Flax Culture--profits

Flax gvows well wherever oats wili so far as cl mate ia cnncerned. It requires good corn ground, neither too stifF nor too light. It uill uot bear fresh manure íd auy quality, yet needs a fertile soil. Good Bward plowed in tho fall and sowod in the spring, or corn stubble ground is adapted to it. Wlien raised for seed, gruss or oiover seed moy be sown at the same time - that ia, after, or with the flax. A common rule for the quantity of seed to sow is, 3 pecks per aere wlien the erop is raised for seed, nnd and 2 bushels wlien raised for fibre.' The object with American farmers bas hitherto been chiefly to obtain tho greatíst quantity of seed, but now the fibro is in i!enaud at vcry remunerativo prices, at least in seme parts of the country, and the demand is rapidly wideniDg. It is not cusioinary for us to spend the home labor upon the straw usual in Europe, but it is got in marl;etable cindition at tho least possible expense of labor. Mr. J. E. Cookiugham, of Dutchoss Co., N. Y., who is a suecessful cultivator, gives us briefly an account of bis last year's erop, a fair average one, as follows: Plowed iu last year's stubble (the corn was well manured), sowed broadcast 5 peeks good Nortia Kiver seed, har rowed it in lightly and rolled the ground. The sowing was doue at the time he sowed outs, uboutthe first of May. When the the top balls turned brown, the erop was pulled and laid as in swaths frotn a eradle ; after two or (hree days it was bound with rye straw íd buiidles about 0 to 8 inches in diameter at the band?, and houscd. As eoou as convenietit it was threshed, one mau opening the bundies, another spreading the straw out by iargü handfulls iu a fan shaped form, and applying the heads to the c-ylinder of a threshing maclii'ie, the "concave" being raised so that the teeth searcely touched. (The straw s all retained in the hands ia this process.) Another man raps out any seed which may stil! be lodged in the straw, aud re-bundles it. After mowing, in the month of September, the straw was spread out upou the meadow, just thicK enough to cover the grout;d. - Here it ]ay about one month, being turn ed at the end of two weeks, by which time it was rottod enough. (The leugth of time depends upon the weathcr.) At this time it was raked and bound ;is at Grst, but whether stacked or housed, Mr. C. does not meution. His erop was 78 bushels of seed, whieh sold at $3.00 per bushei, and uearly 5 tons of straw, which sold at $40 per ton, makiug in all $435J.