Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-10-09

pletely pulverized, and never worked
when wet.
NIANURES.
No dung should be applied to the
land when the FAX is sown, out may be
put on beautifully with the previous
crop. The objection is, that dung forces
the growth so rapidly that the plants
draw weak, have thin barle, and the
more liable to lodge.-Lime, marie,
shells, leached ashes, &c. do not pro-
duce such effects. Top dressings, soon
after the plants appear, of plaster, ashes,
SCOT, &c. arc highly beneficial, as they
not only encourage the growth, but are
a protection against worms, which some-
times attack the young plants, and may
be considered the only enemy they have,
except weeds.
Salt has been mentioned by the late
DIR. Elliot, of Connecticut, as an excel
manure to plough in with FAX at the rate
of five bushels to the acre s probably
more would be better. Plaster is now
much used in Duchess county, the best
cultivated district in New FORK, as a
manure for flax, on which its good eff
iects are apparent as on corn.
The late chancellor Livingston viewed
piece of fax on the goth Of May, 1871,
belonging to poor tenant, very injudi-
ciously sown on dry sandy declivity, it
looked SO extremely sickly that the tenant
thought of ploughing it up, the chan
cellor gave him three bushels of plaster,
which was sown the next morning be-
fore the dew was of, and had the salts
faction of seeing his tenant gather more
FAX from his half acre in an uncommon
dry season, than was produced from any
acre in the neighborhood. Il
PREPARATION OF THE LAND.
1t is not unfrequent in Ireland to OBJ
tain crops of flax from green sward, on
which they put lime, shells, limestone
gravel, &c. and break up in the fall,
cross ploughing and narrowing fine in
the spring; but it most commonly sue
ceeds crop of potatoes which receive
the manure. In Flanders, hemp was
formerly more used as preparation for
flax than since the introduction of pota-
toes. In Italy it commonly precedes
Hax, and although the land gets no tillage,
as the hemp is well MANFRED it grows
strong. and is then powerful destroyer
Of weeds. In England, on some of the
fen soils of lincolnshire, the usual
course is hemp or years in success
sion, well manured, then FAX without
manure; crop ofturnips is often taken
the same season after the fax, and hemp
succeeds again. In Russia it is said tina,
extensive crops Of fax are drawn from
new cleared lands after burning them
over, and narrowing in the seed with
ashes. The best preparatory crops in
this country, at present, appear to be po-
ta,oes, corn and roots they will most
generally repay the extra manure, and
if well managed check the production OF
weeds.
The following rotations may serve as
an outline subject 10 be varied, and hemp
or other crops introduced as circum-
stances require, viz
| No. I. Lou, cold or reclaimed Soils.
lst year Potatoes.
I'd do. FLAX with seeds.
Sd do. Herds grass and red ron or
tall meado7v oat grass, to continue three
years or more, and the course repeated.
No. II. Strong Uhiands.
LIST year Potatoes or Corn.
I'd do. Corn or Roots.
Sd do. FLAX with seed.
Nth do. Ciover.
5lh do. Orchard Grass or Herds
Grass, to continue three years or more.
No. III. Light Lands.
LIST year PotatoeS or Corn.
I'd do. Corn or Roots.
Sd do. FLAX with seed.
4th do. Clover, to be mown once, the
after growth to be turned in and Rye
sown, thick on the furrow, which may
be soiled or fed in the spring by sheep
or mich cows, and ploughed in, for
5th year Corn.
9th do. Shring Wheat or barley.
9TH do. Clover, and the course to be
pursued as before, when fax will occupy