The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-04-16

out each year an almost perfect article OF
sowing seed. OF the superiority of such
seed over what can ordinarily be obtained
in the market and even at seed stores, We
arc convinced by examining sample be.
fore Us ofthst which i. W. Blatchford,
Esq proprietor of the "CHIcAGo LEAD
AND OIL WORKS." is preparing for his
customers for sowing the coming Spring.
Of course when manufacturer furnishes
such seed year after year, requiring for
it the return of only an equal amount Of
merchantable q1al:ty, be cannot be ex-
pected to stipulate q price for the bal.
ance Of the crop, beyond the ordinary,
average, taking series Of years into the
account-and it is upon this basis that
the business has been conducted hithcr.
| to, aud it is still continued to the accept
ance Of majority of the farmers in the
largest fax growing districts. 10 this
connection We would add, that with good
seed to SOW, there is nothing like flax as
a preparatory crop for wheat. The ties.
timony os Ohio farmers, where fax has
been extensively grown. for over a quar-
ter of century, is explicit on this point,
and to this fact We would call the espe-
/ tial attention Of our Illinois and Wiscon.
sin farmers, whose wheat growing for
some time has been so discouragiug.
TIxk OF CUTTING.
Flax should be cut a. soon as the bolls
begin to turn brown, and while the
stock is yet green. If left standing too
long there will be great loss of seed in
harvesting. In the latitude Of Chicago,
the flax crop ripens from July 18th to
August lst. 1t Of course natures earlier
farther south, and somewhat later in
Wisconsin. Farmers are usually we'll
through harvesting Spring wheat before
flax is ready TO cut; aud it ripens con-
siderably later than Winter wheat.
MODE OF CUTTING.
A few farmers answered our question
on this head, "with CRADLE" but . large
majority said, with a machine" Aud
from the number of reapers mentioned as
working vel, We are persuaded that
almost ell our standard machipes can be
used to advantage in cutting fax. When
it is raised principally for the seed there
is no necessity for binding it q great
saving in time aud expense as compared
with harvesting wheat, when five'o or six
men are required to bind after the
reaper) but may be simply raked of into
gavels aud lie until dry, when it is ready
for threshing or stacking As, while
s'andiDg, it is less liable to damage from
heavy showers than wheat, so now when
cut, it will bear a severe rain with little
d:triment, II turned over afterwards, 30
IS to prevent the bolls from getting into
the dirt Should the weather continue
wet, It can be quickly dried in IN inter.
val Of sunshine (tbere being no leaves to
retain moisture and then stacked, using
hay for topping of, in which shape it
may stand, if necessary, until cold win.
ter weather, before threshing-though
it is better to threeh early, SO as to have
September and October for dew rottiog
MODE OF ruREsu,So
"With a fail - said a few Germans
in the vicinity of Chicago, who have
raised some of the finest crops on record,
but the rest were divided almost equally
between threading out with horses" and
"a machine In some sections, and
those where they have raised most, and
for the longest time, they report no diff.
Guilty in using machines with some
light alterations, to suit better the Ia.
ture of the crop; but we are Of opinion,
- vsn,v IS oil ho roooSco1 that
for the ordinary run of farmers, and the
small amount raised by each, threading
out" may be safely recommended as the
simplest and cheapest method. When
this is done, however, great care should
be used to prepare floor so that the seed
shall DO kept from getting mixed with
dirt, which is . great and serious fault
with large proportion of that which is
brought to this market. Then, too, an
ordinary threshiog machine, will give
you only tangled fax, which is always OF
less value than straight, SO that, if the
straw is heavy, it will pay better to bind
in bundles and tread out, thus keeping
the straw in good shape for spreading to
rot and to sell as straight fibre. Tho
good sense and peculiar circumstances OF
each farmer will suggest tho best mode
for him-although, for large operations,
the machine must e course be the moth.
cd.
CLEANING sEKD
Il an item 10 raising dax that must have
more attention from our Western farmers
than it has hitherto received. Until
lately the makers Of tanning mills had
little or no experience with it, and 50
furnished no screens suitable but now,
several Of them furnish q Aax screen,
With which . large amount Of the foul
seeds can be removed and there is cor
tainly no excuse for transporting prairie
dirt, At . high rate of freight, to the
damaging Of the crop in tho market and
the great annoyance Of the MANUFACTURED,
who has to sepsrate every particle Of it
before crushing the seed. The differ.
snoe in price between lots of seed belong.