324 
Imports of Linseed for years 1908-1912. 
— 1908. 
1909. | 1910. | Sik. | 1912, 
{ 
1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. 
Russia 
Fra 
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 
.» | 269,068} 179,377} 229,504) 183,199} 260,039 
3,028; 7,278)" 3,655) 1,590 
= 
23,246 
Germany... A . 8 5 
Netherlands...| 10,542| 10,472} 11,470} 15,071) 16,877) 30,512; 29,240) 38,302) 52,619 
Belgium c 1,228 
13,016 7,097 4,788 975] 28,693} 15,792) 14,365 4,745 
1 038 
nob ag 1; 43} 2362) 3,372} 43} ««8,268] = 147 
urkey, Buro-| 967| 1,623 14,242| 2,608] 8,285) 2,086, 4,139) 50,874) 9,839 
ean. 
Tirkey,Asiatic! 279} 468} «1,277/:~=—«sge1| «= -3168) G25] 1,168] 4,041] 2,920 
Morocco ...|._—-2,721) ~—«-3,818| 4,737} 16,795} 12,089) 6,335) 7,965) 14,364) 55,358 
607; 30,561; 2191 
Ohne joy _ — eae = te 4 
United States| 71,488] 35,293 22,643 1,217| 47,578] 164,486| 86,558| 59,528] 4,363| 123,075 
erica. 
Urugnay ...| 24,692 308 1; - 50,409} 26,721 895 6,900} 23,120 
Argentine Re-|1,205,147| 873,617, 398,062) 331,464) 387,853,2,443,427\1,829,989)1,139,651)1,114,917 1,162,157 
ublic. 
12,362 995) 7,370 
Other Foreign) 6,571) 4,090; 1,150/ 1,882) 4,551] 14,138] 8,571] 3,281] «6,109 
Countries. 
£ £ £ £ £ 
557,306} 425,138) 713,246} 608,361) 791,145 
9,825 6,848) 23,246} 12,638 85 
Total from |1,610,797|1,130,764| 696,492| 560,675| 776,798;3,301,194|2,441,669|2,065,961|1,880,538|2,335,580 
Foreign 
Countries. 
British India..| 409,010] 540,161) 774,665, 833,107} 689,289] 907,712 1,250,918|2,409,281(2,847,64912, 
Canada ---| 47,199] 25,808 7,028) — 9,723) 97,668; 67,764, 20,214, — 
Other British 189 698 “ 92 759 440 1,840 262 349 
Total from) 456,398] 566,664) 781,767 833,199] 649,72111,005,820/1,320,522|2,429,75712,847, 
British Pos- 
| feetietar 
Total 2,067,195/1,697,428 1,478,259 |1,398,87 1,426,519 4, 495.718/4.728 sa gas 
By a comparison of these figures it will be found that the value 
of flax has risen from about £43 1s. 10d. a ton in 1909 to nearly 
£50 a ton in 1912, the price in 1911 being £52 14s. 8d. per ton. 
During the same time tow, or short flax, has increased in value from 
about £23 15s. in 1909 to nearly £29 in 1912. This alone should 
por an inducement for farmers to recommence the culture of 
ax 
The introduction of steam-driven machinery for the manufacture 
of linen led to the centralisation of that industry, and the cultiva- 
tion of flax has gradually become similarly restricted, thus whilst 
the early years of last century saw the crop widely distributed in 
England and Ireland, the closing years found it confined almost 
entirely to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and north-east Ireland. The 
rincipal centres of linen manufacture are Leeds, Dundee and 
elfast, and the nearer the crop is grown to those places the greater 
should be the profit 
United Kingdom.—The flax-growing industry in the United 
Kingdom appears to have been in its most prosperous condition from 
the year 1863 to 1870. In the latter year the record crop of 
23,957 acres was produced in Great Britain ; Ireland having reached 
her record of 301,693 acres in 1864. From 1870, however, the 
area under flax has steadily decreased, with now and then an 
improved year, until the present time. By 1879 Great Britain’s 
crop was down to 7055 acres; in 1880 it rose by about 1900 acres 
but two years later it dropped to 5220 acres. In 1895 the area 
