The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-10 00:00:00

TO VIE k A IIUR.

Sin—As there is ho object of cultivation that will
furnish so much employment to the pair es flax,
particularly by the new mode of preparing it, with •
out dewretting and watersteeping, will you allow
the following instructions for growing it, an early
place in your Paper, with a view of inducing pa-
rishes to cultivate the sm.: for employing their
poor. The subsequent (observations will perhaps be
considered applicable, at a time when it is proposed
to grow flax and hemp at Dartmoor.—l am, Sir,
your obedient humble servant, J. B.
It was formerly supposed that flax, as a crop, was
injurious or hurtful to the land. By the present
mode of management it is not so, because the plant
is gathered before the seed is allowed to ripen. and
that three fourths of the crop is returned to the land,
the chaff from the seed threshed being excellent flood
for horses and cattle, and the woody matter pro-
duced by the present mode of breaking, when sitied
fit for the same purpose; or as a top dressing for
steeds, or turnips, all of which was lost under the
old system of &meeting, and of course no return to
the land. The average produce per acre is two
tons of flax, end nine or ten bushels of wheat.
The land intended fur flax should be very clean ;
if stiff or heavy (which is in general good for the
purpose) it should be ploughed before toe winter, or
early in the spring, that it may receive the nights'
frosts and rain ; just bethre sowing it should be work-
s d by a searrifler or cultivator, about an inch and is
half or two inches deep. Light free laud may be.
ploughed just -before sowing, but in all cases the Win
should be tine, to the depth of an inch and u halt or
two inches. The time of sowing must .pep, ml on the
state and quality of the lands ; un warm dry soils it
should be sown early ; on cold and damp soils later,
from the latter end of March to the end of April is
the best time ; the early sown flax is always best.
The quantity of seed necessary is from two to three
-bushels to an acre, according to the goodness of the
land; the better the land the more seed it will
carry. After owing, it should be harrowed with
$ light or bush harrow, and then rolled. If the
land is very light, it may be judicious to roll it
again when the plant is about two or three inches
high, but this must be done in the middle of the
day, when the land is very dry. When the flax is
from 3 to 6 inches high, it should be 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 formed, but in a soft state,
with a smell speck of green in the middle.
The flax should then be spread on the ground in
bundles, about as much es a woman can grasp in
.isoth hands, there to remain till the upper part is
dry, which, in very fine weather, will be in fern
t 4 to 48 hours, but should not remain to be disco-
loured by the sun, The bundles should then be
made up, the dry part inside, end set up in shocks
of tea bundles each, till the pods and every part is
dry. Great care should be taken to keep the root.
ends quite even ; it will then be in a state to be
worked, housed, or stacked; the stack.; should he
well eintched, and the rout-ends plues(l (rash:to--
barge ,inantitics ef in very dry weetlier. have
been palled iu the morning and middle part of the
day. tied up in bundles, and set up in elle:Is in the
eivenire of the s"rnc day, with very great success.—
The ere? is (Alen har'es'od by the and ef Jars : if'
se, the land is then Fever with turnips The farrier
will have cowrie's:ly rained the flax crop. If litter,
the Wet may be sewn with rye for springy feed. or
dressed end sore eith wkeat. B.

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APIINr: .:s cuATP,'.:I4IC.ERS.

Where^c fiernvenience- are roved to vein, trim the "set of
legal knowledge in mnr.. ;timers ,:ho uthe urn themsel-e!!o
practice -1 .sioisiTerricers.nf real estates and cha•tehi real
For the tire..ertion thereof, be it enacted by C. 4 Eir.g'a roost
ereeiler.s. :4-: .4c. I, c... 1 with the :Asia sitl rowel): of the
Lords Writ/oil ind temporal. and Common'', in Parliament
aseemillerl. ini4 t-i and . ctlt the coth,,rity of the acme. 1:.... it
aiiall net be 11-.7cul; from and i"tur f...r my erne., wituia
litiglow, iinl Wafts, to practise as a convecitr er in the tlrwieing
•r preparing an, r!ectiso, other instrumyntv. f.e don oesntirl.
oculing, or tra i.afer-ing Of any real write or chitt .I.: tc...1, to tsl-a
aim in ths.: life time el -ny pirty ranting, settling. or trans-
ferring the same, unless such penes. shall be a sergeact-at law
harriater. admitted solicitor, attorney, or proctor. having ob:
tained regular certificates to practise as such. or shall have been
a pupil for the tarot of two ye:tr, in the office of some sergeant or
barnster.at-law alleged in the practice of conveyancing, csi:d
have kept at least eight terms 'n some or one of the four inns of
*tun; and that if ar v ;lemon ellen, after the time aforesaid,
practise as such conrcirimeer in manner aforersiti, contrary to
t!,e true intent and meaning of this act. every such pirci ;lieu
forfeit and pay for curb oflimee the sum of il,i.
Pro sided always, end he it further enaotod. Irl7notl.log in
t .4 Act contained sh•ill extend, or be einitruod to eN.teeri. to
p event tiny perscri from dree'og er preparing any dere, or
shher instruments. iv,. tile granting. settling, or tratacrring any
1:al estates or chattels real aforeqth..'y ho on the -hall
bow fide be carrying on the business. and be estaleil, •it in
I, t: way of gaining his livelihood in the proftosion of a convey-
ancer to the Drawing or preparing of deeds or other instruiunts,
4can Ng the Ling, acttling, or tiaosferting.of real estates or chat
he e e_. or to prevent any person who ;seer shall be appointed
lowa or any manor. lands, tenements, or hereditament., from
ilaltlog or preparing soy leare or Imre of any ouch rumor,