This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...the digestion of the animals and causing urinary troubles. With more moderate feeding, flax has found a place in Western farming. Under irrigation, flax does not stand much Culture water. It should be irrigated lightly and never flooded too long. Average yields are fifteen to eighteen bushels per acre; but maximum ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...the digestion of the animals and causing urinary troubles. With more moderate feeding, flax has found a place in Western farming. Under irrigation, flax does not stand much Culture water. It should be irrigated lightly and never flooded too long. Average yields are fifteen to eighteen bushels per acre; but maximum yields of twenty-eight bushels have been known. Sixteen bushels per acre have been grown at altitudes of over seven thousand feet, and flax from that locality took a medal at the Chicago World's Fair. If cut early enough, often a second growth will spring up, which is valuable for fall feed. If raised for the grain, sow twenty pounds or twenty-five pounds of seed per acre. Where grown for flax fibre, it should be planted thick, using forty or fifty pounds of seed. Sow with a grain press drill, planting onenhalf inch or one inch deep. Cut when the majority of the seed balls are light brown in color and when the straw is somewhat green. If left too long, it shatters badly in the field. It is best harvested with a self-rake or binder, without the binding attachment. A small amount of flax may be sown with oats and the crop cut and fed in the straw or threshed and fed as mixed grain. Some experiments in Wyoming resulted in very fat lambs by feeding ground flax seed, turnips and alfalfa hay. Seventeen to twenty pounds of seed fed in this manner in a period of ninety to one hundred days made the lambs fat without any other grain. From two to four ounces of seed per day in connection with other food is sufficient for a sheep. Small amounts of flax seed fed to horses with grain give good results, especially in the spring. Buckwheat Buckwheat is one of the very valuable dry farm and short-season crops for the West. It can be planted as late as July, where ...
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