The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-09 00:00:00

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Sta—As there is 1.0 object of cultivation that will
furnish so much employment to the p or as flux,
particularly by the new mode of preparing it, with
out dewretting and watersteepiug, will you allow
the following instructions tin. griming it, an early
place in your Paper, with a vicx of inducing pa
fishes to cultivate the sama file employing their
poor. The subsequent observations will perhaps be
eousidered apilicable, at a time when it is proposed
to grew flax and hemp at Dammam-1 sin, Sir,
your obedient humble servant, .J. B.
It was tiirmerly supposed that flax, as a crop, was
injurious or hurtful to the land. By the present
mode of management itsis not so, Itemise the plant
is gathered bet; re the peed is allowed to ripen. and
that three fourths of the crop is returned to the land.
the chaff Irmo the seed threshed being excellent thud
for horses sod cattle, and the woody matter pro-
duced by the present mode of breaking, when sided
fir for the lame pur;sose ; or as a top dressing tor
•simdit, or turnips, all of which was lost under the
old system of dewretting, and of course no return to
the land. The average produce per acre is two
, tons of flax, and nine or ten bushels of wheat.
The land iatended tor thei should be very.eleau ;
•if stiff or heavy (which is in general good for the
purpose) it should be ploughed betnre the winter, or
early in the spring, that it may receive the nigins
frosts.and rain ; just before sowing it should be work-
td by a manlier or cultivator, übuut an inch and a
-half or two inches deep. Light free land may be
_ploughed just bethre sowing, but in all cases tue tilth
should be line, to the depth of an inch and a half or
two inches. The time olsowing must dep,nd on the
state and quality of the lands; on warm dry soils. it
should be sown early ; on cold and damp soils later,
front the latter end of Mardi to the end of April is
the best time ; the early sown flax is alm-ays best.
•The quantity of :.e.ed necessary is from. two. to three
bushels to an aeri.., according Lathe goolness of the
land; the better the 1a..il the more seed it will
carry. ,tier sowing, it should be hammed with I
a light or bush harrow, anal then rolled. If the
Lind is very tight, it may be judicious to • roll it
again when the plant is about two or three inches
Mob but this must be done in the middle of the I
day, when the land is very dry. When the flax is
from 3. to 4,3 inches high, it should he weeded; it
should be pulled when the plant begins -to turn
yellow near the root and a little way upwards,
and when on opening the most forward of the pods
the seed is found to be fiirmell, but in a soft state,
with a small speck of green in the middle.
The flax should then be spread on the ground in
:bundles, about as much as a woman can grasp in
*both bands, there to remain till the upper part is
dry, which, in very fine weather, will be in from
,24 to 48 hours, but should not remain to be disco-
:loured by the st.r., 'the bundles should then be •
made up, the dry part inside, and set up in shocks
of ten bundles each, till the pods and every part is
dry. Great care should be tither, to keep the root-
ends quite even ; it will then be in a state to be
worked, hous4, or stacked ; the stacks shook' be
well thatched, and the root-ends placed outside.—
Large quantities of flax, in very dry we;it!ier. have
been pulled in the morning anti middle part of the
day, tied up in bundles, and sea up in shucks in the
eveuing of the same day, with very great success.
The crop is often harvested by the end of June ; if
so, the land is then sown with turnips. The fitnuer
will have completdy gained the flax crop. If later,
the land may be sewn with rye for spring feed, or
dressed and sown with wheat. 13.

TO PREVENT UNSKILFUL. PERSONS
FROM ACTING AS CONVEYANCERS.

'Whereas inronveni.'nees are round to arise, from the want ot
legal knowledee in Many persons who pike upon themseivea to
practice as copeeyoncers of real estates and chattel real;
Fur the Majesty,
thereof, be it enacted by the Icing's most
.exceUent Nlajesty, by and with the advice and =so... of the
I.ords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in Parliament
assentbled, and be and with the authority of the same, that it
shaft not he lawfol; frot♦ and after for any. pet son within
litigland and IVitles, to practise a-, a conveyancer in the drawing
or preparing any dee& or other instruments, for the granting.
bcttling, or transferring of any real estate or chattel.; real, to titkc
cdoet in the life time of any party wanting, settling, or trans-
ferring the sonic, unless such person shall be a sergeant-at law,
barrister, admitted solicitor, attorney, or proctor,
Lined regular cutfilicates to practise as such, or shall
ob
11 have been
• pupil tor the term of two years in the office of someesergeatit or
barrister-at-Ina enga,cid in to practice of conveyantitg, and
have kopt at IfiAist eight terms pi none or one of the four inns of
court; and that it' any pecr shall, atter the time aforesaid,
practise as such conveyancer y manner nforesaid, contrary t.)
the trite intent and meaning of this act, every such person shall
forfeit autl pay fur each (Aimee the Nom of pounds.
Pei:tinted always, and be it furtlie:. enacted, Thot nothing in
this Act ctittint(l shall extend, or he construed to extend, to
prestnt any person from drawing or preparing any dets!s or
other instruments, for the granting, s tdtng, or tratisleinng any
real estates or chattels real sfitresaid, who on the shall
sierra
.ficb. be earning on the business, and be established, and in
the way of gaining Ids livelihood in the profesion of a convey-
ancer in the dramcg or pre' erins of needs or othotinstrutnents,
Fa. granting, setettliv ng,
.t,eravnsferrxm wth:rtn
tosforvevailizistese or elita4
• tcwttiif oar% ytonplitrate, Laent Bja4,itentanesta, or herettitarnells°, Tram
deicing at preparing any lame or leant of liny ouch manor,

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