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Captain Skinner's Speech to the Tenants of the Earl of Erne . 99 

 Quantity of Flax grown in Ireland Specimens exhibited Models 

 of various Machines. 



Mr. Henderson on the Management of Flax .... 101 

 Best Soil for Flax Rotation Preparation Sowing Weeding 

 Ripening Pulling Steeping Spreading Lifting Drying 

 Breaking Scutching Injury done to Flax by Water oozing 

 from the Sides of the Steeping- Pond. 



Letter from Messrs. Marshall & Co. to the Author . .107 



Their Importations of Flax Opinion that it could be advantage- 

 ously grown in Britain Demand for fine Flax Offers of 

 Assistance. 



Letter from Mr. Edmonds, of Stonehouse, to the Author . 109 



Has long cultivated Flax Seed Preparation of Land Flax will 

 fail if sown after Turnips. 



Letter from Messrs. Marshall & Co. to the Author . .110 



Price of Flax in Belgium Retting. 



Profits of Growing Flax 112 



Produce of Three Statute Acres of Flax in Ireland. 



On Saving of Flax Seed ib. 



Mr. Wolstenholme's Flax-Crop Value Ireland eminently 

 adapted for Flax-Culture. 



Description of the Flax Plant . . .. . . .114 



Its Characteristics unaltered by Difference of Climate Fibre -|~ 

 Seed Easy of Growth Most favourable Soils Sowing 

 When to pull, and how to save the Seed Water-Retting in 

 Holland In Belgium The Lys Drying the Bundles Mr. 

 Hardy on Flax-Dressing and Steeping The Author's Method 

 No Objection to the Growth of Flax Produce of various 

 Fields of Flax. 



Sir C. M. Burreli's Letter to the Author . . . .124 

 His Adoption of the System of Box-Feeding Elevation and 

 Ground Plan of his Boxes He incloses the Calculations of Mr. 

 Daubuz and Colonel Wyndham His Views on Fattening Cattle 

 with Compound are much approved by Agriculturists. 



Suggestions on Fattening Cattle with Native Produce . . 129 

 Agriculture of the Netherlands Irish Flax Society Fattening 

 Properties of Linseed Farmers' Clubs The Author's Bullocks. 



Directions for making Compound . . . . .134 



Compound for Sheep For Bullocks Moulds Foreign Oil-cake 

 Prices of Barley and Cake Foreign Manures Lucern 

 Potatoes Degrees of Fattening. 



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