The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1886. LINSEED GROWING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1619, 27 January 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1886. LINSEED GROWING.

— ♦ It may be remembered that some years ngo there was a good deal said relative to the advantage of "growing linseed. We are, reminded again of the subject by the following, paragraph troin the Dunfermline Press :— ".The cultivation of flax on an extensive scale' has not been attempted in/Fire for many years. Farmers .have., generally become prejudiced against this crop on the score of itß fouling the land, besides exhausting it more than any other crop. is a diifere.nt version of the matter '— 'Mr Bull, of Wanganui, tried! J au acre of flax; orlinseed m the 'centre of a paddock la»tyear, and grew, a,, good crop. This year the' paddock has Beetf brought .into wheat, and- the acre on which the flax was growh was not only^ free from weeds, but yielded 60 per cent, more i vwh'eat than the other part ; pf the pad 1 dock.' The value of flax as a farm crop far exceeds any grown m this country . Considering the J present condition' : a'nd [ gloomy prospects of the grain market it ! would surely be worth the while of farmers to give such a promising crop as this some little consideration v ...