Mau mu Met the is ohm amounted to 171. per sae,
while that et the yeamet year is calculated at telly 121, or
M 10•• gir 4. eirible Per acre ; a light my mewed
that pews ay hi Isye
wpml Highest* Prime Albion, in 1848,
mit my ma eimises, mem et had. The ro-
&we. DI stems 11 As. of bat 141
ax, SS Mama 7 lbs. of shoprt,
and 11 Memo et emend ate or tow, besides 72 bushels of
seed, is.
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Thiejnetifies the term applied by the Belgians to
their flax, viz., " the golden crop." He thus refers
to the great practical obstacle to the extension of flax
culture, that is, the difficulty of waking up the stalk
into flax,a difficulty which a very little energy on the
part dimmers would easily overcome. It is import-
ant that the flax should be worked up, or " scutod"
on the farm, because a large reeidoe of the stalk re-
mains for the use of stack, and to increase the ma-
nure heap. And there is no more skill required is
the steeping, drying, and scotching flax than in many
of the ordinary farming works done by our farm