The Raymer enterprise., 1912-04-11
LARGE CRoP OF FLAX
$4,000 Bushels Raised on $500
Acres in Northwest.
Saskatchewan Farmer Gives His Meth.
DDS Of Securing Big YieId-Ade-
quate Power Is Given as One
Of First Esentlals.

Fred Engen OF Saskatoon. Sas.
katchewan. who harvested $4,000 bush.
els OF fax last year from $500 acres.
writes Dry Farming Of his methods.
as follows:
I'VE built box eight feet by three
feet wide for each drill. In this we
put four bushels OF fax In the end.
We used two gallons OF formaldehyde
solution. according TO the usual
directions. to the four bushels. We
used a kasomining pump sprayer to
spray the solution on the fax. and
with one man standing at the oppo-
site end OF the seed box and stirring
the fax seed as the solution was
sprayed on II over into the empty
space In the box. When the solution
was thus sprayed on the fax we
covered the box with a blanket for
three-quarters OF an hour; then we
stirred the fax again. and after Is
or 20 minutes 1t was ready for the
drill. This is an easy method OF
treating flax, and believe 1t is the
most convenient.
The soil upon which grew $4,000
bushels OF fax is very heavy clay
The breaking was done in the fore
summer. and the ground was properly
disked and narrowed. and last spring
we went over 1t with a double har'
row before we started seeding. Our
Seed was grown at Zealandia and
Delisle on new land, and was very
clean. We started seeding on April
"a. and used rs pounds to the acre.
Our fax averaged 20 bushels to the
acre.
my experience In farming has led
me to the conclusion that the gen,
eral Impression regarding our sea.
sons shortness for the production OF
our small grain without injury by
I frost Is more or less an error charge
able to the lack OF power employed
In farming operations. wish to
draw attention to the fact that
started to seed fax on April "a II
! had had four engines with five drills
to each engine | would have been
able to have had my four sections In
In five days. whereas 1t was May 20
when ! finished seeding. When fall
came the first fax sown was cut
three weeks before the last sown. and
therefore 1t Is manifest that II | had
sown that acreage In five days
would have had fully three weeks
advancement In the commencement
OF threshing II one measures the
working power employed with the
acreage under cultivation one will
find that It Is utterly inadequate. II
man has only yoke OF cattle and
farms an acreage accordingly he Is
surely better of than covering a
large amount OF ground without any
payable results.
1T has been my experience that all
the land which | have worked proper,
ly and seeded quickly when the
spring has opened up has given no,
ordinary results, but abundant, and
II We could only learn to farm halt
the quantity, unless We have surplus
power, our results would furnish nc
such disappointments as they have
done this last season in many cases.
Il sowed fax two TO three and q
half inch deep. or course It nigh,
not apply on all soils, or in all sea
sons, but | shall take my chance OF
sowing deep and early. and sowing I,
as quickly as possible. and be abreas,
with the season
Il passed my fax. which was
shipped from my own elevator
through n cleaner twice. II any more
cleaning Is necessary the purchaser
has TO do 1t himself
AS to breaking and seeding fax In
the spring: This In my opinion is a
doubtful work, but II undertaken |,
should be four inches deep. which
will give It a fair depth to disk. bu,
after the breaking one should use q
heavy packer Immediately after the
pillow, II one has depth enough the
seeders should follow the packer, and
then the harrow