Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1914 — Flax Pays. [ARTICLE]

Flax Pays.

We read of a farmer up In our Northwest obuntry who bought 160 acres in the heart of the great flax belt for |lO an acre on the crop payment plan. He broke up 136 acres and planted It in flax. In round numbers he thrashed in the fall eighteen and one-half bushels to the acre; sold It for <51.39% a bushel; total $3,500; a little more than twice enough to pay for his land out of his first crop. -'Not only wqa the flax Immensely profitable Itself, but It removed fropa the country the stigma, “one crop country.”

Canadian field peas mak/ a good crop for a dry farmer to use to put land In the besttof condition, but it Is necessary to get the seed in before a moist spell. This crop \is good for any land but it will sometimes grow on dry land when alfalfa falls, o t 1b not eqqual to alfalfa as a fertilizing agent, but it Is all right as an annual and the peas can be put to good use in feeding stock.— Field and Farm.