The Flax Crop
There is a strong belief in the minds .i many, tbat Fias is vet to be crowned king of these realms. Thoro are divers ingenious loyal íiionds oí his ht boring niglit and day tb' place tho ciown on his head. Most ancient - in blossom fnost beauiifnlly blue - how tho momo ríes oí childbood are -restored, whsfl we talk again of flits! Wlien raised for the seed alone, and ycar alter year, it has always been as pvofhable r.s wheat, hoping cvery }'ear t.i göt twen' y live or thiiiy busheis to tho aere, and they are delucied liko buyers of lottory tickets. Oí flaff, Virgil wys that it b'irns the 8OÜ ; but if he lived in thtse daya, and raised whoat lor fifty conts and less per busbel, he would s;iy that it was a burning shatno. I hint to farmers thtrt ;they had !)utter be thinking: of flax bínítea again - oí linón sheets and lmvi;l.s whieh !;is!, on an average, as long as a human guneration - of tow pantaloons and shirts easily ctirtied, btit easily wnsbed, and so oool as oöe walks to the meado w with a flcytho on bis ehoulder in the early morning. Thero has boen more true patriotism beneath home spun linen shirts, than buneath cotlon ones, and my opinión is that American integrity will cause liuen to reign at the end of the world the same as at the beginning of it. Farmers, by all rnnans ruiee flax - n so doing vou will be looking ward and be vie -
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Michigan Argus