Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-05

Patterson, for more .ban Jersey
can raise, beyond what is required for
family purposes. You ought not to ma
nure your flax land in the spring, except
with lime, marie, shells or lecchcd
ashes--toh dressings soon after the
plants appear, OF plaster where it will
answer, OF ashes or SCOT, are said to be
beneficial; and an experiment in Con-
necticut has proved, that salt, at the rate
of bushels to the acre, is good ma
nure. think more would be better.-
Some Of the best fax had the last year,
was sowed on green agaard; there
were fewer weeds, which are the great
enemy Of FAX.
10. As to the profit in cnltivating fax,
take the following statement :-Suppose
each acre to yield u ton. The owner
of machine can afford, when FAX brings
IS cents pound, to give Is dollars a
ton for the FAX plant, as it comes from
the field, threshed or not, say then that
10 acres produces Is tons OF FAX plant,
a, per ton, is Gaa5
Deduct, at the rate which l paid
for in cash, the farmer saves
it by his own labor. Plough
ing ten acres and sowing twen-
ty bushels of seed, narrowing,
&c. at S3 per acre, $40
20 bushels of seed, at 81 SO, SO
Pulling and spreading, at Sc, so
Drying, bundling, and cartingto
the barn, al . so per acre, l5-lo5
Leaves clear profit on 10 acres, Sl2o
That is, Sl2 per acre. Can the far
ner make as much out Of any other arli-
Gle
II. The machine was in operation
several days in Newly ork, and has since
been removed to my farm at Newark,
and will be put in operation about the
first of January next, or before, if the ne
cessa,y buildings can be made ready
The following is certificate given by
some of the great number oil gentlemen
of responsibility who have seen the ma
chine in operation.
CERTIFICATE.
We were present at trial made of a
newly ed machine for dressing fax
or hemp in an unrotcd or unretied state
belonging to Messrs. Anthony Dey end
James Macdonald, of this city.
The machine is constructed to go by
water or animal power, but on the trial
was worked with facility by four men,
One of the subscribers held watch, by
which it was asccrtained, that three or
binary lengths of FAX plant, unpoued,
were carried completely through the
machine in less than one minute, and
three lengths Of hemp in little more than
one minute.
1t is estimated, that when driven by
the properpower, the machine will clean
one ton of FAX plant, rotted o. unrotted,
in day. And Mr.. -Dey exhibited and
gave to each OF US a sample of flax in a
fine beautiful white state, resembling
floss silk, which he estimates, from the
experiment he has made, may be clean
ed through the machine and reduced TO
its beautiful state, for about two cents a
pound and informed US, that in doing
it, he did not make use of any other pre-
paration than is to be found in every far
lner's house in abundance, and which
was done after the fax had passed
through the machine.
November, 1921.
Thomas l.. Ogden,
Richard Varick,
lie Ray de Chammont, i
Benjamin L. Spain,
David 3. Ogden,
Rudoihh Bunker,
George Brinkerhof,
George Griszvold.
The subscriber will dispose of the
patent right TO any state or county in the
United States, not already disposed Of.
Letters post paid, directed to him at
New York, will receive immediate at
tention. y
ANTHONY DEY.
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LETTER OF THE VACCINE AGENT.